Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1901 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Law Ha* Been Tampered With—A Bad Sequel to Matrimonial Agency Marriage—New Trolley Line Company at Richmond—Starke County Stabbing. The discovery was made the other day when the first volumes of the acts of recent legislation were distributed, that some one had cut out some important ■parts of the Wood medical law, and it is believed that the same methods were used as those which nullified the bitartrate of potassium bill, though the effect on the medical bill does not wholly vitiate the measure. When the bill was under consideration in the House Representative Minturn secured an amendment which exempted those who practice electropathy, hydropathy or massage from having to undergo an examination at the hands the State Board of Medical Registration before being allowed to practice in the state. Another amendment, which, however, succeeded in getting into the act, as it appears in the acts, exempts osteopaths from compulsory examination, providing a special permit, distinct, however, from a medical license, for graduates of regularly constituted osteopathic schools. These amendments were duly incorporated iu the bill, but the printed law does not contain them, ami an investigation has been started to learn by whom they were cut out of the bill. Husband and Money Gone. Mrs. Ida Clark, living near the village of Culver, answered the advertisement of Vernon Lyles in a Chicago matrimonial publication. Letters were exchanged for two weeks, when Lyles visited Mrs. Clark, and the engagement and marriage of the couple followed. Lyles professed great devotion for his newly found bride and the couple planned to leave Culver and go to Chicago, where Lyles represented that he was a prosperous business man. The confiding bride intrusted S7OO of her money to her husband, who is now missing.

Plan a Big Indiana Line.' The Richmond Street Railway and Interurban Railway Company has been organized in Richmond. The company recently purchased the local street railway property from the Union Trust Company of St. Louis and will build from Richmond to Cambridge City and thence to Greenfield to connect with the Indianapolis and Greenfield electric line. The capital stock is $500,000. Stabbed in Fight Over Girl. William Suit of Starke County quarreled with a man named Florence over a young woman named Belle Gates, to whom both were paying attention, and in the affray Sult Was seriously if not fatally wounded. A general riot then took place, in which Florence was stabbed six times in the heart and back. There is but little hope of his recovery. His assailant fled. Fire at Union Mills. Six store buildings, one residence, the Masonic and Odd Fellows' halls and the postoffice in the Town of Union Mills were destroyed by fire, causing a loss of $25,000. The town has a population of 500 and is without fire protection. State News in Brief. Poland has seventeen smallpox cases. Indiana fruit prospects the best for years. L'nion City farmers report large numbers of locusts. Shelby gets a $500,000 beet sugar plant. Switches are being put in. Government will send 1,000.000 fish to be placed in Shelby County streams. Stephen Banks, 29, fatally hurt by falling slate in Big Four mine near Brazil. Evansville grand jury returned ninetyeight indictments. Some big sensations. The rural free delivery service will be established at Julietta and Oakland on June 1. "While kindling fire, Mrs. Job Smith, Spencerville, was so terribly burned that she died. Esther Costello, who is employed as a 1 nurse In South Bend, is heir to a fortune of $500,000. John Bader. Williamsport, ate forty fried eggs in twenty-six minutes 11ml won $5 on a wager. At the house on Schermerhorn farm, near Attica, mysterious tappings are heard every night. Eaton fruit jar and bottle factory closed.because of accident to the continuous tank; 100 persons idle. Elizabeth J. Kemper. 77, of Muncie, fell down stalls, three months ago, ami broke her liip. She is dead. The Richmond street railway property has been sold to James Murdock of Lafayette and his associates. The two G. A. R. p >sts of Terre Haute have issued a circular protesting against making a sporting holiday of Memorial day. Muncie carpenters have agreed to 29 cents for nine hours instead of 30 cents for eight. Anderson will probably follow. Greensport dealers are shipping a carload, 12,000 dozen of eggs, each week to New York, Boston and Pittsburg, to go into cold storage. House of Mrs. Mary Fields, near Hazelton, burned. When she saw it must go she threw herself on the bed and asked to be burned, too. Henry Hill, a steel worker living at Peru, dreamed of being killed by heavy castings falling upon him. While at work the other day he was knocked down by n falling casting, and his body was burned iu a bed of hot sand. Willie Surber, aged 3, Logansport, threw a half flask of powder into the stove. The explosion threw him into the next room and burned him badly. Jonas Dipert, wealthy farmer near Hamlet, gored to death by a bull. Third victim iu that county iu two years. A widow and five children survive. W. J. Dawson, 20, a farm hnnd, had both legs cut off below the knees at Lebanon by n Big Four freight train. He was walking nlong the side of the track and the suction es the train threw him off his feet and under the wheels, He Will live.