Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1901 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. OH Ogtput of tbe State—Attacks Knem|(a with Hatchet—Accident on CloYerleaf Railroad—Vicious Attack in Penitentiary—Other Newsy Items. The report of the oil operations of the Indiana field for February shows tlieie were 174 wells completed in the month of February, of which twenty-eight were dry holes. The daily output was 2,507 barrels. In new work there are 144 wells drilling and 'sixty rigs up. Compared with January, this is an increase of seven in completed wells, 237 barrels in new production, and four in wells drilling. It is a decrease in dry holes of eight, rigs up seven, and a net decrease of new work of three. During the month thirtysix wells were abandoned, and the average output per well per day during the month w»» seventeen and one-hnlf barrels. The only feature iu the oil operations in Indiana in the month has been the increase in the price of oil, which has stimulated interest in drilling. Cuts Foes with Hatchet. Richard ~Bfhrr of Foneto made a murderous assault upon William and Ut Uobclsky, rig bitilders, on the oil field near Mount Zion. There had been a general fight between Starr, David Fetters and the Itobelskys in a saloon at. Foneto and the brothers were victorious. They at once started for Mount Zion, but Starr and Fetters pursued and overtook them. Starr struck Ut in the back of the neck with a hatchet, severing the large muscles. William came fo~ the rescue, but Starr struck him on the side of the head, inflicting a gash from tiy£ corner of the eye to the top of the ear. Starr is still at large. Freight Trains COTtTcTe. Foggy weather and a slippery track caused a rear-end freight collision on the Clover Leaf Railroad at Michacla. Engine 55, pulling the second section of No. 40, was smashed into a pile of scrap iron and the caboose and five refrigerutor cars of the first N'o. 40 were completely demolished. Engineer Rufus Jaufhan of engine 55 was probably fatally scalded and George B. Harper, fireman of the same engine, sustained bruises and possibly internal injuries. The track was blocked for several hours. .. Ftabbsd His Victim at Every Jump. Frank Freeman of Vigo Gount.v, serving a term in the Jeffersonville reformatory for burglary, ffttally attacked John Moore, a fellow-inmate, with a knife. Freeman ran his victim across the yard, stabbing him at every jump, and nfter Moore fell exhausted Freeman continued to cut him until knocked unconscious with a heavy cane by a keeper. Moore was literally cut to pieces. Bttrled Linder Fallen Wall. John Gurran was killed and three others probably fatally injured by the falling of a wall of the pottery works of I). C. Cox, which were burned at Gas City. The injured nre Firemen A 1 Itolhiughonse and John Elsroth, and Mr. Cox, owner of the factory. It is possible that other men are buried in the debris. The loss is $15,000; insurance small. State News in Uriel. Crawfordsville City Council granted a 50-year franchise for a street car line in that city. At Kokomo Charles Bellew. aged 12 years, was killed by a live trolley wire while playing on top of a bridge. Ad incendiary fire destroyed the barn of Elina Holmes, near Elliott’s Mills. Three horses, two cows, a calf and 1,000 bushels of corn were burned. Gus Koorner. a leading contractor of southern Indiana, who built some of the World’s Fair buildings at Chicago, committed suicide by shooting himself at Evansville. Nelson Brown, 01, of Rtiahville, has been married 35 years, having had throe wives. He is the father of twenty-three children, the last being born the other day. Thirteen are living. He has had eighteen sons. At Kokomo Thomas Horn is an applicant for divorce front Anna Horn on the ground that she spends all her time fishing, leaving him to attend to the household duties, including the preparation of his own meals. Bra k entail Chapel, a Methodist Church four tidies east of Vincennes, was burned to the ground. It is believed to have been set on fire. Disputes among the members of the congregation is assigned as the cause. Elsie Mitchell, a young woman from Pennsylvania, was found on the end of a bridge at Rochester, nearly frozen. Site had a Bible and a bundle beside her and told the officers she was on her way to Chicago Heights to live with her grandmother. A singular netident in Brown County resulted in the iustaut death of Hugh Stevens, aged 00. He was hauling a heavy load of cross ties and iu going down a steep hill his wagon turned over, throwing its contents on hint, crushing him to death itistuntly. While digging on the banks of the Ohio river, near Stiver Creek, Dr. Oppelt, a scientist of New Albany,* found the fossil remains of rii immense fish that had existed in the prehistoric era. The head was nearly perfect, the teeth showing plainly. It was probably fifty feet long. Iu La Porte the grand jury reported no Indictment uguitist Joseph W. Brill of Cleveland, Ohio, for the attempted murder of Ellsworth E. Weir, nnd the prisoner wn* released. He wns rearrested charged with naaault mid buttery with intent to commit a felony and later gnve u $25,000 hail Itotid. Three persons were killed nnd several Injured by a Waltash westbound passenger train running into a sleigh filled with people at Goshen. Wjlliatn H. Kelly nnd Mrs. Annie Evans were married in Evnnsville, while they stood in a buggy in the center of the street, tfia thermometer registering 14 above tero. Mrs. Cal Hiehhart, aged 23, committed suicide at Anderson by taking poison. Her husband is a piano dealer, and because he employed two men instead of one they quarreled. This led to the suicide.