Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 August 1899 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD.

Fierce Fisht in a Freight Car—Horrible Method of silicide—Electrician Severely Hurt at Kokomo Long Sleep of a New Carlisle Farmer.

Albert Stone was beaten and robbed by tramps on board a freight train. Stone was on his way to Chicago, where he expected to work at his trade, being a sheet-iron and metal cornice worker. Stone had stopped at the first station east of Waterloo and purchased his breakfast. Three tramps followed hitn and climbed upon the same car on a west-bound freight. A fierce battle soon began between the three tramps and Stone. Stone was cruelly beaten, robbed of S2O in money and thrown off the train as it entered Waterloo. The tramps were captured. Forbea Grasps a Live Wire. At Kokomo, J. C. Forbes, a Detroit electrician, was repairing a trolley line at the top of a thirty-foot pole. In reaching out after a coil he by mistake grasped a guy wire leading to a tree. His feet swung away from the pole, leaving him hanging by the hands from the live wire. His weight not being sufficient to break the contact, the imperiled lineman dangled in the air unable to loose his grasp. He finally fell to the ground, a distance of nearly thirty feet, receiving additional injuries an the frightful fall. Woman Feta Fire to Heraelf. Mrs. George L. Bailey attempted suicide at Muncie. A few days ago the woman twice tried to throw herself in front of a train. This time, after locking the door to the room, she set fire to her bed and then covered herself with the blazing covers, but when the tire touched her body she screamed. The door was burst open and the fire extinguished, but not until the flesh on her entire body was fairly cooked. Fear of being taken to an asylum caused the act. Farmer Having a Long Sleep. Boone Miller, a farmer living one mile south of New Carlisle, has been in a deep sleep for several days, and all efforts to awaken him are of no avail. The physicians in charge of the case are baffled and are unable to diagnose this strange malady. Miller is a man of family and bis case has aroused much curiosity as to the outcome. Elopea with Two Women. A. J. Lance, a St. Louis tailor, eloped with two women. They are Mrs. Fannie Clark, wife of Alfred Clark of Bruceville, and Mary Varner, also of Bruceville. The Clark woman left her husband and two children. They said they were going tc Kansas City. Within Our Borders. Celery culture is a big thing arouiZ Goshen this year. Fire in the tin plate mill, Atlanta, did SIO,OOO damage to unfinished plate. Rich vein of lubricating oil is said t.<> have been struck near Medaryville. Will Klein's jewelry store, Connersville, robbed of S3OO worth of silverware. Mrs. William H. Whitlock, Rising Sun, found dead in the yard. Heart disease. George Hill,lo, and Ralph Baker. 13, drowned in the Ohio river at Evansville. Teamsters on a Brown County pike struck for an increase from SI.GO to $2 a day. William B. Morgan, 57, and Ed A. McClelland, both manufacturers of Kokomo. are dead. Sylvester Yoisinet, 2G, Union City, had both legs cut off near the body, in attempting to board a moving train. John and Willie Decker, 1G and 9, were caught on a railroad crossing in Illinois, near Terre Haute, and instantly killed. Fred Hoerman, Terre Haute, has been notified that he, with four others, has fallen heir to a large estate in Germany. Byram Oil Company, Hartford City, sold its interests near Dundee to a Titusville, Pa., syndicate for $35,000. The price is said to be low. Frank C. Lory, from the Klondike, is visiting his parents at Petersburg. He presented them with SIOO,OOO in gold and has plenty more left up north. Joe Phillips, Cloverdale, was fishing, lie tied the line to his foot while he slept. A 21-pound carp pulled him into the river. Two friends saved him from becoming fish bait. Maud Leonard, 17, daughter of a farmer near Windfall, escaped while her father was leading prayer meeting at the house, and eloped with W. V. Dean of West Liberty.

' Joseph Buecher, an inmate at the Evansville poor infirmary, fell from ii window and broke his neck, dying instantly., Every bone in his body was crushed. Buecher was 60 years old. The honeymoon of George Vanzandt and bride of Brazil was brought to an abrupt end by the appearance of wife No. 1, who was supposed to have died seven years ago. Vanzandt fled. Nate Churchill, the reinsman, was seriously and maybe fatally injured by a horse he was exercising at Terre Haute. One rein broke and Churchill pulled the horse into the fence, where in falling it kicked him. Three ribs were broken and there are internal injuries. A cloud burst occurred between Ferdinand and Huntingburg. The damage to crops and stock in the fields will reach several thousand dollars. The morning train on the Air Line Railroad was compelled to nin through water for a mile. In some places the roadbed was badly damaged and nearly washed away. The flood was most severe a mile beyond Ferdinand, where farmers lost considerable stock by being drowned. Reports from l>oints in Dubois and Warrick counties show that the damage to crops is severe. No loss of life is reported. Heat has killed considerable stock around Thorntown. Goshen is fishing for a large printery which will employ 300. Fairmount glass works has contracted for a third bottle factory. A new electric railway for the southern part of the State Is being agitated. Patriot, Vevay, Madison and Rising Sun are interested cities. A body was found floating in the Ohio near Vevay Island. It is of a man about 65, five feet eight inches, gray whiskers, gray hair, heavy built and clad in dark I tfolbßSa