Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1899 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

!- _■ /-..f ' ■■■ * ■ i - . ’nM '■ '"Wfcf”- < •* ' Mp". ' Sl ' RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Big Story from Onaltliin A boot • J Mountain of Blackannken lffOth React meat Receives Warm Welcome Home-Prisoner Does to Work. Abram Robeson, near Grantsburg, while hunting for a stray hone, which had been missing for two noticed a large Mack snake, which retreated toward a cave formed by an overhanging ledge of rocks in one of tbe high bluffs susrounding his pasture lands. His horse-was found lying in this cavern, but covered by what looked to him like a mountain of snakes, so numerous were the reptiles. Robeson fled to his home and secured his shotgun, with which he returned and opened fire until his cartridges were exhausted. After the battle he counted the bodies of 413 snakes lying around and over the body of his hone, which was dead. Indiana Poldiers Return. The 160th Indiana volunteer infantry, after just one year of service, has returned to Indiana, having been mastered ont at Savannah. The regiment was one of the first ordered to Cuba after the evacuation. It was stationed at Matansaa. The twelve companies scattered to their respective towns at once. Every town that furnishes an organization extended a public reception.- The colonel of the regiment, George W. Gander, lives at Marion, and most of the staff officers are from that city.

Ax-Prisoner Turns Ont Well. Henry Berner, twenty years a prisoner at Jeffersonville, and for the last year a guard, has accepted a position at Dayton. Berner was an expert machinist, having had charge of the machinery at the institution, and a genius. He once made a clock frame inlaid with 2.500 different pieces of wood, which he sold for SIOO. He was sentenced to life for killing a man at Vincennes, and during the twenty years he was confined his wife sought continuously for a pardon.

WlthinOnr Border*. Good prospects for fruit around Delphi. Terre Haute has decided to have a street fair. Gale Richards, 2, Kokomo, drowned in a well. • Fresh outbreak of smallpox at New Albany. Highwaymen robbed a fanner of 328 near Marion. James Halpin of Evansville committed suicide. Ont of work. Hartford City postoffice turns in 510*000 a year from 9,000 people. Two ten-inch gas pipe mains will be laid from Greeutown to Chicago. * Glass works at Swayzee is tbe only nonunion factory in the gas belt. A buzzard was killed near Shoals that had a sheep's bell tied to its neck. John Doenges, Connersville, feU from a ten-foot ladder and broke his skulL E. H. Peters, Snmmltville, lost an arm in a premature explosion of dynamite. Westerman-Stewart rolling mills at Marion will raise employes’ wages 10 per cent. The old' project of a railroad from Fort Wayne to Indianapolis, by way of Marion, has been revived. Kokomo factory received an order for several motorcycles, to be used in carrying mail in Porto Rico. At Valparaiso, John Lenick, aged 11 years, was instantly killed by a telegraph pole which fell on him. Frank Woodmansee, Seymour, bankrupt. Liabilities $6,477, assets $8.50 in cash and a $lO watch. Fire did several thousand dollars damage to the Indiana Brewing Company’s $300,000 plant at Marion. Victor Mann, 22, Elkhart, who was a member of the 157th Indiana, is dead from an overdose of morphine. Deputy internal revenue collectors seised 12,000 cigars at Terre Haute and 4,000 at New Albany. Hod counterfeit stamps. Henry Weber, aged 26, and one of the best known young druggists in Evansville, committed suicide by taking prussic acid. Program is announced for the tenth annual convention of the Indiana union of literary clubs at Terre Haute, May 17 to 19. A 2-year-old child at Logansport was found sleeping behipd a door, after half the town had been called ont to assist in the search.

Charles E. Williams, of the firm of Wood. Williams & Co., furniture dealers, was found dead with a broken neck at Terre Haute. Pari* green was discovered in the floor being used by Mrs. K. D. Ferran, wife of a Shelbyvillo grain merchant, who had been out of town. Little son of S. D. Oldendorf, Lebanon, while playing with fire, threw a can of blazing oil on James Smith’s son, and he was fatally burned. James Haipy, aged 35 years and single, committed suicide at Evansville by.taking morphine. He was despondent because he lost his position a month before. The Allen County grand jury returned five indictments against J. F. Schell, alleging embezzlement and larceny. Schell was until recently president of the Schell Loan ahd Investment Company. Cora Q. Comer of Chicago has filed suit in the Federal court at Indianapolis against Michael A. Jordan of Logansport, demanding 530,000 for breach of promise. Miss Comer is 20 years of age. Jordan is worth SIOO,OOO aud is a physician. Gov. Mount has appointed as new members of the State Board of Education Joseph J. Mills, president of Earlham College; William T. Scott, president of Franklin College, and Enoch G. Machan, county superintendent of La(> range' County.. • ■. t:* y '' Dr. J. H. Forest secured a judgment in the Superior Court of Madison County against the Sterling Oil Company of Chicago for $5,000 and SBOO interest. As the leases for which the debt was incurred did not yield as rich returns as was expected, I S? I* 'i i . 11 r * divorce and asked for *n injunetios to •Mwffpnt h<*r husband rarrvinff ftn a. kj'a . v# ■ ' ** _ . “