Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1901 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. “Insanity Trust” Is (ensured— Scott County Chickens Have Gold in Their Crepe—f core het’s Fatal Fall—You fat Woman Disappears from Peru. The State Board of Charities filed a report with the Governor on the result of its investigation of the insane hospitals. The report says no sane persons are confined and have not been within the last eighteen months, "unless it be iu the case of John Ross, or Morse, or James Haywood, who probably recovered after he was found insane and before he was received at the hospital, a period of fiftythree days." The board says the blame rests on the persons who conducted the inquests and suggests that it is the duty of the officers to recover that part of the $15,000 in fees wrongfully taken from the county treasury. The report says such a conspiracy as shown by the Attorney General's report renders the members liable to severe prosecution. The board suggests that an entirely new insanity law be enacted by the next Legislature, providing that all commitments be made by a Circuit or Superior judge. Gold Found in fcott County. Gold has been discovered in Scott County. A short time ago Mrs. H. W. Brandt of Scottsburg found a nugget in the crop of a chicken. She took the nugget to an expert, who analyzed it and found it contained a large per cent of gold. Another discovery has been made in the same manner on the same farm. The people in that community have the gold fever and will begin prospecting at once. The find was made on the farm of Prosecuting Attorney S. B. Wells. Messenger Uoy'i Mishap. Harry Mills, an American district messenger boy, was thrown from his wheel at Muncie and fatally injured. He was found unconscious in a pool of blood and when he partly regained consciousness he became delirious, imagining that a footpad is pursuing him. The boy was riding down a steep hill at terrific speed. His wheel struck a gutter at the foot of the hill, breaking the forks and throwing young Mills on his head. Peru Girl May Be Dead. Miss Nora Dinsmore, aged 23 years, disappeared from her home in Peru. When last seen she was in a dry goods store. Suicide is feared. A letter was received from her dated at Toledo, Ohio, by Ernest Thomas, her friend. In it she said: "I leave for the great unknown. Good-by to you all, who have smiled on me, and get all from life you can.” Find Dead Body in Canal. Albert Patterson, aged 35, was found dead in the canal by the Indianapolis police. He lived at Manistee, Mich., and was traveling for an advertising firm. A telegram arrived at the Circle Park Hotel signed by Mrs. Patterson at Manistee asking if Patterson was still there. The suicide theory is accepted. Within Our Borders. A fine gas flow was struck six miles southeast of Morristown. Lead ore in paying quantities has been found near Oakland City. Covert Anderson, Elwood, son of Rev. U. S. Anderson, is dead from a fall from a toy wagon. Citizens of Avilla, Andrews and Cromwell will start private banks to replace those wrecked by Keys and Leach. Charles Maguire was nominated for Mayor by the Democrats of Indianapolis at the first primaries under the new law. He defeated William Moore two to one. Nearly 10,000 votes were cast. The Indiana Central Railway Company has been incorporated with a capital of $1,500,000. The company will build an electric line from Indianapolis to Peru, seventy-five miles. At Kokomo Andy and Nelson Hershberger, orphan brotlusw. aged 12 and 0 years, were thrown frsm a horse which objected to "carrying double." Nelson died from his injuries. An iy is badly hurt. Twelve sheets of plate glas’, each H’J by 274 inches, aud weighing 1,800 pounds, were cast at Kokomo for a New York building. They were without flaw or blemish, and are said to be the largest ever cast. Lightning struck the Hendricks monument in Indianapolis, tearing away a portion of the base. The bolt tore off the shoe and stocking of a boy taking refuge from the storm under the statue, but did not injure him. A Baltimore and Ohio freight train, while switching in Nappanee, derailed and demolished four cars and crashed into the passenger depot, overturning the structure. The damage will amount to several thousand dollars. John Rhodes and James Harrison, miners at Seeleyville, had been fighting for half an hour without inflicting serious injury on each other, when Mrs. Thomas Jones, with a year-old baby in her arms, stepped between them to stop the fight. Juat then Rhodes got hold of a stick, and. not seeing the woman, struck wildly at Harrison, hit the baby on the head and crushed Its skull, causing a fatal injury. A man supposed to be William Riley of Riverton, 111., wai struck by a Big Four passenger train at Marion and Instantly killed. A few minutes befoft the body was found a Clover Leaf freight train went south and several Marion people gay they saw two men on top of one of the cars. One mau was swinging a club in a threatening manner. It Is believed that Riley was knocked off the freight car, that he fell on the adjoining Rig Four tracks, and was killed by the train. J. E. Black was caught io shafting and killed at the American Iron Company's works, Muncie. About (JOO glass workers will go West this fall to man two new green bottle factories started near San Francisco by Isaac Humphrey. Joseph Berger, Goshen, has sued Miss Mary E. Bearer, an heiress, for SIO,OOO, for slander, alleging that she accused him of swindling her father. State Geologist Bletchley warns Indiana fanners to check the growth of the Texas thistle, a sample of which baa been Co and in Hendricks County.