Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1898 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Readjustment of Indiana Postmasters* ; Salaries-Jnrjr in the Mullaney Case Fail to Agree Upon a Verdict—Farmers Take Revenge Ont of a Machine. Indiana Postal Changes. The first assistant Postmaster GeneraF at Washington announces the fifteenth | annual readjustment of presidential postmasters' salaries, the changes in classifi- - cation and salary to become effective July 1, 1898. Under this readjustment the following changes in classification and increase or decrease in compensation will occur in Indiana: Alexandria. Franklin, Notre Dame, Rushville and Warsaw are advanced from third to second class; Plymouth Is relegated f ram second to third. Increases: Albany $1,300 $1,400 Alexandria 1,800 2,000 Anderson 2,600 2,700 Attlei 2,500 2,600 Bedford 1,800 1.900 Bloonffiehl 1,300 1.300 Bloomington 2,200 2,300 Bluffton 2.000 2,100 Booneville 1.400 1,500 Cannelton 1,100 1,200 Covington 1,400 1,300 Crawfordsville2,4oo 2.500 Delphi 1.600 1,700 Dunkirk 1.500 1,600 Elkhart 3.160 3.200 Elwood 2.106 2.300 Fairmount 1,300 1,400 Fort Wayne 3,200 3,300 Franklin 1,800 2.000 Hartford City 1,800 1.000 Jasper 1.000 1,200 Jeffersonville 2.100 2,200 Jonesboro 1,100 1,400 Knox 1,100 1,200 Kokonio 2.400 2,500 Lawrenceburg 1,700 1,900 Lei a non 1,800 2,000 Ligonier 1,600 1,700 Linton 1.000 1,100 Lowell 1,000 1,100 Madison 2.100 2,200 Marlon 2,600 2,700 Martinsville 1,600 1.800 Michigan City 2,200 2,300 Mitchell 1,30<> 1.500 New Albauy 2.400 2,500 New Harmony 1,000 1,100 North Vernon 1,600 1.700 Notre Dame 1,900 2,000 wßleton 1,000 1,200 Bern 2.31X1 2,400 Petersburg 1,300 1,500 Plainfield 1,000 1,300 Portland 1,800 1,900 Princeton 2,000 2,100 Red Key 1,200 1,400 Ridgeville 1,600 1,900 Rising Sun 1,000 1.100 Rockville 1,400 1,500 Rushville 1,900 2.000 SeyUMiur 2,000 2,100 South Bend 3,100 3.200 SpetMtT I.4<M> 1,600 •nllivan I.6tM> 1,700 SunMiiltvllk* 1,000 1,100 Tell City 1,200 1.300 rhorntown 1,200 1,400 Tipton 1.600 1,700 Vevay 1,100 1,200 Vincennes 2,400 2,500 Wabash 2,300 2,400 Warsaw 1,900 2.000 Worthington 1,300 1,500 Decreases: Bourbon $1,600 $1,200 East Chicago 1,300 1,200 Edinburgh 1,4D0 1,200 Plymouth 2.000 1,000

Peculiar Ending of a Trial. At LaPorte. the second trial of James ; Mullaney of Chicago, chief of detectives | 3f the Lake Shore Railroad, on the charge of killing Officer Christiansen of South Bend in May, 1897. ended in a peculiar ; manner. The jury rendered a verdict of S guilty of manslaughter. Upon being poll- | ?d all the jurymen agreed that the verdict was according to their best judgment and belief, except C. P. Smith, who said he had consented to the verdict in order to reach an agreement, but did not sanction it. Judge Biddle thereupon declared the verdict void and sent the jury to its i room for further deliberation. In five J minutes the body reported that it could not agree and were discharged, ands another trial will be the result. Farmers Wreck a Machine. Last fall a stranger who secured one of the American™ Strawlioard Company’s balers in Anderson went into Hendricks County and, representing himself as an agent for the corporation, bought up all of the straw in sight on time and baled and shipped it. He then disappeared, leaving the baler behind. The farmers waited for their money, but it never came. A week ago they dynamited the machine, but it was not completely destroyed, and the American company ordered it shipped to Anderson. The company has received notice that the farmers held a mass meeting and as a result reduced the machine to ashes. * Within Onr Borders. At Shelbyville, natural gas has been struck at a depth of 2(10 feet. Emma A. Henry, wife of William B. Henry, for years a prominent merchant of Ijobanon, has sued for divorce and $lO,000 alimony. The complaint includes some sensational allegations. The Globe Life and Accident Insurance Company of Indianapolis has been placed in the hands of a receiver by Judge Harvey of the Superior Court on complaint of Melita Allen, who charges gross mismanagement of its affairs and says it is insolvent. At Ijebanon, Coroner Armstrong completed his inquiry into the death of Seth Nease, killed by his stepfather, Fred Homaear. The evidence apparently shows the shooting to have been deliberately planned and executed without provocation. During the examination Mrs. Ho maear threatened to kill her husband in ■ case he was acquitted. It is learned William Hanley, the young man of Chester township who was sent to Longcliff asylum, became deranged through the work of an anonymous letter s writer. He was infatuated with a young II woman, who received a vile communicarion with young Hanley’s signature attached, and soon afterward he received a letter of the same character bearing the name of the girl. The breaking off of the ■ntimacy so preyed upon his mind that he became violently deranged. His condition is believed to be hopeless. The funeral of Charles Wamsley, who died last February, has just been held at | Huntertown. Six months ago Wamsley, i train dispatcher of the Southern Pacific Railroad in Texas, waa sandbagged and robbed in Chicago and died from the injuries. His body was W. C. McCurdy and Arthur Dickson, well-known citiaena Of ZioasvilJe, were arrested recently on a Federal grand jury IndMment charged with manufacturing oleomargarine. The case waa called for trial, when it waa found both defendants had enlisted in the army'and gone to the front to fight for their country.