Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1902 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. ■W Gold Nuggets Worth $50,000 Left with Stranger—Probable Murder inVat ant House —Coal Pool Formed—Boys Play Butcher with Horrible Result. Residents of Summitville have a $50.000 gold nugget mystery to discuss as the result of the disappearance of a strange visitor from the Klondike who stopped there for an hour several days ago. The man entered Henry Cory's store when he first arrived in ton’ll, bought a cigar, began talking to Cory and soon was on friendly terms with him. The stranger said he had just returned from the Klondike, where he had succeeded much better than the ordinary explorer in that region. Most of bis wealth was in the bank, but he had brought with him a fruit jar full of nuggets as a curiosity. The Klondiker showed the jar. but did not attempt to sell his gold. Instead he said he was going into the country for a few days and he asked Cory to keep the jar until he returned. The next day Cory carried the fruit jar to the Summitville bank, asking that it be placed in the vault for safe keeping, as he desired to escape the responsibility of guarding it. And there the nuggets, which look as though they might be worth $50,000, remain.

Mystery in Marion. Marion police are working on what is believed to be a deep murder mystery. Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Weadock reported that they were awakened on a recent night by voices in an empty house adjoining their dwelling, and then heard a body fall to the floor. Footsteps were then heard leaving the house. Weadock noticed blood on the sidewalk in front <>f the unoccupied house the next morning and suspected that a murder had been committed. When the house was entered a large pool of blood was found in one room. The walls anil doors leading front the room were spattered with blood. A trail of blood led from tile house to the street and was followed for nearly 'two miles. It ended at the bank of the Mississlnewa river.

Indiana Coal Pool Is Formed. The bituminous coal operators of the field in Indiana north of the national road, and having an output of one-third the bituminous coal produced in the State, have perfected a pooling arrangement for the sale of the product, about 2,000,000 tons annually. It is believed this particular pool will be followed by others covering the southern field of the State. The selling agency is to be the Crescent Mining Company of Chicago, of which W. S. Bogle is the largest owner. Mr. Bogle has mining interests in the northern Indiana field and is understood to be acquiring interests in the southern field. Nearly Kills His Brother. Two brothers named Smith, living near Beatty’s Corners, played butcher. The older brother prevailed upon his younger brother to play the part of the victim. The younger boy was placed with his head resting against the boards on the side of a shed. The other youth then picked up an ax and dealt the board a terrific blow which rendered the younger boy unconscious. Complications have since developed and there is little hope for his recovery. The brother who essayed the role of butcher is nearly crazed with grief.

Etate New. ia Brief. Ci.rncgie offers Vincennes $20,000 for a library. Daniel Leininger's warehouse, Akron, burned. Loss $5,000. Monroe County farmers say wheat is iu an average condition. Abraham Gilleland. Versailles, was perhaps fatally kicked by a horse. Peter Rittcrskamp and wife, Vincennes, celebrated their golden wedding. G. F. Winslow, formerly of LaPorte, is fighting with the British in South Africa. Work has been resumed on C. F. Smith’s Plainfield and Indianapolis traction line. Engineer Wm. Chambers, formerly of Seymour, was killed in a wreck, Birmingham, Ala. B. W. Kelley of Richmond has accepted the principalship of Central Academy, Plainfield. Strike sympathizers wrecked an interurban car near Brazil. No one was injured. Fire at Logansport damaged Bayard Daily S6OO, J. W. Barnes $650 and James McGaughey SSOO. William Shaffer, Muncie, was seriously burned by a gas explosion that partly wrecked the Friar bakery. Henry Wilkins, Rushville, who shot Michael Foley, has surrendered to Cambridge City officers. It is said Foley will recover. In Shelbyville the First Baptist Church was discovered on tire. Within an hour there was nothing remaining but smoking walls. The loss is $25,000, which does not include a fine library left in the study -by Rev. L. A. Gould, a former pastor, and valued at SB,OOO. The insurance was $5,000.

O. 8. Burns, a wealthy retired farmer of Flora, had a miraculous escape from instant death. He wandered away from home and as be did not return searching parties were organized. Burns was found shortly before midnight in a dazed condition, crawling on his hands and knees on a high Vandalia railroad trestle four miles north of the city. The midnight through freight, which was about due, would have ground him to pieces but for the timely arrival of his rescuers. His mind is blank, from the time of leaving home until found. Officers elected by the Indiana photographers: President, W. L. Dalby, Richmond; vice-president, E. E. Shores, Vincennes; secretary, Benj. Larriiner, Marion. Atlanta citizens offer the American Tinplate Company $25,000 if the company will resume work at the Idle plant in that town and keep it running for five years. Burglars robbed six Marion homes in one night. Those visited were Maj. Hichert, Dr. A. R. Powell, Z. 11. Bandera, John Wilson, G. M. Young and Charles Coffin.