Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1902 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. . “Kraat” Cartridge Figures in an Elkhart Romance-Chief of Police Drives Holy Gliostites from EvansvilleWork of Lightning’s Deadly Bolts. The engagement of Miss Ruby Oliver of Elkhart to Roy Dilley of Nebraska has been announced. Dilley was a soldier in the Philippines, and when his battalion went through Elkhart one day last August en route to Buffalo for discharge he threw from a car window a “Krag” cartridge wrapped in a bit of paper which bore his name and address and a request that the finder write to him. Miss Oliver chanced to pick it up, and in a spirit of schoolgirl adventure complied with the request. Correspondence developed that led to an exchange of photographs, and a few weeks ago Dilley came to Elkhart to press his suit for the young woman’s ha nd. Sect Ordered Out. Chief of Police Fred Henke has given notice to the Holy Ghostites at Evansville that they must not longer hold religious worship within the corporate limits of the city. Several weeks ago several elders of this negro faith went there from the South and rented a building in Baptis-fown. a negro settlement in the eastern part of the city. These worshipers take the Bible in its literal sense, and when sickness overtakes their members they refuse to call in a physician and the ciders anoint the patients with oliisj oil. Court Lets Ex-Wife Keep S4OO. A queer suit was decided at Kokomo by Judge De Haven. M. S. Goldberry sued his divorced wife to recover S4OO he had given her. Goldsberry claimed that whenever lie came home intoxicated he gave his wife all the money he had. As these occasions were frequent the gifts amounted to S4OO. Later Goldsberry regretted his generosity and sued to recover. Stunned by Lightning. During a severe electrical storm lightning struck a tree standing within a few feet of the residence of John Turner, seven miles northeast of Nashville. Members of the family were sitting on the porch when the tree was struck, and all received shocks which rendered them unconscious for some time. Buried His Coin. Before death. Albert Rees, a farmer living near Redkey, buried considerable coin on his farm. Search has been made for it, and a bag was found containing $4. Drowned in Cistern. William, the 5-year-old son of Mrs. Mary Eve. fell into a cistern nnd was drowned, at the family home, four miles north of New Albany. Etate News in Brief. The Soft-soap Club of Muncie will slip through. Two cases of umfillpex have developed south of Princeton. John Pizer, a Vanderburgh County farmer, was perhaps fatally gored by a bull. Lash Bedwell, a farmer of Sullivan County, died while sitting at the dinner table. Samuel Bastel, aged 48, was killed by lightning at Valparaiso during a heavy storm. A bank has been established nt Woodburn. The officers and stockholders are Mennonites. It is believed that copper ore hai? been found on the farm of Albert Holderman, near Elkhart. At Aurora three young men, were drowned in the Ohio River by the capsizing of a sail boat. At Wabash lightning struck the home of Peter Brechner, wrecking the house ami shocking Brechner. Tile two distilleries at Terre Haute have been compelled to increase their output to meet the demand. While her mother was washing little lola Gardner, of Stanford, pulled a boiler from the stove, scalding her so severely that she died soon after. Mrs. Lon Holmes, of Gas City, was killed at Decatur by attempting to jump from a fast moving Toledo, St. Louis and Western excursion train. Nicholas Theodore, a Chicago photographer, drowned in Buss Lake, by the capsizing of a sailboat. Four persons who were with him were rescued. Thirty-two pigeons of the Mishawaka Homing Clubs flew from Winona. Miss., to Mishawaka, a distance of (XM) miles, in thirty-two hours. They were in rain nearly all the time. Bartlett Martin, timekeeper for SOO men ut the Terre Haute ear works, was caught with a poukefful of pay envelopes for fictitious names on the pay roll, lie aduiits that he has stolen SSOO. Ed Hornbeck, one of the guards at Greensboro, whose duty it is to keep buck the smallpox refugees of Knightstown, accidentally shot himself in the leg. making a hole large enough to hide a rat. At Winslow, George Spradlin und Milford Hurt, young men, captured two young girls in an orchard taking fruit. They proceeded to whip the girls with switches. The young men were arrested. While searching for his cattle in the woods a tew days ago Albert Lev, a Marshall County farmer, noticed a spot where the dirt was freshly dug up. Gn investigation be found a full set of counterfeiting tool*, molds, and coins in deuom'uutions from a quarter up to one dollar. These coins have been circulated quite freely of late around Bremen. The outfit was turned over to the Sheriff. Secret service men are in the neighborhood investigating. Roscoe Ault was struck by lightning and Instantly killed while standing in the door of a barn at Valparaiso. Thia was the second death there in exactly the same manner within forty-eight hours. Mis.* Mildred Fields, who says she is the daughter of Frank Fields, a wealthy land owner of Deer Creek, near Peoria, 111., was arrested ut Frankfort, and taken to Indianapolis on a charge of forgery. She admitted the charge and said that she was driven to the crime by sickness and the refusal of her father to give her financial assistance.