Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1901 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Pern Bank Weather# a Heavy Hun— A Remarkable Reunion of Brother* After Lone Separation—Farm Hand*’ Union—Judge Commit* Suicide. Peru was all excitement the other day over a lively run which kept up during business hours at the bank of tho Miami City Loan and Savings Association. No real cause can be ascertained for the run. but it is positive that it was nothing but the merest idle rumor. The bank has thousands of depositors in accounts ranging from a few hundred to thousands of dollars, and the deposits reaih the sum of nearly $400,000. An examination showed nearly 1 $75,000, in actual cash on hand. .This sum and the knowledge that the First National and the Citizens’ National of Peru were ready at any ‘■time to make advances, gave the managers of the institution a feeling Of security from the start. E. L. Miller, secretary, said from the very first that the association would manage the ran on its own resources to show the stability of the institution. In all $33,000 was paid out in about six hours' time, and a whole tableful of money awaited other applicants. Kach fhought the*Other Dead. A remarkable reunion has been effected between two brothers in Henry County after a separation of nearly half a century, during which time each thought the other dead. Barton and Jabez Guyer lived with their parents in North Carolina. In 1852 Barton left home to make his way in the world. He went to Texas, thence to Mexico, finally returning to Texas, where he located. He wrote his brother repeatedly, but receiving no reply to his letters, gave him up for dead. Jabez, never receiving any information from Barton, lost all trace of him and likewise mourned him as dead. Barton enlisted in the Confederate army and served until peace was declared. Jabez later on moved with his family to Henry County, Indiana. Recently a relative of the family learned through conversation with a traveling salesman of a man named Barton Guyer in Harrisburg, Texas. Correspondence developed the fact that he was the long-lost brother.

Farm Hands torn Union. The farm laborers in Knox County and of Lawrence County, lib, have organized, nnd immediately secured an advance in wages. William H. Brevoort & Son, who cultivate over 5,000 acres, were the first to feel the effect of the new organization, which is chartered as the "Farm Laborers’ Union No. 0247, Vincennes,* Ind., branch of the American Federation of Labor.” This is the first farmers union ever organized in the State. Mr. Brevoort employs about 150 men. Since the union was formed an increase has been granted the men from 90 cents to sl.lO for married men and from 75 to 95 cents per day for single men. The farmers are said to be viewing the outlook with great concern. Woman Beaten and Mnjr Die. Mrs. Mary Albertson of Michigan City, who in a divorce suit some months ago charged her husband with selling her for $2 to William Denny, for whom she has kept house since, is in a serious eoEdi tion as the result of a mysterious attack. She was found in bed on a recent morning unconscious, having been beaten with some blunt instrument. Her recovery is doubtful. Denny was arrested on suspicion, but denies knowledge of the affair. The husband also is suspected. Jnd*e B*’la'» Kn li L ;f «. Judge James H. Sellars, candidate for the Democratic nomination for Governor, killed himself in his law office at Crawfordsville by taking morphine. He left a letter saying that his life was a fai.ure and that his debts were large. His letter was full of praise for his wife. He served on the bench and in the State Leg islature with distinction. Within Onr Borders. The Standard Oil Company has turned in $543,512 for taxes iu Wells County. Chester Smith, aged 55, a prosperous farmer near Lebanon,, hanged himself iu his barn. Angelina Caria, 11, injured in the Wabash wreck at Cass station, died in Peru, making the total number of. deaths fifteen. Otto Heaney, a Swede, fell asleep in t Anderson while waiting on the platform ' for a train and his foot and leg were ground off. Thomas Groves, manager of the Grand and People's opera houses. Evansvi le, is dead. He was well known in theatrical circles. At South Bend George R. Reed, aged 22. a Western Union lineman, fell from a 40-foot pole while at work nnd broke his neck, dying almost instantly. John Rinkard, under sentence to be hanged in the Michigan City penitentiary Aug. 9, has been granted a respite until the Supreme Court convenes this fall. A kettle containing SIO,OOO in gold was dug out of the ground at Auderson by accident. It had been buried by Isaac Milburne, a miser, deceased for several months. Late in the afternoon of Jan. 20, this year, Joseph W. Brill, the millionaire Cleveland mine owner, came to LaPorte and, meeting Ellsworth E. Weir, an attorney, in the office of Dr. Dakin, shot him, alleging that the attorney and Mrs. Brill had taken a short tour without his knowledge. The other day in the Circuit Court, after almost continuous legal fighting in the courts for upward of six months, Mr. Brill pleaded, guilty to assault nnd battery and wae fined $501). The report is current that the case has coat Mr. Brill upward of SIO,OOO. A Big Four locomotive fired wheat fields belonging to Emanuel ltenaberger and William Shoup, two miles south of Goshen, and thirty acres of grain were deatroyed. Beujaniin W. Briggs and Miss Clara M. Miller, daughter of Mel Miller, well known J„ M. & 1. conductor at Madison, eloped and were married in Jeffersonville. Mrs. Edwin T. Brow, Evansville, drowued herself in Pigeon creek. About fifty suicide* have been committed in this creek. The body of Nora Kifer, murdered by Joseph Kieth, was found in It