Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1902 — INDIANA NEWS ITEMS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

INDIANA NEWS ITEMS

STATE HAPPENINGS SUCCINCTLY TOLD BY OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS

DAN CUPID AT SOLDIERS’ HOME. Veteran Marries Woman Who Nursed Him Through Illness. A marriage, back of which there is a tinge of romance, has been solemnized in Marion, TThe bridegroom is Samuel T. Dodds, sixty-nine years old, and a member of the Soldiers’ Home, and the bride is Miss Clara Linville, a nurse at • the same place. Dodds, who has just recovered from a severe attack of'illness, was cared for by Miss. Linville, and so well did she perform her duty that the heart of the aged veteran was touched. He fell in love with her. When Dodds was able to leave the hospital he procured a marriage license, and the wedding occurred. Mrs. Dodds is several years younger than her husband. THIS PEAR TREE NEEDED IRON So James Garvin Burled Nails and Secured a Fine Crop. James Garvin, living near Newcastle, has a pear tree that grew Tor fifteen years without bearing fruit. Being told that the soil should have iron in its make-up, he dug. ifp the soil around the tree and buried a quantity of old-fashioned, rusty iron nails. This season there is a fine crop of pears. ' V PRACTICES * MEDICINE AT 83 Dr. J. W. Hervey, One of Indiana’s Early Authors. Among the first of the novels written by an Indiana author is one which in its day received much favorable comment. It bears the title, “The Scroll and Locket or the Maniac of the Mound; a Temperance Tale.” The author, Dr. James Walter Hervey, now eighty-three years old, lives in Indianapolis, and notwithstanding his age, is vigorous in intellect and still pursues the practice of medicine. He is also one of the few survivors

of the Indiana Legislature in 1854, in which he sat as a representative from Marion county. This was at the time of the disruption of parties. The doctor was a Democrat, and acted with that party until the repeal of the Missouri compromise. “Then,” said he, “being thoroughly opposed to the extension of slavery, I became a Republican.” He was a surgeon in the Fiftieth Indiana from the organization of that regiment until near the close of the war, when he was transferred to the regular army and put in charge of the Veteran Reserve Corps, guarding the prisoners at Camp Morton. Tires -of Life. Mrs. Gladys Thornburg, twenty-two years of age, fell in the street at Muncie, from the effects of poison taken with suicidal inteht. She will probably recover. She would not explain her act, but her husband said that it was probably on account of domestic troubles. Sink More Gas Wells. Twenty or more additional wells are being drilled by the Richmond Natural Gas company in the Henry county field. As pumping machinery will not be permitted, the company intends to get more gas for Richmond patrons by adding many new wells. Fishing Is Fair. J. H. Chadwick of Tuscola, 111., and E. E. Kellar of Bunker Hill, Ind., caught thirteen black bass in the bay near Chadwick hotel at Lake Maxinkuckee. Four of the bass weighed four pounds, each of the others averaging three. Right Side Up. Burt Stallsmith of Muncie, an oil operator in the Parker City field, fell from a derrick. His body struck a projection and turned him over so that he alighted on his feet. Hotel Burns. The Commercial Hotel at St. Paul, Shelby county, and a dwelling house near it, were destroyed by fire. Loss |4,000, with 51,500 insurance. Loses the Bonus. The Rochester shoe factory, brought from Daleville, Ind., several years ago, in consideration of a $25,000 bonus, has changed hands, and the present proprietor is planning to move the plant to Wisconsin. Injuries Are Serious. Hiram Humphrey, the aged veteran of the civil war, who was so seriously injured by being run over by a race horse at the Osgood fair, lies in a critical condition at his home in Benhaa

NEW WAY TO BECURE CLOTHES Sharper Induce* Man to Don Old Suit to Work Irs. John Kelley, of Anderson, worked a new graft In Noblesvllle, and is now in Jail. Representing himself to be connected with the carnival company that was showing there, he approached Charles Gerber, a young man, and asked him to work at one of the shows. When the latter accepted the employment Kelley told him to change clothes, claiming that his wearing apparel was too good to work in. As soon as the change was made Kelley donned Gerber’s new suit and got out. WOMAN HAS A NARROW ESCAPE Roof Falls as She Is About to Enter Burning Barn. On the Josepn Whlttenberger farm, five miles east of Rochester, the. large barn containing seven head of horses, twelve hundfed bushels of wheat, nearly as many bushels of oats, and farm machinery, was burned. Mrs. Whlttenberger ran to the barn to pull her buggy out, and just as she reached the door th<j roof fell in and crushed the buggy under burning timbers. She escaped. Insurance, $600; loss, $3,000. NO CHARM IN GOVERNMENT JOB Fort Wayne Merchant Makes More Money in Private Business. Kaleen Teen, a Syrian merchant, who runs a store at Ft. Wayne, and who was recently appointed interpreter for the immigration bureau at the port of .New York, has returned from that city, having declined the place. Teen says the salary under the government was only $1,200 a year, and he could make a much larger sum than this in business. FEARED HE WOULD LOSE SPOUSE Iron Worker, Recovering From a Spree, Takes Morphine and Dies. Remorseful ever being intoxicated for two days, and also over the sorrow it had caused his young wife, Moses McConnell, twenty-three, a wellknown iron worker, took morphine and died. , He had been married only a year. He said he feared that his young wife, of whom he was intensely fond, would leave him because of his spree. Want to See Roosevelt. Representative Landis wired the president that'the citizens of Howard, Tipton and Hamilton counties would be greatly disappointed if he did not stop at their county sekts on his coming trip. Mr. Landis received a reply which, hie says, justifies the belief that stops will be made at Tipton and Noblesville, in addition to Kokomo. Gas for Another Winter. An expert gas engineer has completed the investigation of the Muncie fields and says that natural gas is good for another winter. Trampled by Vicious Horse. At Richmond Winfield Smelser was seriously kicked by a vicious horse and tratnpled on until he became unconscious. T-" 1 Demands Back Taxes. The United States Treasury has made a demand for $4,000 of back taxes due from the Deltrich Gas Company.

White Oak Is Scarce. Blair & Failey, an Indianapolis firm, will remove their barrel-beading factory from Terre Haute to Arkansas aboqt the first of the. year, because the supply of white oak timber is almost exhausted. Red Men’s Carnival. The Red Men of southern Indiana have arranged to give a street fair and carnival at Huntingburg August 26 to 30. Ex-President Van Horn of the United Mine Workers will deliver an address.

MR. TATMAN DOES THE SMILING Forty Acres of Poor Land Produces $75 a Day in Oil. William Tatman, a farmer living west of Hartford City, last fall owned a little farm of eighteen acres, improved with a new house and barn. There was an orchard on the place and other fruit, which it had taken years to raise. He sold the place for SI,BOO, and became the laughingstock of his neighbors and friends. Greatly discouraged, he paid SI,BOO for forty acres of poor land, on which there was neither house nor barn. He mortgaged the land to erect a house and barn, and about that time leased his farm to J. B. Mayer of Buffalo. N. Y. He is now the owner of the greatest producing oil well ever drilled in the Indiana oil field. By the pipeline measurements, the well is producing 450 barrels of oil a day, and. his royalties amount to $75 a day. Other wells are being drilled on the tract, and the indications are that he will become rich! Tatman takes his good luck philosophically, ami goes about working with his crops just as though he had never heard of the big strike on his place. NEW WRINKLE IN HOLD-UP LINE Farmer Is Searched, Charged with Having Counterfeit Money. Hiram Lee, a farmer living south of Paoli, was returning home from town, when a stranger halted him and told him that he was a counterfeiter, and that he had counterfeit money in his pockets. The stranger took 20 cents, all the money that Lee had, pronouncing it counterfeit, and. returned it to him. He then satisfied himself .by going through the farmer’s pockets. Lee is a pensioner and substantial citizen, and it is thought the stranger, expecting to have pension money in his pockets, intended to rob him. He thinks he can identify the felfow. REUNION OF DUNBAR FAMILY, Gathering to Be Held Near Colfax, Thursday, Aug. 28. The Dunbar family reunion will be held the last Thursday in August, four miles west of Colfax. The head of the family, Lewis, was married in Ohio in 1823, to Mary Powers, and moved to this state in 1830. To this union was born sixteen children—ten boys and six girls. Five boys and three girls are still living. Thei mother died in 1853. The father married a second time and to them were born eight children, of whom four are still living. Abandon Orphan Asylum. Within a few months the Wayne County Orphans’ Home will be a thing of the past. The commissioners have decided to abandon it. Big Greenhouse. J. A. Ernsherger, of Delphos, Ohio, has completed arrangements to erect in Decatur one of the largest greenhouses in Indiana. Dies in the Philippines. Mrs. Robert Demar, of Cambridge City, is dead in the Philippines, where she recently went to join her husband. Oversupply of Teachers. There is a surplus of teachers in Madison township—eighteen teachers and but eleven schools.

Offers Factory Site. An Alexandria real estate firm Is offering a free factory site adjoining « railroad title perfect and taxes paid, to any factory employing five people or more, -the proposition to remain open ninety days. ' Women to Parade. Alexandria’s Woman’s Union Lftbhl league will participate in the Wabash Labor Day celebration and the members are holding sewing parties to make their uniforms.

DR. J. W. HERVEY.