Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1901 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Drainage Dltcli la S cured—A Woman Arrested for Poisoning—Death of \V. L. Dunlap—Dentist’s Oflice ( Looted Grain Elevator Destroyed by Fire. Judge Ileeman of the Starke Circuit Court has rendered a decision in the celebrated Place ditch case, over which there has been a fight for four years, lu making a decision the judge designated the route of the ditch and IV, H. 11. Coffin of St. Joseph County was appointed construction commissioner under a bond of $30,000. When completed tho ditch will extend from the crossing of. the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad over the Kankakee river west of Wnlkerton and. a point two miles south of where the , Pennsylvania Railroad crosses the same" river. This ditch and the ditch constructed three years ago from South Bend to Mud lake with their laterals will practically complete the system of drainage of the Kankakee' liver for about thirty-five miles from its’source. It will reclaim thousands of acres of geo I land. .*■' Kx-romm in ,er i titilnp Da ’. William 1,. Dunlap, 51, died at Franklin. of pneumonia. Mr. Dunlap served three years in the Seventh Indiana voluti-

toors in the Civil War. In IKS!) he was elected department commander of Indiana G. A. It., at Terre Haute. He was a delegate to the Republican national convention that nominated Harrison, an 1 served as United States

marshal during his administration. Krr I'oisoninir Her Family. Mrs. Chris Eistein was arrested at Evansville on the charge of poisoning her husband and eight children. The members of the family wore taken ill after eating bread made from flour receives 1 a few hours before. The 12-year-old child died the same day and the other children hovered between life and death for some time. Mrs. Eislein was not taken sick and the coroner secured evidence which pointed to her guilt. An hour before her 12-year-old son died she whipped hing Mrs. Eislein is believed to be Insane.- : 1 — __ Former Engineer Becomes Insane. George Mossholdor, aged 51, who was at one time one of the best known engineers on the Lake Shore Railroad, was adjudged insane in Lnporte. Mossholdor is reputed to lie worth SIO,OOO. hut has lived as a miser. Grief at the loss of ills position and domestic difficulties are believed to have brought on his'mental affliction. Grain Elevator Burned. The Churchill-White grain elevator in South Bend, one of a series along the Three l's Railway, took tire and was totally destroyed with contents. It was a modern elevator, of 500,000 bushels capacity. and was about to be doubled in size. About 2'M) carloads of grain were burned. The loss is SIOO,OOO. Use Torch to Hide Robbery. Burglars entered the dental office of Dr. J. D. Fillinger, an Evansville dentist, blew open and robbed the safe tfnd started a lire which destroyed the building. The safe contained a large amount of money. The building was valued at $4,000. State News in Brict, St. Pan! stone quarries will operate in full this summer. Ball Bros.' fruit jar factory, Muncie, partially burned. T. A. Mott re-elected superintendent of Richmond schools. Union Traction Company, Marion, will extend its line to Converse. Mrs. A. J. Cave, wife of West Baden saloonkeeper, “smashed” his saloon. The child of Lafayette Sams, aged 4, burned to death near Eaton, while playing about a bonfire. St. Andrew's Catholic Church at Richmond will have two art windows, “The Last Supper” and the “Annunciation." Jerry Voting, Huntington, whom Mrs. Laura Caseldine sued for $5,000 for breach of promise, won. Both married twice. Two children of Lafayette Sams, a farmer near Hartford City, were hurtle 1 to death by their clothing igniting from a tire in an. open grate. Devonian Oil Company sold 1,000 acres in Monroe County to an Eastern syndicate for $300,000. lias forty-two wells which producv 425 barrels. Sanitary Officer Martin Hyland, Terre Haute, is a smallpox patient in the pest house. Was never vaccinated and caught it from a negro, it is thought. A mammoth gas pumping station will be erected by the Minnie Pulp Company at a cost of $125,000. !t will supply tbo company’s inilis mi l private corporations. Charles Rogers, who shot and killed his father-in-law. Milbuni lluty, and seriously wounded his wife, Angeliue Rogers, ou March 10, was given a life sentence by a jury at Terre Haute. A 10-year-old son of Samuel Ward, residing near Larwill, was found dead iu a hay mow with a rope about his ueek, indicating suicide. The lad fifteen minutes previously hud obtained permission to play in the burn. His parents claim death was the result of an accident. Lewis F. Shank, 35. Goshen, a mail clerk ou Lake Shore between Chicago aud Cleveland, is missing. Forged the name of his brother-in-law, David Botcheii, Goshen, to notes aggregating $22,000,. it is said. Creditors all over the county. The Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern Railroad pumping station at Shoals, was destroyed by tire. The fire was the work of incendiWries. J. F. Brown, vice-president of Earlhiuu College nt Richmond, has resigned. It. L. Kelly of Pennsylvania College at Oskaloosa. lowu, will succeed him. “Jig" Riley nnd James Johnson, members of a gang of Lake Shore car robber*, were arrested at Durham after a running fight with railroad detectives. Johnson was seriously shot. The two men wer* caught in the net of looting cars. They are both ex-convicts.

W. L. DUNLAP.