Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1899 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Prisoner Attempts Suicide Four Times —Strange Absence of a Newly Married Man—lllinois Central Gets Into the Coal Fields. Albert Hunter, under sentence at Kokomo for larceny, made a bet that he would not go to State's prison. He hanged himself with a rope made from handkerchiefs, dangling fire hoars, bat was alive when cut down. Next he butted his head against a stone wall and tried to swallow broken glass. He then severed his wrist with broom wire, bnt a doctor saved him in every case, and Hunter lost his tiet. The wager was 25 cents against a pants button and it was paid. He was taken to the penitentiary. Toaasr Husband Disappears. Howard Rhinehart of Terre Haute, a young married man. disappeared from Marshall, HI., several days ago. His disappearance caused so much gossip that a new-made grave in the Marshall cemetery was opened to disprove the suspicion that he had been murdered and buried. The prevailing opinion is that Rhinehart has wandered away while temporarily insane. Dunkards Go to Alabama. Indiana Dunkards hare at last officially refused to seud any more colonies to North Dakota to aid in the national colonization scheme 1 , and have taken option on 7,000 acres of land near Athens. Ala., on which they will colonize and center their national interests. They will ask the co-operation of Dunkards of other States. Christian Scientists in New Hole. “To heal by laying on of bands and to raise from the dead” is the purpose of a company incorporated in Madison County under Indiana laws. The incorporators are Christian Scientists, who propose to operate in the county on a uew and legal basis. Merged in Illinois Central. The Indiana and Illinois Southern Railway has been formally transferred to the Illinois Central and will hereafter be operated as an independent division of the latter road. The Illinois Central now has a direct line into the Indiana Mock coal fields.

Within Onr Bora era. Decrease in the production of oil at Montpelier. Trolley line will be built from New Albany to Wyandotte cave. Deadlock at the miners and operators’ meeting, Terre Haute, over wage scale. Lewis X. Noble and wife, Goshen, celebrated their sixtieth wedding anniversary. Robert Gortner, Goshen, appointed district attorney for four counties in New Mexico. An all-night corking main was given on a barge near Lawrenceburg. Sixty-two birds fought. At La Porte. Barney & Bowen’s livery stable was destroyed by fire. Five horses were cremated. Kokomo Council has let contracts for street improvement, contrary to the dictate of the Mayor. Case of Walter S. Randall, Shelbyville, against Big Four, for $5,000 damages, decided for defendant. Kokomo will fill the gap in the proposed Indiana baseball league, made by the withdrawal of Marion. Lafayette soldiers’ home has the oldest and youngest inmates of any similar institution in the country. Ivrein Chain Company, Marion, will move its factory from St. Mary's, Ohio, and consolidate the two. Mrs. Augusta Schmidt, the Indian baroness, refused the parole granted her by Gov. Mount and it has been revoked. Ransom Kamp and John Mahan, Sullivan, quarreled. Malian drew a revolver, whereupon Kanip struck him in the back of the head with a hatchet. He will die. Harvey Cook, who was a member of Company C. l."i!*th Indiana, during the late war, was accidentally drowned from a skiff while fishing in a pond near Salem. Deputy Coroner Weaver of LaPorte has rendered a verdict that Blanche Thomas came to her death as the result of eating a banana. The case is interesting the medical fraternity. Miss Zoe Spaulding and Lizzie Bales, two pretty 16-year-old girls who ran away from their homes in Montpelier* and joined an opera company, were found by Chief of Police I,ewis at Marion. J. H. Bissett of Anderson, formerly of Battle Creek. Mich., has made application for patent covering the latest idea in perpetual motion. The machine which he has constructed has, it is claimed, been given practical tests and worked perfectly. Instead of following the time-beaten path of resorting to balls, weights or sliding gauges. Bissett has constructed his machine on condensed air principles. By turning the flywheel once enough air is compressed to drive it aronnd again. It automatically compress** and discharges the air, and will run until stopped. A gauge regulates and holds speed at any desired notch. Willis R. Gosnell, a wealthy citizen of Montgomery County, lent a widow a large sum of money to jiay off certain ineumbrances on her land and subsequently they were married. He held her notes for the money loaned and it was not questioned that she used it to pay off her debts. She died a few years later and Gosnell presented the notes against the estate that she left. Payment was refused and he brought snit to recover the amount. The Supreme Court has decided that he could not collect the money and held that it was clearly a common law rule that a woman discharges all her indebtedness to her creditor when she marries him, and that this rule has not been abrogated by statute in this State.

In an explosion at the Aetna powder works at Miller’s Station. Superintendent Harrington and two employes were badly injured. Harrington will lose the sight of both eyes. , At Fort Wayne. James Jacobs, former proprietor of the City Trucking Company’s barns, recently destroyed by fire, was found guilty of arson and sentenced to the penitentiary. Michael Shea, supposed to be the oldest man in Indiana, died at his residence in Indianapolis. He wan born in Ireland 117 years ago, > and had spent about eighty years of that time in America^