Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1899 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Murder Is Seen in a Dream - Poison Scattered in on Ice Box—Oil Activity Around La Porte— English Electric Light Concern Assigns. A mysterious affair occurred at the other day. With his face literally beaten into pieces, Elmer Flainilton, aged married, was found near the center of the city at exactly 5 o’clock in the morning by workmen. There was no clew until Alfred Sites, an intimate friend of the murdered man, informed the police that he saw the murder at 3 o’clock the same morning in a dream. He said: "I saw Hamilton walking with five men. I saw them grapple him and after some little time Hamilton fell and did not rise. I made an effort to rescue him from hisassailants and was in the act when I awakened.” Attempt to Poison a Family. A most sensational attempt was made at Anderson by arsenical poisoning to exterminate the Henry Bronnenberg family. The ice chest was opened during the night and the meat, milk and other foodstuffs were impregnated with arsenic and a lead, preparation. The servant made the discovery by accident while preparing breakfast. A slice of meat was analyzed by a chemist and was found to contain enough poison to kill a family. The affair is a mystery. The Bronnenbergs are wealthy and have no enemies they know of. New Oil Wells in Indiana. Excitement prevails in the oil regions near San Pierre over the striking of several big “gushers.” Five wells which had been abandoned have begun to flow oil in paying quantities. Prospectors have leased nearly an entire township, and an experimental well will be drilled in Cass township. A company with a capital of $500,000 has been incorporated for drilling wells in White, Tippecanoe, Jasper and Pulaski counties. Electric Light Concern Assigns. The English Electric Light and Manufacturing Company, operating electric light and spoke factories and doing the largest retail business in southern Indiana in fertilizing and agricultural implements, assigned at English. The assets will aggregate $250,000. The liabilities are unknown. Within Our Borders. Anderson will have a new fair ground. Evansville will have a new stock yards. Worley Leas, 77, pioneer, Kokomo, is dead. 'The Vandalia Railroad will spend $60,000 for improvements at South Bend. Charles Wills, Chesterton, is dead from morphine poisoning. He did it on purpose. Manager Tinman of the Colonade Hotel, Maxinkuekee, is missing, and the hotel has shut up. Two children of John Taylor, English, poisoned by eating pickles kept in a tin cup, have become paralyzed. Lightning struck a barn on the Trotting Association’s race track at Terre Haute and killed five horses. A South Bend dentist who had his carpet cleaned says that $17 worth of gold dust was beaten out us it. Everett Mod, Muneie, was found in the Big Four yards at Anderson with his skull crushed. He fell from a train. Charles Smith started home from Salem and in the evening was found lying in the road with his back broken. Mystery. Clinton Snyder, Pike County, has sued James S. McCoy for $10,000 damages, alleging that McCoy kidnaped his daughter. The Columbia Milling Company’s plant burned at Oakland City, together with 6,000 bushels of wheat. The loss is $l8,000. Laporte Christian scientists will resist the vaccination order for school children recently issued by the State Board of Health. Harry D. Smith. Hoopeston, Ill., and Miss Eva Armstrong, Lima, Ohio, met at Muncie and after four days’ wooing, were spliced. At Ora. lightning killed three horses belonging to Ferdinand Ludwick and knocked his son Henry senseless. Several other horses were injured. Richard Pendleton, colored, Washington, and two friends, all race horse drivers. were attacked by a Huntingburg mob and Pendleton was shot in the back. Judge Wilson, Elkhart, in granting a divorce to Mrs. Noah Whitehead, disposed of the three children by letting the father and mother have them thirty days, alternately. The tin plate strike at Elwood has been practically settled, the men returning to work pending adjustment. W. H. Evans, whose discharge caused the strike, was not reinstated. Fireman Jack Terrel, on the Panhandle, Logansport. -became crazed from overheut and kept giving the engineer wrong signals. He was put in the baggage car, where three men held him. Two women of Nuppanee clambered on top of their house and put out u fire. After the fire was out. they were overcome with the nervous strain, and had to sit on the roof until the men folks returned. Jim Brown, colored, Rockport, was hitten on the hand by a copperhead while "suckering” his father’s tobacco. With the aid of a spring chicken cut open and applied to the bite and a jug of whisky he recovered. Senator Thomas E. Boyd, Noblesville, was held up the-other night. While talking to the robbers he put his hand on his revolver pocket for a bluff. The highwaymen stepped back and the Senator scooted for home. l-’ewer oil wells were drilled in Indiana during August than has been known since oil was discovered. An immense barn at the edge of Peru, the property of the Shirk estate, was set on tire by unknown persons and was destroyed with all its contents, causing a loss of about $3,500. Two women in the plate glass district of Kokomo, Mrs. Bassett and Mrs. Glover. met on the grounds near the factory where refuse is dumped, and fought until