Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1899 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

-■ • - i jM-: ' - > ’ INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Fatally Hart in a Runaway—Muncle Boy Acquitted of Murder—Prisoner Fatally Assaulted by a Maniac—Ex* teaaiva Fire Damage at New Lisbon. William A. Healy, Republican member of the Washington City Council, was killed in a runaway. Mr. Healy was out driving, the horses took fright and in trying to stop them the bit on one of the bridles broke. Mr. Healy saw that it waa impossible to stop the animals and jumped out of the buggy. His head struck a curbstone, fracturing bis skull, from which injuries he died a short time afterward. He was 51 years old and leaves a family. Boy Acquitted or Murder. At Mancie, 12-year-old Fred Oland has been acquitted by a jury of the Charge of murdering 5-year-old Andrew Bodenmiller. Last November the body of the Bodenrailler child was found hidden under a box in a gravel pit and officers frightened young Olaud into a semi-confession, but when later this was withdrawn, the extreme youth of the prisoner and the absence of all but eircumstaatral evidence caused the acquittal. Murderer Fatally Hurt. John Flora, the murderer of Jesse Burton, will not be tried for the crime. Confined with him and other prisoners in the Orange County jail at Paoli was Sherman Wall, insane find dangerous. Wall became frenzied and, seizing a wooden poker, attacked Flora, beating him in a frightful manner. Sheriff Jones, with the aid of a crowd, rescued Flora, but not until he was fatally hurt. Town Nearly Wiped Out. The town of New Lisbon was almost destroyed by fire. John S. Nation’s general store and dwelling, the store and dwelling of W. H. Nation and several other buildings were burned. John S. Nation’s loss is SO,OOO.

Within Oar Border*. Marine season opened at Michigan City. Lafayette will have new asphalt streets. St. Joseph County will have rural mail delivery. Season at French Lick opened with a large crowd. Newton lost $7,200 worth of business blocks by fire. Wages of plate glass workers will be raised May 1. Concessions granted to strikers at Little’s coal mine. Allen Green, 00, Marion, dropped dead in a gas office. Roy Stankard, 15, and Paul Libyer, 14, Brazil, ran away. Old red school house, Jonesboro landmark, is in ashes. Business men’s association, Terre Haute, will dissolve. Child of William Haynes, Linton, dead of Bpiual meningitis. Hagerstown postofflce has been raised from fourth to third class. Oscar Barger; 16, Converse, is putting in a local telephone system. Thomas McX>onald, Hartford City, struck a 500-barrel oil well. John W. Hammond, New Albany, of the 159th Indiana, stricken blind. Muncie has succeeded In interesting organized labor in the proposed coliseum. Strike at the Little coal mine, Petersburg, settled. Operators conceded everything. Lawrence County has floated $48,357 gravel road bonds at a premium of $2,538.10. Logansport fishermen believe that the fish and game law is unconstitutional, and will test it. Col. John F. Wiley, 89, the original promoter of fruit growing in southern Indiana, is dead. John Miller, 32, Brownsbury, is dead of spinal meningitis. There are other cases in Brownsburg. Four-year-old daughter of Mrs. Joseph. Stubblefield, Petersburg, burned to death in a pile of rubbish. Supt. Edward Boyle of the Michigan City schools has resigned to enter mercantile business in Chicago. Lincoln avenue co-operative planing mill. Evansville, burned. Loss $30,000, half covered by insurance. A horse owned by W. A. Littlebridge, South Bend, dropped dead on the street, two hours after he had traded for it . Fire in the cupola of St. Joseph’s female academy. Terre Haute, was started by birds carrying matches to their nests. Mrs. Lucy Johnson, wife of Fred Johnson, residing at Stockweil, hanged herself. No reason is assigned for the deed. Two brothers, Evansville, were fighting a play duel with knives, when they got in earnest, and one was severely stab bed. The Peru Journal says that a tarantula's egg, found in bananas, measured 1% inches in length and half an inch ia . diameter. At Hagerstown, the large flouring mill, known as the Newcomb Mills, was destroyed by fire. The total loss will be not less than $20,000. . Pendleton people have enjoined the * town board from putting in brick streets and lights and water plants. over twothirds are against the impressment. Patrick Bartley, Evansville, was convicted of arson. He had tremble with a coal mine operator and employed a negro to set fire to the shaft Bartley will appeal. Jacob Beckler, aged 65 years, shot hintself in the right temple, inflicting a wound which caused his-death. Beckler had been in business in Brasil for twenty years. At New Albany, 5,000 people attended the funeral of Harry C. Whiteman, a former member of Company C, 150th Indiana volunteers, who was buried with military honors. Jacob Beckler, a Brasil tailor for the past twenty years, ahot himself in the temple and died. His wife recently died doncj’ soiled him.