Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1895 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. New Oil Field i’r ivcs to Bo Very Rick —Father Receives Damages from Saloonkeepers —Four Badly Injured jsSinraELyille try »n Explosion. Superior Quality of Oil. An official terit made of the oil from the new Indiana field discovered by Major Doxey south of Anderson shows that Indiana’s oil territory will rank much more favorably with that of Pennsylvania than the field now being worked in the northeastern part of the State. The-yield .of. 1100 barrels a day of the first well drilled near Kaightsfown shows that 95 per cent. is pnra Thia shnwaT per cent., 65degree gravity; naphtha, 22 per cent., 40 -degree grhvity; coal oil, 10 per cent., 30 degree gni v ity: d istrHat« r 25 per cent., 30.1 degree gravity; engine oil, 25 per gent, lubricating oil. This class of oil is worth $1 in the field,’ while other Indiana oil is worth but 05 cents. The find is one of the best made in recent years. Major Doxey has 10,000 acres of land in the vicinity under lease and promises to change his title from the Natural Gas lying to the Oil King. The find was made the night hi? $50,000 fire nt Alexandria, which destroyed his plate-glass plant. He found both telegrams awaiting him at the same time. Patched Up by the Doctors. There is a man in Warsaw, George Burns, who is probably ns nearly a complete physical wreck ns c-an be found in a day’s journey. He was the chief engineer of the coast, line steamer City of Savannah, which was wrecked off the Massachusetts coast Jan. 18,1884. Burns was in charge of the ISvnt’s machinery and when the crush came was thrown into machinery. -He,_ with thirty-seven others, was rescued, and for seyeral years he was not able to talk, being under- the care of,« New York specialist during part of the time. Five ribs were removed from his left side and his sknii was trephined, six ounces of silver plating being used in the latter operation. A portion of the lower part of the spine was taken away, both elbow joints are gone, a knee cap was fractured and he was hurt internally, his heart being scrionsly affected. For four years he wore a plaster of paris jacket. Burns is 64 years old and walks reasonably well, in spite of bis EnHk. Ha-4s-an, euthnsiastiuc G. A. R. member. "/T" '

Gas Well Accident, A terrible accident was reported Saturday from j Granville, a village eleven miles northeast of Mimcie. Four men were badly injured. The injured: Arthur Bradley, driller, badly burned; Jas. Osland, driller, badly burned; Thomas Thomas, driller, fatally hart; unknown, driller, badly burned. The Dickerson Gas Company of Ohio has leased a number 6f farms in the northern part of the county for the purpose of drilling for gas, which is to be piped to Ohio. A gas well on Wilber Peterson’s farm, near Granville, was started Wednesday, and on Thursday evening a pocket of gas was unexpectedly struck. Before trenton rock was reached gas rushed out of the pipe with terrific force, knocking the derrick down. All the drillers were injured in the fall. A torch being used in the work exploded the escaping gas.. The concussion was heard ten miles a Way.

A Verdict for .Plaintiff. In the case of Adam Johnson against Dreyhoble & Ileath, saloon-keepers in Bedford, for damages, the jury returned a verdict giving the plaintiff $75. The plaintiff’s son, about 17 years old, was killed by a pistol shot fired by an intoxicated young man named Brace, who, with two companions, went to the factory where young Johnson was acting ns night watchman. Johnson brought snit for damages for $2,000, alleging that the Brace hoy obtained the liquor from which he was intoxicated at the time of the murder from the above-named saloon-keepers. This is the first case of the kind ever tried in that court. All Over the State. Cloverdaie is seeking telephone service. George Hartley, near Bethel, was killed by an accidental fall into his cellar. The Muneie electrical works has been sold to Lafayette capitalists, and the plant is being removed to that city. At Wabash, Mrs. Lucinda Maddox has sued William Emsnider, a saloon-keeper, for SIO,OOO for loss of support of her husband, who is said to be a drunkard. The bakery and grocery of Hana & Brothers, at Hbbart, was destroyed by fire; L*ss, $5,000. The family had a narrow escape from burning to death. Mrs, Emofine Wiggins, of Fountain City, while in the woodshed attached to her residence, in the act of getting fuel, was prostrated by paralysis. Her recovery is improbable. The jury found for defendant in the Worden-Fries case at Logansport. The demand was for damages growing out of -IW-ttW.finw Kr Hossr Wow, was sent to the penitentiary, and his wife sued Nicholas Fries for damages, alleging that he was responsible for her deprivation of her husband for having sold him the liquor unlawfully. The jury found for the defendant on the testimony of Fries nnd others that he was compelled at the i»oint of a revolver to sell the whisky to Worden. With ringing of bells, booming of cannon and shrieking of whistles, the four days’ celebration of the hundredth anniversary of the founding of Fort Wayne was ushered in at an early hour Wednesday morninSt Neve? did the people of the city hear such a ntbisy, enthusiastic demonstration. The! city was handsomely decorated, grand arches illuminated and the electric display the finest ever attempted-. Three thousand people at Princess rink listened to the formal opening" of the exercises and the address of welcome by Mayor C. B. Oakley. The city was crowded with people. ’ Otto Myer, of Fort Wayne, while on a hunting expedition, in knocking an apple from a tree wjtli his gun,- accidentally discharged the weapon, the load striking him in the abdomen. He died within a few hours. At noon Tuesday, two men rushed into Pickard’s hardware store at Fort Wayne, while the store was crowded, and grabbed the money drafwer out of the open safe, and ran to the street. Mr. Pickard caught and held one of thq men. In the meantime the money aggregating S3OO, was scattered, and only part of it wan recovered. 4