Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1899 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Will Not Make the Fisht-Operator* and Miner* Fail to Agree—Bic Fira at Patoka—Fatal Feud Between Relativ*s—New Industry for Peru. « _____ The manufacturers of the gas belt who organized a short time ago to tight the foreign gas pipe line companies have abandoned the project. The foreign companies assert that the pressure in their main lines does not exceed the 300-pound limit prescribed by law, and that the powerful (>umps used are not for the purpose of drawing the.fluid from the earth, but to force it through the mains. On these points the companies arc prepared to make a prolonged fight, and as the outcome, after much expensive litigation, would be uncertain, the manufacturers have decided to drop it. Coal Men in a Wrangle. The meeting between a select committee of block coal operators and miners held at Brazil to make a final effort to adjust a scale for a year closed sine die without an agreement being reached. Miners insist upon suspension of work at once, and it will be a difficult matter for the officers to induce the men to work longer. All the men employed at the Big Four mine, belonging to F. S. Peabody of Chicago, quit work on account of no settlement being reached. The miners are prepared for a hard tight. Greater Part of Patoka Destroyed. Fire at Patoka came near destroying the entire town. The tire started in Samuel Burns' saloon. The total loss is put nt $20,000, partly covered by insurance. The tire is supposed to have been of incendiary origin. There hnve been six attempts within the last year to burn out the town of Patoka and there are now seven firebugs serving time, convicted of incendiarism in the town. Biscuit Plant for Pern. Hugh McCaffrey will establish at Peru immediately a biscuit works which may compete with the trust. lie is a man of large means, who has spent most of his life in the grocery trade, and sees a profit in Crackers and kindred articles at the prices paid the trust. lie has placed an order for nearly $40,000 worth of machinery and will install his plant at Peru before July. Fatal Fight at Carbon. \Vulter Jones shot and instantly killed Edward Adams at Carbon. Jones and Adams were relatives, and there had been a long-standing feud between them. Adams and Jones met at William Baxter's saloon nnd a fight followed. Jones shot Adams in the head and continued tiring until he emptied his revolver. Jones was arrested.

Within Our Borders. Twenty-six Amo farmers have formed | a telephone company. North Salem is wrestling with the ques- i tion of incorporation. Edgar Andrens lias been appointed oil inspector at Lafayette. Thieves robbed the Russiaville postofliee, securing 75 cents. New Evansville directory indicates a population of about 70,000. Vigo County farmers have organized a mutual insurance company. John Moulder. Russiaville, celebrated his ninety-fourth birthday. Over 100 head were sold at the Lackey horse sale at Cambridge. City. Lightning destroyed Andrew Beall's barn, Versailles. Loss $1,500. . Charles Lorg, Coal Bluff, has been appointed deputy mine inspector. Big tin plate trust, recently formed, robs Middletown of her plant and many residents. ?S Evansville school children will study the weather map issued at the station there ever dayLippincott lamp chimney factory "has posted a notice of an indefinite shut-down for repairs. Anthony Brinson, farmer, 46, hanged himself twelve miles north of Madison, leaving a large family. Miss Mabel Redwood. 16, Logansport, and Charles Hawkins eloped to St. Joe, Mich., and married. Harry Cummins. Shelbyville mail carrier, has quit his job and gone to California without even explaining to his wife. Well of the Byram Oil Company on the Stotler lease was put to work, nnd is producing at the rate of 700 barrels a day. Richard L. Marshall. Greenfield. 25, president of the Stove Molders’ Union, is dead of pneumonia. He once lived in Indianapolis. Wm. O’Haver, Mooresville, has organized a gold mining company to work on his farm. He hns taken out about SSO worth this winter. Rayfield Burton, who. by the aid of hia father, escaped from officers while on his way to the penitentiary, has been cap- " tured near Mitchell. The Byram Oil Company of Indianapolis has struck the biggest gusher yet in Washington township. The fluid spurted high above the derrick. William Stough, prominent in Brazil,— sues his wife for divorce on the plea that she purposely allowed his home, clothing, | etc., to be burned in his abseiice. Gas Inspector Loach says that rotten gas mains caused the recent explosions in several towns, in which twelve were killed ’ and $200,000 worth of property destroyed. ' Lawrence County Commissioners hare let a contract for building gravel roads in Shawswick township jto D. C. Dehority j of Elwood for $48,357. There were eleven bidders. O. E. Sutton. Kokomo, sold his housed hold goods to three different second-hand dealers, with the understanding that eacfc 1 was to call at the house the next day and get the stuff. Thou he left town. .3 Judge Piety upheld the Terre Haute J city ordinance imposing a license fee on * vehicles, including bicycles. It ia the first | decision in the State since the law ot 18Q7 * went into effect. Joseph 1. Irwin of Columbus has made a gift of $25,000 to the Bible school Butler College of the University of In-3 dianapolis on the condition that the trityl tees raise $75,000 additional. Twin girls born prematurely, owing toS an accident to the mother, Mrs. Frank Miller of New Albany, will be reared In J an incubator. Attending physicians say khat both of the infants will live.