Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1900 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY 1 TOLD. Beet Sugar Land in the State—Boy Shot and Killed by a Young Ac* qnaintance Determined Suicide in Indianapolis—Value of Broken Heart. Chemist Henry A. Houston, who has charge of the tests of Indiana as a place for the growing of sugar beets, has made a report in which he says that the possibilities of the State as a sugar producer have been sufficiently tested. He finds that the best sugar beet lands in Indiana lie in the northwest section, extending from Newton County up through the Kankakee swamp lands to Elkhart. This section did not make the best showing last year, but during the ten years that experiments have lieen in progress it has shown much the best average. The Kankakee section is declared by Prof. Houston to be as good sugar beet land as can be found in the world, with the possible exception of a portion of California. The beets grown in this region contain an average of 15 per cent of sugar, while the famous German fields seldom produce 18 tier cent in good seasons. Boy Coolly Murders Another. At Augusta Frank Purcell, aged 18, shot and killed Rufus Ross, aged 17. Ross arid several of his friends were giving a stag party. About midnight Puree” came along and, calling Ross to the front gate, asked why he had not been invited. Ross made no reply ami Purcell drew a pistol and shot him. killing him instantly. Purcell was drunk and tried to make his escape, but was overtaken a few miles north of Augusta by a mob. Sheriff Ridgeway and posse took the murderer from the mob and placed him in jail at Petersburg. Cut Off His Hand at the Wrist. John Schimible, 55 years old, was found dead at a house on the south side of Indianapolis. He had taken a common pocket knife and severed his hand from the arm at the wrist, bleeding to death. A deep gash in the forearm indicated that he had first attempted to open an artery at' that point. The wound had bled profusely, but Schmable thought death too slow and then lucked off bis hand. Want SIO,OOO for Breach of Promise. Miss Hattie Barco, a society woman of Covington, has brought suit for $lO,against Stephen Foster of the same place for -breach of promise. She says that Foster, after being her devoted lover for two yours and winning her promise of .marriage, "fepbdiated his contract and warned another.”.

W itbin Onr Borders* New coal field east of Terre Haute. Silk thieves made another raid on Laporte. Smallpox scare at Anderson has collapsed. Diphtheria is spreading in Laporte Comity. Red men of Muncie will put up a $25,tHHI home. Marion thinks of putting up a S3O,<XMt city building. Mid-winter revivals are stirring all corners of Indiana. Anderson electric light plant will be »n----larged $20,000 worth. William 11. Tinsley. Evansville, was instantly killed by a train. Tin plate workers, Hartford City, may build a co-operative factory. Windfall merchants have been ordered to close their stores on Sunday. Indiana Bridge Company, Muncie, is so rushed that it cannot shut down to invoice. Township schools in Porter County have been demoralized by sickness this winter. Edward Steinfelt, Laporte, took a fatal dose of morphine to escape despondency. Successful. Aria Carpenter. Seymour, stabbed Clarence Ray in the back, in a quarrel after a revival. South Bend people will bore into St. Joseph County to see if there is gas at the bottom. Anderson plasterers have established a scale of $3 for eight hours a day, for 1900, after March 1. * Frankfort manufacturers have received an order for 125,000 gunstocks to be shiplied to the Transvaal. Mrs. Erimn VanDnsen, formerly of Evansville, has been appointed United States marshal in Texas. The Lake Shore Railroad has promoted fifty firemen to be engineers, leaving vacancies for fifty new firemen. Frank F. Guenther. Evansville, who was caught in an explosion of fire damp in a coal mine, saved himself by rolling in a pile of slack. Alvah M. Clement, graduate of Worcester. Mass., polytechnic institute, has l>een appointed superintendent of the Rose polytechnic shops at Terre Haute. Mrs. Eliza Killicomiqua. 68. died in the Indian settlement near Peru. She is the daughter of one of the Godfreys and her mother was Frances Slocum’s daughter. ■ William Bushy, farmer near Kpkomo, who shot Orin Springer, a quail hunter, for trespassing, was indicted by the grand jury, charged with murder in the first degree. Albert Cobbs, 36, Rome City, skated into an air holt near Albion. The water was four feet deep, and he' got out. In ■the afternoon he tried it again. Thia time he went into twenty feet of water and drowned. . ; In Elwood fifty pupils of n kindergars ten were ex jawed to a severe ease of diphtheria this week through ignorance of the presence of the disease. As a result fifty homes are quarantined and it is feared that the disease will spread. George M. Laughlin, near Spencer* waa killed while loading hogs. Heavy timber fell on him. County pupils will write essays for the farmers’ institute at Laporte. The three best will be read. • y Marion claims that the big strike she had last summer kept her from leading other cities in building. Union Traction Company has purchased 160 acres along its Indianapolis line, near Fortville, for a park. Company has been formed at Kokomo to manufacture the “telescope buckle” that Earl Graves recently invented. . r?