Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1900 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. ' ~ L Opening Up Brown County to Outside World—Balloonist Fill, in Front of Freight Engine—Sait for Alienation —Partner Skips with Firm’s Cash. Brown County has at last opened up fommunication with the outside world. Up to a few days ago the county was without telegraph or telephone service, and not a foot of railroad has ever been laid within the wild, mountainous district. Not long since, however, gome one discovered an artesian well of water which is said to possess certain curative qualities, and this was followed by the building of a sanitarium. The institution has been connected by telephone with the city of Bloomington, and this, it is asserted, will be followed by other developments. The locomotive threatens to send a series of re-echoing toots over the hills and dales of the wildest and most aweinspiring scenery of the Hoosier State. The people of Brown County, the descendants of the first white inhabitants, are said to be opposed to the invasion. They had built some first-class turnpikes to Nashville, the county seat, and other places, aud they “allow” the railroads will come along and render all of this work needless. Aeronaut Nearly Knn Over. Jennie Woodall of Terre Haute fell with her balloon and parachute on the track of the Southern Indiana road in front of a freight train, whose engineer stopped his engine in the nick of time to save her from instant death. The only injury the woman suffered was a drenching by passing through rain clouds. She made the ascension from the Pierson fair grounds and when she could not loosen the parachute and disappeared in the clouds women on the fair grounds fainted and men hurriedly started on horses in the direction the balloon had taken. She landed three miles from the fair grounds.

Rates His Wife at $15,000. Herbert Emert, living near Belvidere, 111., has brought suit for $15,000 in the Starke County Circuit Court ngainst Yelentine Awnld and wife. The complaint charges the defendants with alienating the affections of Emert’s wife, who is tlicir daughter. Emert and Miss Awald were married about two years ago. The match was made in the face* of strong parental objection and the estrangement is attributed to the interference of Awald and his wife with the domestic affairs of Emert and his spouse. Skips with Firm’s Cash. Edward Boos of the tailoring firm of Boos A Vnrpillat of Marion has disappeared. Charles Vnrpillat, his partner, hearnod that Boos had drawn S3OO from the bank, which was all the money on deposit, and had purchased a ticket for Canada. State New» in Brief. I’ostoffice at Jalapa discontinued. Myrtle Helm, 7, Marion, was burned to death. Mnncie iron and steel mills employ 1,600 men. New co-operative window glass factory at Hartford City. August Rile, Liberty, a soldier in tlie Philippines, is dead. Barnhart Learner, 92, oldest pioneer of Howard County, is dead. John Walter Imwry has been appointed postmaster at Knightstown. Stanfield J. .Tames. 81, Putnam County pioneer, died near Fillmore. Muncie will huve a tea saloon, to keep men from going to liiptor saloons. Chenial Rybolt, 87, who died near Elwoo<l, is said to have 118 living descendant!*, Muncie City Council decided ngainst contemplated increase in natural gas rates. Eureka Steel Company, Kokomo, started in opposition to the trust, lias been closed. Occupants of the home of J. B. Creek, Muncie, were chloroformed and the house robbed. Tl\e 30-months-old child of .George Hall. Medora, was killed by the accidental discharge of a rifle. Mrs. Huffman, living near Dunkirk, was badly bitten about the arms and chest by four vieiqus hogs. Frank Keil, farmer, living near Princeton," hanged himself because of failure of crops anti business disappointments. Charles Baker. 25, at Rising Sun, got from five to twenty-one years in the reformatory for firing barns, granaries and straw and hay stacks.

During h funeral at Mtincie the team of William .Tames became frightened at a band leading tbe cortege and ran away, dragging James half a mile. lie sustained fatal injuries. Seven eases of smallpox were discovered in Fulton County by the secretary of the Board of Health. The disease is confined to two families four miles apart in the country. O. 8. Anderson, near Lamb, has raised the largest melon ever produced in the Ohio valley. It measures four feet two and a half inches long, three feet eight inches around and weighs 08 pounds. William Driscoll nnd wife, both about <SO years old, prominent and wealthy, were killed almost in the heart of Muuele by being struck by a Big Four incoming pnssenger train while driving across the track. F. A. Walker of Anderson was appointed receiver for the Ingalls Zinc Company. The object is to effect a reorganization of the company. The liabilities n mount to $20,(100 and are liquidated by creditors taking new stock. B. 8. Kennett and Simon Haag, New Albany, both pnst 70, brothers-in-law, quarreled over household furniture, and Kennett Was stabbed three times. A play at the Muneie opera house was Interrupted while an account of the arrest of the Keating brothers wna read.to the audience from the extra edition of a newspaper. When Veederaburg changed from a town to a city last spring the Council elected a new school board, and the old town board sued to restrain the new board from acting. Court sustains u«w hoard.