Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1899 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Thirty Thousand Hoosier Gias* Workers Ont of Employment- Jury Fixe* : Monetary Value of a Fon at 9140 30 —First Joint Township School. * A Madison County jury returned a decidedly novel verdict, in which they established the monetary value of a boy from his fourth to twenty-first birthday. Chas. Guy’s 4-year-old son was drowned in an Elwood sewer two years ago. The father brought action against the city for $lO,000. The jury was instructed to find actual damages and this they did by figuring the cost and earnings of a boy each year from his fourth to his twenty-first birthday. On one side they figured his keeping, his schooling and all other expenditures and on the other side they figured his earning power. Up to his eighteenth birthday there was a deficit, but his earnings after that point made that up and on the seventeen years there was a margin of $149.50. Guy was rendered a judgment for this amount of damages. It took the jury two days to figure out their proposition. Indiana Glass Workers Idle. The closing of the various glass factories as the hot weather approaches brings to light statistics concerning the glass industry. In Indiana alone there are 30,000 men employed in the glass factories. During the hot weather this number of people are out of employment, with few exceptions. Indiana is the greatest window- glass producing State in the Union. There are forty-three window factories, thirty-three flint glass factories, twenty-five greenhouses and three place Glass concerns. The window glass industry is controlled entirely by three labor organizations. There is not a non-union window glass factory in the United States. Three Townships to Euild a School. The first joint township school to be erected in the State will be constructed on the line between Jackson township, Hiami County, Jackson township, Howard County, and Richland township, Grant County. The trustees of the three townships met with Deputy Superintendent of Public Instruction Cotton and have approved the plan for the erection of a SIO,OOO school building at a point convenient for the pupils of the three townships. Should, the experiment of consolidating the country schools prove satisfactory other buildings will be built. In Guilty of Manslaushter. The trial of Walter Jones for the murder of Edward Adams at Carbon March • 28 was concluded in the Circuit Court at Brazil and given to the jury. After remaining out until 2 o’clock in the morninx the jury brought in a verdict convicting the defendant of manslaughter. Judge McGregor will pass sentence on him. Find Big Field of Asphalt. A large field of asphalt has been discovered lying under the east end of Logansport. The discovery was made while men I were engaged in drilling for water and it is thought that the field joins that in the vicinity of Litchfield, 111. The quality is of the best, being produced by upheavals, : forcing the oil to near the surface. 1 hink It’s Their Own Business. The suit brought at Seymour against the First National Bank and the Seymour Na-? tional Bank by the Assessor, to compel them to open their books for was decided in favor of the plaintiff. Th* banks will appeal to the Supreme Court. » School Teacher Going to Persia. Miss Lillian Beaber, a teacher in the ! Fort Wayne public schools, has resigned her position, and will leave in August for Persia, where she has been assigned to »•» position in the missionary field of th»| Presbyterian Church. Sues for SIO,OOO Damages. Charles Null of Kokomo filed a suit for ? SIO,OOO damages against the Indiana Nat- : ural Gas and Oil Company- for the deaths of his wife by a gas explosion last alleging negligence in the maintenance of l service pipes. Within Our Border*. Smallpox in Tipton. : Indiana oil has advanced 2 cents. I Smallpox broken out anew in New AM bany. Bryan spoke thrice in Fort Wayne Sat*l urday. Hail of the hen-egg size fell in Sullivantl County. I Knox County was hammered with a ter*j| rifle hail storm. I High school commencements are cominril thick and fast. I Van Shertzer, 10, Bloomfield, drowned)] while swimming. I The storm Monday sort o’ tore things up] near Greencastle. -.i’.-'lB North Vernon has laid a new Masoniel Temple corner stone. I Property of William H.. Culbertsoaro New Albany, which cost SIIO,OOO thirtn years ago. sold for $7,150. I Mark Raynor and Mrs. Robert OsgootM met Rev. E. E. Connelly, Versailles, ana were married in their buggy. Clarksville will keep her post office. AIM tempt was made to have the town sub station to Jeffersonville. g Richmond is organizing an eeonomgH league to promote intellectual welfarta Home speakers will be used. ■ Hartford City has put out more winfl dow and flint glass in the last season any city in the United States. jfl The partially decomposed body of an known man found in the woods nerifl Brookville. He had cut Kia throat. A fl Studebaker brothers, South Bend, wH build a $400,000 addition to their plant, for the manufacture of automobi|M| They have received a contract for sl,t)oH| 000 worth. Old Missouri harmony singing claaH Morristown, organized sixty-three yriml ago, held its annual reunion Sunday.TjM youngest member of the class is 70 mH the oldest 85. Howard County claims the mosts|Kg cessful co-operative factory in the try, the Indiana Goblet and Tumbler pany of Greentown. There are 300 *p|| ployes ami nearly every one owns George Grover found his son, now 25 years old, bearing the Raymond Wright, in Huntington. S boy’s mother died when he was 5 refiH Wd, and the Wright family took him W ‘