Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1899 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Gas Explosion Startles a Town—End of a Haunted House in Pera—Shot on His Own Doorstep- One Wreck Quickly Follows Another. A break in the main line of the Chicago Gas Pipe Line Company near Ixigansport caused an explosion which shook the city and startled the citizens from their homes. A flaw in an eight-inch main caused the explosion and threw dirt and rock high in the air. The gas continued to escape with a roar and rush that could be heard for miles around. The break was repaired after several hours’ hard work. Tears Down a Haunted Home. Charles H. Brownell, one of Peru's wealthiest citizens, is tearing down a brick residence in the eastern part of the town because the belief prevails that the dwelling is haunted. He has vainly endeavored for several years to rent the property, but in every instance has gone tip against the superstition, until in disgust he is tearing the building down and will use the brick in another structure. Second Wreck in Two Days. A wreck on the Bedford branch of the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern branch was followed by a collision alauit six miles east of the main line, the wrecking crew which was at work on the branch being called there before getting its first wreck cleared. No lives were lost, the engineer and fireman jumping to save their lives. Called to His Door and Shot. John Boohr of Kokomo was fatally shot at. his door the other night by George Chamberlin. The men had quarreled regarding • Boohr's wife, and Chamberlin, while intoxicated, went to the Boohr home and without saying a word fired a bullet into Boohr's left breast, near the heart. He was arnested. Within Our BorUera. Greensboro will reincorpora to.

Wayne County druggists have organMany Indiana towns report house famines. Chauncey Mead, Plymouth, dropped dead. Gas well diggers of the State will raise prices. Tenant mines, Waterman, closed indefinitely. Pieces' of mastodon were dug up near Liberty. Brazil has 202 more school children than last year. Brookstown high school has been commissioned. James Howard, Brazil, found paralyzed in a buggy. Incendiaries are getting in their work at Fort Wayne. Policeman Stratton, Anderson, died of spinal meningitis. . Gold said to have been discovered in Blackford County. Work begun on the $500,000 Catholic church at Elwood. Henry Morris, wealthy bachelor, Henry County, took arsenic. ' Nine girls and two boys graduated from the Milroy high school. Vincennes militia company mustered in with fifty-five members. Michigan Central Railroad will build a new dock at Michigan City. Thomas Baldwin and wife, Fairmount, have been married (56 years. Unknown man found hanging to a tree in the woods near Brookvil!--. Wilbur Peters. New Albany, died of lockjaw. Stepped on a rusty nail. John Garrison, hermit, found unconscious in the road near Marshfield. The skeletons of a man and child were dug up in a gravel pit near Auburn. A citizen of Avon pays his wife 25 cents a week to get up and build the fires. The task of vaccinating the 825 convicts at Michigan City has been completed. Elkhart has a new concern, the National Tablet Company, with SIS,(MM) capital. Isaac Deal, 01. old fisherman, killed on the Vandalia Railroad near Knightsville. Judge R. R. Stephens, Noblesville, bequeathed his entire estate, $25,000, to his widow. Residence of L. A. Williams. New Castle, wrecked by gas explosion. No one at home. Indiana owners of high bred dogs will conduct field trials at Terre Haute this summer. J. C. Mendenhall. Evansville, wholesale druggist, gone to the wall, with SIO,OOO liabilities. A trustee in St. Joseph County turned oyer all his property to. meet a shortage in his accounts. A man worked the gas inspector game on a Fort Wayne preacher and took $8 and other valuables. Nicholas Kaschmarak. 66. Fnrnessville, died while being treated in a doctor's office at Michigan City. The inline of Oral L. Hall. Muncie, taken from the tax duplicate and drawn for a juror, was found to belong to a woman. Some unknown persons went to the barn of Rev. Marshall Pritchett, in Harrison township, and hung one of his work mules tb a rafter. Miss Katy Parker, farmer’s daughter, near Franklin, married her father’s hired hand while the old folks were visiting in Shelbyville. Frank Rylowicz, Kingsbury, found out ail about a dynamite cartridge, and will only have a doctor bill to pay for obtaining the information. So many people have been calling to see the gate that fell on the little daughter of Peter Sutton and killed her, near Franklin, that he has been compelled to destroy It. Seven hundred or more miners in the southern Indiana coal fields have gone on a strike. The men demand that they be paid ou the same basis as the miners in central Indiana—that is, 66 cents a ton for screened and 40 cents for unscreened coal. The body of Jesse Kinley was discovered in the bottoms below Evansville. He was a laborer on Diamond Islatiu. A few days ago he was taken with the measles and his associates, thinking that he had the smallpox, drove him off the island. In trying to cross a marsh he sunk to his armpits and, being unable to extricata himself, perished.