Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1903 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. u Find Relics of Poet Age—Bxpect to Itik, VortNoe from Kindling—Bereaved Man in Hurry to Wod—Moth* or Za Outwitted. Relics of a prehistoric town inhabited by mound builders lyave been discovered in Montgomery County. State Geologist Blatcheley has received samples of various articles. Ho says the collection is superior to any in the world. It comes from the farm of J. H. Allen, which he and Wiutpn Utterback have been years in exploring. In the course of their'research, without opening the mound to any considerable - extent, they have discovered an ax, fifteen arrowheads, a ceremonial stone and utensils for making bowstrings. The ax is a big one, much too large and unyielding for use in war. This specimen is almost perfect. The ceremonial stone is the relic that lias taken the fancy of the State geologist. It Is a smooth piece of stone resembling a donble-bladed ax, with two grooves cut in the blades, but gn uninitiated observer might take the stone for the petrified vertebra of some monster fish. Mr. Blatcheley says he believes this to be the finest of the kind in the world.

Fortune Out of Kindling. Gentryville has the only kindling factory of its kind in the world. The plant has been put in operation, and the machinery is the invention of H. L. Davidson. The kindling is made into tubes, each of which is designed to kindle a fire. Sawdust is used in the manufacture, with pine tar and other snbstancesThe plant employs about thirty men and is capable of turning out GOO gross daily. The owners of the plant expect to make a fortune. lYedat Deud Wife Unburled. Before the charred remains of his wife were interred Otis Gurensey, a farmer living near Hebron, secured a license to marry Miss Minnie Jones. The wedding took place the other day. Guernsey’s matrimonial experience has been unusual. He was divorced last March, his wife charging cruelty, yet she went back to him. Recently she left again with W. W. Potter and went to Cedar Lake. There she was burned to death in a hotel fire.

Bereaved Dog Kilts Himself. Yardmaster Turner of the Evansville and Terre Haute at Terre Haute was laid out by a highwayman and is unable to report for duty. His dog, which had been in the habit of spending the day with him at the yard office, was manifestly worried by his absence, and later in the day, when he jumped into a vat of boiling pitch, the railroad men wern convinced that he committed suicide. Halts a Wedding in Vain. While Rev. Mr. Taylor was marrying Charles Lamar and Mary Locke in Kokomo the mother of the bride stopped the ceremony, forcing the bride, aged 17, to her room and dispersing the guests and minister. At night, however, the girl eecaped by a ladder, without shoes or hat, and the interrupted wedding was solemnized at a neighbor's, while the mother supposed the girl was at home asleep. Finds Lore- Making Coetly A breach of promise suit was filed by Miss Phoebe Grismer, aged 20 years, against Julius Marvel, a wealthy bachelor of Owensville, asking SIO,OOO damages. Miss Grismer is of good family and has filed fifty-eight of Marvel’s letters as part of the evidence.

Brief State Happenings The convention of Indiana Baptist churches at Bloomington passed resolutions denouncing Senator Smoot of Utah. Fire at Indianapolis damaged the W. H. Armstrong Company, wholesale dealers in surgical instruments, to the amount of $40,000. “Doc” Martin, a negro, was found guilty in Evansville of rioting in July last. The jury was out only ten minutes. The penalty is from two to ten years in the State prison. The grand jury at Vincennes is trying to break up cigarette smoking by boys and has secured testimony from thirty lads which will lead to the indictment of prominent tobacco dealers. At Evansville, Levi Meyer, colored, was found guilty of rioting by a jury in the Circuit Court. The punishment is from two to ten years. Meyer is the third man who took part in the July riot to be convicted.

The Pennsylvania is planning to move its water tank from Marshfield. The removal of a water tank is not generally noticed in newspapers, but this particular one is a landmark of unusual interest It was at the Marshfield water tank that the first train robbery in the United States occurred. The indictment against Wilbqr S. Sherwell, charged with having choked to death Lena Renner, vans nollied in Evansville. Sherwell was tried a yeas ago on the charge of having strangled Georgia Raiiey and Fannie Butler, bat was acquitted on both charges. He wea a member of the police force when arrested. He came from Rock Island, 111. Total destruction of the mining tows of Montgomery has been threatened, in a letter received by a prominent business mao. The threat was to destroy the tdwn with nitroglycerine and fire, and many of the citizens arc terror stricken. Montgomery has been fired, dynamited mad citizens assaulted during the last your. Numerous threatening letters have been received, and last April one was received demanding $2,500 or the town would be burned and wrecked with dynamite. Benjamin G. Hudnut of Terre Haute has sold his Vincennes street railway to the E. M. Dean syndicate of Grand Rapids. Mich., for SIOO,OOO. The citizens of La Porte have agreed to pay a bon us'of $50,000 to the Hobart M. Cable Piano Company if the plant is removed there from Chicago. The company has no? yet decided to move. Lora Raymond, the 15-year-old daughter of Henry Raymond, a coal operator, •f Washington, eloped with John Snider. They went to some point in Illinois. Snider M • teamster and baa been driving A wagon for his bride'* father,