Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1899 — RECORD OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK.

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY L._, _ TO I -®’ _ , ' . ..‘ ' • • . •’ -■ Woman I* Dragged to Death—Sweere Ing Decision by a Ooahan Judge-* Escaped Prisoner* Rocaptnred-ln* dianapoli* Church Split*. Mr*. Sadie Sites, wife of Albert Sitew ] a Ijifayette township farmer, met an awful death while driving home from a \ neighbor’s house. She wore a scarf with long ends hanging loosely from her neck. One of these ends caught in a wheel and she was jerked from her seat. Her head was caught between the spokes and one ear was torn off. She was completely scalped and when found the next morning was dead. The marks in the road showed that the woman had been dragged a mile before the horse stopped. Muy Remove Trolley Pole*. Judge Wilson in the Circuit Court at Goshen laid down the law to tbe Indiana Electric Railway Company, operating lines in South Bend, Elkhart, Goshen and contingent points, and made a sweeping ruling with regard to municipal powers. The gist of his decision empowers cities to remove all trolley poles from the streets without regard to charter or franchises at any time and place the electric companies at the mercy of the authorities. Followed Their Pastor Out. The South Street Baptist Church, one of the largest of that denomination in Indianapolis, split after the expulsion of tbe pastor. Rev. Frederick G. Parish. Some time ago a church trial was held, but Mr. Parish refused to recognize its authority. The congregation met and expelled the pastor, and sixty of the most prominent members withdrew and proceeded to form a church with Mr. Parish as pastor. Sheriff Capture* Fugitive*. Abe Rothschild and Albert Stansfield, who escaped from United States Deputy Marshal Peck in Vincennes, were captured near Bicknell by Deputy Sheriff Tom Hillburn. The fugitives went te William Stawson’s blacksmith shop in Bicknell and asked him to cut off their handcuffs. Rothschild said he was the sheriff and Stansfield a prisoner and that he had lost the key. A bribe was offered, but declined. Noted Young Chemist Die*. John Stockley Cary, formerly of Cleveland, died in Evansville of heart disease. Though only 32 years old, he had a national reputation as a chemist. Mr. Cary died of weak action of the heart, incident to typhoid fever. Within Our BorUerm Postoffice at Mason discontinued. Oil men anticipate a busy season. Rich veins of coal struck near English. Fort Wayne artillery will be reorganized. Goshen will dust up with a new brush factory. Noblesville will have a new $25,000 high school building. Howard M. Kerr, New Castle, killed in the Philippines. The window glass trust project, Anderson, has fallen through. Floyd Honck, 8, Columbus, died from swallowing a grain of corn. Northern Indiana Teachers’ Association favored medium slant writing. Col. W. T. Durbin has sold his stock in the Diamond paper mills, Anderson, to his partners. ( Horse struck the 7-year-old son of Samuel P. Ruble, near Vincennes, nearly, crashing his Skull. There have been seven deaths from meningitis in that many days fourteen miles southwest of Princeton. Strikers will be enjoined from interfering with the non-union workmen in the American plate glass factory, Anderson. At South Bend, Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Greene, prominent pioneer residents, celebrated their golden wedding anniversary. Bertha Wilhelm, Eaton, now 8 years old. is said to have been the largest baby ever born. At birth she weighed 18% pounds. Body of Archibald W. Jones, New Albany, who died in Santiago from wounds received on San Juan hill, brought home for burial. John W. Campbell, Vincennes, will do time for swindling the Bruceville express agent out of S4OO by impersonating another man. > At Kokomo, Jonathan Dutton and wife, married fifty years ago, died within an hour of each other from natural causes, the husband expiring first. At Marion, Mrs. Hanora Reidy, 88 years of age, was burned to death at her home in the absence of the family, who had left her alone for a short time. A decision was made in favor of the Windfall Natural Gas Company in tbe $5,000 damage suit brought by Bertha Terwilliger, who charged it with maliciously turning off the gas in midwinter, by which she froze her feet, disabling her for life. Thomas Platt, jointly indicted with Harry Hollowell for shooting with intent to kill Lewis Miller, was found guilty of attempting to commit voluntary manslaughter. Hollowell, who is not implicated in shooting, will be tried for assault and battery. The miners’ convention at Terre Haute held its election of officers and the balloting resulted in the election of W. D. Von Horn of Terre Haute, president; T. I. Roberts, Rosedale, vice-president, and J. H. Kennedy of Terre Haute, secretary and treasurer. At Evansville, Jonathan Black’s daughter. Stella, aged 12 years, was married to James Darretts, whom she had known only a week. The angry father went to the home of his son-in-law and took hia daughter home with him. He says that Darretts cannot come near. At Anderson, Riley Shepard became a tether for the twenty-seventh time the other night and now lays claim to Indiana records. All of the children are alive and are a hardy lot. Mrs. Diana Dailey, an old and industrious washerwoman of Vincenne*, has been William Stanfield, at Topeka, Kan. Crawford r airbanks, Lharigs Deming