Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1899 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TEIWWL s ‘ Jeffersonville Officers Battle wtfjljj Safe Blower—Peoria and Kxpress Wrecked - No AdvWßdf^fs Coal Miners— Suicide in a Cieter*tif|j Sergt. Kendall and Watch«ka«lcjlß 6 ton discovered burglars in the «|K the Ohio Falls chain works sonville blowing open the Kendall started on a run for the.ofltM but was met by a roan who, with~*3 tol in his hand, ordered him to halt. TH. officer instead opened fire and A livoH battle followed, each man emptying bM} revolver. During this fight the man ffE the office made his escape. The OtiMwl man was wounded by the bullet* the officer’s revolver, but managed to gef 4 away. Thirty dollars was secured mmßjfl the safe. Miners Refused an Advance. | j A joint meeting of block coed opftwH tors and miners was held at discuss the request made by the mineral for an advance in the scale of minings j The operators refused to grant an i»*f| crease, but agreed to sell coal to tbeir|| employes for $1.50 at the mines, which W§| 50 cents below the block market prichJl The miners referred the matter to the|| various local unions for consideration.,:^ engineer Heller Injured. J The fast express on tb» Peoria an|ml Eastern Railroad was wrecked at ChMjfl mont. The engine turned over; thgdfMH car, baggage car and two coadies the track, but none of them was owBH turned. Engineer J. Heller of Indian.-tpy| olis was slightly injured. His firemans escaped unhurt. None of the passengers was injured. • I Drowned Herself in a Cistern, js Miss Barbara Frank of Xewbnrg corns rnitted suicide by jumping into a She was engaged to be married to a young man at Joliet, 111. Within Our Border*. Berry Bilftieimer, Peru, was killed by a train. Molding sand has been discovered at;: Muncie. National bank will be started at Ceni terville. Burned Ivnightstown Masonic temple will be rebuilt. John Long's 17-year-old daughter, insane, Fort Wayne, is missing. “Central conference of gospel workers,’’ is a new religious sect in MadisOtf County. The, Odd Fellows’ Hall block at Ladoga was burned, causing a loss of aboa $30,000. Trustees will add 15,000 volume* to the library at the State normal school, Terre Haute. Funeral of Itev-tor J. A. Magloue, Episcopal minister, Sunday, was the large*! in Anderson’s history. F. P. Wilt, Fort Wayne, is at the head of a company to start a wholesale grocery, with SIOO,OOO capital. I>r. R. F. Lii>es, Fort Wayne, wU fined for failure to report a case of diphtheria, under the new law. George Nickum and Nellie Everling, Ehvood lovers, shot at each other, and are now in the coop. Each pleads seifs defense. Power house for the Indianapolis- "■ Greenfield electric line will be built a!: Greenfield, and must be completed byi April 1, 1900. , At Vincennes, Hattie E. Young was granted a divorce from James A. Young, and before the ink was dry on the rec*- j ords she was married to Edgar War*] Post office at French was surrounded by|3 the sheriff and a posse, and a swarthy, ! smooth-faced, stoop-shouldered robber* with a kit of safe-blowing tools, was c*M At Muncie Ray Hailcroft, aged 23, 1 swallowed poison because he that his young wife did not l-ove him. | He had written a letter confessing his I jealousy. Mayor A. F. Kinsley. Hartford City,a was cleared 1 of the charge of shooting j Carney Capper, who was with a crowd ! of boys prowling around the Mayor’aJ back yard. William Shumaker, 80, Union City,! probably the wealthiest negro in Indiana*! is dead. He came from the South in an f early day. and began as a farm hand.;!] His wealth goes to an only son. John Ghldings’ sweetheart jilted hlml and he went to a school house near Os-|] good, climbed a tree, tied one end of a 1 rope around his neck and the other to inj limb, shot a hole through his heart, and | then tumbled off his perch and hung till 1 morning. Mrs. Hunter, Fort Wayne, took hepl] sister’s 7-year-old baby and refused tq§| give it up, because she said her sister j would not wash it. When the humane:|j officer went with the mother to reclaim i the child there was no wise Solomon;! present, «o the women fought it out. The Middletown opera house block waafj burned and the Middletown News, Jo-1 seph Lambert, proprietor, was badly j scorched. The total loss $4,000, with $8»* 1 i 000 insurance. An overheated natural | gas stove in the News office caused thoj] fire. The opera house wrH be rebuUt/l Thad Durff, while rowing with Misqfl Maude Kimion at Leavenworth, deliberal ately caps-ized the skiff and would havej succeeded in drowning the girl but thatSi her cries brought another skiff to h*Mj rescue. Miss Kimion clung to the overturned skiff while Durff itrotq|| to tear her loose. Seeing relief coming he made his way to the Kentucky shorn! and escaped. Durff, who is a bookkMpfl er, had sought Miss Kimiou’s hand Imj marriage and been refused. jjjpj Two new rural mail delivery routes wilt! be established out of Marion. Rural mail delivery boxes are being iRjjH tributed in Allen County. Diphtheria has broken out at Kokongfl again. At Spieeland, too. Action is threatened against Pern klftfl for l,.rim ilowD^^bow