Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1899 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Long Missing Man Returns HomeEngineer Killed by Stray BulletBalloonist Escapes Accident Unknown Person Attempts Murder. Fifteen years ago George Thompson, a young farmer near Bynum, deserted his wife and children without cause or warning. It was rumored he was murdered, as a search failed to reveal any trace of him. His wife kept the farm and made a living for herself and children, never married or applied for divorce, revering his memory, but believing him dead. The other evening Thompson returned home and the reunion was a happy one. He says he has been in Indian territory ever since leaving. He refuses to give any explanation of his mysterious desertion of his family. Truly Faithful Unto Death. Near Reeds Station, Engineer W. H. McCarthy of a Lake Erie and Western freight train was shot and killed with a bullet supposed to have been a stray shot from some hunter in the woods through which the train was rushing. He did not release his hold on the throttle of the engine till he had shut off steam, called for brakes and informed the fireman what had happened. Crowd Sees au Aeronaut Fall. At Union City, a large crowd saw a young aeronaut escape by a narrow mart gin from being dashed to his death. Herbert Williams made his first ascension. When the balloon had gone up about 500 feet the gas began to escape and the balloon to fall. In its descent the balloon caught in some telegraph wires and Williams climbed out to a pole, down which he descended in safety.

Attempts a Double Murder. A shooting, which may result in the death of two persons, occurred four miles west of Rushville. Mrs. Ruby Powell and William Searey were shot down by an unknown person, who used a shotgun, and Mrs. Elizabeth Veatch was painfully wounded. Three shots were fired. Within Our Borders. Diphtheria in DeKalb County. Lagootee has a third gas gusher. Ex-Congressman Ralph Hill died at Indianapolis. Lost Creek township is terrorized by an incendiary. Seven cement mills, Clark County, have combined. James Bower, Union City, dropped dead in his yard. Muncie and Anderson are tied for sixth place in Indiana. Fort Wayne will be connected with Auburn and Butler by trolley. Friends’ yearly meeting at Pendleton was attended by 2,000 people. Princeton had a big blowout over the completion of its first brick street. Flint glass workers in the new factory at Matthews have been organized. The two anti-trust wire nail plants, Anderson, are running double time. Peter Zane, Porter County, fell in front of a mower and was fatally injured.

Coal land near Linton has advanced 100 per cent within the last two months. Huntington handle factory of Turner, Day & Woolworth of Louisville in ashes. Loss SO,OOO. John Burnett, Cannelton, waded into the Ohio, river, while in a delirious fever, and drowned. United States fish commissioner threw 5,200 little black bass into Lake Maxinkuckee for seed.

William McKenzie. 30, Terre Haute, lineman, touched a live wire and fell thirty feet. He still lives. Commander Packard of the Lafayette soldiers’ home says there .will not be room enough to accommodate all applicants this Winter.

Geneva Bertsch, 6, East Germantown, was saved from being burned to death in a gasoline explosion by her mother smothering out the flames with her dress. Policeman Kirkhoff, Lafayette, will not be held for the murder of Charles Rewes, as an investigation developed the fact that the shooting was accidental. At Peru, Mrs. Edith Quick was arrested, charged with having poisoned her husband. A brother of the dead man was arrested charged with being an accomplice.

MfS. William Dalton, Anderson, accused a clerk with whom she had been trading. of stealing her theater tickets, and brought her hubby to the store, only to have him licked.

Harry Hamilton, aged 45, and Lilly Gray, aged 10, disappeared from Valparaiso. Hamilton has a wife and three children. He and Miss Gray are supposed to be in Chicago.

Mrs. O. P. Worley, wife of County Clerk Worley, Lebanon, jumped from a carriage in a runaway and died an hour later. Her 4-year-old grandchild, whom she held in her arms, was unhurt.

Airs. Henry Catterman, Miami County, has a peculiar affection of the bones, and the other night a bone in her right leg was fractured by muscular contraction. Two months ago she fell and broke both arms.

The Rev. Dr. Cole, who was recently called to accept the duties of archdeacon of the northern Indiana diocese of the Episcopal Church, has accepted the presidency of St. Stephen’s College at Allendale, N. Y. James Prifogle, Rush County farmer, who was distrustful of banks and kept his money secreted about the house, shot himself for fear that he might be robbed. Before he died he offered the doctors all he had if they would save him. Henry F. Meier, Columbus, drowned while seining in White river. Martinsville elevator burst, letting 6,000 bushels of wheift on the ground. New Christian church has been organized at Columbus, the result of the reeent split. Work has begun on the power house at Greenwood for the Indianapolis and Greenwood electric line. Mrs. Lavina Corn, wife of a rich Cuban planter, lost a sack containing $1,145 worth of diamonds in the depot at Mun-