Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1903 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Work on the Division street sewer has been delayed this week by bad weather and the encountering rock between Harrison and Washington streets. About six inches of this rock has to be blasted out to put the sewer down to tbe proper depth, and the process is nece3Barilly slow. The jury in the case of Truman Beam of Valparaiso, charged with strangling to death his nineteen-year-old sweetheart, Martha Lawrence, disagreed Tuesday at Hammond and was discharged by Judge Tuthill. The jury had the case since last Friday. The last ballot stood eleven for hanging and one for acquittal. The case will be tried again in December. The evidence presented was largely circumstantial.