Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1899 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. v . Trie* to Kill liio Brothers-CM Cater Vico County— Kokomo For* Arreted for Serious Crime—Killed in * Box* ing Boat-Tin Plate Plant Sold. While visiting his dying father near Shelby ville, Edward Bernbeimer became desperately insane. Going into the bouse,, be threatened to kill the little child of his sister, but was prevented, and apparently became quieter. Later in the evening he had another seizure, and iu his freuxy secured an ax and tried to brain his brother George. As he lifted the ax the other brother jumped behind him and succeeded in grabbing the handle of the weapon. The three men then engaged in a rough and tumble struggle, in which the crazy man freed himself and onc-e more securing the ax drove his brothers, sisters and stepmother from the house, they being compelled to flee to the house of a neighbor for safety. It was feared the furious man would kill his father, but he made no attack on him. The officers were sent for and Bernheimer was placed in jaiL Excitement Over Oil Find. There is mnch excitement in Terre Haute over the preparations being made to commence boring for oil east and south of the city. A month or so ago oil was struck by men who were boring in an endeavor to locate a vein of coal and, although the flow was not large, experts profess to believe that there is much oil underlying Vigo County. A company headed by Crawford Fairbanks, president of the American Strawboard trust, is securing options on a large number of farm* and it is understood that drilling will commence as soon as the frost is oat of the ground. Boys Cause $30,003 Damage. Eleven schoolboys, aged from 11 to I*s, were jailed at Kokomo, as part of a gang of thieves who have been dismantling machinery in shops and factories and selling the brass at junk shops. They are sons of prominent residents and bumness men. They sold two car loads of brass before detection and destroyed SpO.OOO worth of machinery. .

Tin Plate Plant la Fold. For a consideration of $1 the American Tin Plate Company’s $2,000,000 plants at El wood —the largest tin plate plant in the uation —have been turned over to the tin plate trust through D. W. McCarghey of Chicago. The valuation of the plants was placed at but $250,000 and SOSO worth of revenue stamps were attached. Blow Bursts Boxer's Heart. Charles McCoy and Carl Comer, each about 17 years of age, were boxing at Center, when Comer struck McCoy a blow over the heart that burst a vein, and allowed all the blood to poor out into the abdominal cavity. Death was almost instantaneous. Within Oar Borders. Attica will have a $50,000 sanitarium. Anti-trust bottle house erected at LafeL Diamond coal mine, near Evansville, sold for $13,000. Markham & Stephens will reopen their distillery near Rosewood; Indiana stands second in glass production in the United States. Shelbyville Council cat the marshal's salary from S7OO to $350 a year. Samuel Gronnert, ah Indianian, is managing editor of the London Telegraph. Miss Gertrude Kemp. Fisher’s Station, went to Chicago and is mysterionsly missing. Mrs. James Keiser, Anderson, went shopping the other day and did not return. Because Dr. Joseph D. Kelley of Ehrmandale squandered his money for liquor, his wife, Mrs. Elsie Kelley, shot him through the breast. S. M. Austin, a traveling salesman for a Philadelphia wholesale paint house, was instantly killed by tbe Chicago-New York special on the Lake Shore at Osceola. John Ferriter, serving a life sentence in the Michigan City |*enitentiary for the murder of Policeman Charles Ware of Indianapolis two years ago, escaped by overpowering a guard he was assisting outside the prison walls. The lamp chimney factories in the Indiana gas belt have closed down indefinitely, many of them discharging all workers and advising them to seek employment in other channels. The reason given for the shut-down is the sluggish markets. Five persons were injured, two fatally, in a runaway during a. funeral at Evansville. The fire persons were in a hack and. the team became frightened at a street car. The hack was completely demolished and the funeral procession was stopped an hour. Congressman A. L. Brick and Joseph B. Arnold have sold to Josiah C. Houck 58(1 acres of land in Olive township, the consideration being SII,OOO. The land is adjacent to the great Kankakee region and is partly marsh. It will be drained and au Amish colony will be started there. Monroe City was thrown into a flatter by the elopement and romantic marriage of Frank Owens and Miss Annie Lloyd. Miss Lloyd ostensibly went to church, but instead met her lover, who was waiting in a buggy, and started to Rev. llr. Denny’s home to be married. They met the minister on the road and made known their wishes and insisted that the ceremony be performed then and there, whereupon tbe minister, while all were seated in their vehicles, had them join hands and pronounced the words that made them one. The couple, accompanied by dm reverend gentleman, drove to the home of the bride to ask parental blessings. The prfi mother, when apprised of the fact, tainted. Postmaster Lloyd had forbidden kh daughter keeping company with Owens. which resulted in the elopement. The Christian Chnreh congregation o t Vincennes has decided to build a fine new stone church and $5.500 ,aras raised hr volantary subseripthjns at the first meeting. Congressman George, W. Cromer baa chosen Scott Fulton of Hartford City to represent the fQghtb Indiana cmifiemion * al district ia the West Point military ind^^onMilL^g about two seconds. The windows ratikd and beds trembled perceptibly.