Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1900 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. || Ridiculous Legal Fight Over a Dead Dog Wheat Damaged by Froat— Gritty Escape from Jail -Babe’s Body Found in a Log. A suit over a dead dog was filed in the Supreme Court of the State of Indiana by Jacob Van Treese of Decatur County. The*dog, whirfl was of a Common variety, was found dead on the public highway, and Ralph Magee took the body. Van Treese sued him for possession, alleging that the body, including the hide and earcass, was worth $2. He wanted the dog’s body, he declared, go that he might affectionately bury it on the home farm. A jury in a squire’s court gave Van Treese damages to the amount of 1 cent. The Decatur County court reversed the squire’s court. Van Treese now appeals to the State’s highest court. The costs of the case have reached a high figure. Indiana Wheat Damaged. The wheat fields of the north central part of the State are reported greatly damaged by the last cold spell. The continued freezing and thawing, the farmers say, have ruined thousands of acres, all the fields in Howard County brfng more or Jess damaged. The farmers who take into account the usual amount of spring freezing and its effect on the crop declare the prospect is the worst for years, with no hope of more than a third of a crop. Many of the farmers are preparing to plow up the wheat ground and plant the fields with other grain. Through a Fiery Furnace. Albert Hayes, in jail at Lawrenceburg for stealing rubber hose from the Big Four, and about to be returned to the Plainfield reform school from which he was out on parole, crawled through the register in the hall corridor, down the tin pipe and to liberty through the furnace in the basement. A small bed of coals lay in the furnace. The boy was evidently burned, as he left his coat behind, and it had been partly consumed and left in a bucket of water.

Body Found in n Hollow Log, Two residents of Ervin township made a grewsome discovery in passing through a wood. Secreted in a hollow log were found the partially decomposed remains of a child, supposed to be about 2 years of age. The body bore marks of violence and tlie theory is that a murder,has been committed. The body was found in the Amish settlement. Asks Village for Epileptics, The Indiana board of State charities in its annual report to the Governor recommended in view of the great number of epileptic patients in the State school for the feeble minded and other institutions that a village for epileptics be established. It also recommended the establishment of colonies for insane patients who are able to work. Witbin Our Borders. Marion has a new, big skating rink. Hartford City may get an automobile factory. A canning factory may be located at Kempton. New Panhandle depot is under way at Greenfield. Cambridge City will have nine high school graduates this year. Terre Haute has sold Chicago capitalists a gas and cold air franehise'fqr $lO,000. The Marion Pulp Company has sunk a well which flows 4,000,000 cubic feet a day. New SB,OOO M. E. Church at Arcadia was dedicated recently. The building seats 600.

The'Kokomo equal suffrage and literary society has declared a crusade against street spitters. ('apt. Richard 11. Williams has been appointed inspector of hulls at Evansville, at a salary of $1,200. Required nine men to carry the body of Mrs. Lida ('raycraft, the “Hoosier giantess,” who died at Middlefork. Mayor Steeg, Terre Haute, has signed the ordinance putting a SI,OOO tax on breweries and brewery agencies. The average price for horses at the CambridgeM’ity Lackey sale was $228. The total sales amounted to. $87,173. Farmers who sold their work horses off too close last fall are finding it a hard mutter to get animals to fill their places. An iron bedstead fartdry is in prospect for Middletown. Citizens will be asked to take stock, but no bonus is detired. A fight is on between the I nion Traction Company and the Marion Transit Railway Company. Car fare is now one. Cent on lhe Union lines. The body of Thoma* M. I’etro, Company M, Fourth infantry, who died of fever wveral months ago in Manila, has arrived at his home in Darlington. Beys giving a charitari at a wedding near Helms, exploded a stick of dynamite wbi*h shook the house and spread dismay among the guests. No one was hurt. An attempt was made at Evansville to blow up the old Allis homestead, where twenty-five tenants live. One wall was torn out by the explosion of dynamite. The motive for the clime is unknown. Lebanon city schools are aroused over a class war between seniors and juniors. The juniors nailed their class colors to the flag pole. The seniors pulled them down and_gersist in nearing the captured colors pinned to thdr coats. Three of the seniors were expelled aud the rest of the class walked out and refuse to attend school unless the three are rein- , stated. Ray Vaughn, brother of the treasurer of the Chicago and Southeastern Rail- : way, while making a trip over the road fell under the wheels and was fatally injured. At Newburg John Hungate and Felix Jackson came to blows in a religious dis- ■ pute. Jaekson wa» struck over the head with a gas pipe and killed. Hungate was arrested. The Greencastle League of literary Clubs, with n membership of mofF than 250, has taken up t&e work of inculcating greater enterprise, to the end of the ap- ’ cial aud political betterment of the city.