Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1900 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTB OF THU PAST WEEK. State Sue. Bis Four Road—Report on Births in the State—Mother and Boa Found Dead—Funeral Adjourned by a Fire. The State of Indiana has entered suit in the Supreme! Court against the Big Four Railroad Company for $"227,700 for alleged violations of the State law requiring railway companies to post bulletins announcing the arrival and departure of trains. The case comes from Fountain County, and the company is asked to pay the sum named for nob TJumßalmug a” bulletin boariTiu the station at Veedersburg. The law provides that a railway that violates the requirements of the act shall pay the sum of $25 for every offense. The Big Four runs several passenger trains through Veedersburg every day, and Mile time named ini the complaint covers three years. Tell, of Birth, in the State. The State board of vital statistics re* ports that for the year ended Oct. 1, 40,000 children were born in the State, of whom 20,845 were white male children, 10,010 were white female children, 7579 were black male children and 350 black female children. Of the total f>2.2 per eent were male nd 47.8 per cent were female children. In 914 cases more than one child was born; there were four triplets, in Steuben, Noble and Vnnderburg counties. The deaths for the year numbered 34,999. Kscapina Gas Kills Two, Elizabeth and John Gunn, mother and son, nged 86 nnd 52 respectively, were found dead nt their home in Indianapolis by William Gunn, a son and brother, who resides in another part of the city. The house was broken open and found to be filled with natural gas, which was escaping from the kitchen stove. They had been asphyxiated after retiring by the gas diminishing till the flame went one and then coming on strong in the night. Fire Breaks Up a Funeral. While the funeral services of Mrs. Sarah Graves were being conducted at the Methodist Chureli ut Decker the sanctuary caught tire and a panic ensued. The lira started in the, basement and burned through tlie floor before discovered. Many persons escaped through the windows and the coffin was carried out of the church. Several women fainted. The church was badly damaged by the fire. Wife Murderer Is Caught. Ferry Barnard, who shot and instantly killed his former wife, Mrs. Jennie Barnard, at Flora, on June 17 last and afterward escaped, after being pursued for several days by a posse of citizens and a pack of bloodhounds, was captured in South Dakota and brought back by Sheriff Joseph A. Bridge Friday. The prisoner was placed in the White County jail for safe keeping. Chicago and Toledo Railroad. Michigan and Indiana capitalists have incorporated a company to be known aa the Chicago and Toledo Railway Company for the building of a road from the western border oA Indiana, through the counties of Newton, Jasper, Pulaski, Fulton, Kosciusko. Whitley and Noble, with Chicago as the western and Toledo the eastern terminal points of the road.

Within Our Border*. Hurrie glass factory, Hartford City* lias begun operations. Seeding time was never so long in this State as it was this year. William Day, living near Fovtville, wa* killed by a Big Four train. * The sehooij of I'tnjar have been closed of an gutbreak of diphtheria. David -tl'mfr.. died from, tnfffs and suffocation. His bed caught tire. , j R. K. Mann. 81. prominent citizen of Elkhart, is dead. Was postmaster under Lincoln. "** M rs. Mary E. Edie has been appointed postmaster at Casuovia, vice Samuel N. Edie, dead. Carsonville now has more feet of cement walk than any town of its size north of Port Huron. While feeding stock. Ktmis Copple of jJJlflbyville was attacked by a vicious boat - and disemboweled. -'Juny farmers In Cass County have* their corn still unhusked, notwithstanding the fine weather of the fall months. Several deaths having occurred from an epidemic of scarlet fever in'Vicksburg the public schools there have been closed. J. C. Ayers, n Chicago traveling man, was found dead in the Arnold House at Richmond. He was asphyxiated by gas. A golden eagle, measuring 7 feet 4 inches from tip to tip, was caught in a trap set for rabbits in Prairie Creek township. Since May 1 County Treasurer Streeter lias issued eighty-six liquor licenses to citizens of St. ClaTr County. Nearly sixty of the dealers reside in Port Huron. The department store of A. Weslow at Anderson was damaged $25,000 by fire. The basement stock was burned out ami the damage from smoke and water on the three upper floors was heavy. The City Council of Oarsonvilie is about to give a ten-year franchise to ■ gas company that will erect twenty eighty-candle power lights nt S4OO per year, the city having the privilege of buying the plant, which they expect to do in a very short time. ” George F. Taylor, a farm hand who pleaded guilty to setting fire to the house of Perry Walcott, in Alpine township, for whom he worked, for the purpose ot robbery, has been sentenced to the Marquette prison for twenty years in the Circuit Court. He hail served a term at Marquette before for burglary. Nora Belt, the Lebanon girl who disappeared, was found with her aunt. Hickory nuts are scarce this season. Many trees have come down for lumber. Attorneys are trying to locate William Lowe, one of the four heirs to a $50,000 estate near Dilisboro. Luke Gregory. 77. n Howard County pioneer, is dead. He lived on a farm near Russiaville for fifty-two years. Guy Leachmnn shot anil seriously injured Leon Perkins, at Danville. It Is* said Perkins had assaulted They met again, the quarrel was renewed aad the shooting took place.