Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1903 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD, Newcastle Liquor Cases to Be Dropped —Man Lets Horae Choose Wife for Him—Kokomo Vote* for Open Baleone—Wedded in Tower. The temperance crusade in Newcastle two years ago, -which created such excitement for a time, will soon be a thing of the The 145 indictments returned against local on information furnished by detectives, will be dismissed at the coming October term of the Circuit Court. When these case* first came up, the detectives failed tn appear, end the case* have since. been carried from term to term. Sheriff Christopher has had subpoenas for the detective*. to bring them here to testify, but after a diligent search, lasting over a year, has been unable to locate them. The smallest number of indictments against one man wan six and the largest seventeen. Saloon men say that in several neighboring counties the detectives made false affidavits, and that should they appear to testify againrt local saloon men the State would prosecute them for making false affidavits.

Let Horae Select Hie Wife. Mrs. Ralph E. Brown of Hendricks County, in her suit for divorce, charges that her husband let a horse select his wife. She and Mr. Brown were married in Angust last and separated in December. She says Mr. Brown was paying attention to a woman in Indianapolis and she herself lived in Clayton. On the day fixed for the -wedding Brown got into his buggy, undecided whether to marry her or the Indianapolis girl. He dropped the reins over the dashboard and left the decision to the horse, which turned off at the Clayton road, thus deckling the defendant in his choice of a wife. Open Saloons la the Vote. After a seven months’ crusade against Kokomo saloonkeepers under the Nicholson blanket law, the temperance people were defeated in the vote Friday and the town is wet again. The crusades closed twenty saloons, all of which will open again. In every ward the remonstrants were in the minority in the count. Aged Relative es Bryan Dies. Mary Gano Bryan Cobb, step-great-grandmother of Col. William Jennings Bryan, died in Kokomo, aged 101 years. She was a Daughter of the Revolution and a widow of the war of 1812 and the Mexican war. She was born in Frankfort, Ky., Jan. 11, 1802. All her children died of old age years ago. Fast Freight Kills Three. Three persons, Mrs. Will Billman, her daughter, Mrs. Ollie Peters, and Miss Blanche Gill, were killed at Felton’s Crossing, four miles east of' Ligonier, while walking on the Lake Shore tracks. They were struck by fast freight train No. 63, west bound. Have Wedding in a Tower. Charles N. Thompson and Bessie Wilson, visitors to the Terre Haute fair, decided to be married and as suddenly consented to go to the court house tower for the ceremony, ?«o that they were pronounced husband and wife 175 feet above ground. Brief State Hazelnuts are plentiful this year. Martinsville has a new canning factory. Bloomington has a new broom factory. Rushville has several new oil companies.

Peach canning factories over the State are getting busy. Darlington has let a contract for a system of street lights. Peter Surprise of Laporte County is dead, aged 104 years.

Bad weather made the Delaware County fair lose money. A woman was fired on from a Lake Shore train at Laporte.

Mrs. R. W. Davis lost a satchel and diamonds worth SI,OOO at ShelbyvHle. Robert Kirkpatrick of Wheeling sold 235 hogs in Flora for something over $3,000.

A carnival in Logansport cleared more than $3,000 for the local people who gave it.

Lightning struck a school house in Warren County, and it burned to the ground.

John Corwder of Logansport has a peach tree bearing at least 150 peaches nine inches in diameter. Reports of trustees show that Earlham College, at Richmond, is in better financial shape than ever before. “Uncle” Sammy Beighler of Howard County has on exhibition at Kokomo a radish weighing 9% pounds. Decatur County farmers are aroused over increased taxation and will make some effort to have it reduced. A fine Bernard dog, owned by Father Bogemann of Bloomington and valued at $175, bas been abducted. Joe Runner of Worthington tried to drive Fletcher Owen into the ground with a sledge hammer. Owen will recover. While Lewis Robson, an Allen County farmer, was sharpening a plow, a piece of the point tore his eye from his head. Vincennes, is enjoying an unprecedented boom, and contracts for homes are being let in lots of ten to various contractors. Rev. Martin Luther of Valparaiso bas resigned the pastorate of the Presbyterian Church there and will go into business. Henry Downey, u Kokomo cab driver, who went totally blind last year, recovered his sight fully and instaneously the other day. He took a short nap and on awakening was astonished to find he could see. He had quit taking treatment The doctors ats puzxkd. Joseph Pohlman of Kokomo, in a cross bill filed against bis wife, Sarah Pohlman, alleges that she has thirteen husbands living, eight iu Ohio and five in Indiana. It is alleged that the divorce from “No. 13” will be followed immediately by a ceremony that will bring No. 14 into line.