Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1903 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTB OF THE PABT' 1 WEEK. Bankruptcy Proceeding* VgainitOwa- ■ era of Bank —Costly Fire at Snlplmr Springs—Preacher’s Invention May . Bring Him 91,000,000. Creditors of the Dekalb Bank of Waterloo have tiled suit against Elizabeth McClellan, former Mayor Don A. Garwood,- Charles McClellan, Isaac Hague and (Jiies T. Abbey to throw them into bankruptcy. The first four are owners of the McClellan Bank, of which the Dekalb Bank is a branch. Mr. Abbey is cashier of the Dekalb Bank. Creditors have employed attorneys to push the charge of attempt to defraud creditors out of $125,000. The Auburn bank had SOI,OOO deposited and the Waterloo bank $'50,000 deposits with $127,000 overdrafts in the hands of the McClellan family. Bncket Brigade Checks Fire. k Fire nearly wiped out the town of Sulphur Springs, a number of stores being damaged. A bucket line, in which nearly every man, woman and child in tho town assisted, saved (lie rest of the business center. The damage was as follows:. Thompson’s business black, $2,000; Thompson’s general store and stock, SO,000; Isaac Cory's residence, $2,40Q; Cory’s business block, $900; Charles Fately. stock of merchandise, $2,000; Firtely’s millinery stock, $-100: Masonic Lodge paraphernalia, $700; E. M. Berry, general stock, SIOO.

Invention Worth $1,000,000. Rev. James Stafford, pastor of the Cumberland Presbyterain Church at Hazleton, several months ago perfected a stopper to make bottles non-refillable, and secured letters patent on his device. It is said that a distiller of Lexington, Kyv, has offered him $1,000,000 for his invention, conditioned that it is a sucoes.--. It is said the stopper is a very simple device, and that it does all that is claimed, making the bottle non-refillable. Two Youths Were Killed; The bodies of Emmet Gwin, 18 years old, and Albert Green, 10, both of Cochrane, were found alongside the 11. & O. Southwestern Railway at Aurora. It is supposed that they were accidentally killed by a passing freight train. Mother ami Daughter Die Fr -m Burns. Mrs. Alfred Long and daughter-Fan-ny, aged 3 years, died at Frankfort from burns received by a lamp setting fire to the bed clothing. Clarence, 3 years old, was seriously burned. State Items of Interest, Clinton Lane of Atlanta was killed, near Columbus, by a log rolling on him. Milton Shirk, multimillionaire banker and brother of Elbert Shirk of Chicago, was stricken with paralysis at Peru. The State convention of Modern Woodmen defeated the proposed increase ia insurance rates as it applies to Indiana. Ground was broken at French Hick for a two-story building to cost $3,000 for a new State bank to be capitalized at $30,000. George W. Beck, a prominent Valparai:o resident, filed suit for divorce from Mary Beck. Beck, is 85 and his wife 75. Cruel treatment is charged. Henry T. Kuhlinoyer, Adams Express agent at Vincennes, was arrested, charged with embezzlement. He is alleged to have taken $2,122. He has a Wife and five children. Rev. Dr. Charles E. Bacon of Indian apolis received notification from Itey. E. H. Hughes of Malden. Mass., that the latter had accepted the presidency of De Pauw University.

While on their way to ehhrch at Weisbaeh chapel, three miles east of Shoals, Ora Melvin and Edward Ritehison, farmer boys, quarreled and Ritehison fatally cut Melvin with n knife. One of the best known hotels in the West during the early canal days, known as the Lagro House at Lagro, is now without a tenant, and may be torn away. It is the first time it has been untenanted in fifty years. The bodies of two young men were found in the Cochran yards of the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern Railroad by the section hands. They were identified as Albert Green. 1!), son of Engineer James Green, and Emmett Gwyun, 20.

A warrant lias been issued against Edward S. Bingham of Montgomery for attempting to blackmail George B. Brown and the citizens of Montgomery, in writiijsf them threatening letters, saying that unless the citizens and Brown placed $2,500 in a given place the author would destroy the towu with tire and dynamite. Mr. Bingham is a prominent young man and cleriif in a store owned by his mother. The Appellate Court of Indiana has decided that cooking orions is bad for the neighborhood, thus 'gffirining a decision by the lower court. Campbell Bros., merchants, brought suit for an injunction against James Shoyer of New Castle anjJLau order was issued by the Circuit - Ct#rt forbidding the cooking of the onions, and from this Shoyer appealed. The question was then carried to the Appellate Court. William Patterson, a memjber of one of the prominent and wealthy, families of Muncie, and a brother in-law of George F. McCulloch, president of the Union Traction Company, was shot and fatally wounded on a recent nighty The tragedy is shrouded in mystery. One story is that Patterson was shot about 3 o’clock in his own home. One bullet passed through his stomach and toe other through the groin. Stiil another story is that he was shot while on the street at an early hour. The most generally accepted report is that the shots were fired while he was in his own room, but by whom is not known. John Schwantz, journeyman cooper, SO years old, committed! suicide is the Vandalia ltailway yards at Terre Haute, laying his head Stross a rail and waiting for a passing train, which decapitated him. SchwaaU. accumulated $5,000 in realty and had a hank balance. William Lemon, a farmer, near Fulton, has been missing from his hoaoe for several days. A short time before ha left home, he devised hys two farms to members of his family; It was thought that ha had gone to relatives in Kansas, but Inquiry shows that he has not reached there.