Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1900 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY! TOLD. ... Populist State Convention Com pletijM Ticket Placed in Nomination—Super*g intendente for State Fair—tion of Dr. Kane at Wabash Populists of Indiana in State eonven«|| tiou at Indianapolis named the following ticket: Governor, A. G. Burkhart, Tip- ; ton; Lieutenant Governor, C. M. Wal-jjg ters, Indianapolis; Secretary of State, Dr. W. T. Carmichael, Columbus; Audi- 3 tor, John W. Wales, Hancock Treasurer, W. H. Kunz, Logansport; AO| torney General, G. T. Boger, Shelby County; reporter Supreme Court, Charles : E. Huffman, Clay County; superinteu-3 dent public instruction. Prof. Wifliam P.. J Beasly, Knox County; State statistician, | A. L. Grindle, Starke' County; national i electors, Samuel Walker. Hancock Coun- J ty, and A. H. Rowley. Columbus; members of the national committee, N. H. ! Motsinger of Portland, A. G. Burkhart of Tipton and Thomas S. East of Madison County; Supreme judge, first district, * S. M. Holcomb. Resolutions were adopt- | ed favoring government ownership, the | same treatment of gold and silver at t United States mints at the present ratio | of 1(5 to 1, the election of President, Vice* < President and Supreme judges by direct vote, initiative and referendum, opposition to trusts, municipal ownership, additional pensions and the “issue by the general government without the intervention of banks of such value of full legal tender paper money as may be sufficient for the needs of the people.” Fair Superintendents. At the meeting of the State Board of Agriculture President Jones announced the appointment of the following department superintendent's of the State fair: Admissions, E. A. Robinson of Rocklane, grand stand, James E. McDonald of Ligonier; speed, W. T. Beauchamp of Terre Haute; horses, Mortimer Levering of Lafayette; beef cattle, M. S. Claypool of Muncie; dairy cattle and dairy products, Cott Barnett of Logansport; swine. Mason J. Niblack of Vincennes; sheep, John L. Thompson of Gas City; poultry. Sid Conger of Flat Rock: art, John L. Davis of Crawfordsville; horticulture, Knode Porter of Hagerstown; agriculture. John C. Haines of Lake; mechanical. W. W. Stevens of Salem; privileges, H. L. Nowlin of Lawrenceburg. President Jones j o appointed the following executive committee: W. W. Stevens of Salem; W. T. Beauchamp of Terre Haute. E. A. Robison of Rocklane and J. 1.. Thompson of Gas City.

Dr. Kane Is Installed. The Rev. William P. Kane was formally inducted into the presidency of Wabesh College at CrawfordsviHq, with impressive ceremonies, in the presence of 1.500 people, including 500 visiting alumni and former students. Dr. M. L. Hines of Indianapolis presided. The venerable ex-president. Joseph Farrand Tuttle, D. I).. LL. D., delivered the charter and keys of the college to the new president, who then delivered his inaugural address. Addresses were made by Prof. John L. Campbell in behalf of the faculty, the Rev. D. P. Putnam of Princeton for the alnmni, A. E. Tinkham for the. students.

Dice in a Railway Station. Mrs. George F. Field, traveling from Donaldson, Ark., to Fair Haven, Vt.. died in the union station at Indianapolis, surrounded by her three small children. Mr. Field died in Arkansas and a week later a child died. The mother was ill and the 15-year-old daughter took charge of their affairs and started with her mother and two small sisters for the old home in Vermont.

Within Our Borders. Sullivan will incorporate. Gypsies around Clayton. Ducks are plentiful on the Kankakee. Muncie is going into the park building business. Vincennes wants a $200,000 Government building. South Pend will be redistricted, and a new ward added. Greensburg schools are*' troubled with a siege of playing hookey. Herman Schroeder has been appointed postmarter at Smithson. Some one tried to burn the sanitarium at Cartersburg Springs the other day. Seventeen-year-old daughter of H. S. Daniels, Union City, has disappeared. Johnson County hens are beginning to come off of the nest with spring chickens. De'tth of Clarence Betts, 29, of spinal meningitis, has caused excitement at Russiaville. Schools have been closed and a revival discontinued at Vernon because of scarlet fever. Terre Haute Council made an appropriation to help the Board of Health fight smallpox. Work on the electric line from Muncie to Hartford City will begin with the shoots of spring. Tile old citizens of Mooresville celebrated the seventy-fifth anniversary of the founding of the place. Jack Shashberger, Goshen, who was crippled on the Lake Shore Railroad, has been granted a pension and $2,000 back pay. A large number of business houses were destroyed or damaged by a tire at Owensville. Total loss $15,700, insurance si;ioo. William Buffington, insane over politics, refused to leave the Muncie jail with bis relation, until given a shotgun and hatchet to protect himself. Jeffersonville Light and Water Company, that has received the new contract for furnishing the city with light, miqrt«aged its plant for $58,000. There is a plan to build an electric line from Fort Wayne to Ligonier, to connect by branch lines with Mishawaka, Goshen, South Bend and Elkhart. George Hoffman, Cincinnati, while hanging sash at the Oldenburg convent, lost his balance on a scaffold and jumped to a board, but it broke. He fell to the ground, dying a few minutes later. Dr. James H. Smart, president of Pur, due University, died at his home in Lafayette. _ He bad been in ill health for several years, as a result of overwork ia his ambitious zeal to further the best interests ot Purdue.