Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1900 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF TM PAST WEEK. J Finds $2,000 in an Old Book—Price of| Oil Land Leases Is Doubled —Ne*M Commandant for Lafayette BeldieHjlS ■tome Farmer Is Murdered. I John B. Pankey, manager of the Eng-1 lish Hotel at English, while. looking! through the wareroom of the hotel foux«|| a book with the name of Philip McDonUj no ugh of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., written! on the flyleaf. Between the leaves Of the! book were four SIOO bills, one SSOO bitt| and two SI,OOO bills, making a total of ] $2,900. The book is entitled “Protest- £ autism and Catholicity Compared in Their Effects on the Civilization of Eu--t rope.” Mr. Pankey has no idea how the! book came to be iu the wareroom of the-: hostelry, nor does he recall ever having j had a guest by the name of MeDonnough.; at kis hotel. Capt. Stormont Is Selected. Capt." Gilbert IL Stormont of Gibson County has been elected commandant of

the Indiana Sol-? diers’ Home at Ls-'. fayette, for three years. His home is at Princeton. He is 55 years old and at present traveling deputy revenue collector. The boanfe passed favorably upon eighteen applies* tions for admission

to the home. Boom in Old Land Leases. Competition for oil leases throughout the Indiana field has never been so lively as at present. Not until December were farmers paid more than 50 cents per acre for oil rights, while now concerns are putting up the price on one another in their endeavor to secure leases. The minimum now is $1 per acre, with a rising tendency, and many old leases are changing hands around that figure. It is said that in the counties in the oil field, two-thirds of the taxes are paid by this lease money. Official Books All Missing. Sensational developments have come, in Shelby County with the retirement of County Treasurer Wilson and the installation of Treasurer Lee as his sue* cessor. All the books of the office for three years and six mouths prior to. last June are missing. The corresponding books of the Auditor for the same period are missing, and it is not known what moneys have been received or paid out in ' that time. Farmer In Shot and Killed. In Point township Janie’s Rutter shot and killed Frank Spottsville. Rntter was trespassing on Spottsville's farm and was ordered off the place, when he drew a revolver and shot Spottsville. Rutter was captured as he was about to escape to Kentucky in a skiff. Spottsville’s’ friends tried to lynch Rutter, but Sheriff Thomas landed him safely in jail in Mount Vernon. Within Our Border*. More burglar raids at Goshen. Muncie factory employes voted for weekly pay. Muncie electric light plant will be fired with coal. . Herman Meir, Northview, has married, his sixth wife. Henry Butts. 91, the oldest citizen of Evansville, is dead. Philip Brown, 80. veteran of the Mex-t ican and civil wars, Sullivan, is dead. R. L. Woodling, Logansport, has in-: vented a patent way of planting corn. “ George W. Brooks’ creamery, Muncie,; in ashes. Engineer thawed out a gas pipe. By vote, the Lebanon high school, showed a preference for "modern literature." Marion factories were shut off because of a shortage of gas. ami several hunt-: dred men are idle. There are so many State eases on the Madison court docket that civil eases may be crowded out. Farmers of Washington Townshiphave organized to protect the birds and make war on illegal hunting. Schools at Elizabethtown have been eloMul on account of diphtheria, aud a strict quarantine is maintained. It is said in the gas l»elt that the Union Traction Company will have opposition' from another electric road. Frank Gordon, Dillsboro, who was reported to have been killed at Santiago, has returned home and denies it. The Knights of Pythias at Shelbyville have arranged to begin the construction of a $40,000 Castle hall and opera house. The case against Freeman Moon, charged with complicity in the lynching of Marion Tyler at Scottsburg, has been dismissed. Methodists of Brazil will build a $30,000 church, and the Christian tiou has decided to blow in $15,000 for * new edifice. Fire destroyed the postofflee and sa-' loon and residence of Philip Brets, Bret*ville. Lamp exploded in the Breta kitch- ! en. The postmaster was burned in rescuing the mail and records. Ix>ss $2,500, with no insurance. Aaron A. Webster, for seventy years a resident of South Bend, is dead. He was prominent for the part which he took in the famous underground railway by which many negro slaves escaped to Canada before the civil war. Fire in H. B. Plumb's restaurant at Brazil spread to Schromier & shoe store and Michael Doyle’s saloon,, and the three buildings and contents were destroyed, incurring a loss of $27,000, which was partly covered by insurance. Hobos are taking charge of cottages at> Lake Wawasee. Methodist at Chambers Ijß ashes. Defective flue. Loss $3,000. Bell Telephone Company has more thaa 200 expert electricions at work, improv-j ing the South Bend system. New order at Evansville will competl policemen to patrol longer beats whew their brother officers are sick. No morn extra men. 'Ay 1 A young lady of North Manchester lg' suing a dentist for $3,000 damages. Hhw says that be did a bungling job in filling' a tooth.

G. R. STORMONT.