Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1900 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

■ - - ■ .01 I*-I- -- - - _ - INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY • TOLD. Elaborate Plan tn Burn Two Store* in Terre Haute Children Run A why to Wed—Minister’s Prophecy of His Own Death Comes True. An -attempt was made at Terre Haute to burn ami blow up three storerooms over which thirty-two persons were steeping. A fire in its ineipiency was discovered in the office of Dr. Casto’s drug store, and when it was extinguished it was found that iu each cellar and store there were improvised gutters and troughs filled with oil and fuses made of saturated toweling running through the stocks of clothing, dry goods and groceries in Casto’s general store adjoining the drug store. Holes were cut in the floors to make stronger draughts, and dynamite aud gun powder placed where they can.* the greatest destruction. The tire had not reached the troughs and fuses when tile firemen put it out. Enough dynamite was found to have destroyed ail the buildings on the block. Casto and some of his clerks were arrested for arson. He says his enemies did the work because he has prospered in business. He carried a large Sny* Farewell to His Flock and Dies. Rev. Charles Harvey has been pastor of the Methodist Church at Eaton for many years. Ou a recent' Sunday he preached his last sermon. He explained that his congregation would never hear his voice from the pulpit again, as he bad a premonition that lie would die before another Sunday dawned. He had never felt in better' health, he explained, but nevertheless he felt sure that death was nigh. His prtsliction was fulfilled. He is dead. Shortly after leaving church he was seized with an illness. He grew rapidly worse and died before the night was past. Ho was 58 years old and had been a minister thirty-Aeveu years.

Four Voting People Elope. Roy Teagardner* and Ethel, the 15-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Marion (’reek, ami Guy Whetzel and Miss Pearl Landon eloped from Trenton. All are the children of well-to-do farmers, and tho only objection to the marriages was the age of the parties, young Whetzel being only 18. The two couples have been devoted lovers, ami feeling that they could not gain parental consent disappeared together, young Whetzel leaving with his father's horse and buggy. Baby Suffocated, Woman Hurt. Th.' home of William Miller, four miles west of Muncie, was destroyed by fire. Frank Stephens and wife discovered the blaze while driving past the house. Mr. Stephens jumped from the buggy to notify the Miller family and his team of horses ran off. Mrs. Stephens was thrown from the buggy and will die from her injuries. A 2-ycar-old grandchild of Miller's was suffocated. Within Our Border* In Salem, smallpox has been dubbed ‘•Cuban itch.” Andrew J. Carmichael, TO, near Hartford City, is missing. Sugar water camps are being opened in Montgomery County. A general vaccination order has been launched at Martinsville. Postmasters .of congressional district l> have formed an organization. Ghouls were frightened from the Dunlapville cemetery by a pedestrian. Charles Blovings. 25, Mitchell, B. & O. brnkein.-iii, was killed near Huron. Oil well drilled just across the Indiana line in Ohio will open up a new field in eastern Indiana. Anderson capitalists have secured a large tract of land on the isthmus of Tehuantepec. Mexico. Dante Comstock. IT. Marion high school student, has invented a system of wireless telegraphy. Marcus C. Smith died at his home in Muncie of general debility. He had hold ut.l'.'.y important political positions. A human freak was born at Mooresvs”n the other day. It had neither eyes, ears w iiise. It lived but a few minutes. , V . ‘ ’ Tax levy in Grant County will be upon $22,853,7(10 worth of property, amounting to $3!)1.<155.31. and represents a poll of 8.35 T.

One of the trustees of the Methodist Church at Montpelier has rented his business room for a saloon, and there is a ruction in the church. A free-for-all fight occurred in the basement of a Lafayette school among the smaller pupils, the other day, and it was all two teachers could do to quiet' them. Mark Hillis, soldier in the Philippines, and son of John Hillis, Kokomo, committed suicide by shooting himself in the head. An open hole was found near the body. A successful test has lieen made of crude oil for fuel in the Anderson Steel mill. Ou account of shortage of gas the company intended to move, but will now stay. . Nearly all the fruit growers in the fruit licit report a total destruction of buds. The warm weather brought the trees out in bloom and the first frost destroyed them. Mrs. Olive <L Hall. Kokomo, has purchased the William Henry Harrison homestead, at North Betid. Ohio. It consists of the old mansion and seven acres of land and cost $55,000. It is the birth plain* of ex-President Harrison. Albion has an economical genius in the person of James Hyde, lie makes hi* own teeth out of hickory wood and holds them in place with a wooden handle. He is able to eat the toughest meat and is quite ah interesting sight while engaged in eating. Carpenters and contractors of Anderson have signed a scute of ,’!0 cents an hour and eight hours a day for the coming building season. The G-ycar-old child of Charles Stooiker, near Dublin, died suddenly from a' blood clot of the heart. Physicians say it’s remarkable oh account of the child’s* tender age. Lulu Brown, 17. Elkhart, was fatally burned by falliug in a. faint and turning a lamp over. Site is the daughter fit Rev. Charles L. Brown, pastor of Trinity Methodist Church, Elkhart, yeli known among Indiimii Methodists.