Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1900 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. \y" Hiding Place of Gold Revealed in a Dream—Pickle Crop of the StateYoung Millionaire Chase Disappears —Train Wrecked and Burned. David Sehwarze of Galena, a wealthy miller, has just found $l5O in gold as the result of a dream. Tlie money was hidden by Mr. Sehwarze during the Civil War, in anticipation of the raid of Gen. John Morgan. After Morgan had passed Sehwarze looked in vain for the money, and concluded that some one had stolen it. He moved to Galena years later. A few nights ago he had a dream, in which he located the spot where the money was hidden, and, going there, found it intact; Indiana Pickle Crop Booms. The pickle crop of Indiana, though a comparatively new one, is rapidly increasing from year to year, and the deliveries to the salting houses established by a big Pittsburg concern are the largest this year since the firm began buyingthe vegetables from Indiana growers. There are several establishments which are Operating in northern Indiana, but the Pittsburg house is the largest, with its thirty salting houses scattered over the country. Searching for Young Chase. Detective William J. Sutherland of the Mooney A Boland agency of Chicago has reported to the police the mysterious disappearance in Paris of Moses Fowler Chase of Indiana. Chase is a millionaire and had been placed in a private asylum by bis aunt, Mrs. Duhine of Cincinnati, lie was held in restraint because of a dispute over bis sanity and the ease has already gone into the courts of America. Train Wrecked and Burned. An accident occurred on the Evansville and Tern Houte Railroad seven miles south of Vincennes, in which three men Were badly hurt, one fatally, and five are missing. A freight train ran into a eow and the engine was ditched ami eighteen cars, four having oil tanks, were piled on it and burned. Eyesight of Four Destroyed. During a session of a class in chemistry in Shelbyville in which chemicals were used an explosion occurred, destroying the eyesight of Teacher John Jacklin, Roy Lee, Frank George Billingsley. Jacklin carelessly held a lighted lamp near the pipe through which he was passing the chemicals. Within Our Borders. Tomato pack in northern Indiana is unusually large. Jesse Rhoads. 78, Shelbyville, ;i wealthy farmer, is dead. John Bennett's residence, Valley Ridge, was robbed of $957. Fire Of supposed incendiary origin at Howell caused damage aggregating $50,000. A wolf escaped from a Fort Wayne zoological garden and killed many sheep. Farmers killed it. Fire did $4.00(1 damage in the carpet • department of the Golden Rule dry goods store. Ixigansport. Independent window glass manufacturers have signed a scale of 5 per cent in advance of that signed by the trust. Muncie window glass flatteners will receive $lO weekly benefits from their union, pending a settlement with the trust. Amos Coffman, a Dublin farmer aged 67, while working in a cornfield, was thrown from his wagon. His nock was broken. Joseph Brown. 24. Panhandle switchman, killed at Logansport by being thrown under the wheels of an engine that jumped the track. Hobart dedicated its new GermanbLutheran Church with all-day sernees. Rev. E. 11. Scheip of Peru and Prof. H. Dan of Hammond conducted the dedicatory services. The building cost SB,OOO. Over 2.000 persons were present from surrounding towns. The Kankakee land owners will combine in sending an agent to South Africa and Holland to encourage the settlement of Boer colonies in the Kankakee valley in La Porte. Lake. Porter and Stark counties. Tlie Kankakee lands are adapted to the raising of cattle and of recent years immense crops of corn have been produced. The Kankakee valley promoters took the initial steps to encourage colonization during the last stages of the Boer war. A bill is to be introduced in the Legislature this winter creating the office of State tire marshal. Auditor of State Hart is behind tlie proposition. The duties of the officer would be to investigate the cause of tins and fix the responsibility. It is believed he would be able to discover danger from spontaneous combustion inflarge manufacturing concerns in season to save heavy losses, thus saving the insurance companies large sums and thereby aid in reducing rates. The experiment has been successful in several States. Wesley Hummer, a well-known resident of Greene township, was arrested in Elkhart on a charge of passing counterfeit money. He had nine $lO gold pieces, eighteen $5 coins and three $1 silver pieces, all spurious. $13.25 in good money and a die for making the counterfeit. His plan was to make a small purchase, tender one of the gold pieces and receive good money in change. The gold counterfeits were poorly executed, consisting of stamped white metal, bronzed with a powder that rubbed off on the paper in whicji they were wrapped. Hummer confessed, telling the officers that no one else was directly implicated. He said he bought the spurious money from a man who mot him regularly at a point between South Bend and Plymouth. Joseph Poker. 27. was killed by a falling rock in a coal mitre nt Shelburn. /• Pittsburg capitalist* paid SBS,(MX) for the oil holdings of Alford A <Hl‘iild, around Van Buren. Benjamin Steele's family. Elwood. «a« poisoned by drinking tea. Narrow es•a’pe from death. j Night Watchman Brier Quirk. Gowan, •xchnnged shots with a burglar, but .either was struck. Edward Doran. Mir), g. t U:ly. chief ngineer and siq erinten ' < ' • on t ruelion of the State prion. ts uead. ;yy y: ■■