Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1901 — A WEEK IN INDIANA. [ARTICLE]

A WEEK IN INDIANA.

RECORD OF HAPPENINGS FOR SEVEN DAYS. A Omt Oil Wall Is Shot Naur Ik. City of lturloa —Dulphl Man Buys S Cow for 15,000 Ua.mu An as Strike. America's ftlghest-Prloed Cow. The stock yards at Chicago beat out the Board of Trade and “Com King” Phillips on high bidding, when Colonel R. E. Edmondson sold the Hereford cow Dolly 11. for 15,000, breaking all former world’s records by $1,300. Fully 3,000 stock raisers and breeders from all parts of the world were present Sturdy stockmen not easily stirred became excited at the spirited bidding, and when the cow was finally knocked down to N. W. Bowen of Delphi, Ind., for $5,000, pandemonium broke loose, and for fully five minutes the air was filled with flying hats, wildly waving arms, a medley of canes and a tangle of handkerchiefs. It was the most exciting auction ever held in Chicago. Indlunu Obttnury. Price K. Craig, deputy treasurer of Jay county, and for a number of years a township trustee, died/at his home in Jefferson township after an extended illness. He was born in 1842. Mr. Craig enlisted three times during the civil war, serving first with an Indiana regiment, then one from Ohio, and, later, from Illinois. Huntington—William H. Smith, a owner of breedfbg stallions, dropped dead while at supper in a restaurant in this city. Rheumatism of the heart was the cause. He was wealthy and was 51 years old, a native of Stark county, Ohio. Organizing u Patent Medicine Tru«t. R. B. Davis, part owner and manager of a proprietary medical tea manufactured at Fort Wayne by the Fort Wayne Drug cfompany, has effected a reorganization of his company, with a capital stock of SIOO,OOO. The aim is to build a factory 5 at Fort Wayne for the output and to have the way for a consolidation of all the proprietary medical teas on the market in a trust. There are said to be fourteen, including the Fort Wayne article. Oil Well a Bonanza. Of all the oil wells drilled in the eastern part of the st&te, it is doubtful if any ever surpassed the No. 1 shot the other day on the Baldwin farm, near Marion. The well is owned by Wilson & McCulloch, and is located just at the western edge of the city. The oil shot up as high as the derrick, and after flowing just one hour a tank holding 250 barrels of oil was halffilled. This indicates a production better than 2,000 barrels a day. Wubi.h Man Elected Pre-inent. Walter C. Hartman, general manager of the National cooperage works of Wabash has been elected president of the National Slack Cooperage Manufacturers’ Association. The meeting, which was attended by manufacturers in this line of industry from all parts of the country, was held at Toledo, O. The next meeting will be held at Detroit. M. C. Moore of Milwaukee, was elected secretary and treasurer.

Strike of Linemen. The linemen employed by the street railway company, the light and power company and the Central Union Telephone company refused to work. They demanded a nine-hour day and |2.50 a day. X Drowned Herself In a Lake. Mrs. Robert Moore, of La Porte, awakened her family at the usual hour the other morning, after which she left her home, going to the shore of Stone Lake, not far from her home, threw herself in the wafer, and was drowned.

N Wlf«-Murderer to Hans. Judge Tilman has sentenced John Jarvis, the wife-murderer, convicted of murder in the first degree at the present term of the Circuit Court, to hang at Fayetteville Aug. 9. Indiana News -In Brief. Knightstown—Two strangers, giving their names as George Duempk and John Sweeny, were arrested by the town marshal of Kennard, eight miles northwest of Knightstown, and placed in jail on suspicion of being implicated in the killing of a brakeman on the Peoria division of the Big Four on the night of May 1. On that night two tramps were trying to beat their way over the road, and in an effort to eject them from the train the brakeman was shot. Alexandria—The final preparations are being made for the big street fair, to be held under the auspices of the Uniform Rank, Knights of Pythias, June 10 to 15. A bfg military parade, in which uniform ranks of various organizations will take part, will be the feature for the opening and preparations are being made to accommodate the large crojyd expected. Terre* Haute—The employes of the Terre Haute Street railway company have decided not to strike, pending action of the Central Labor Union relative to the matter. The discharge of a conductor, whose reinstatement, on demand of the other men, was refused by the company, was the cause of the difficulty. Lagrange—Prof. W. H. Brandenburg, of Winchester, has been elected superintendent of the Lagrange schools, vice Prof. Victor Hedgepath, resigned. The latter has accepted the superintendency at Goshen.