Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1900 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Remarkable Method of Suicide Adopted by a Young Man Near Winalow— Loveloyn Youth Shoots Sweetheart— Says He Has Solved Perpetual Motion. Ellis Traylor,, son of Thomas Traylor, a prominent politician of I’ike County, living near Winslow, committed suicide in a very peculiar manner. Baek of the Traylor home is a horse pond, and a fence extends through the poud. The young man waded into the pond iu a foot of water aud placed his head under the fence and remained iu that condition until death came. Young Traylor was 39 years old and leaves a wife and two children. Shoots a Girl for Laughing. John Scarborough fatally shot his sweetheart, Louise Mitchell at Evans•ville. He called to see the girl and 'upbraided her for her friendship with other young men. She laughed at him and he produced a revolver and began shooting. Members of her family rushed in and Scarborough fled, but was afterward arrested. Perpetual Motion Is Found. An inventor of English claims to have solved the question of perpetual motion by the use of hollow wheels charged with mercury. He says he will surprise the world by the simplicity of his contrivance. Within Our Border*. Indoor baseball is the rage at Laporte. Muncie uniforth ranks Nos. 90 and 01 have consolidated. South Bend is inaugurating an eariy closing ordinance. Muncie glass company will put in a plant at Cincinnati. Muncie Commercial Club will raise $40,000 for a hospital. Farmers of Hancock County are asking for rural mail delivery. Telephone line from Brownstow-n to Tampico has been completed, For the first time in twenty-five years, DeKalb County is out of debt. Ed Junkens, Knightstown, was badly hurt in a runaway, hear Muncie. Work on the new Michigan City harbor will begin as soon as spring opens. Armed party is being organized at Greensburg to hunt down a real wildcat. The Goshen and Indiana Traction Company has been granted a franchise until 1825. Fred Severn, switchman on the Big Four, Terre Haute, was killed by a locomotive. A missionary conference on Christian expansion will be held at Lebanon Feb, 6 aud 7. Party of "Saints" evangelists, who don’t Itelieve in churches, has invaded Wells County. David Grant and his 16-year-ohl stopdaughter, Kokomo, bad a rough-and-tnui-ble fight in the street. . * Employes of the Union Traction Company al Marion, Muncie and Anderson are forming a union. Eli Berry, near Washington, found a half cent, dated 1828, while walking across u field, the other day. Investigation by the fee and salary commission in Porter County shows that the county bookkeeping is bad. The first thing that Park Place did after it was annexed to Anderson was to ask for a bunch of electric lights. The Taylor Lumber Company’s planing mill was destroyed by fire at Lafayette. The loss is estimated at $59,990. Broken electric light wires fired the carpets in the Elwood theater, and several persons were badly bruised in getting out. ' .. An employe in Matzdorff's restaurant, Goshen, picked up a live wire to brow it out the back door. She has not tried it again. Judge Mattison. Evansville, has decided that when a child Itecomes 14 he is beyond the control of the compulsory education law. Mrs. D. H. Cooper, wife of Rev. Cooper, pastor of First ‘Baptist Church. Fern, died while .her husband was conducting services. Mary E. Cain, Grant County, has sued her father-in-law for $10,900 damages, alleging that ho alienated her husband's affections, Dr. Frank Du Bois, young physician of Liberty, has been apjtointed a contract surgeon in the army, and will be sent to the Philippines. Elmer Hunt, New London, who fought with Dewey, will soon receive between SSOO and SOOO of the prize money captured at Manila. William Hutton, Elwood, has sued Ira Kidwell, postmaster, for $5,090 damages. He says Kidwell told stories about him until he was forced to leave town. tried to steal the gifts Tod Sloan gave his foster parents, Daniel Blonser and wife, Kokomo, but were frightened away after getting $23. A fellow claiming to be Jack Downey, Indianapolis, had a number of "sporty" young men of Elkhart subscribe liberally for an athletic club, aud then scooted with the money. Richard Roberts, Terre Haute, has brought suit against Henry Handick, his landlord, for $5,000 damages. He says Handick's fierce manner in demanding rent in the presence of bis sick daughter caused her death. John Engleking, Seymour, was returning home in a box car from Medora with the savings of several weeks’ work, when a tramp drew a knife and commanded him to shell out. Engleking did bo, but not until he had received several bail gashes on the neck and arms. The tramp was arrested.

Pearl Lesb. Smithfield, dislocated 1 her shoulder while wrestling with Millie Brooks. They had an argument and wanted to see who was the more athletic. Muncie police rounded up eighteen boys, ranging in age from 6 to 13 years, for stealing brass and metal from factories and railroad shops, and selling it for junk. William .Smith, 38, Vincennes, who was the cnaih gang at Chattanooga, Tenn., for drunkenness, is said to have committed suicide by throwing himself under a street car. His father is a prominent wholesale dealer at Vincennes.