Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1899 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Starke Coanty Pumhti fiutMa the World’s EaifoM-KatwdG«G«> ply at Pera IVfcacat—We— F«s*» Husband Was Fihotwnd A live. The Rev. Dr. J. T. Boyd, a Sttudbe County preacher, predkits that the vwrf! will come to an -end soon, and, a® Use bom* specific, he has fixed upon Xov. 1L 188®. as the date for the earth’s dissaltafam. He bases his prophecy upwa setem** ami Biblical facts. The Rev. Mr. Bejod that the earth passes through a stnretm of meteors in different ptaxvs every thirty-three years, and that e® the date above mentioned the world wilE eoane mtm contact with the solid bodies that ffoavn the head of this meteor*- stnvoim, ami thus cause the extinction off the h«maai race. . Gas shortage at Per*. The Peru branch off the Dietawh statural gas syndicate annennoed that igas will be turned jfff at all factories, pnsffic buildings, gas engines and ether piaces where much gas is used. It as v&aaarjed the pressure is so low that gas rami'**: hr supplied without pumping, and the euanpany will not put in a station unless the city will compromise its -uit far a mo*third reduction of Tates which is nowpending in the United States SSujavow Court. Oil drillers and pumpers wH s<e greatly affected by the eni-tin* -onff elf their engines. Sensation at Snamitvillr. Summitville is excited ever the announcement of Mrs. Edward Hunter that her husband was embalmed Ixffonne hr was dead. She* said that after the sude-r----taket left, she held a mirror to his nostrils. and the surface was soon <c«ihtc<iy*4 with moisture. She tecame prostrated. The doctor and undertaker say the- naan was dead.

Witbia Oar BorSar*. Miss Nellie Etchison, IS, Ehwovd. as missing. Peru court will dispose of divorce cases this term. Jaw of a mastodon was found **• ■didfSa diggers near Kentland. Regular old-fashioned "ager” Is slaking people in White CountyGrading has begun on tibe Awtersw®, Lapel and El wood Railroad. Goshen has a sausage factoay with a capacity of 1.000 pounds a day. Mrs. Albert Bright, 24. Faiiland, upart a gasoline stove and was fatally anel Dr. Lyman Pike. 73. Terre Haute. died from blood poison, caused by dtekt bites. The Illinois Central has take® possession of the Indiana and Illinois Soalhertn Railroad. Howard Satterfield. DoSoto. a-cvfid'-ntt ally shot and killed his brother, 2d. with a shotgun. Mrs. Edna Matthews. Crawfi'urdsviSib*. took "rough on rats” successfully. Cause unknown. A fine two-story brick house 3® P«s was tom down the other day Ix'canse aa was "ha'nted.'”' Willard Brown. The Marion hoy «u trial for killing Meudal KnajH'fT. pawnbroker, said he did it in self-defense, Terre Hante hunters are grami'dinc because they will have To pay sll* Ik-ense to shoot in Illinois this winter. John F. Staley, Martinsville. stnuaMed with a gun while hunting and shot Manself in the breast- Died instantly. Plans art- Wing arranged for the entertainment of the Indiana delegation to the C. E. convention in London in ltd##. Robbers stole ss*l from the family of Nehemiah Ellis. Windfall. The money had been saved to buy w inter dothing. There is a good thing in hurdier at g-ces-ent, and several companies in Giisfie® have been organized, with presfwcfcs' for more. Explosion in a gas regulator sgafw® near Union City injured Ed Goodrich. Millard Woodbury, J. C. Hinsch and JL B. Gares. At Upland, the 15-nr mthe-eld child S. R. ,IVuTod, a farmer, died fawn strangulation, a chicken bone having lodged in its throat..______ .. , Additions being ma£e to The Eaton lamp black factory, near Muncle, will make it the largest plant of the kind i® the United States. Thomas Bowers, Seattle. Wash_ capitalist, who has been negotiating for « factory in Pendleton, was found dead in bed in an Anderson hotel. Prof. Dan McDougal has presented He I’auw University with a very fine eoillt-e----tion of plants, which he gathered in Arizona while working for the Government there. Morris Gustin. Anderson, threw a shotgun across a fence be was climbing, and both barrels were discharged. One charge tore off his right arm and the other lodged in his heart. Moses Smith of St. Paul. Minn, and Miss Dora Thuntan of Evansville were married the other day under pecwliar circumstances. The wedding was to have taken place the previous night and the bride was overcome whew the groom failed to api>ear. Smith was delayed at Terre Haute. The bride did not regain consciousness until Smith entered her room and touched her hand.

Articles of incorporatki® of the IzwK*»Hpolih end Fort Wayne Railroad have been filed. The capital stock is fixed at SIOO,OOO, with the tindemaiKliag that this may be increased. The wsad. it Is announced, is to be built througk Are following comities: Marion, Hamilton. Madison, Grant. Huntington and AUe®. It is proposed to make it a direct route fire®# Indianapolis to Fort Wayne. A® abnnila me of capital is behind the eotcrprwe. Jacob Orieski, a fanner, was killed by a Lake Shore train at Ea Porte. Religion and love caused Monro* Christ. Liberty, to suddenly go insane. J. M. Wood of Indianapolis has bee® in Marion looking to the erection of a $300,000 cold storage house, a®£ Will Harris, Union City, has a project to pat up a $150,000 produce house. Ret. George T. Torre®#* of Cambridge. Ohio, has been called by Bishop Job® Haze® White to fill the pnritio® of archdeacon of the Episcopal diocese of Michigan City, made vacant by tile resignation of Rev. Dr. Cole.