Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1899 — INDIANA [ARTICLE]

INDIANA

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THB PAST WEEK. Struck by a Lightnins Bolt-Rural ; Mail Delivery System to Be Extend-fil ed—Caught byan Undercurrent-New 3 Trial for Flory-Foretold Hia Death. During a heavy thunderstorm Earl D. . Simpson met death in a tragic manner. ! He. in company with Edward Jones, was ■ diving from the Chester River Steamboat Company's wharf at Chestertown. The swimmer had mounted a pile twelve feet high for the purpose of making a dive, and as he stood, poised for the plunge the fatal flash came from a comparatively clear sky and the young man fell to the wharf dead fl His companion and a teamster and four horses that stood scarcely twenty feet away, were shocked,/ but in no degree stimmsl by the current. Rural Delivery in Indiana. Rural free mail delivery, which has been in successful operation at several points in the State for some months past, may lie greatly extended within the next ■ year. E. H. Hathaway, special agent for the work in Indiana, has bogim reorganizing <-l-l routes and establishing new ones. Many places have applied for the delivery of mail in tin* country districts, but Mr. Hathaway does not think all can get their petitions granted, although most of them have the indorsement of Congressmen. He thinks that perhaps twenty hew routes will la* established within tin* next year. Boys Drowned in the Wabash. Five Ihivs were in bathing in the Wabash at Lafayette .and three of them— Charles Zink. Walter Velliiiger and Paul Held were drowned. Two hoys named Snyder were heroically rescued bi’ another boy named George Miller. The boys, were drowned by the under current at the month of Dtirgee run. the most., treacherous'i>lai-v in the Wabash. None were over 12 years old. Flory Given a New Trial John Flory, whom the jury at Paoli sentenced to life imprisonment for the killing of Jessie Burton at Mitchell last November, was granted a new trial by the court on account of errors made in instructing the jury. Flory was taken to the' reformatory at .leffersouville for safe keeping, owing to some fear of mob v iolem e.

Preacher Foretells His Death. Rev. Quiller I’aitoe died at Martinsville. aged Ml years. He preached at a basket meeting a few days ago. and remarked that he would make no further appointments, as he did not expist to live totig. The next day he was seized with brain fever and his premonition was vertfied. Within Our Borders. Diphtheria is raging in Patrieksburg. ■ Martinsville will have a street fair in August. Bair flour bill. Princeton, damaged jtpiyMMt by tire. George Gentry. 17. Boonville, drowned v- hile swimming. Huston Hood. 22. drowned while seining in Haw creek, near Columbus. CT. Godford, farmer m ar Brazil, was drowned while fishing in Eel river. North Vernon has seven churches and eleven saloons, the erap shooter's limit. Janies Cook. Carbon. says robbefl chloroformed his family and stole tSUiO. j Harrison Kurz was seriously stabbed: near the heart by Albert Blake near Pilot Knob. * Alpha M«Dowell. 3. Kokomo, set fire to her clothing while playing with a box of matches and is dead. Ten cattle belonging to O. M. Tusli* son. Putnam County, licked white lead from a paint leg and died. .lames T. Rei<l. an influential citizen: of Sullivan, is dead in Denver, whither he had gone for the benefit of his health. The Peerless flour mill at Mount Vernon. the property of Kauffman Brothers of St. Louis, was destroyed by fire. Loss s]pi.iKMi, insurance $75,000, Mrs. William A. Cullop of Vincennei lias been appointed by Gov. Mount an honorary eommissioner to the Paris exposition to represent the women of Jacob Ellis >f Anderson, aged 85 years, has become father of his sixteenth childThe mother is but 45 years old. The youngster is sturdy and has good lungs. It weighs ten pounds. Elmo Interreiden .late of the 159th Indiana volunteers, committed suicide by shooting himself through the head whik standing in front of his father's place o business at Vineeimes. G. T. MeKim of Thorntown has received a letter from Stephen Fell, formerly ol that place, dated from South America which says that for twelve years he hai Ihm'ii a slave in a tribe on the upper Am azon. The Fairmount zinc spelter works a Fairmount were destroyed by tire. The fire was caused by an explosion of gas About 100 men were employed in the: plant. There was no insurance. The plant will !«• rebuilt at once. Huntsville, the town built on alleged magnetic iron ore. has l>een torn to pieces again by an electrical storm ami one death -that of Mrs. James Rodgers— re-| suited. The town has been the mark on lightning each year. Every great st or raj is certain to center its worst bolts at that! fioint. | Joseph Mosely, colored, a carpenten was the victim of a peculiar accident ati Evansville, and his death will be the tH suit. While engaged in repairing the rood of a house he started to saw a board foq a scaffold. He carelessly sat on the outed edge, though, ami sawed between himseM and the fastened end. As a eotisequeiUM when the broke he plunged down head foremost a distance of eighteen feed between two houses. 1 Martin Crapp was bitten on one thin in three places, the hamstring being fq] tally severed, during a fight at a picnw near Sodom. Death from gangrene is UM tieipated. 3 Ralph Schelley. 8 years old, died JH Montpelier ns the result of u vicious AM tack on him by four of his The boys were all playing together wh4M some difficulty arose over a trifling QitN ter and the four combined -to thrush hhM Two of them held Ralph Schelley wbifl the others kicked him and pounded h|M on the neck, head and back with Lockjaw fidbiwisl, and then death, g