Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1903 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Calling* of Members of Present Legislature—Evansville Jurist and Brother Break Down When Accused—Will Erect Window Glass Factory. That lawyers make our laws is indicated in the composition of the present Legislature, which is as follows: The House of Representatives stands as follows: Thirty-three lawyers, 24 farmers, 10 merchants, 2 physicians, 3 miners. 3 contractors, 2 millers, 2 preachers, 2 bankers and one each of the. following: Editor, cigarmnker, grain dealer, glass worker, teacher, civil engineer, machinist and„author. In the Senate there nre 19 lawyers, 9 fanners, 4 bankers, 2 real estate dealers, 2 manufacturers, 2 editors, 3 physicians, 1 lodge organizer and 1 miner. There were 17 Republicans and 9 Democrats who served in the last General Assembly re-elected. In the Senate only 2 were re-elected. Break Down Under Charges. Judge Louis O. Rasch of the Vanderburg Circuit Court and Edward IE Rasch, his brother, are nt their home in Evansville in a state of collapse. Judge Rasch was charged with having accepted money from men he appointed in office, and when the facts were published he broke down mid took to his bed. His brother surrendered the office of Comity Recorder after having served eight years and collapsed while in his office. Physicians nre at the bedside of tlie brothers and their friends are alarmed over their condition. It is understood the Rasch matter is now in the hands of Gov. Durbin. Workmen to Fight Trust. Workingmen in the gas belt held a meeting in Muncie mid subserilied several thousand dollars toward a fund with which to erect a mammoth glass plant in Muncie to fight the window glass combine. Local capitalists will supply the remainder of tlie capital and the workingmen will build and conduct tlie plant. Building operations will be started in the spring.

Blinded by Gas. George Fisher and his 15-year-old daughter, May, of Decatur, have been stricken totally blind. They slept in a room with the gas burning. Tlie gas came on strong during the night, and, it is supposed, the burnt gas fumes affected their eyes. Physicians are much puzzled over the case. Whether the blindness will be permanent cannot be told. Can Trust Buys Indianapolis Plant. ThfCAmerican Tin Can Company, the tin can trust, has bought the Indianapolis Tin Can Company's large plant in that city, and the plant may be closed. The tin can trust now controls all but three of the tin can companies in the country. It is controlled by Daniel G. Reid of Richmond, and the Leeds-Moore crowd of financiers. Bridegroom Is Fatally Hurt. William Moater was struck by a enr on the Union Traction line at Linwood and so badly Injured that he cannot recover. He is a wealthy farmer nine miles north of Elwood and had gone to Anderson to get a marriage license. lie w as to have been married the same evening. All Over the State. Electrical workers of Indianapolis have struck for an increase in wages from 32’*> to 40 cents an hour. By the falling of a slate roof in the Seller-McClellnnd & Co.’s mine at Brazil diaries Everett was crushed to death. William McAlpin, aged 34 years, fell off the'depot platform at Hebron and a passing Panhandle train crushed him to death. George A. Charles, county treasurer, says that the tax rate on SIOO will bo S3.GO, tlie highest rate ever in Orange County. George Mayer of Mecca killed himself. Tlie news so shocked his mother that she* died of heart failure and the funeraJmK both took place Monday. sw* D. D. Price, for many years agent of the American Express Company at Kokomo, has been made tlie company’s agent at Grand Rapids. Mich. Kerlin Brothers’ largo natural gas pumping station at Hartford City was burned. The loss is $25,000. The patrons nre without fuel and suffering. Carrie Wachsmuth of Evansville. 27, committed suicide by taking "rough on rats." She was despondent because her mother had forbidden her to receive the attentions <>f a young man. Golden Hadley was pinioned to the bottom of the Collins coal mine at Brazil. by a heavy fall of slate, lie was frightfully mangled, but was able to speak a few words to his rescuers before he died.

Hampton West. aged <w years, a fanner living south <<f Noblesville, was arrested on the charge of stealing the bodies of Ralph Brocken nnd Walter Manahip from the Reaver cemetery, nine miles southeast of Noblesville. The 12,(MM) Indiana miners have gone back to the mines, the prolonged holiday being over and the supply of cars sufficient to give all work for nt least half the week. The operators believe the car supply will be better from this time on. The South Bend branch of the Y. M. ('. A. han formally accepted the generous gift of n h onto which the Studebaker Brothers Manufacturing Company recent* ly decided to make to the local nanociutlon. John M. Studebaker will expend $200,000 in the erection of a lino modern Y. M. C. A. building with every up-to-date convenience to make it a model home for the association and a monument to the donors. The site in valued nt 50,000, making the sum total of the gift over n quarter of a mffllon. Judge Neal nt Noblesville granted a tcm|M>rnry injunction restraining the Indianapolis tian Company from shutting off its supply to Indianapolis consumers. Jncob Y. I’ike of Chicago han fded suit at Peru ngninnt Henry Hinckls of Amboy for $40,000 damages, charging Hlnckle, who is his wife's cousin, with alienating her affections from him. Mayor Knotts of Hammond says that he will father a bill In the coming legislature to combine Hammond, East Chicago, Whiting and Indiana Harbor Into ona city. He says the combined city would have a population of 30,000.