Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1899 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Muncie Raort Wrecked with Dyna-mite-Work of a Bold ’Thief at Elwood—Man nnd Wife Successfully Seek Klondike Gold. The Maple Grove garden, owned by Bert Fqster, the ex-heavyweight champion of Indiana, was destroyed by fire at Muneie. Mr. Foster, his 7-year-old son and his housekeeper. Miss Myrtle Lynn, escaped with their lives in their night clothes. Three tramps, who were sleeping in the athletic garden, barely escaped being cremated, two of whom were horribly burned. At an investigation the next day it was learned that the building was blown up with dynamite, there having been for the last six months considerable opposition by the residents of that portion of the city against the garden. Steals Weekly Pay Eoll. The most daring robbery ever perpetrated in Madison County occurred at noon the other day in Elwood, when some upknown thief stole the pay roll of the Model Radiator factory, owned by C. M. Converse of Chicago. The local manager took the money, $450. out of the bank and stopped at his home en route to the factory to eat dinner. He hung his overcoat in the parlor and was only away from it about ten minutes, but during that time the thief entered the door, slit the pocket down the side, grabbed the sack of money and disappeared. Gain a Fortune in the Klondike. With several hundred thousand dollars Dr. add Mrs. W. F. Howe have just returned to their home in Indianapolis, after a year and a half in the Klondike. The husband and wife trudged together from Skaguay over the White Pass to Lake Tagish. There the doctor built an often boat and they crossed to the Dawson country. They lived for months with the mercury 56 degrees below zero. They declare the best days in the Klondike are yet to come. They hold fine claims adjoining, one of which has paid $250,000. Aged Engineer Dies. Davis Terrill, the oldest engineer in point of service on the Lake Shore Railroad, died at South Bend. He began railroading as a fireman in 184 G and was made an engineer in 1852. Since 1806 he has been with the Lake Shore road. He was 73 years old. Within Our Border* Steuben County has no saloon. A wolf was seen in the Kankakee valley. > Franklin is about to lose its pants factory. , The Hessian fly is in Fountain County wheat. Arcadia file works is arranging to use for fuel. Incendiaries are burning' barns in Ripley County. John Detrick. Greencastle, exhibits a six-pound turnip. Floyd County has a new asylum for the incurable insane. John Royer. New Albany, found dead in his room. Paralyzed. Voting machines are being tested at Crawfordsville. May buy. Milroy township is said to be the biggest crow roost in Indiana. Twelve-year-old son of Henry Yeager, Shelburn, drowned while skatin* Floyd Wilkins, 14, Summitvilß accidentally shot and killed Fred John Martin, Terre Haute, fell sixty feet from the new high school building at Linton and was fatally hurt. Fred Meier, 25, farmer near Evansville. was struck on the head by robbers, recently, and has become insane. » Scott County commissioners have offered a SSOO reward for the arrest and conviction of those who lynched Martin Tyler. A “county cistern” that' was started in the rear of the jail at Garnett has cost between $7,000 and SB,OOO and is not yet finished. Harry B. White, Terre Haute, licked four footpads the other night and went to work the next day as if nothing had happened. Two children of Mrs. Decker Stewart, near Sullivan, were left alone and played with fire. The house burned down. One escaped and the other was cremated. Mine workers of the Indiana bitumin ous district have been ordered to pay but 1 per cent of their earnings, instead of 2. as that is deemed sufficient to provide for the few men who are now idle. J. A. Buck, defaulting treasurer of Mid land lodge. Amalgamated Association of Iron. Steel and Tin Workers. Muncie, pleaded guilty to embezzlement and was sent north to do from two to fourteen years. x , Q Vincennes officers are investigating the death of Karl Wilson, 2, son of Farmer Thomas Wilson. The family are Christian scientists and the child, after a prolonged illness, died without medical attention. Indiana Dairymen's Association held its convention at Cambridge City. The new officers are: President, C. B. Benjamin Leßoy; vice-president. John Shugart; sec-retary-treasurer, H. E. Van Worman, Lafayette. Bert Julian, charged with murdering Michael Houlehan at Colfax Oct. 14, when he refused to give him a drink, was convicted of murder in the second degree on the first ballot, at Frankfort, and sentenced for life. Kokomo merchants say that they are being held up by church and charities organisation committees, who institute a boycott if they refuse to contribute all that Is asked. They have called a meeting to devise means to combat the evil. Mrs. George Bender of Laketon was found dead in bed. She was in her usual health the day before. Heart failure was the cause of her death. - A swindler is doing the north part of the State by “playing broke” and selling his gold wateh for $3, if can’t get more. He carries, a satchel full of them, and works one off at every opportunity. Boiler in the Greensburg Limestone Company’s plant, Harris City, blew up. It started from the basement and went through the roof, while the engineer, Nels Goodwin, was shot out at a window. Not hurt. Damage $1,200.