Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1901 — A WEEK IN INDIANA [ARTICLE]

A WEEK IN INDIANA

RECORD OP HAPPENINGS FOR SEVEN DAYS. Promote!* Who Are Bnildlag a Trolley Line Centhweet from Fort Wayne Elect (Officer* —Father Drop* Dead om Hla Daughter's Return. New Oißcers Are Choeen. The management of the Island Park Chautauqua held its annual winter business meeting at Rome City, and arrangements for the opening twentieth century session were completed. A twenty-one days’ program will be filled, opening July 24. The following officers were elected:* Rev. L. J. Nafttger, Muncie, Ind., chancelloor; Rev. G. W. Mosher, Hillsdale, Mich., vice chancellor; Dr. P. J. Becker, Dayton, 0., superintendent; Rev. J. F. Snider, Lagrange, Ind., field secretary; W. F. Owen, Rome City, Ind., president and auditor; P. G. Cobbs, Rome City, secretary; M. A. Williams, Rome City, treasurer. Arrangements were perfected for the publication "of a monthly magazine by the assembly association, to be called the Western Chautauquan. Rev. J. F. Snider will have charge of the editorial department

Indiana Town Badly Burned The business portion of Rdhnn, this eounty, was wiped out by fire this evening. The flames originated in a business block in Main street .and a terrific gale carried the fire entirely through the business portion. The place is practicaHy without fire protection and assistance was called for from all the surrounding towns. Engines were brought from Peru and North Manchester on special trains, but they were of service only preventing the flames from spreading to the residence part of the town. Telephonic communication with the place is cut off and details are not obtainable, but the loss will amount at least to 175,000. “OH F«ver“ at Terr* Haute. The Mewhinney oil well is showing a capacity of about twenty barrels a day under pumping pressure, which Is a profitable quantity, inasmuch as the cost of pumping is light, the pumping 'machinery receiving power from the Mewhinney factory near by. The finding of oil in this well has renewed ths "oil fever” that has taken hold of some Terre Haute people several timet since the first finding of the fluid fourteen years ago. and it is probable that other wells will be drilled. Officer* of Road Elected. The ’T'ort Wayne and Southwestern Traction company, formed by Chicago and lowa promoters to build a trolley line west from Fort Wayne along the old Wabash and Erie canal, has elected the following officers: President, W. S. Reed of Chicago; secretary, George Townsend of Dcs Moines, lowa. The grading is now completed to Roanoke, fifteen miles, and the ties are distributed over nearly all of that part of the line. Honor to Hoont'ii Memory, The Indiana legislature adjourned out of respect to the memory of ex-Gov-ernor James A. Mount. The state officers met and adopted appropriate resolutions, body of the former governor lay in state at the capitoL Funeral services will be conducted at Indianapolis at the First Presbyterian church. The body was takeq to Crawfordsville for burial. RaUe* Blockade on Midland. Judge John H. Baker of the United States court has raised the blockade of the Midland railroad on the Grantham farm in Montgomery county, where the movement of trains has been hindered for over a week. Attorneys for the road asked for a restraining order against further blocking of the trains and Judge Baker granted it Wltaeaa Sent to JalL Charles Barrett, an employe of the Pioneer Hat works, Wabash, was subpoenaed to appear before the grand jury. He refused to answer questions end the Judge fined him |5, sent him to jail for twelve days, with explicit instructions that he should be allowed nothing but bread and water. Barrett swears he will ngver give in. I»4l»n» Election Cum Cp. Judge West of Montgomery county began the trial of the election contest cases at Frankfort. There are four cases In ail and two of them he threw out of court on faulty complaints, the attorneys of the Democratic contestants for county commissioner and surveyor having failed to allege that contestors were electors. Dropped D»d on Daughter'* Return. Overjoyed at the home-coming of his daughter, Mary Hulton, from Arkansas, Nathaniel Bramlett dropped dead in her arms at Shelbyville. He had not seen his daughter in twenty-five years. Pupil, to Visit Legislature. The teachers in Terre Haute schools have decided to give another excursion to Indianapolis for the pupils of the city, that they may look in on the legislature and the state offices, as has been several years past. The date has not been fixed. Ex-Senator Bell lIL Former State Senator R. C. Bell, counsel for the Nickel Plate, Lake Shore and Lake Erie roads In Indiana, U At the point of death at Fort Wayna.