Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1903 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERBELY TOLD. New City of Indiana Harbor Preparing to Bnild Important Canal—Small Fortune Clalmad by Rival Wlvea— Mrs. Drake Ia Indicted. Indiana Harbor, which has sprung into a thriving little city from a waste of sand in the last two years, is preparing for another long step in advance looking toward its upbuilding and the further development of the extensive steel mills and other industrial enterprises located and projected with its precinct*. Contracts have been signed for a canal twenty-one feet deep and 300 feet wide at its mouth from the harbor three rnd one-half miles south to the Calumet river, at a cost of $700,000. The canal will be built by Chicago men who own the new town. The second parties to the contract are the trunk lines running through east from Chicago. That the canal will prove a valuable adjunct in providing increased shipping facilities to the railroads the promoters of the project have not the slightest doubt. The Indiana syndicate is composed of the Potter Palmer estate; C. W. Hotchkiss, who will be chief engineer of the canal; F. It. Babcock and Frederick S. Winston, attorneys; Albert D. Erskine; Oakleigh Thorne of New York; John A'. Spoor, who has large interests in the stock yards; Owen F. Aldis, who haa large holdings in Chicago real estate, and Jarvis Hunt and Richard Fitzgerald, most of whom are well-known Chicagoans and who have been identified in the development of the city. A steamship line has alsp been organized, and extensive docks along the canal are projected. Two Wives Claim Wealth. Rev. M. N. Lord, formerly pastor of the Christian Church in Laporte, died recently, leaving n large estate. One of his sons, Henry C. Lord, married and his wife is now at Kansas City. After the deatli of the minister she wrote to a law firm asking it to look after her interests in the estate. In a short time a woman at Flint, Mich., said she was the wife of Henry C. Lord and was entitled to share in the estate. Wife No. 1 went to Kansas City and offered Mrs. Lord No. 2 S6OO to give up her claim, but lawyers advised No. 2 to hold out for $4,000. Wife No. 2 has begun suit against H?nry C. Lord for SIO,OOO damafes for marrying her when he had not obtained a divorce from the Michigan woman. Lord’s share of the estate amounts to about $6,000.

Widow Indicted for Murder. The special grand jury has adjourned at Covington. A true hill was returned against Mrs. Elmira Drake, who is now in jail there charged with murder in thd first degree, hy poisoning her husband with sulphate of zinc. She is indicted on three counts for murder. ' \.i Steal $2,000 from a Store. Five masked men blew open the safe at McPhillips’ store at Judson. They secured about $2,000 in money and uotes, and got away on a band car. All Over tine State. A Wabash freight ground to death Luther Cornelius, an old soldier, at Peru. The factory of the Indiana Box Company at North Anderson was burned. Loss $40,000. Fire destroyed the “Farmers’ Store” and other buildings in Owensville. Loss, 1 $20,000, with little insurance. Judge Simson of Terre Haute has derided hoards of health cannot exclude uu vaccinated children from public schools. John Luther, prominent farmer and stockman aud president of the Board of Trade, was killed at Hope in a runaway J accident. Blood poisoning has caused the death | of Curson Biddles of La Porte. The case | developed from a slight injury to the fin- f gcr received at South Bend. An attempt wash made to wreck the east-bound Lake Erie and Western pas- £ senger train near Frankfort. The gine struck a tie placed on the track. Mrs. S. L. McQuawn was robbed of | SOOO nt Marion. She had just drawa the money from a bank and at Third j and Adams streets was jostled by two men, who took the money from her pock- I etbook, which was hanging from her belt. A Superior Court jury decided that the loss of her scalp by Josephine Stephens ; while she was employed in the Tacoma laundry iu Indianapolis was, worth $7,SOO. Miss Stephens worked at a wash- . iiig machine and her hair- wound about , the shaft of the machine.

Walter McHale' of the firm of Me- , Hale Brothers, lumber manufacturers, :; while superintending the cutting of s tract of timber five miles east of Shoals, | was struck on the head by a limb of a falling tree. His skull was crushed ana ■' death was instantaneous. A crowd witnessed the singular per- l fonnanee of a full grown man crawling I on his bauds and knees from Miami to||j Wabash street on Market street, Wa-| bash. The feat was done to win' ft small ; bet made by the man, Fred PampnelV* who boasted that he could make the trigiu half nil hour iu that fashion. Ho really accomplished it in thirteen min-, utes. Pampnell got $2 for bis trotNjj ble. Benjamin Haynes, aged 70 years, who,! eloped from Napoleon, Ohio, March with the 24-year-old wife of his uephcWJ was taken back to the Ohio town by a| detective. The young wife was also *J prisoner. Haynes is a retired farmoHjl Mrs. Martha Haynes, his companion UtM arrest, has accepted the aged man’s afc-.| teutions for two years, according to th»-J nephew's charges. The pair were arresttg ed at Anderson. Theodore Doak, aged 53 yean, tIMM heaviest man in Knox County, died la; Vincennes. He weighed 405 pounds, bag , was active in business. j Harry G. Shriebeck, an lndtanapolM plasterer who has been working at Aag| derson, fell five stories and landed in g'j deep basement. He got up and bruslMjfl off hia clothes and was feeling hIQ bruises when his fellow workmen readS ed him. He said he was pot hurt saJl started back to work. ‘ There was much to tell about the trip downwa*®* be said. He remembered that be hit duH earth with a thump.