Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1900 — INDIANA INCIDENT [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENT

RECORD OF EVENTS OF ’jßjll PAST WEEK. 'll jH Farmer Assassinated at His DpSHiJI t rednlous Man the \ ictisn of -Monument for Lincoln's MoiP^jjgjgjm Grave Explosion of Natural GaajoHHß Thomas L. Traylor, oae of the weaßHßj est farmers of l'ike County, was te)Mßj| sin aUs 1 the other night Fy J- CL cent, who called Traylor to his »BB| door ami as he appeared fired ihttojJußjll at him. One ballet passed through TlH|Nj|| lor's arm and penetrated the grotoflßßßj ing a wound of which he died. lately sued Traylor for S2S.OW» duI NHH charging that Traylor had slieastcfiffiHHlj wife's affections, hut lost the sUK.Jjffifira| new trial was granted on the ground the verdict was not in a the testimony. Since the trial dcadigt«sJ|ffiM mity had existed letuofl the men. ABBB the shooting Yiixvnt telephoned to ersburp. telling tin- sheriff of hi- deed asked to be arrested. ffiH Farmer Robbed of $2,300, Thieves worked a clever ruse Un Weimer, a wealthy old G, : .aan of Clark Comity, who explained «• ehief of police of Jeffersonville how*Hgg had 1 ,en robbed of S2.oMU. Recently fiHffi one told Weimer that ad the the country were going to fail and 4ffifiH| vised him to withdraw his deposits. SH old man did this, and placed SLSOU his bed. Early on a recent morning hung MM lars entered the Weimer house and cured this money, taking it front the toMBM without awakening Weimer or his who wore asleep in the b>d al the Ume.fjfiH Plan Nancy Hanks Memorial. HH Steps to erect a monument over grave of Nancy Hanks Lincoln, the mdlffiH er of Abraham Lincoln, near City, were taken at a meeting of Am| Nancy Hanks Lincoln Memorial tion in the Governor's office at the house in Indianapolis. The was begun about two years ago. vMB Gov. Mount received from President Mcffisgg Kinley a letter that had been sent to President by some one who had invdtjH| through Indiana and bad sen the of President Lincoln's mother. BH House Is Blown to Pieces. I The home of George Weaver, a vdl-M to-do farmer near XobJosville. was ed by natural gas, killing Mrs. Denny and seriously wounding Mr. Mrs. Weaver, George Champ and Mariiwß Irwin. Mr. Irwin was badly burned aniH bruised and liis recovery is very ful. ■ Within Oar Borders. ■ I.ogansport will support the baseball league. H Carr Burgett. who died in Cuba. buried at Muucie. Putnam County farmers are in Angora goats. The laboring men's library Is being ted up at Muncie. A women's union label league Is organized at Anderson. Jay County Fair Association will up s<'.,ooo for premiums. H A piano has been placed in the depot parlors at Vincennes. H Muncie ptdiee have taken to gambling paraphernalia again. H Muncie postoffice may l«e front second to first class July 1. H Philadelphia quartz company will l*ut B in a coal gas plant at Anderson. ■ The boy phenomenon, who cures all S pains ami rheumatics, has struck Evans- B viile. I Logoottcc prospecting company has B struck an oil well that flows 230 a day. ■ Boys bet wet'n 10 and 14, <'otambtoß| City, are causing annoyance by thieving. 1 The Elkhart jail and Longeliff iasaanß hospital, I.ogansjtorl. are both foil of 1 lunatics, and the officers of the instittt- j| tions don't know what to do. 1 Many persons living in WUmißjtofl Concord and Grant townships are uraehtßj frightened over loud rumbling noises that] come from the interior of the earth. In] The 4-year-old daughter of Chas. Fisk-Jj back, at Amity, was burned to death in -|| ..ttempting to take some meal from a/fi stove, while her mother was gone- ,4m The 3-year-o!d ehild of Joseph WkitiJ at Maxams, was fatally burned triUtlj boiling tallow. The enp of tallow wnn aj on the stove, and the child, thinking it jj contained wat<-r, attempted to drink if. "3 The cup was overturned and the taUoaiß covered the little one's head and shoal”-*m ders. J Two costly fires visited Rratul. One-* broke out iu Cowry Ac La wits’ gtotezjfH on West Main street at <> o'clock In the J morning and destroyed the stock and M wrecked the building. The loss was F4r~ 3 000, with $2,000 insurance. Fite also J broke out in the Fashion store and data- 1 aged the stfwk to the amount of SS,tWO; '3 insurctl for $3,000. Iu pursuance of a promise made jnst || prior to pting through an operation, from which the doctors said she had hot one § chance iu a thousand of surviving, Minn* May Walker of Hillsboro has joined t | wandering Pentecost band, and says she 1 will devote the remainder of her life Bm| Pentecostal work. Her parents have tried | in vain tq dissuade her. ' Eleven big iron and steel mills in to- J diana. owned by the Republic Inn and | Steel Company, closed down indefitotowfl on a<*count of the suits recently filed to 1 Muncie by the State facTory inspector enforce the weekly pay law. More thanl 5.000 men become idle. The milk doeed* are at Muncie, Terre Haute. Mirited| East Chicago, Alexandria. Frank ton Hidjj" Brazil. The company claims the tion of the suits is all for political effect, and says its mills will stand idle as bmg’.J as the employes consent to be parties to | the prosecutions. Western glass factory, Eaton, with pro- ,| vision for thirty-six blowers, has started. J Peter Alwine, 12, Goshen, was * treat- •! ed. charged with taking S2O from * j| money drawer. The investigation finished recently hr I the Auditor of State of Indiana’s w« 1 claim against the United States foe tto | expense of fitting out Indiana soliiera to J the civil war disclosed that the c aira «a which the United States Seaats committee on claims recently pasaed on tovtMPfl