Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1904 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY 5 TOLD. Compiling Information Concerning State MU it In Windstorm Sweeps Beverel Conn Use - Corpse Found by Hunters—Big Hotel for Mancie. State Adjutant General John Ward is preparing for the Adjutant General's office at Washington a special report on the condition of the National Guard of Indiana and the number of men available for active service on short notice. In addition to this arrangements are being made to complete a list of persons in this State who Avill be qualified in the event of war for commissions in all branches of the volunteer army of the United States that may have to be called into existence at any moment. The Dick bill, which was passed during the last session of Congress, provides for the establishment of a complete qualified list in every State in the Union of persons fitted to officer volunteer commands. The general staff at Washington, in pursuance of the provisions of the neAv volunteer army regulations, is providing for a board of officers to be convened in each of the principal cities of the country to examine members of the National Guard, civilians and young men who have graduated from private military schools in the various States. Applicants will be examined and those who are successful will be given certificates and their names at once placed on an eligible register to be kept at Washington and also recorded in the office of the Adjutant General of the State where the examination takes place. Each applicant will be required to designate the grade and the branch of the service for which he desires to be examined. Sullivan’s Pioneer Merchant. John B. Draper, Avho has been a resident of Sullivan since 1836, has been engaged in the grocery business there for

thirty-seven ypars, and is still conducting the business at the same stand where he started. “Uncle John” is enjoying good hmlth and can be found at his store every day, although he is now nenring the eightythird milestone of his life. He has been married four times aud is the

father of sixteen children, twelve of whom are living. Heavy Damnjre front Wind. A terrific windstorm swept over Daviess, Pike, Jackson and other southern Indiana counties and did great damage to houses, timber aud fencing. At Washington the five-story building of the Cincinnati Heating Company was blown down, and twenty or thirty persons, who had just left the building escaped injury from the flying debris only by fleeing to the protection of other houses. Houses were unroofed, smokestacks blown dorvn and many barns and stables destroyed. At Petersburg much damage was done to property. Seymour, Jackson County, and a part of Johnson and BartholomeAv counties were visited by the storm, and telephone and telegraph poles were blown • down. Body of Man Found in Woods. Two hunters discovered the body of a well-dressed man in the Wiseman woods near Salem. A pistol with one chamber empty was clutched in the ri£ht hand. On the other hand he wore a glove. His mouth and lips Avere powder burned and a bullet was taken from just under the skull at the back of the head. A gold watch and razor were found in his pockets. On the right arm just above the elbow was found the name “G. Hope,” tattooed. The body is supposed to be that of a Louisville mau. Perrjr Beath Invests #IOO,OOO. , Perry S. Heath, secretary of the National Republican committee and former Assistant Postmaster General, has decided to erect a six-story hotel building in Muncie. His brotlwr, Fred Heath of Mancie, also will be interested. Perry Heath’s investments probably will be not smaller than SIOO,OOO, and may be greater. Mr. Heath has Muncie realty valued at about SIOO,OOO, and recently sold a business block worth $40,000.

Mato Items of Interest, James Porter Shaw, a'confessed embezzler in two States, Kentucky and lowa, was arrested at Evansville. He will be returned to lOAva for trial. Miss Erline Sinclair of Sullivan, the school teacher who was ducked in an icy pond by some of her pupils, has brought suit against them for SIO,OOO. Mrs. Elmira Drake, on trial at Covington,on the charge of haring murdered her husband one year ago, was acquitted. The jury was out all the previous night. The existence of a doctors’ trust in Anderson ia held to be proved by the facta that a number of physicians have refused to treat the child of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Graham, because the parents admitted they had no money to pay for services. Furniture smashed to splinters, lamps overturned, broken floors covered with coal oil, the pulpit carpet ripped from oqe end to the other and the walls ruined formed the scene in the old Methodist Church at Maywood when it was entered by members of the congregation the other morning. The church is now the property of the Friends’ congregation. Recently this congregation has bitterly fought the two saloons in Maywood. It ia thought the friends of the saloons wrecked the structure. The man found murdered in the woods near Indian Springs is believed to be a baseball player named Calhoun* who Avas with Wheeling last season. He had been rooming with a bartender named King, and it was the latter’s aliirt with the mark “King” which Calhoun was wearing and which was found near the body. Presence -ot mind saved from death Martin McGregor of Hammond, » switchman in the employ of the Chico#* Junction Railway. He fell beneath hi. train and, hearing the engine coming, he seized a brake beam and clung, td it I until the train was stopped.

JOHN B. DRAPER.