Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1898 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Another Gusher Near Hartford City —Fnmmer Closing of Glass Plants— Wire Worker to Hava a Fortune— Sold His Wife for Cash and a Wheel. Big Oil Well in Second Stratum. What promises to be the most productive oil well in the Indiana field waB K trtrot on the Leonard farm at Hartford City. The owners of the well arc-Ludwig & McDonald, and it is their fourth hole. The first twenty-four hours the well produced 900 barrels, and has since settled and making 500 barrels. The well is what is known as a “crevice well.” The well is most remarkable, and demonstrates the fact that oil may be found in the lower depths of the Indiana oil formation. No oil was found in the well until the last crevice. Many operators have doubted the existence of a second pay stratum. Glass Plants Shut Down. Fires have been drawn in most of the Indiana window glass plants for the summer season. Probably all in the nation are now shut down until Oct. 1. Manufacturers and workers have practically agreed on a scale for the coming year. It will be about 4 per cent increase. It is ilso understood on good authority the wire nail trust has just closed a deal absqrbing the anti-trust combine, which includes nine plants and gives trust fully 95 per cent of the production of the nation. Both have big plants at Anderson. Fortune for a Wire Work«r. Joseph Marshall of Anderson has been called to Toronto to attend a meeting of heirs of John Marshall, the famous Toronto millionaire brewer, whose wealth when he died was estimated in eight figures. Joseph Marshall is a wire worker and a poor man. He is a grandson of the decedent and will come in for nearly ?!,- 000,(MM). The brewer was very miseriy and during his life the Anderson man did not even get his eyes on one of his dollars. Arrested at Hia Wedding. Robert E. Kelley enlisted in the regular army in Evansville six months ago. He was stationed at Fort Riley, Kan., and deserted because he could not learn to ride a horse. He went to Grayson County, Kentucky, where he was recently married to his cousin. The other night while his friends gathered at his home in honor of his marriage he was arrested. The young wife was prostrated when the officer led her husband away.

Within Our Borders. At Andetson, a company has been organized to manufacture glass tombstones and monuments. For the third time within a few months the postoffice at Shideler has been robbed. The burglars secured $25 in cash. F. G. Darlington, general superintendent of the Indianapolis division of the Pennsylvania lines, has resigned. Joseph Harper, general merchant at Middletown and owner of a hat store in Terre Haute, has made an assignment. The returns of the assessors in Hm dricks County show a gain of $188,530 in the assessed valuation of personal property. Luther Benson, the Indianapolis temperance lecturer, died suddenly at Rushville, where he had gone to deliver a lec,ture. One hundred street laborers went on a strike at Evansville. They demanded J 1.50 a day. They have been receiving sl. The body of William Scholl was found floating in the Ohio at Madison. He leaves a wife. Cause of the drowning is unknown. Edmon Buehert, 17-year-old son of Joseph Buehert of Weisburg, was drowned in the Railway pond at Milan while in bathing. Mr. and Mrs. "Mat” Buck of Madison now have twelve sons and seven daughters, the seventh daughter being born a saw days ago. At Evansville, a petition was filed in the Circuit Court asking for the appointment of a receiver for the Sherman Wall Paper Company. Over $50,000 is involved. A stock company is being organized at Hartford City to erect a factory for the manufacture of air brakes. Judge Wilson of Fort Wayne is at the head of the enterprise.

Walter Shores, an Elwood saloonkeeper, was convicted of manslaughter for the killing of Taylor Endricks last March and was given a two to fourteen year indeterminate sentence. Frank Abney, a Fortville farmer, aged about 55, left the dinner table the other day and went to his barn, where ho was found dead. No marks were found on his l>erson and he is supposed to have died of heart disease.

State Geologist Blatchley has filed his annual report with the Governor, in which he says the natural gas area of the State once embraced 3,000 square miles; that it embraces less than half that area now, nnd that the rock pressure fell off thirty pounds in 1897, and is gradually becoming weaker. The Republican State central committee and the executive and advisory comhave determined to hold the State nominating convention Aug. 3 and 4. The representation will lie on the basis of one delegate for each 200 votes or fraction over 100 votes cast for President McKinley, and the convention will consist of 1,616 delegates. Louis Roth of Edinburg attempted suicide by taking 5 cents’ wo; th of arsenic nnd a tumbler of whisky. He was missed from his place of work and was found locked in his room in an insensible condition; but the physician's pump revived him and he is now thought to be out of danger. He is a single man and about thirty-jive years old. A proposed trip to the Paris exposition in 1900, which was to have been made by a club of gentlemen of New Albany, has been abandoned on account of the unfriendly attitude of the French people toward the United States in the present controversy with Spain. After waiting a year for Coates College nt Terre Haute, the institution for the higher education of women founded by Mrs. Coates of Greencastle, to reopen its doors, W. R. McKcen, its benefactor for several years, has been told that there is no hope, and he will sell the property for city lots