Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1900 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Girl Jilts a Farmer to Wed Hie Bon— Paroled Prisoner Gets a LegacyImportant Supreme Court Decisior ou Tumping of Gas. . Miss Carrie Duncan, aged 19, whose marriage to Alfred Higgins, 51 years old, was announced to take place nt English on the 24th of June, disappeared from home a little before that date. A few days later she called upon a sister in Louisville, Ky., and said she intended spending a short time with each of her friends in that city before marriage, as she was not likely to see them soon again. This set her people at ease till Mr. Duncan received a letter from her, dated at Great Band, Kan., telling him that she and Fred Higgins, son of Alfred Higgins, were happily married. Alfred Higgins is a well-to-do farmer; the son is a hired hand on a Kansas farm. __ ——— ——►:.zs..' ' - • ■ Indiana Is Btorm-Swept. Storms over Indiana'destroyed considerable property' and killed and injured many persons. At Union City the Odd Fellows’ hall was demolished, and Miss Gertrude Sipe was struck by lightning. Crops were ruined in the Southern part of Henry County, and several houses were destroyed by lightning. The electric light plant at Sullivan and the Methodist Church were unroofed. At Knightstown Charles Estell was instantly killed. Horace Hardin and a farm hand were struck while driving to town. Both were found by farmers unconscious beside their dead horses. Twenty houses were destroyed at Linton. George Shopman was killed ut Cambridge City while taking shelter under a tree. At North Manchester Henry Brown was killed , and Alexander. Homan prostrated. «.Miss Nellie Beecher was struck while walking along the Streets of Greenfield. The damage to crops will be enormous. Happy Day for a Convict. At New Albany, Ernest Roulet was notified that he was finally paroled from the Indiana reformatory, where he was serving n (erm charged with stealing a bicycle. Thewame mail brought the tidings that by the death of his mother in Switzerland he inherits $6,600. A draft for the amount accompanied the letter. Ronlet ran away from home when a youth, and came to this country because his mother had married a second time. At Indianapolis,-while drinking, he took a friend’s bicycle, as he claimed, in fun, and was sentenced to prison. His good conduct secured his release. Cannot Legally Pump Gas. The Indiana Supreme Court in a decision in the case of the Manufacturers’ Gas and Oil Company vs. the Indiana Natural Gas and Oil Company, appealed from the Grant County Circuit Court, held that natural gas cannot legally be pumped out of gas wells. The case was one of four suits brought to prevent the ManuYucturers^ - company from pumping gas out of Grant County to towns and cities at a distance. There is some question among lawyers whether the gas companies will be allowed to use pumps along their lines or not. Gives His Employes Stock. The Hurrle window glass factory, a twelve-pot concern nt Hartford City, independent of the trust,. has been compelled to close down on account of the intense bent. The shutdown will continue until Sept. 15. Mr. Hurrle.presented each cutter, flattener. blower and gatherer with a SIOO block of stock in his factory, and in the future they will receive dividends in addition to their earnings.

Within Our BorUera. Sixteen cases of smallpox in Anderson. Decided decrease. Connersville has more people than houses. Booming. Henry G. ('artmill, 52. was drowned while seining near St. Paul. Farmers of Stoneycreek township will improve twenty miles of roads. L. W. Kibbey, 27. B. & O. S. W. surveyor, was struck by a train near Huron. Philip Bullion, Goshen, ft-41 from a load of hay, struck a pitchfork and died instantly. Barn at the Wayne County infirmary is in ashes. Loss $4,000. Incendiary origin suspected. James Robins, Shelbyville, while passing an alley was beaten almost to death. Cause unknown. Geo. Green, Jeffersonville, goes to the penitentiary for from two to twenty-one years (or wife murder. Wm. Dakin, Muncie, succeeded in killing himself after six attempts. Butted the stone wall of the jail. Albert Knight. Greenfield laborer, has received word that he is heir to $70,000 from an English estate. Clare Hurley, 13, of Cincinnati, has disappeared in Muncie. Supposed he followed the Forepnngh-Mells circus. George Watson, Sullivan, charged with complicity in the murder of Clara Wagoner, eight years ago, was acquitted. Reuben Deßord, Tern- Haute, was given S3OO damages against the American Wringer Company for false imprisonment. e Miss Lola Truss, 18, Marion, disappeared six weeks ago. Case against a prominent married man for kidnaping her was dismissed. George Laureh, 15. Dublin, fell from a swing, stricken with heart failure, mid died. Boys with him laughed, thinking he was feigning. Williard Gibson mid his stepfather, William Gibbs, quarreled at Kokomo over Gibson's wife. Gibbs split open Gibson's skull with a spade and tied. Police are enforcing the liquor laws in Marion. The W. C. T. U. tlinnks the sheriff for enforcing the gambling laws. A rate war is on between the packet lines en the Ohio river. The fare has been cut to 25 cents from Madison to Cincinnati. Joseph M. Dunlap, denh-r in agricultural implements, coal and lime, nnd proprietor of grain elevators at Franklin nnf Trafalgar, made a voluntary assignment for the benefit of his creditors to E. F. jttarder and W. V. King. The assets nn» thought to Im* $05,000 nnd liabilities estimated at about $32,000.