Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1901 — Among Our Neighbors. [ARTICLE]

Among Our Neighbors.

J. C. Long, aged 22, of Muncic, was killed in the wreck of a gravel train near Milton. The Kiwood carpenters' strike, which lasted six weeks, is over, the men getting their demands. The pussnge of an automobile through Princoton nearly caused >an entire suspension of business recently. Nelson Tovenette, a wealthy peppermint grower, who lives near Osceolu, was struck by n train and instantly killed. Ed u railroad man. committed suicide at Muncle by shooting himself through the bead because hi* wife bad left him. Mr*. Harriet Goodwin, of Greensburg, was overcome by heat while cro*sing a barbed wire fence. As she fell her hair was entangled in the barbs of the fence and held her until she succumbed. , Argelina McCaria, 11 years old, who was injured in the Wabash Railway wreck at Peru, a few deys ago and whose mother and sister were killed at the time, died, making the total deaths fifteen. Catherine Rich, Terre Haute, who was released from the asylum some time ngo. was made insane again by the heut and tried to kill her 80-ycai-old mother. She beat the old lady terribly. In Mancie, Walter Driscoll waa Indicted for murder In the flrat degree at • special session of the grand jury, and the boy was soon afterward brought into the Circuit Court. He pleaded not guilty of murdering Minnie McCoy. Reports from all parts of Indiana hdvo placed the estimated wheat crop this year at 80,000,000 bushels. Some sections have been somewhat damaged by fly, but in others, where the fly has hitherto prevailed, It has almost entirely disappear* ed. While the acreage la short, the quality and yield have been good. While oiling the machinery in a furniture factory at Evansville, William Meyer, 27 years old, was caught in the machinery, whirled around a revolving pulley and mangled. One arm was torn off apd his back broken. He died an hour Inter. Alice, the 6-year-old daughter of Bdward Cothrell, of Wallen, disappeared from home several days ago, and parties have bees seeeriog the woods hi aeareh of her. The other afternoon her hndy was found in «-«istern on the .premises of <f neighbor. It Is not known whether death was accidental or not.