Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1900 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY . TOLD. Many Trolley Road* Are Planned, bat None Are Built—A Tornado Strikes Marion—Frenzied Farmer Threatens Wife’s Life—Drown in White River. Of nearly 1,000 miles of electric railways connecting points in Northern Indiana, projected since last fall, not a mile has been built, notwithstanding capital" is cheap and abundant. The most important line of all, and the one which more nbarly approached success, is the Logansport, Rochester and Northern, from Logansport to Kendallville, 101 miles. It has been announced almost monthly since last winter that the funds were all provided for this road ami that work would commence at once, and though the surveys were long ago completed not a shovel of earth has been turned and there is no probability that work will commence this year. Dozens of trolley schemes have been hatched in the last two years in the northern half of the State and some of them will materialize later, but promoters say. that no roads will be built this year, owing to the unsettling influences ot the election, and that it is doubtful whether they will be built next season, if iron prices are high. Most of the projectors of lines have franchises running five years nnd right-of-way options for a similar period so they can be revived later. Tornado Hits Marion. A tornado passed over the southern part of Marion aud wrecked everything in its path. It covered only a narrow track, but the suction caused a great deal of damage far on each side of it. The residence of Raynard Floyde was wrecked and the family slightly injured? The residence and buildings of Francis T. Mills were wrecked and Mrs. Mills seriously injured. The State Normal College was unroofed nnd badly wrecked. The Methodist Church and Fifth ward school building were partly unroofed and the windows broken. The new amphitheater of the Marion Driving Association was wrecked and a half-mile of fence blown away. Dinner Bill Stops Murder. Ed Haines, aged 60, living in Waltz township, attempted to kill his wife and would perhaps have succeeded had he not been crippled with rhenmatisin so. that he failed to overtake her. He became angry with the woman-over a-4ri v—iai matter and chased her about the premises with a knife. Her screams and the cries of the children were not heard, but she finally seized hold of the rope of the dinner bell and rang it so wildly that the neighbors rallied and suppressed the frenzied man. Rescuer Gives Up Hie Life. Miss Alma Osborne and Melville M. Wood, a school teacher, were drowned in White river southeast of Washington. They wore with a party of campers. Miss •Osburtui, vlw W in wad+ng,—stepped into a sink hole and went under. Mr. Wood jumped into the water to rescue her, and in the struggle both were drowned. Ftart Glass Factory Fires. The fires were placed under the tanks of the American Window Glass Company’s No. 3 factory at Hartford City, preparatory to a start Sept. 1. The order is a general one. and fires were started in all the tank factories belonging to this corporation, and thousands of workmen will return to work. State News iu Brief. John Tolle, 15, living near Windfall, struck in the eye by foul ball and may die. Bob Mansfield, consul to Zanzibar, Is at his home iu Marion, on leave of absence. New Albany council granted the street railway company a 30-year franchise. City gets S2OO a year. r Joseph A. Wollaw, living near Owensburg. among tax receipts, years ago, and forgotten. Charley Loss, a Swiss bell ringer, wns probably fatally stabl>ed by Dr. Masters while giving an entertainment at Stilesville. Cattle in the northern part of the State are afflicted with specific npthalma, one of the most contagious diseases stock raisers have to deal with. » .Seven-months-old son of Earl It. Churchill. Rushville, fell from his led, catching his head la-tween the side rail and guard and choked to death. Elkhart railroad man nearly swallowed a large, decayed tooth, but it stuck in his throat for several days, causing no end of worry for hitn nnd the physicinns. Little Tommie Scott, Greenfield, tumbled into a rainbarrel head first, but managed to turn over, nnd wh'-n his parents found him. lie was standing neck deep inVvater. Ella Sage, 16 and Roy Gordon, 17 years old, eloped from Elkhart and are l»elieved to be in Chicago. The youngsters had been lovers for over a year, but gave no sign of their intent to wed. Fires will be started in the three win-dow-glnss factories in Muncie of the American Window Glass Company preparatory to the early resumption in September. The Yorktown nnd Matthews plants will also be started earlier than usual. Logansport police were startled when Mary Albright, a 14-year-obi girl, appeared nt headquarters nnd said that while bcrry-pleking she found the body of a Ind, probably 9 years old, in n field. She told two men who wore near and they took the body and placed it in their buggy nnd drove away toward the country. The officers believe that a murder has been committed. Rev. Samuel L. Hamilton died tn Buffalo. N. Y., and was buried nt Lebanon. He was Lebanon's first mayor. Luther Phllllppt, Bicknell, wants $50,000 damages from 'Morten Ruble who stabbed him in a dispute over nn oats crop. McMurty & Butler, commission merchants, estimate that 1,333.ga110ns of berries were consumed at Rockville in two weeks. The Goshen milling company ground 740,000 bushels of wheat last year, mors than 300,000 bushels being purchased, from farmers nearby.