Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1901 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Manufacturing Industries Show Large Increase—School Building Burns at Atlanta—Scottsburg Business Block Destroyed—Goodman Not Poisoned. Indiana, according to the census bureau, shows an investment of $234,481,528 in manufacturing industries, an increase of 78 per cent over 1890, and $378,238,100 in products, an increase of 07 per cent. Indiana has 18,015 manufacturing establishments, 155,950 wage earners, getting an aggregate of $66,847,317 in wages. The miscellaneous expenses of these establishments aggregate $33,052,070 and cost of materials used $214,061,610. Following are some of the reports: __ _ = Cities. Capital. Products. Indianapolis $36,899,114 $68,695,364 South Bend .... 18,156,638 14,136,331 Evansville 10,297,959 15,090,011 Fort Wayne 9.203,613 12,523,222 Terre Haute 8,938,107 27.784,619 Muncie 7,793.832 12,106,648 Anderson 5,709,965 11,051,847 New Albany 2,996,512 4,179,490 Burned School Building. The Atlanta public school building was totally destroyed by fire. The origin of tiie fire is not" positively known, but it is supposed to have caught from an overheated furnace. Coal was used as fuel, and the janitor says that the fires were banked as usual ami every precaution was taken. Tiie building was the best of its kind in Jackson township and was built in 1898 at a cost of SIO,OOO. The loss to the patrons in the way of school books will be fully S7OO. Fire Loes at Scottsburg. At Scottsburg a fire was discovered in the large double frame building occupied by the Garrett Bros, and Alfred Cravens, general merchants, one side being used for groceries. The city is without fire protection, and the building was totally destroyed, but hundreds of men and boys assisted in removing the stock, and nearly all of it was saved. The establishment carried about $18.0(X) in stock, and was insured for $5,000, of which SI,OOO was ou the building. Analysis Shows No Poison. In the trial of Newell C. Rathbun, charged with causing the death of Chas. Goodman at the Falls City Hotel in Jeffersonville. Dr. L. B. Kostenbine of Louisville, who made the chemical analysis of Goodman's stomach, testified that he found no poison. He stated, however. that he believed Goodman’s death had been caused by either prussic acid or chloroform. “Ugliest Man” Wine a Prize. Claude Edwards, voted the ugliest man at a party in Kokomo, threw the prize, a silver cup, in the face of Ross Perry, who was making the presentation speech. In the fight several girls fainted and the party broke up in confusion. Edwards is under arrest. Blaze in Crawfordsville. G. W. Seraggs’ grocery in Crawfordsville was completely gutted by fire. He places his loss at SIO,OOO. Baldwin’s music house and G. W. Steele's drug store were also badly damaged. Within Our Borders. Walter Byrd, Crawfordsville, was convicted of burglary and sentenced to the pen. Herbert Davidson, a farmer, was found frozen to death in a cornfield near Humboldt. Greenwood has a handsome new school building. It has twelve large rooms and cost $14,740. John B. Todd, Seymour, was fined S2O on a charge of trying to improperly influence a juror. Miss Pearl Rohrer, a Peru waitress, accidentally fell through a plate glass window and was badly injured. The 10-year-old soin of Thomas Allen, residing ten miles west of Lafayette, was instantly killed by the accidental discharge of a rifle in the hands of his brother. Richard Steele, a young married man, had both his legs cut off by a Toledo, St. Louis and Western train at Marion. He is a nephew of Congressman George W. Steele. At the Vandalia crossing in Logansport Frank Hardy and his daughter were caught in a buggy and killed. Hardy, who was a farmer, was bringing the girl to school. Col. George Studebaker of South Bend has been chosen to succeed his father, Clem Studebaker, as a trustee of Depauw University. Mrs. Claudia Lusk, Franklin, has sued the Indianapolis, Greenwood and Franklin electric line for $2,000 damages, alleging she was injured while stepping from a car. Mesdames Powell and Whittaker, Greentown, raided a “poked joint” in that town, the former finding her young son in the game. She trounced him and started him for home. Fire destroyed the farm residence of William Peterson, near Logansport. Peterson and wife and three children barely escaped with their lives. Barefooted and in their night clothes, they were compelled to walk through the snow a mile to the home of a neighbor. Mercury was below zero. All are badly frozen. The large two-story house of Monroe Seibert, five miles southwest of Anderson, was wrecked by a natural gas explosion. Mrs. Seibert and her 18-year-old son, Lorenzo, were the only persons in the house nt the time. Gas had collected on the second floor, and when the young man struck a match an explosion followed. He was hurled into the yard and fatally burned. His mother was only slightly injured. Fire followed the explosion. The loss is $3,000. Charles W. Gearheart, who lived near Walkerton, was caught in the shafting of a Waveland sawmill and killed. In Brazil William Nelson, 21, became violently insane, and bit bis mother several times on the hands and arms. He also bit his father. An officer prevented him killing his parents. It is thought he has hydrophobia. The Superior Oil Company has transferred its oil properties in Jay and Adnms counties to a New York syndicate. The consideration was over $300,000. Thia is the largest transaction in oil territory in the history of Indiana.