Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1900 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. i , Killed end Dragged in Mud—Eccentric Men Die Unknown tolNeighbors - Contract Let for Long Electric Lines-W. C. T. U. Will Petition. Irvin Dye was murdered at Marion, the body being found in the rear of Mauehun & Son’s store, where it had beim placed by his slayers after the body through the mud from the rear of the Black Prince saloon. The officers learned that Dye and Albert Gallon were in company with two young women at Gallon’s home early in the evening, and that they were joined by Thomas Hawkins, and the party walked down the street to the central part of the city. Dye, Hawkins and Gabon were seen later in the Black Prince saloon. The officers are working on the theory that the murder resulted from jealousy over a love affair. Chicago Men to Buit 1 Road. The Central Traction Company lias awarded the contract for the construction of the electric line between Indianapolis and Kokomo. The road passes through Xoblesville and Tipton aud will .furnish rapid transit service to such other small towns en route as Broad Ripple, Westfield, Cicero, Arcadia and Atlanta, paralleling the Lake Erie and Western part of the way. At Tipton a branch is proposed cast to Elwood, while the main line will continue directly north to Kokomo. The entire length of line as final-' ly surveyed and agreed upon is sixty-tire miles. The construction work was let to a Chicago firm and it is understood the consideration is between $1,000,000 and $1,500,000. Two Men Found Poisoned. The bodies of the two erratic Holland brothers of Peru, Jerry and Pat, aged 62 and 56 respectively, were found in their house, the men evidently having been dead from eight to ten days. Pat was found upstairs face upward and Jerry downstairs in a position almost similar, near tlie kitchen stove, where natural gas was brightly burning. Food for supper lay untouched on the table. Hurried examinations by physicians show no marks of violence, but the belief is general that the men had been drugged while drinking and had died in a few minutes after reaching home. No reason can he assigned for suicide, as both were nott-d for jollity of natjire. W. C. T. U. Wants Pure Goods. The organizations of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union in this State will present, a memorial, to the national convention to be held in Washington, I). C„ to create a new department to enforce and maintain the purity of liquors and that Congress be petitioned to pass a law that only pure whiskies be sold at saloons instead of adulterated liquor. Colored Student ns University Orator. Willis O. Tyler, colored, won the primary oratorical contest of Indiana University, and will represent the university in tite State oratorical contest to be held at Indianapolis. Hi* subject was “The Middle West.” State News in Brief. Forest tires near New Albany. Six barns already burned. Goldsmith postoffice was robbed of S3OO in cash and stamps whih* the postmistress was filling a lamp. August 11. Schrooder, Evansville, is dead as tlie result of an acetylene gas explosion. He was experimenting. Fern man who found a putye containing s2iHi and valuable papers would not accept a SSO reward and requested that Lis name be not mentioned. The Pendleton Gazette says a Hancock County man bet his wife agaiust a farm, and lost. The woman objected, and the man who won wants the bet declared off, but the other fellow insists on paying. Little May McPherson, daughter of Mr and Mrs. Samuel McPherson. Mancie, is dead from diphtheria. She is the last of four children who have yielded to the malady in six weeks. The parents are almost crazed. An unknown mail attempted to assassinate Dr. IVter. Drayer, a prominent 1 citizen of Hartford City. Dr. Drayer was ' passing through an alley when a man fired two shots at him at elose range, hut failed to wound him. Jerome D. Knapp, a prominent real estate dealer of Indianapolis, committed suicide at his home by taking strychnine. Mr. Knapp was an active church worker, l’t is supposed liis mind became affected through religious excitement. Miss Grace Hunt and Mrs. I.illion Riekrich have staked off claims oti the Lynville gold field recently discovered iu Warrick County and are preparing to work tlie same. Hundreds of claims' are Indug staked off and people are flocking to the place. Disappointed in lore, Bennett Selwood left liis home iu Shelby in 1859. He learned n few days ago through a newspaper item that liis sister had died, and he was tlie sole heir to her valuable property. He lias returned and claimed the property. Mrs. Burton Wiseucr, near Union City, had apparently recovered front diphtheria. She told her husband he need sit up with her no longer. Just us she spoke, she threw up her arms and exclaimed, “Qh, Burt, I ant dying." Before he reached her she expired. Addison Fields and Clara Dakc, who were married recently at Shelbyville without the consent of her grandfather, Benjamin Duke, tlie girl afterward being locked in the Dakc home and tier husband driven front the premises, have been forgiven by the grandparent, i\ ho presented the young folks with a check * for 1*2,500. Tlie charge against Oscar Speer for nllegisl complicity in the murder of Roltert Weaver, at New l’oiut, last July, has been dismissed. Brooker Brothers of North Manchester, dealers in general merchandise, have made an assignment to A. Tiliitun. The liabilities are between $6,000 and $7,000 aud the assets $12,000. A man found on the streets of IVnnville, raving like mad, was sent to the county infirmary. In it letter found hi his valise he said the doctors have an ingenious and invisible way of inserting •lectrlc tubes into the pores of his body.