Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1903 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. •“ L 1 Dearborn County Farmers Deetroy Toll Gates—Poacher Killed by Private Watchman—Unian Men JBlackliated by Shelby villa Employers. One hundred and fifty determined farmers, armed with guns, pistols and axes, raided seven toll gates in Dearborn Oounty, cutting away the poles and nearly demolishing three of the toll liom.es. No resistance was offered liy the toll gate keepers and all of them promised not to attempt to collect any more tolls. The destruction of the toll gates is the result of a refusal by the county commissioners to buy the roads nt the expense of the county and throw them open to the public. They now belong to private corporations, some of which have refused to sell. No attempt at disguise was made by members of the mob, but it is not probable that any bf them will be prosecuted, • though many were recognized. - Shot Dead by a Sheriff. At 4 o’clock the other morning John Hager of Ford and Division streets, South Rend, was killed by Alfred Smith, a deputy sheriff of St. Joseph County. Hager, accompanied by John Dreckes, C. Putz and S. I-espodjoun, was fishing at St. Mary’s lake, Notre Dame. The officer requested the men to leave the place, vrhkth is private property under his care. They refused to do so and when he insisted they turned upon him. Smith’s club was taken from him and Hager made a fierce attack, breaking the club over Smith's wooden arm. After repeated attempts to ward them off and to preserve his own life. Smith shot Hager, killing him instantly. Union Men Are Blacklisted. The numerous strikes which have re-tard.-d building aud manufacturing since April 1 at Shelbyviile culminated in all the union men in that city being placed on the blacklist, and no union man will hereafter be employed. All the master builders and factory owners have set their faces against the unions, and some of the largest manufacturers have closed the doors of their plants till other labor can 1m- secured. The immediate cause of this action was a third strike at the furniture factory of the Foster company, ami threatened sympathetic strikes of union men employed in other industries. Kvaaaville Man Shoots Hijnself. David Nisbet, at one time one of the most prominent business men of Evansville, committed suicide by shooting himself. He returned that day from Bt. I.ouis, where lie had been on a visit to friends. He was the son of D. A. Nisbet and inherited a large estate. At one time he was the vice-president of the Louisville and Evansville Mail Line Company and the president of the Maekey-Nisbet Dry Goo,ls Company. He was a brother-in-law of Captain G. J. Grammer, traffic manager of the Lake Shore Railroad. He was 50 years old and single.

Brief State Happenings Horse thieves at Greenfield. Black smallpox at Washington. Auburn will have three iuterurban lines. House painting is quite a fad at Princeton. Washouts at Rtishville suspended work on the iuterurban line. Vandals are doing serious damage to cemeteries at Waterloo. The Kirklin ‘‘Autocrat” will be issued “every once iu a while.” Big fire destroyed general store of H. D. Snowbarger at Summit. A boiler explosion blew up Mossman & Co.’s lumber mills at Jasper. Faith Cornwell, 4. of Orleans, fell in a barrel of rain water and was drowned. In the death of Miss Carrie Wood, Sullivan loses one of her best teachers. I.auford Stephenson, farmer, near Walton, was killed by lightning while baling straw. ■William Daniels and Hall Youmans were killed by black damp following a blast in the Briar Hill coal mine at Coxville. During a quarrel Frank Burriss and Heury York, brothers-in-law at Merom, exchanged a number of shots. Burriss was injured. Moses Fowler Chase, the young millionaire, has been ordered into a sanitarium at Indianapolis by the judge at Fowler, on the ground that he is becoming violent. W. A. Noyes, head of the department of chemistry of the Bose polytechnic at Terre Haute, has resigned to take a position as chemist in the bureau of weights and measures in the new department of commerce at Washington. At a meeting of the trustees of Gaylor University at Upland Dr. A. L. Whatcoins of Evaustont 111., was selected president of the institution. The new president is named to aueoeed Dr. Thaddeus C. Beade, whose death took place last July. Saufonl H. Love, aged 2A, a clerk in a Marion hotel, shot his sweetheart, Miss Nora Miller, because she hyd jilted him. She fell with a bullet it) her breast. Love then turned the pistol upon hinifclf, but was overposj'eced before he could shoot. The girl is probably mortally wounded. Because he was assigned to a seat next to a colored girl at the commencement exercises of the Manual Training High School in Indianapolis. George O. Wildhack, a member of the class, refused to attend the ceremonies. When the diplomas were distributed Wildhack's name was not called, though it appeared on the program, and he was not presented with his sheepskin. Principal Charles E. Emmerich said that the affair is a serious one, calling for serious action. Etkhatt parents opposed to corporal punishment in the schools are organising a society one feature of which will be that every father shall himself to whip the teacher who whips his child. If not physically able he must employ someone and the society will pay his fine. > Mrs. Mary A. Johnson, who died at Brqwuotowii a few days ago,- had not been upon the public square of Brownetown for thirty years, although she resided within half a square of Tt during alt that time. She had not been to the depot since the Ciril War. Bhe was ia good health, but had long been a reclue*