Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1900 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Tornado Works Turnage at Bremen— Mob Pursues Keith—Marries Man Who Slew Her 1 Lover—Small Wheat Crop—State Prisoners Escape. Bremen was visited by a disastrous wind storm at 3 o’eloel: the other afternoon that developed into a tornado. Telephone and electric light wires were blown down and the streets were strewn with uprooted shade trees. The huge new smokestack that was creeled but a few days ago on the electric light plant was blown 200 feet. Houses were unroofed and windows blown in. The grain elevator of J. E. Dietrich was partly unroofed and moved from its foundation. The loss to property will reach several thousand dollars and cause delay . nA the various factories. - Indiana’s Light Wheat Crop. Reliable grain dealers from all parts of the State have collected statistics., showing the total yield of wheat in Indiana for the present year. The figures indicate that the production is the smallest for many years and not exceeding 8,000,000 bushels, against from 25,000,000 to 40,000,000 fur' several years, in succession prior to 1899. The crop is a practical failure, there being but little more than enough grain raised for seeding, and leaving a shortage for bread and - seed of at least 10,060,000 bushels. Mother Dies fretti Joke. Mrs. Lillie Eby of Nappanee, 20 years old, died under peculiar circumstances. While in Chicago with her sister-in-law the letter played a joke on Mrs. Eby, wrapping a big doll, with eyes that closed and opened, in the clothing ot Mrs. Eby’s infant. Presenting the dvH-, whichhad its eyes closed as though dead, to Mrs. Eby, she remarked, “Here is your baby,” Mrs. Eby took one glance, ex--claimed, “My, bow you frightened me!” and was attacked with convulsions which shortly resulted in her death. Mob Hunts Alleged Slayer. Joseph D. Keith, the alleged murderer of Nora Kifer, whose body was found iu Pigeon creek three months ago, was taken from the Booneville jail to the Evansville jail. A mob of 300 farmers was forming near Booneville, a‘nd Judge Gough ordered the prisoner moved to Evansville at once. The niob reached the jail just as the sheriff was leaving with the prisoner, and there was a hut chase to the depot. The prisoner was got on board the train just in time to prevent lynching. Weds Her Lover's Slayer. After six years of waiting Mrs. Jennie Y. Bean and James Van Hoak of Charlestown have been married. The event was fixed for June, 1894, but several tragic incidents prevented tbe ceremony being performed. Emil Schaeffer was in love with Mrs. Bean and persisted in paying her attention, until one day in an altercation he was shot through the heart by Van Hoak and killed. A sensational trial resulted iu the acquittal of Van Hoak. Prisoners Leap from n Tratn. Twenty-six prisoners from the State reformatory were transferred to the Michigan City State’s prison as incorrigibles. They were chained together two in a seat. As the train was leaving Otis two prisoners. Turner and Miller, grand larceny men, sentenced from two to fourteen years, jumped from the window and escaped. Excitement among the other prisoners was quelled. The other two are still at large. It is supposed one sawed his manacles on the train. Shoots Brother's Accuser. Huston Manis, living near Anderson, shot and killed instantly Irvin Lawson. Manis and his brother had been there attending the trial of Marshal Lawson, a brother of Irvin Lawson, for threatening to kill Manis. After the trial on the way home Irvin Lawson tried to pull Manis out of bis buggy, when Manis shot him twice.

State News in Brief. Unknown man killed by a freight train at Ingalls. Riley Martin, 40, Martinsville, drowned in White river. Miss Sadie Gaither, Odon, died from opium poisoning. The baby of Isaac Roe, Bargersville, suffered a stroke of paralysis. Ward Cherry, only 15. has been nplointed L. E. & W. agent at Castleton. Thirty-nine independent window glass :ompanies have combined to fight the ’.rust. South Bend has 100 saloons, 30 thurches and 21 patent medicine fac‘ories. ,' John T. Sinclair, old citizen of Putnam "ounty. killed by Vandalia train nt Ueelsville. State Fish Commissioner Sweeney is again after game law violators in Kankakee marsh. An old flour mill at South Bend, built nearly seventy years ago, toppled over into the river. Abe Oliver, 04. farmer near Greencastle. fell from n ladder and died instantly from the shock. E. W. Bowen. Delphi’s millionaire banker, bought Yhree head of shorthorn cattle, paying $5,535. Storm did considerable damage in Hancock County. In Greenfield, two walls of new brick block collapsed. Edward Prise, formerly of Charleston, but now of Denver, is on his way to England to claim n $35,000,000 fortune. The W. B. Holton Manufacturing Company, maker of agricultural implements at Indianapolis, assigned. It is said all creditors will be paid in full. Lewie Shoup, 10, Millgrove, joined Buffalo Bill’s wild west show. In n wreck, a week later, he lost all his clothes and returned home in a sweater nnd a pair of overalls. It hns l>een discovered that Henry Overmlre, Y'orktown, who tried to kill himself, put five bullets, instead of three, into his head. Two were removed and he may recover. A young boy passed a counterfeit halfdollar thirty years ago on John Gore, an Elkhart peanut vender. Last week a well-dressed stranger gave Gore $1 ua conscience money.