Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1900 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

REOORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Illicit Attachment Causes a SuicideFatal Qqarrel Over a Young Woman —Female Hermit Dies Near Muncle— Kilted by Fall from a Car. News reaches Eekerly from Newton Stewart of the death by morphine of Frederick James Burriot, a young attorney. A letter addressed to his mother tells of his love for another man’s wife and his too keen sense of honor to accept the reciprocated passion and says that suicide was his only means of escape from dishonoring his name. Barriot had talked of quitting law for the ministry. Dead with an Ax Beside Her. Mrs. Cadis Sutton, living a hermit a few miles from Muncie, though having an income of $8,900 front oil wells, was found dead with an ,ax on the bed beside her. She always feared robbers, but never kept sums of money in (ho house. Her husband has been dead twenty-two years. Since his death she has lived on the farm. Death, it is believed, was dne to natural causes. lClopea with a Girl of 13. Harry Brokaw, aged 45, nnd Essie McAllister of Indianapolis, aged 13, eloped to Jeffersonville and were married. Letters were found here writ ten-to Brokaw from a justice of the peace at Jeffersonville, telling him he would have no trouble to get married there, as there were “plenty of fellows around who would swear the girl was of age.” Gov. Mount is preparing to deal with the justice.

Upholds the Barrett Law. 'The Indiana Supreme Court has affirmed the constitutionality of the Barrett improvement law. The title of the case was Thomas B. Adams against the city of Sholbyville. Tho suit was to eujoia the city from making a street improvement in front of Adams* property. The Supreme Court, while upholding the law, reversed the decision of the lower court and granted Adams an injunction. Farmer Fires to Kill. Joseph Reese twice shot nnd mortally wounded S .C. Campbell near Thorn town. Soon afterward Reese went to town and surrendered voluntarily. He says he acted in s*?lf-defeuse. Reese was taken to Lebanon and gave bond for his appearance. rile trouble is said to have arisen over a slander involving a young woman. Both men are prominent farmers. Mail Clerk Fulls from Car. As train No. 18 oh the Panhandle was passing Hagerstown at the rate of sixty miles an hour Daniel \V. Deardorff, a mail clerk, Tell from tho door of his car and was instantly killed. Deardorff was 4.) years old and had been ten years in the service, lie was one of the most careful men in the service and his death is the restiit of an accident. Withio Owr Borders. Temperance unions of Indiana will wage war on cigarettes. ihe scarcity of flint glass workers mav compel Muncie factories to run during the summer. T. Chiekering. a Louisville printer, was run over at Charlestown and instantly killed: Asleep on the B. Sc O. track. William Coppock, glass worker at Hartford C ity, fell on a broken lamp chimney, cutting his throat. Serious. Arthur Redmond, 18, drove in front of a Grand Rapids and Indiana passenger traiu at RidgcviUv aud was instantly killed. John H. Murphy and William Pogue. are talking of pnttiug in an independent telephone service at I.ogansport. Mr. nnd Mrs. Neil Spaulding were buried in the same grave at Marion. They died within twenty-four hours of each other from pneumonia. Henry l-’ox. Fannersburg, lias, after several years’ experimenting and spending a small fortune, perfected a maqhine which will make a. Hue grade of silk froth the bulb of milkweed. Night Watchman C. W. Waite, Union City, shot and killed Frederick Hardwick, a blacksmith, while the latter was resisting arrest. Waite says Hardwick was coming at him with a kuife. Burglar robbed Jim Bitner’s general store at Sexton several weeks ago, and it has just been learned that he has lived in the attic over the store ever since, empty cans giving the snap away. Jeremiah W illiatus of Burlington, a breeder of fine horses, entered his barn on a recent morning to find five of the blooded animals missing. The nnimals were valued at several thousand dollars. While boiling soap. Mrs. A. M. Everinan's clothing caught fire at Burlington Bhe was fatally burned, while her 14-year-old duugbtcr and her father, William Collins, received serious injuries trying to xave her. Daniel Manifold, axed 22 years, shot himself through the heart near Burlington. He was jealoua, had driven his wife away from home during the night, after whipping her. He placed his small son on the bod and lay beside hitu when he killed himself. Edward High, a young man at Fontxnet, was brought to the Terre Haute jail on a commitment for murder Issued by his father, Justice of the Peace William High. Young High is charged with killing William Pawalski, a miner, while drunk. The preliminary hearing was before Justice High. Municipal ownership of tho electric light system of Peru at the end of ten years has been practically assured by the action of the city council in closing a contract with Messrs. Vk*u and Parrott and the Indiana Trust Company of Indianapolis, by the terms of which the city will puy $75 apiece for eighty lights, or a total ofsMo.ooo for the ten yerfrs. Anderson will hure a new $20,000 flat. Evansville will haTe a new cycle path. Kokomo baseball club is being organised. Farmers say there will be a big cherry crop. » Siauey Gonuer. aged 67, a prominent Democrat, is dead in Charleston. Three new school houses will be erected in Mouroe township this year. Andrew Burkhnrdt, aged 28 years, was killed at Lafayette by falling from a train. He was caught between the care and the depot platform aud hht skull wan •rushed. , /