Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1900 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA. INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Ilia Mind Win Long a Blank— Sportsman Breaks Hie Neck—Mysterious Disappearance at Daleville-Railroad - Practically Tied Up by a Snake. Fred Fry, under detention for several days at the Indianapolis police station as an insane person, has been recognized by his father, Stephen D. Fry, a well-known traveling man, and released. The young man is 19 years old, and until his father arrived hin mind was a positive blank as to his own identity, but the moment he saw his sire his mental condition seemed to dear. His father reports that his son has been ailing for several years, and physicians have been unable to afford permanent relief. He usually fs rational on every subject, but occasionally he loses his own identity, and if away from home at the time tlie attack seizes him he is unable to give information of himself, although talking readily on other subjects. Last June he wandered away and after a long search was found at Kokomo, where he had been earning his own living, no one suspecting him of mental infirmity. Squirrel Hunt Proves Fatal. Because his wife expressed a wish for a squirrel for her supper, Elijah Myers, a fanner of Prairie Creek township, met his death. Mrs. Myers has been a helpless invalid for more than two years. She is suffering from consumption and cannot live longer than a few weeks. The other night shf- expressed a desire for some squirrel broth, and her husband went into the woods. He shot a squirrel, but the animal lodged in the fork of a tree, and Myers, in climbing the tree, fell and broke his aeek, dying instantly. Assaulted and Spirited Away. Because of the strike at the Daleville stove works at Daleville, Arthur Walker, aged 20, has disappeared. He was a nonunion man and was going to the factory to work when he was attacked by a crowd of the strikers. The crowd after beating Walker took him away in ft bug- ~ gy and searching parties have failed to find trace of him. Muncie officers arrested three men on charges of being implicated in the assault. Walker’s home Is ia Portsmouth, Ohio. Snake Ties Up a Railroad. Traffic on the Chicago and Erie Railway was delayed the other day on account of a big rattlesnake. The reptile crawled up a telegraph pole near Preble, and stretched itself across the wires. As a result the current was broken and messages could not be sent. A special crew was sent out from Huntington to ascertain the cause of the delay in the transmission of dispatches, and the snake was discovered and dislodged. Within Our Borders Bushels of counterfeit money over the State. A Goehcn mau saved 3,500 tobacco tags and got a gnu. It is said gold in paying quantities has been found north of Hope. Mrs. John Fenton stabbed to death her husband at Clinton, after a quarrel. Muncie incendiaries made throe fruitless attempts on a factory in ten days. Laporte First National Bank has increased capital front $25,000 to $50,000. Delaware County farmers will form a union, and use the union label on all their products. A new insect is damaging apple trees and farmers are fearful that the crop will be ruined. The Ontario Silverware works resumed operations with 250 hands after several weeks’ shut-down. Surveyors are running a line across Steuben County and the people are mystified as to what is up. Mrs. J. A. Schenk, Muncie, and Mrs. Florence Kirby, Paris, 111., sisters, met for the first time hi forty years. A 300-gear bicycle was exhibited at Waterloo. Some of the local speedare were able to ride it by hard pumping. The 4?>00 lots platted by the Mun>*ie Land Company during the gas boom haze been sold to Akron, Ohio, capitalists for $80,600. William Henry Atkinson, at one time a familiar figure in Logansport and worth $30,000. is dead in the Cass County Infirmary. The Union Trust Company, Indianapolis, and W. 11. Roney, Cicero, have I>s<m made receivers of the Bonita glass factory, at Cicero. An explosion of natural gas at Marlon caused the destruction of the Harwood & Bailey bedstead factoty, entailing a loss of $70,060. Mrs. Ida Dooley, Daleville, whose husband, a Big Fc»ir brakemen, was killed two years ago. has compromised with the company for $2,500. Mayor Durand, Peru, has forbidden the Mormons to hold any more religious meetings, giving as a reason the Monnona’ alleged belief in polygamy. The Indiana Odd Fellows home wps dedicated at Greensburg in the present of one of the largest crowds of pecple ever assembled in the city. Mrs. George Ray of Garrett, whose husband was fireman on a Baltimore ntd Ohio Railroad aud killed In a wreck near Chicago, has begun suit in the United States Court asking SIO,OOO damage's. The Rev. J. W. William:*, pastor of the Second Baptist Church in Anderson, conducted the services there on a recent Sunday. and early the next morning be|an suit in the Superior Court against his congregation for his salary. He was engaged in 1808 andsTlaims that he wat to be paid monthly, but has not received a cent. William Shanks has asked the commissioners to let him establish a saloon in Burlington, The citizens say they will not remonstrate, but will blow the place sky high with dynamite. Eugene O. Durkee, aged t»6 years, was • married at Guthrie, Ok., to Mrs. SalUo C. Wilson, aged 45 years, of Salem. Th* two bad been sweethearts in childhood and each bad beta married. Noah R. Freeman of Winamac and the oldest Justice of the peace, has in the past thirty years married over 2,000 couples. As the net result of these marriage* over 0,000 children have been l»r»