Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1899 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. i . Aeronaut’! Parachute Refugee to Open —Farmer Shot by a Widow—New Railway from Ulwood to Lapel— Disastrous Fire at Mllltown. Prof. Dennis, an aeronaut, attempted a parachute drop at the Crawfordsviile fair. When the time came for Dennis’ balloon ascension fully 30,000 people were present at the fair. He ascended successfully until about 200 feet front the {round, when the balloon burst. The paricbute failed to open until within a few feet of the earth, against which the aerotuut was dashed with scarcely diminished velocity. It is feared his injuries will prove fatal. WldoW ‘ hoots Aged Farmer. In Scott township, Mrs. Davella Swartz, a widow, shot Wesley Green, an iged farmer, with an old-fashioned muz-zle-loading shotgun loaded with slugs. The load took effect in the man’s leg, shattering the limb, and it is said that he jartnot recover. The shooting occurred it Mrs. Swartz’s home and resulted from frequent annoyances on the part of Green. New Railway Projected. Thomas Newkirk, a wealthy capitalist of Richmond, has secured the right of way for a railroad from Elwood through Anderson to Lapel, where it will be united with the Chicago and Southeastern, owned by Harry Crawford of Chicago. The promoters behind the enterprise state It is to tap the Indiana coal fields for the gas belt cities and factories when coal becomes necessary. Big Atari lied Discovered. State Geologist W. S. Biachley and Assistant George H. Ashley, who have been prospecting in La Porte County for marl beds, discovered the largest bed in Iniiana. It is located at Fish Lake, covers 100 acres and is from ten to twelve feet thick. Swift & Co., the Chicago packers, own the property. Milltown Badly Burned. At Milltown, T. E. Hancock’s general store, the Odd Fellows’ Hall, J. F. Rawlings’ undertaking establishment, the Royer Hotel, two cottages belonging to T. E. Hancock, C. W. Rawlings’ twpstory residence were burned. The loss will reach at least $20,000. There was ao fire protection but a bucket brigade. Within Our Border*. Case of smallpox in Porter County. Noblesville is kicking on gas rates. John Aldridge, near Muncie, was killed in a runaway. Thieves have been stealing gold from Marion dentists. Peter Brown, Lawrenceburg, has started a turtle farm. A. H. Braden. 60, retired capitalist, Frankfort, is dead. Cholera is making hogs turn up their toes in Grant County. Bert Snyder, residing near Lakeville, was killed by a Wabash train. Miners in southern Indiana are leaving to go to the new mines in Michigan. Union steel mills, employing I,GOO men, Anderson, has gone into the trust. Northwest Indiana M. E. conference will be held at Lafayette next year. Barney Orotman, 68, near Fort Wayne, fell from a haymow and was fatally hurt. Ohio and Indiana Gas Company has leased 8,000 acres of land in Jay County. Jay County jail has been condemned twenty-six times, and the prisoners want another boarding house. Parke County glass sand plant, Coxville, is in ashes. Loss $40,000, with little insurance. Origin a mystery. | At Washington, Mrs. Johnson, colored, gave her little daughter morphine, thinktng it was quinine. The child died. One-year-old child of Schuyler Love, Washington, fell into a bucket containing five inches of water and was drowned. Representatives of the Indiana Southern Railroad have completed deals whereby they secure valuable right of way through the center of Terre Haute to the union station. Abe Richardson, 25, Mitchell, was overcome with the damps in a well while attempting to rescue his friend. He leaves a family. j Carlisle ha 3 been placed under quarani tine restrictions because of the epidemic of malignant diphtheria. Sunday school and public schools have been closed. Fires have been lighted in 285 independent pots and all the other independent and co-operative plants will start this month. There is such a limited supply of window glass and such a groat demand, that no decline in prices is edA big sawmill and lumber yard near the Nickel Plate freight depot at Fort Wayne burned. The loss is estimated at $3,000. The mill was owned by David Tcgtmeyer, and its destruction is due to incendiarism. The place had been saturated with oil and tired. The school trustees of Princeton are having considerable trouble about a Cuban boy, whom an army officer brought home with him from Cuba. The Cuban started to school with the white children, when the patrons announced the withdrawal of their children if the foreigner was permitted to attend the school, i Carl Seigert, son of Prof. Julius Sei--1 gert, a teacher in the Lutheran school in La Porte, left home and joined Wallace’s show. The family learns that the son’s body is buried in the potter's field at Washington, D. C. Young Seigert slept over night over a cage occupied by a tiger. During the night Seigert in his sleep threw his leg over the side of the cage. The tiger bit him severely. Blood poisoning developed and the boy died in a Washington hospital. Oil pumping station of the Indiana Oil and Gas Company, near Hartford City, bnrned. Loss $5,000. Receiver has been asked for the Fairmount smelting works, on account of unpaid salaries. John Sidener, Crawfordsviile, seriously shot Clenn Ralston in the stomach with a revolver that be didn’t know was loaded. James Doolittle, 15, and George Cox, 14, two walking arsenals that started from Danville, 111., to become bandits, were arrested at Lafayette. They had baeß reading dime novel*.