Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1900 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD, Expect to Make Money in Ginseng Cul-ture-Country Shows Low Death Rate —Hermit's Will Is Found—Boxcar Murderer Must Hang. A company of Muncie men will soon embark in au entirely new business —that of raising ginseng for the market. The roots of this particular plant are in great demand for medicinal and other purposes, and the inembeta of the Muncie company propose to go we3t and cultivate the plants. They report that they have been offered a big tract of government land \>r the purpose and that the leading drug markets have amazed them by the prices offered for the roots. This will be the first organization of the kind in the State and the venture promises to be unusually profitable. Death Rate High in Towns. Secretary Hurty of the State Board of Health has prepared his annual report, which shows that the average death rate in Indiana for the year ended Sept. 30, 1900, was 14.09 per 1,000. The total number of deaths iu the State in the twelve months was 35,458. The population of the cities and towns of the State is 847,000 and the deaths in this class were 12,730, or 15.03 per 1,000. In the country districts the population is 1,069,160 and the number of deaths 22,722, the death rate being 13.5 per 1,000. Old Will Is Discovered. A will made by Judge Horace P. Biddle, author and jurist as well as hermit, in 1882, has just beeu found by his favorite niece and heir, Eva Peters Reynolds. At the time of his death, which was about a year ago, Mr. Biddle livedoneu island in the heart of Legansport. Since that time all search for the document has been in vain. The will does away with Logansport’s chances of getting the 9,000 volume library and the remaining property will be contested for iu the courts. Murderer Sentenced to Hang. In Terre Haute, on his plea of guilty, William Ra leliffe was sentenced to be hanged IVo. 15, 1901, for the murder of James Hogue in a box car of the Big Four road near that city. Daly, ltadcliffe’s accomplice, was sentenced to forty years in the penitentiary. Radeliffe is in a dying condition. ' Boy Shot hy His Father. Amos Moore, a Martinsville carpenter, went hunting. His 7-year-old boy went out with him, aiid stopped lb the weeds to tie his shoe. Just then a rabbit jumped up, and Moore fired, not seeing his son in range. The entire charge took effect in the boy’s arm and legs, one shot plowing the skull.

Child Drinks Fatal Potion. John Fear, the 5-year-old son'of Lewis Fear of Marion, drank a quantity of concentrated lye. thinking it was water. The mother had placed the cup on a table and stepped out. When she returned the child was in the throes of death. State News in Brief. Brazil street car strike at an end. Whooping cough' prevalent at Snyder. Big oil well struck in Madison County. The l>eet sugar industry did not prove a success in White County. Martinsville .traj have another big brick factory, employing 100 men. Terre Haute car works will begin building 500 coal cars for tko.C. & E. I. Railroad. Peru will get its water supply from a system of wells instead of the Wabash river. Standard Oil Company leased 2,200 acres of oil land in Adams and Wells counties. Two-year-old sou of James A. Mitchell. Noblesville, died from eating strychnine tablets. Mrs. Hamilton Miles, aged 74 years, who resided five miles southwest,of Hartford City, took strychnine because her husband contemplated moving to town. She died. John Koon, aged <l9 years, of Evansville, whit ewalking in his sleep fell from a second-story window and his neck was broken. Koon was worth $50,000 and was an extensive land owner. After being closed down eight months the South rolling mill iu Terre Haute of the Republic Iron and Steel Company has resumed operation# iu all departments. The mill gives employment to 300 men.

At Lakeville Otto Robertson, a prominent St. Joseph County farmer, aged 30, tried to board a Yundalia freight train to ride to his home, slipped and fell so that his body was literally out to pieces by the car wheels.. The Laruehe window glass factory, a 10 per cent co-operative concern at Matthews, was destroyed by fire. The owners are mostly Hartford City workers. The loss is estimated at $25,000, . partially covered by insurance. The two constitutional amendments which were voted on a* the reeeut general election in this State, have failed to carry, according to an official declaration of Gov. Mount. The Imflfina constitution provides that the amendments shall have received a majority of the votes of the electors of the State. Owing to Ignorance and carelessness ou the part of many voters they did not receive such a majority. The Indiana Legislature, which assembles Jan. 10, will be called ou by Gov. Mount to emnt un anti-trust law. The Governor says that in his message to the General Assembly he would recommend the passage of a hill limiting the arbitrary power of combinations in trade which affect trade and labor. Furnace rooms of the Mncßeth lamp flue factory, Elvyood, were flooded by the •topping up of n big ditch. Work had to stop until the water was pumped out. Mrs. Margaret Johnson, near Chesterton, started into a pasture to milk a Jersey cow, when she was attacked by the animal, receiving injuries which proved fatal. Fire at the illuminating gas plant of the Richmond Light, Heat and Power Company caused SIO,OOO damage to machinery and rendered the plant useless temporarily. An expioxiou caused/ the fire