Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1902 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PABT WEEK. i Mob Holds Sway at Charlottesville— Aeronaut Ascends in Burning Balloon and Lands Safely—Train Collides with Street Car at Terre Huute. The village of Charlottesville was in the hands of a mob the other night, nnd the sheriff of Hancock County with sev-enty-five armed deputies had been on the scene all afternoon. The purpose of the mob and the posse was to prevent the running of its ears by the Indianapolis and Eastern Traction Company. Recently a quarantine was established by Hancock County against Knightstown on account of smallpox there. The traction company stopped running its cap until the other day. When an effort was made to resume the people of Charlottesville stopped the second car. arrested the motorman and conductor and sidetracked the car. Hangs to Burning Balloon, With his balloon in flames above him Aeronaut Calloway clung desperately to the ropes at Burr Oak, waiting pluekily on the hazard that the balloon would go high enough before collapsing to enable him to cut loose his parhehute with a chance of its checking his fall before he reached the earth. The Palloon shot up nearly 2,000 feet and then Calloway dropped, landing with the parachute in safety. almost at the spot whence he started. The fire occurred through the carelessness of a man who held tho rope, Calloway discovered the flames at the moment of starting and cried: “Let her go. I think I can read) a safe height before she falls.” Train Dashes Into Loaded Street Car. As a result of a west-bonml Vandalia train crashing into a North Thirteenth street car at Terre Haute, three persons were probably fatally injured and six others seriously hurt. The accident was due to the watchman at the railroad crossing giving the car a signal to go ahead and raising the gates after a string of freight cars was cut at the crossing to give the street car the right of way. He did not notice the passenger train. The conductor of the street car, who went ahead of tile car. saw the passenger train approaching, but too late to jivoid the collision. ’ Huge Drainage Ditch Done. The Cook ditch, the greatest waterway ever constructed in Indiana, was completed a few days ago, the dredge entering the Kankakee river at the terminal point at Grand Junction. The construction of this waterway was begun several jears ago and its successful consummation has reclaimed several hundred thousand acres of what promises to be the best crop yielding laud in the great Kankakee region. Brief State Happenings. At an ice cream party in Kokomo right persons were poisoned by the cream. Miss Bernice Murden died. Newcastle has a building boom, seven businesw blocks and 300 residences having been contracted for. Modern Woodmen will hold a big reunion at Mount Vernon Atfg. 28, and 15,000 visitors are expected. The 14 months-old daughter of Isaac Gardner. Bloomington, was fatally scalded by upsetting a wash boiler. Robert Irvin. 70. was drowned in I.ittie Blue river, in two feet of water, in the rear of his home at Henderson. Adam Fuller, a farmer, living four and a half miles from Nappanee, committed suicide by hanging. No motive known. Patrons of the Muneio Gas Company say that if defeated in their suits for damages, they will appeal to the highest court. The Muncie Electric Light Company has begun work on its steam heating system for the city. Twelve-inch mains will be laid. Charles Pigg, son of a farmer east of Sullivan, tried to kill himself with arsenic. Mind affected as the result of a sunstroke. At Peru Charles I.ippohl was held up and robbed of several pounds of beefsteak. Supposed to have been done by a hungry tramp. The plan to remove the monument of Gen. Meredith from his farm. ne:r Cambridge City, to Richmond’s chief park lias been abandoned. George W. Brann, aged 28, an abstractor of titles, of Rushville, accidentally killed himself with a rifle while in a camping expedition. The Mist Indiana infantry regiment, which saw service in Culm, will hold a reuniou at Richmond next fall. Gen. Lee has been been invited. A Vincennes man claims to have discovered the cause of the destructive apple rot, so damaging in that part of the State, nnd how to prevent it. A bolt of lightning struck the homo of J. A. Jones in Kokomo. Mrs. Jones, who was standing in an open door, was stunned and one side was paralyzed. Albert Milton, a Kokomo pugilist, was shot and killed. His stepdaughter, Myrtle Smith. was arrested and charged with the homicide. She admits the shooting, hut pleads self-defense. Col. James B. Maynard, former editor of the Indianapolis Sentinel, and for many years one of the most prominent newspaper' men in Indiana, died at lbs home in Indianapolis, aged S 3 years. A petition in circulation at Chesterfield will goon he forwarded to the general officials of the Big Four Railway. It includes a vigorous protest over tho closing of the railway office at that point and usks the officials to ro-estuldish the agency. By abolishing the station at this point, the town is ul'W left without a telegraph *r express office. William Walla, a farmer and proprietor of a dance ball, was brutally murdered at Dixon by John Wannmakcr. who played a violin nt the dunce hull. The men hud quarreled earlier in the night, but had apparently made up their differences. The Commercial Traveler, the fast train on the Toledo, St. Louis and Western Railroad, was wrecked at Marion by running Into u pile of lumber which had fallen from a Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. lemis freight train. The passengers were badly shaken up, but Moue seriously injured.