Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1899 — INDIANA INCIDENTS [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS

RECORD OF EVENTS OF Tall ‘PAST WEEK. J _____ Conductor Mistake * Crders with Effect Decides Against Faith CtMraKIII Fatal Endinc of a Neighbor#’ rd - Prevents a Lyjiching. Ja|| One man was instantly kilted other fatally injured in a collision' freight trains on the Wabash at La A second section of freight train g'inM east, polled by tv» engines, had order®| to meet a west-bound train at La OtteK but it seems the conductor misunderst®H| the situation and started the a point three miles east of La Otta tm®| train ran at full speed into the hound train, also pulled by two The four locomotives telescoped wHB piled together and not one of the men on them would have escaped hn<) they not jumped. In jumping Replogle, who was learning the ro&dfH® tireman. fell against a companion- mH was thrown under the wreckage crushed to death. The cars were up in heaps and some stock was killed.'®| Interprets the Medical LaW/S H Attorney General Taylor, at the re-® quest of the State Medical Buard, ItefH leeided that it is a violation of thF-M® for an unlicensed person assuming title of a "doctor” to prescribe or pttrsne® any practices for the cure or relief 'Of® liseases, injury or deformity, especially® where any fee is charged for such vice. He also holds that faith curism,® mental healers and metaphysical medlf® eators, who advertise themselves as psy<® sieians and accept fees for treating dis-® eases by silent or other form of practice® by moral advice or by profound thong®® or by absolute non-action, unquestionably® violate the law. ■ Quarrel >■ nds in Shootinc. I A fatal shooting affray occurred near® Capron. The victim is George QutH)j|® enbush. one of the wealthiest farmers ini that community. The shooting was by J. W. Lockwood, another substantlgl® citizen. The men had not been on friengj® ly terms for several months, the originating over a quarrel between children at school. Quackenbtish wite| passing the Lockwood place, and it !»■ alleged that Lockwood came out, revolv«w|| in hand, and called him a thief. enbush made a reply and Lockwood® opened tire with his revolver, emptyite® the weapon. Four of the five shots tooßa effect. I Sheriff Heads Off Lynching. I Plans laid for the lynching of Clyde I Jones, confined in jail in Peru for the I abduction of Nellie Berger, were trated by the energetic 'measures tnkte®| by Sheriff Dunn ami the knowledge he and his deputies would shoot to iany mob attempting it. ——“— Within Our Borden. Mishawaka Board of Health has vaccination obligatory. |H Increase in prices of iron pipe is-j t®| tarding work in the oil field. ® John Cary, 22, Lagrange, shot himseH because lie couldn’t go to college, ‘ fa J®| Honey Creek township will ship 2,000® IHM> quarts of blackberries this William Murray left Crawfoml when he found a bundle of switches JH his door. ® Commissioners of Crawford County re® fused to order an examination of count® records. . ® Estus Roberts, Shelbyville, became efl® tangled in the net while seining tin® drowned. John Wyler, 10, was drowned whiles swimming in the St. Joseph river, near ! Fort Wayne. The Government has stocked severaH ponds in the southern part of the Stats '! with black bass. ■ . 3® A kissing bug kissed a rooster on tn® side of the neck at Goshen the other day and it died instantly. Rev. F. H. Gwynne, Oregon, will ; preach in the Presbyterian Church afl Elkhart for $1,300 a year. The Vincennes Street Railway. Citi-v| zens’ Gas Light plant and Electric Light plant have been eonsoli- « dated and sold to Hambleton & Co. of 3 Baltimore, Md. At Franklin, Night Policeman Oti»I Myers, while making his rounds, wagstruck and seriously injured by some per-| son unknown. Myers was an important factor in recent poker room raids. Marion Kephart of Kokomo was killed I in a Panhandle wreck a mile south ota there. Five wheat cars were demolished 3 and the track obstructed. The wreck! was caused by the train breaking in two,J Oscar Milly and ’George Evans, farmer! boys, were killed by lightning south <>(? Washington. Milly’s body was torn, ope® from the back of his head to the soles of S his feet and his breast was burned and, cut into shreads. A serious fire occurred at the Acton’J camp meeting grounds near Indianapolis;! Five cottages were destroyed and the fir®-! was prevented from spreading by the razing of adjoining buildings. With the i cottages pulled down, eight buildings t were wrecked. Men. women and children ; were forced to run from the cottages | within reach of the fire in their nightclothes. Engineer Ensley of the Cleveland division of the Big Four was dangerously 1 injured, the result of a fight in an engine j cab while the train was ruuniug. Near , Farmland a brakeman got into a fight with the fireman. The fireman was being worsted ajni was about to be thrown from the engine when the engineer took f a hand. The fierce three-cornered fight raged until the brakeman seized a hammer and felled both his opponents. He’ then ran back Jo the caboose. The fiMfel man rallied sufficiently to take the train into Farmland. Marion normal college is increasing its. facilities. Fanners are all tickled over the new forestry law. jM| ’./-i® Pent has an organized gang of jure* nile thieves. , Methodist Church, Scottsburg, burned by incendiaries. Loss $2,500. During a storm near Oliver two were instantly killed and two fatally ta*® jured by lightning. While Vernon Scbepple, aged 13, burning stuinns near Shelbyville. i n vt | .j \