Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1899 — RECORD OF THE WKEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WKEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTB TERSELfj TOLD. Mellin«er, After Conversion, ConfeMlfl an Old Crime Reveals Death Com After Taking Poison—Havoc by Flrn|| at Logausport Church la RuinedUsm J. F. Mellinger, a painter, 24 years oM|h sent an open letter to the Fort Wajn(ffl| newspapers confessing that when 6 year*! old he set fire to a barn in play, whieS|| cremated his 3-year-old sister. Charles v| Sumersky, an older lad, was charge«j|3 with the crime and sent to the reform]! school for six years. Mellinger recently a joined the church and since then his eon||| science has troubled him. Sumersky’i|l whereabouts are not known. Two of a Suicide Clnb Dead. Andrew S. Thompson died at Frank«|| fort from a dose of morphine taken witlj|| suicidal intent. Thompson, after taking % the drug, told his friends that Fred Griner, who killed himself a few days be<S| fore, Thompson and three other young ;: men had formed a suicide club and with* in a month all would be dead. Thomp* son was 26 years old and unmarried. J Wk Serious Fire at Loganaport. | A fire occurred in Logausport which : gutted the shoe store of Walker Itaugh, I rnzee s dry goods store, Barn- ' hart & Son’s stove store and George W»; Lucy’s tailor store. The stores were; mostly damaged by water. All the firmfii were will insured. Interior of Church Ruined. Unknown persons broke into Mount | Hope Methodist Church, south of Waver- J ly, smashed the windows and doors, de-jf stroyed the pulpit, chandeliers and fumi-;| ture, tore the church Bible and all thetl testaments to bits and then smeared ths« walls and floor with mud. There is no 1 clew to the wreckers. Within Our Border*. Glanders iu Clay County. Elkhart has a central labor union. ■ Indiana celery crop blighted by frost. ; Diphtheria is on the increase in M«*| rion. Seymour will have free mail Jan. 1. Ehvood is troubled with an epidemic of / thieving. Female burglars are at work in Ev- | ausville. Fort Wayne garbage crematory weotl up in smoke. Evansville is having another epidemic of burglary. *J9 Anderson Elks have begun their new ;! SIO,OOO home. Winter apples are said to be rotting:;! unusually early. Gambling houses in Anderson have been ordered closed. A million dollar plug tobacco factory will be built in Madison. Hamilton, Ohio, capitalists will put upfifty SI,OOO houses in Anderson. Two district schools in Ripley County! are closed ou account of diphtheria. S! Miss Grace Steere, Carthage, was | found dead iu bed. Cause unknown. An incendiary is firing barns along the Air Line track, in southern Indiana. Bunker Ilill coal mines, Sullivan, will be worked and lighted by electricity. M Anderson will swell its population 4, 00, by annexing Park Place and North Anderson. Eli I.ane, 45, Anderson, died from in-; juries received iu a strawboard factory; recently. Invention that does six boys’ work has ■ been introduced iu the Mancie flint bottle’! factory. Contract has been let for an clectrie railroad between Logansport and Kent* dallville. South Bend police arrested three littlf girls the other day for shiplifting, under 12. Unless farmers in Wayne County put. up improved mail boxes, they will lose free delivery. B. & O. S. W. train killed W. B, Smith, LawrenceviUe, 111., on the Brigo| creek trestle. Jamestown wants electric lights, st : school house, two churches aud a chemical tire engine. ’Squire Orr, who disappeared frooi Fraukton some time ago, has been located iu Lima, Ohio. Mrs. Fred Weber, Fort Wayne, gave her baby a dose of morphine for othefi medicine. Fatal. Frank Weikel, Evansville, ran into the; street and grabbed a strange dog. Aa arm nearly torn off. There is now a rivalry between gal belt cities, to see which can strike gai at the slightest depth. A deed wns v recorded at Goshen, coni voyiug u lot iu Nappanee, that was acknowledged in Jerusalem. During a fight in the Kokomo city cemetery James Horn was fatally shot bjl| William Clubs. Horn had accused Clubej of alienating his wife's affections. Alonzo Humphrey, 45, a farmer of BurJ| ney. was mysteriously murdered. Hie! body was found in the woods hear Clift y'; creek. He had been shot in the neck. Jj O. E. Fryatt. chief clerk iu Terr®! Haute for the Chicago and Eastern Illbjg nois and the Evansville and Terre Hautd Railroad companies, was killed while hunting. He was 32 yeanjjl old nnd unmurried. ' 'J William E. Heal, the Grant Cuuntjjl treasurer, who disappeared from Mariam Oct. 5, 1897, has returned hornet aftt-ng an absence of over two years. Wheal he left Marion it was disclosed that tafi was short nearly SIB,OOO, of which ftlj 000 was Grant County funds. He wiSj stand trial. # John Flora, Paoli, was sentenced fur life for the murder of Jesse O. BurtoH His defense was insanity. 0 | Rural mail delivery in Boone Count?! is a success, besides being the building severnl gravel roads. , 3 ; A. P. Powell, Versailles, has an appjM tree that has borne two crops alrewM this seeeon, and is blooming for a third, Loogootee's gas wells are of unusajfl capacity, having a rock presence Of froffl 180 to 250 pounds and a daily output from 390.000 to 415.000 cubic feet. Lao*! has doubled in price and factories am.