Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1900 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THII PAST WEEK. < -7'g Increase in Oil Product - Killing of Frank Carr Causes Sister** Insanity - Tonng Woman Shoots Herself—Former Poor Miner Gets Rich in Alaska* The month of January was a record breaker in the Indiana oil field. The total ■ number of completed wells during the f month is 281 and the production 4,600 barrels. Fifty-one dry wells were put dowu. The increase in completed wells, fifteen; the increase in the output is 31© ' barrels, and the decrease in dry hole* was five. The average in December was 20.7 barrels and rhe January average was 20 barrels. There are now 249 wells drill- | ing and IGI rigs up—a total of 410 rig*. The increase in wells drilling was 35 and in new rigs 33, a net increase of 68 wells. There are several well-shooters iu the Indiana field, and their occupation i» more dangerous than employment around a powder mill. The average shbt con- : sists of eighty to 240 quarts of nitroglycerin, and from the time the shooter Marts with his load of 750 quarts of the *xlosive in his wagon till he has completed his job no life insurance company will take a risk at any premium.

Crazy Over Brother’s Death. When the republished report of Gen. Otis, containing a list of the killed in battle in the Philippines Jan. 18, reached Columbus, the name of Frank Carr, who enlisted from that place, appeared in the list. When John W. Carr, father of the dead soldier, learned the truth he went immediately to his honle, and, rushing excitedly into the house, said to his daughter: “Frank is killed.” The daughter was but 18 years of age, and, being of a nervous temperament, she swooned on hearing the sad news and for five days she lay unconscious. When she finally regained consciousness her entire past life was a blank. She could recall nothing and her friends and neighbors were strangers to her. She knows ncthing of the death of her brother and seems dazed. Her condition is greatly puzzling her physician*. , Young Woman Kills Herself. In Peru Mrs. Elmer Ferkel, a handsome woman, aged 21 years, while at the breakfast table picked up a revolver and after playing with it a moment placed it tn her breast and pulled the trigger. The ball passed directly through her heart, killing her instantly. She went there a vhort time ago from Andrews with her husband, but he left soon afterward for Chicago. where he is employed by the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad Company. It is suposetl that unhappy domestic relations caused the suicide. Mrs. Ferkel tried to take poison some time ago. but was prevented. Brings Wealth from Alaska. George Britton has returned from Alaska. where he spent the past two years, bringing with him nearly $69,000 in gold. He says that he has a claim he has refused $300,000 for. When he left Brazil he was a poor coal miner. Within Onr Bortlem. Greenfield wants all night electric light schedule. Crawfordsville Masons will build a temple next spring. Goshen clerks have won in their fight for early closing. Loristbn M. Fairbanks, father of Senator Fairbanks, is dead at Pasadena, Cal. Columbus merchants are going to do away with the trading-check system. Charles Homes, tin plate worker, was scalded to death by the bursting of a steam pipe at Elwood. Frank McDaniel, aged 50 years, dropped dead on the street in Martinsville of heart trouble. He was a well-known farmer.

A sensation was created at Shelbyville when, the graud jury returned fourteen, indictments in connection with the shortage in the county treasury. Money received for the old pesthouse at Terre Haute, which was supposed to be held over to build a new one. is missing. and the board of health is up a tree for a smallpox hospital. Jucge Mattison, Evansville, acquitted Dr. I.«»uis. charged with practicing medicine without a license. The judge held that he cured by laying on his hands, he is not legally a physician. George W. Clapper, aged 82 years, died. at Martinviile as a result of breaking his hip by falling several days ago. He had been a resident there more than fifty years and was a,leading citizen. The street ear lines of the Brazil Rapid Transit Company running from Brazil to Hammond have been sold to the TerreHaute Street Railway Company for $50,The latter is building a line from Terre Haute to Brazil to connect with the lines purchased. Columbus claims to have more bird dogs to the square in«-h than any town in the State. The Miami Traction Company is projecting an electric railroad from Muncie to Biehmond. Prof. latwrem-e of the State norma* school. Emporia, Kan., has Iteen a pointed tv the chair of mathematics at Hanover College, Madison, succeeding Prof. Morse, v'ho retires on account of age. B. F. Williamson. 72. farmer near Monti>el>er. who fell on to a redhot stove during an attack of heart trouble Friday, was not aroused by either the fall or burns, and his face lay on the stove for several minutes and cooked. The other night a Lebanon woman sat up until 2 a. m. for her husband to come home. At last, weary and worn out with waiting, she went to her bedroom toi retire and found her missing husband there fast asleep. Instead of going to town be had gone to bid. They weren’t •»n speaking terms. ' c&jl Residence of Joseph Sylvester, Green township, was wrecked by a gas explosion. Two children and the mother may be fatally hurt. Cause unknown. .<lB Eleven hundred tons of straw. belonging to the American Straw Board ('om-> pany. Noblesville, went up in snwke.. Loss srktMM>. Origin unknown. Milla may chase until another season. Cliffonl. the 12-year-ohl son of Charles Newhall, residing near Parker, was instantly killed by a ball frotn a tlobert rifle. It was an atsfaleutal discharge,, the bail penetrating the brain over th* left ev»