Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1903 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. Senate Sills on Third Reading [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS. Senate Sills on Third Reading

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Plan to Merge Coal Mines of the State Elkhart Girl Inherits a Large Estate—A New Railroad from Chicago —Gas Injunction Fails. Indiana coal operators are working on an immense merging scheme. The plan is to bring all the controlling coal producing interests of Indiana into one company. Absolute ownership is the plan to be followed. The coal mining interests of the State are worth over $35,000.000. Those properties lying along the railroad lines are to be taken in. A committee composed of A. M. Ogle of Indianapolis, J. Smith Talley <>f Terre Uauti and George Seifert, who has large mines in Sullivan County, is making the moves and taking options on properties’; -Some of the largest coal mining interests in the State are covered by options. It is said that the deal, if it goes through, will be far more extensive than simply ownership of mines. The company cpnte.nplatesjfrit—is—understood, equipping itself with its own coal ears, and to provide enough to prevent the present frequent shut down of the mines because of lack of cars on whic-h-to. load the coal. Girl Made Rich by Will. Miss Martha Axe. a well-known young woman, who makes her home with het widowed mother in Elkhart, has been officially informed that her uncle. Allen T. Axe, who died at Basin, Mont., on Jan. 9, willed her one-third of his estate, which consists of cash and fivetwelfths of the famous Ada mine, embracing a twenty-acre tract, twelve miles from Basin. Within two years, though not vigorously worked, the mine has netted about SSG,(W. Mr. Axe left Valparaiso over forty years ngo, and assisted in laying out Salt Lake City, and a» a prospector walked all over the sites oi Helena and Butte before a single hotrss had been erected. New Road From Chicago. The Chicago, Terre Haute and Southern Railway Company has been incorporated with a capital stock of $200,000, to construct a railroad from Chicago into Luke County, thence in a southerly direction through the counties of Lake, Newton. Benton, Warren, Fountain, Ver irilion, Parke and Vigo to Sullivan County. The length of the road will be about 200 miles. William B. Cloyes cl Chicago holds 1.98 G shares of stock. Effort to Stop Gas Fails. Judge Carter in the Supreme Court as” Indianapolis granted an injunction to the Indiana Natural Gas and Gil Company against Harry E. Drew and others to prevent their interference with the company's pipe lines. The case grew out of an attempt of northern Indiana citizens to stop the company piping gas to Chicago. The ease came from Madison County. •——- Ury Goods' Association. Indiana Dry Goods Association has organized and elected the following officers: President, G. H. Robertson, South Bend; vice-president, M. H. Shorf, North Manchester; secretary, F. B. Goldthrait, Marion; treasurer, Marion Ives, Delphi. The object of the association is to combine purchases, and buy foreign goods direct from the importers. I.ives Half a Life in Year. Physicians attending Charles F. Schultz, city treasurer, who died in La I’orte at the age of 47 years, declare that he died of old age. having lived half a lifetime in less than a year. The case has attracted much attention from medical men. Memorial to Hendricks. President Fisher of Hanover College, at Madison, has received from Mrs. Eliza C. Hendricks, widow of former Vice-President Thomas A. Hendricks, a gift of $25,000 for the erection of a library in memory of her husband. All Over the State. Tiie city of Winchester has bought a 12-room house and two acres of land to be used as a detention hospital. W. L. Finch has forced the Arrow Nail Company at Anderson into a receivership. He says it owes him $2,000. At South Bend Samuel Quick han deserted his wife and nine children and run away with a Mrs. Clark, who ha* two children. Elkhart factory employes, sympathizers of the striking motormen and conductors, stoned a car, breaking all the windows and forcing the non-uniou crew to take refuge in a house. Fire in tiie plant of the American Tin Plate Company in Anderson damaged the boilers and machinery to tiie amojnt of $40,000. It required the combined aid of the tire equipment and 125 workmen to put out the flames. Rebuilding will be begun at once. Five hundred until are thrown out of employment. George W. W oodrttff, who for many years has been a puzzle to the medical profession, is dead at his home in Frankfort. Although in fairly good health ho would go for many days without sleep. At one time he did not sleep for serentytive days and nights, although during that time many noted physicians became interested in his case and gave him treatment. It wns a common thing for him to go a month without sleep. Grand Trunk passenger train No. 8 ran Into the rear end of a south bound Big Four passenger train at Gi Huger. The rear coach on the Big Four passenger train was lifted from the track nnd shoved through the bay window at' the Granger station. The Big Four train had stopp«‘d at the station, and, in approaching, the Grand Trunk engineer failed to see the other train in time to stop his engine. Three men were injured. An investigation by the coron*r revealed that AHien Blankenship, a watchman, found/aead in the Melrose downing milV'Tn Evansville, was murdered. His sknul and nose were fractured. Part of the money he was known to have with him is missing. Miss Mary Hicks, a former society leader of Indianapolis and a niece of E. H. Nebeker. former United States Treasurer under Harrison, has filed a sensational divorce against her husband, Hannibal Yount, a well-known Covington attorney, to whom she was married only Jour months ago.