Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1901 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Ruling; iu Wfiltecap Case—Evansville Woman Restored to Life with BaltTwo Families Foisoned with Arsenic in Well Water. A ruling was made by Judge Baker of the United States Court on the motion to strike out certain parts of the complaint of David W. .leanings, who has brought suit against Eli W. Menaugh and twenty-five other residents of Salem for s‘Ji)o,<)Oo damages. Judge Baker overruled the motion ns it applied to the more important points of the case. The court refused to sustain the motion to strike out the part relating to /an alleged attempt of the citizens to whitecap Jennings. Judge Baker said if this charge were true Jennings would be clearly entitled to substantial damages.

I’rou ‘ht to Life with Balt. At Evansville Sarah Alien, 40 years old, was brought back to life by the injection into her arm of a half-pint of salt solution. The woman was taken to it local hospital for an - operation, after which the physicians discovered thnt her heart had ceased to beat, and from all appearances she was dead. Strong stimulants were administered in vain, and fivo doctors pronounced her dead. As a last resort a vein in the right arm was opened and tlie salt solution injected. In three seconds the patient arose on the operating table and asked for something to eat. Her chances of recovery are said to lie good.

Mail Clerks to F'oriu Colony. About twenty railway mail service clerks, with headquarters in Indianapolis. have decided on a unique colonization scheme on a twenty-acre tract of land Tfi the city suburbs. Streets and drives are to be laid out and neat houses built, and a direct telephone wire will be run to the office of Chief Clerk Cl. E. Votaw in the city. As 200 clerks report at Indianapolis, sbveral of them are off every day, and, in providing substitutes, there lias been much inconvenience to the men. When the colony is established all the chief clerks will have to do will be to telephone to it and a clerk can be obtained. Ar.eniii Found in Weif. The county coroner is investigating what seems to be a mysterious poisuuing ease. The 12-year-oid eh+bUof Chris Eislin, living in Knight township, died. The doctor who was called at the last moment said death had resulted from poisoning. Arsenic was found in its stomach. Tito other afternoon the family of Eislin, seven iu number, and the family of John Curry, five in number, were taken suddenly ill. They drank water from the same well and an examination of tic* water showed arsenic. Vandals Ruin a Monument, Vandals did serious damage to the Thomas A. Hendricks monument in the State House grounds in Iu liauapolis. One of the large granite ornaments, weighing about 100 pounds and surmounted by a heavy piece of bronze, was broken from its base and thrown to the ground, a bronze shield, crossed with a piece of bronze, representing a laurel leaf, was forced from its place high up on the monument and carried away, and tlie scales which the figure of justice held in her hand were stolen.