Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1901 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Miner Kills Hia Bosom Frleud—First Beet Bngar Factory for Kankakee Valley—Gift for Btate University— Crashed on Brick Pile. * Patrick Gateris, 36, shot and instantly kilted John Uriel, his bosom friend, on the national road, west of Brazil. They had beeu roommates for months, and worked iti the same room in the Collins Coal Company’s mine. They loved the same woman and quarreled. Gateris shot Uriel through the head. Gateris at once surrendered. He refuses to talk, but is greatly depressed. Both he and Uriel came a year ago from Ohio. Gives to Indiana Collejcc. Mrs. Joseph Swain, wife of the presilent of the State University at Bloomington, has announced her purpose of giving SIO,OOO to a fund for a $30,000 building to be built at the university for the exclusive use of women. This building is to contain a gymnasium, swimming pool, bath, rest rooms and dining rooms. Centers are to be organized in different parts of the State among the alumni to raise further funds. ... Beet Bugnr Factors’. The Central Sugar Company, the first beet sugar factory in Indiana, will be built at Shelby. The plant will be in operation this season. The construction contract lias been awarded to the Dye: company of Cleveland, Ohio. The Central company lias been incorporated with $2,000,(MX) capital. Among the stockholders are YY*. It. Shelby of Grand ltupids, Mich.; G. YY*. Cass of Chicago, T. P. Shouts and several New Y’ork men. Fatal Fnll from a Roof. M. If. Jackson, hardware merchant of Kokomo, and Milton Marta fell thirty feet from a roof on to a brick pile. Jackson’s skull wns crushed and 'the injuries are fatal. Martz was injured internally. They were spouting a burn when the - scaffold broke. , Keitinir Brothers Acquitted. Charles and Joseph Keating, brothers, who were jointly indicted for the murder of their brother-in-law, Alien Robinson, last August, were acquitted at Muncie. Physieiaus testified the wounds received by Robinson in a tight with the Keatings were insufficient to cause death. State News in Brief. YY'illiam Griffin, ST. died at Spieeland. Archibald B. McKee, 92. died near Y'lneennes. Brown County reports three large panthers. Price, of window glass will go still higher. • Chas. S. Price. Nashville, was a grandfather at 34. i Nohlesvitle ministers will fight dancing and card playing. An Anderson paper calls a $3,000 residence a "mansion.” Uuion City body works and the Moffat ft Evans buttertuli factory burned. I Joseph It. Stewart, a pioneer furniture manufacturer of Shelbyville. is dead. Mr. and Mrs. John Roberts. Centerville. have been married sixty-eight years. Absalom Burnett. Peru, has a yellow hen. 1$ months old, that had laid 1”8 eggs. YY'illiam <5. Ayers, Frankfort, wealthy carriage manufacturer, became violently insane. Indiana spiritualists are planning an eight weeks' meeting at Chesterfield next summer. Terre Haute says the Harriman-Van-derbilt syndicate has purchased the C. A E. I. Railroad. | At Anderson Jacob lloppes caused the arrest of his son. Granville Hoppes, on a charge of forgery. All the schools at New Castle have been closed because of an epidemic ot measles in the town. James Green was arrested at Marion on the charge of boring gas mixers, and fined $lO and costs. Jefferson Gates, farmer, near Edinburgh. fell from a tree, while he was I after a coon, and may die. Dr. Charles B. Ross. Tell City, an army surgeon, was killed in the Philippines. He was shot front niubush. j Jacob H. Turner of Muncie died at Hot Springs. Ark., of Bright's disease. He wus an usher at the YY'hite House. Coroner Mershon of Brazil rendered a verdict that Patrick Gatins killed John Uriel in self-defense. Gatins will be released. Starke County will build thirty tulles of gravel roads under the 20-year road law. An engineer and viewers have been appointed. J. Lowcnsteiu & Co. of YY'aterloo, recently failed, have filed a petition in bankruptcy. The liabilities are $22,000, assets SII,OOO. Mrs. Oscar Nool, the girl wife of a wellknown farmer residing at Leesburg, has mysteriously disappeared. Foul play or kidnaping is suspected. Petition for a ditch front Greene ConnI ty through Y'igo township, which would ! have cost $28,000, was turned down by the Knox County commissioners. .Mrs. John Jordan, whose homo was three miles north of Drestutf. is dead, of paralysis. Site weighed oitr>oundß aud was the mother of thirteen children. There was a big fox drive in Reddiug township, several hundred persons taking part. Everybody had a rattling good time, hut caught no foxes. Some say a half dozen foxes were sighted, but others contend the same fox was counted more than once. ) I,ee Y'irgil, 26, Evansville, prominent in society, killed himself. He wo* worried over the death of his mother. The Buuk of Ellettsville was closed upon attachment by D. L. YY’oodnll, a depositor. About $3,000 is due to stnnll depositors. The hank is owned by Edmond Palmer, who says all claims will be paid in full. Frank.F. Loomis, who says he is wanted at YV'arsaw, N. Y., on six indictments for forgery and that SI,OOO is offered for his capture, surrendered at Lognnsport, giving as a reason homesickness and • desire to see his mothac.