Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1899 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Fifteen Anti-Trust Glass Plants Resume Work-Attorney Killed in a Mysterious Way-Divorce Sait Causes a Sensation - Body Found on TrackFifteen window glass factories, representing nearly 400 pots’ capacity, which passed out of the control of the old American Glass Company or trust, have resumed operation. Of these four of the largest are located at Eaton, Dunkirk, Arcadia and Summitville, and wUI give employment to nearly 2,000 workmen. It is Dot believed that trust concerns will go into blast before Jan. 1. Attorney Is Found Dead. The dead body of Attorney Robert Fisher was found lying at the side track of the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad at Brazil. A deep cut was visible oh the forehead, and at a closer examination it was discovered that his neck was broken. Fisher until recently was State mine inspector and had announced himself as a candidate for Circuit judge on the Republican ticket. Evansville Society la Shocked. Evansville society was given a shock when a divorce suit was tiled against 1. Norman Haas, a member of one of the most prominent families of the city. The divorce papers were the first intimation of the marriage, which took place May 10 and has been kept a secret since. Mrs. Haas, whose maiden name was Nellie May Bittrolf, is the daughter of a prominent jeweler. Body Found on the Tracks. The body of a man was found on the Big Four tracks west of Indianapolis. The only property found was a silverine watch and a memorandum book bearing the name of the Coulter & Proctor Company of Peoria, 111. The man was about 40 years old and apparently a cattle drover. 6 . Within Our Borders Smallpox at Delaware. Sheep stealing in Elkhart County. John Williams, 50, Brazil, was killed in the Peerless mine. Oil search at Terre Haute has been abandoned until spring. Epidemic of tonsilitis has given everybody in Waterloo a sore neck. All but two southern Indiana coal mines have yielded to strikers. Central Union Telephone Company is putting in a new plant at South Bend. Spinal meningitis has become epidemio along the Ohio river, near Owensboro. Kokomo’s automobile factory is receiving so many orders that it will expand. Miss Sylvania Thomas, Vincennes, on her death bed, was married to Lute Perrier. Farmers in Montgomery County say the prospect for a wheat crop next year is bad. Willis Fox’s family at Mitchell was poisoned by eating bologna sausage. One child died. Tony Shark, Osgood, was found dead on the railroad. It is thought he was murdered. Contract has been signed for holding the Dunkard meeting at North Manchester next Tear-

Hamilton County has brought suit against the Chicago and Southwestern Railroad for $5,000 back taxes. While shouting and exhorting sinners to repent, Mrs. Amanda Powell, West Liberty, fell unconscious and died a few hours later. Wells County is dead broke with a gravel road debt of $30,000 due. There will not be a “red” in the treasury for seven months. A tramp was prowling around the house of J. B. Horing, Wabash County, the other night, and fell into a vat of sorghum molasses. Adams County has a woman that weighs 350 pounds, and is still getting bigger. Wheu she was a girl she was tall and slender. Prof. Ernest E. Jones, teacher in the Kokomo high school, had an explosion in the laboratory, and his face was filled with broken glairs and chemicals. Disfigured for life. Dr. Franklin P. Gilleppy of Glenn’s Valley was sentenced to three years in the Columbus, Ohio, penitentiary and was fined SIOO and costs for taking part in a counterfeiting scheme., The Illinois Central Railroad had a narrow-gauge road in Sullivan and Greene counties occupying a right of way forty feet wide. It recently changed its bed and fenced in ninety feet. Fanners threaten suit. Company has been formed and 381 acres of land bought near Elkhart, taking in the marl beds, for the location of a cement factory next spriug. The capacity will be 1,500 barrels a day, and 200 men will be employed. George F. Alvey, a retired farmer, was' found dead near Heeking park, in Muncie. His family and the police searched for all night, fearing that he had dropped dead from heart failure while searching for a cow. For years Mr. Alvey’s heart was affected!, sounds like that of the mew of a cat emanating from it with each beat. The body of Stephen Whitmore, who had been missing Since Nov. 18, was found in Eel river, near Logansporf. The head was horribly mutilated and the general condition of the body indicates that the man was murdered. There is no clew to the perpetrator of the crime, although the local officers and a Pinkerton detective have been working on the case since Whitmore disappeared. John Slagel, a St. Louis man, who was the last person seen with Whitmore on the day of his disappearance, was arrested. Win. Anderson, Grecnsburg, lost a foot under a Big Four train, and he sued for $20,000. " T. C. Simpson, Crawfordsvllle school teacher, has been fired for writing love letters to a 14-year-old pupil. He has disappeared. W. J. Smith, who has been president of the American flint glass workers* onion for seventeen years, will resign Jan. 1. No reason given. Directors of Winoda assembly have decided to sell thirty acres of the ground to wipe out the debt and use what la left for improvements.