Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1895 — RECORD OF THE WEEKK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEKK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY’ TOLD. Great Quantities of Frnit Wasted Be-j cause of Poor Shipping Facilities—l Loses His Life-Savlna»—Barnett Re* fuses to Disgorge His Plunder. A Great Aj>ple Crop. The country about Cory don is eertainfyi one of the finest fruit-growing sections In the State. A summer meeting of the Ins diana Horticultural Society was held in' Washington Township in 1894, but there! was but little fruit that season. The, scene is quite different now. The very hillsides appear red with apples. It i» estimated that there is at least 100.000. barrels of apples in the township. Pickers enough" cannot be secured to harvest the immense crop. Shippers from Chicago are in the orchards with helpers. Apples can be bought in some orchards at prices' ranging from 15 cents to .25 eents per barrel. Hundreds of barrels now line the river bank, ready for shipment, but the water is so low that but few boats are narigiiting the Ohio. The indications are that many apples will be Tost because oT " the inability to handle the great crop.

Swindled Ont of $7,000. Frank Barton, formerly of Mancie, was very neatly relieved of $7,000, the savings of three years’ work, a few days ago. Representatives of the Davis & Rankin Manufacturing Company, of Chicago, in-, dueed Barton to invest $7,000 i.n the company and accept a position as beekkeeper. The day after he made the investment the company assigned with $600,000 liabilities. Barton had been employed by the Empire Cordage Company at Champaign, 111. His parents live in Muncie. Barnett and Farden in Jail. James Robert Barnett and J. Don Farden, who took an express package nt Terre Haute containing $16,000, are both in jail at Indianapolis. Barnett was brought from New Orleans, where he was arrested. No money was found in his possession and he refuses to tell what he did with his share of the $16,000r The detectives Who traced him did not discover that he had been spending money freely, and it is suspected that he lms deposited the money somewhere or has buried it. Both men will be tried in the United States Court. The Government was able to lay hands on them bceausty the money taken belonged to the internal revenue department.

All Over the State. The Indianapolis Fuel Company is erecting a gas pumping station near Frnnkton. The Jeffersonville Street Railway Company has sold its plant, and electricpower will be substituted for the mule. At Conn, in Ripley County, a wild grass called tickle grass, has made its appearance). It has caused great annoyance by getting into people’s wells and cisterns. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Hill, of Jackson County, were aroused in early morning by discovering their house on fire, and the family barely escaped in time to prevent cremation.

The defalcation of Albert Wade, assistant cashier of the First National Bank of MU Vernon, will not shake the stability of the bank, as the stockholders represent jr combined wealth of $1,000,000, besides * '’h the concern has a paid-up capital >rV „3p,000, with $30,000 surplus fund. *'«W shortage will not exceed $40,heirs to the supposed fabu1. lab 6 °f Lord Antrim are beginning tc . If the situation - -They have been. doing' nhthfftg so-far Dut paying assessment, and now comes the information that the whole thing is a myth. Whether or not they will stand additional assessments in pursuing the phantom they will not Bay.

During a storm at Eckerty a huge elm tree, standing near the home of Simon Wright, was thrown down by the wind, being torn up by the roots. The roots extended underneath the dwelling nnd a portion of the house was carried along. Two beds stood in thedismantled portion, one of them occupied by Mr. and Mrs Wright, and the other by the Miss Wrights. None of the family was injured. Jefferson Snodgrass owns a farm Reed’s station, which was fitted with all modern conveniences, including a natural gas pump, used in lifting water from a deep well. A frame structure surmounted the well. Recently Mr. Snodgrass employed John and Josepii Stevens to clean the well, and after the work was partially finished, John Stevens threw a lighted piece jof paper down to see if gas remained. An explosion followed, which destroyed the building and pumping machinery and seriously injured Messrs. Snodgrass and the Stevens brothers. John Stevens was seriously hurt. The fact that a preacher eloped is something out of the ordinary to chronicle from Jeffersonville, Indiana's Gretna Green, but such is the case. Wednesday night Rev. William Walstrip, a licensed Baptist minister of four years’ standing, and Miss Myrtle Hamacher eloped from Grayson County, Kentucky, and were married by Magistrate Hause. After the wedding the groom said: “What is your charge?” “Usually the price asked by a minister,” replied the Squire. “Well,” said the groom, “I am a minister, and the fact of being married by a magistrate places me iu a quandary. I am a little short, but I’ll tell you. Suppose I pay yon $2 and cal! it square?” The Squire acknowledged his approval, and a few minutes later Pastor Walstrip and bride left for their home in Kentucky. Later in the evening Thomas L. Turner, aged 19 years, and Mollie Hutslar, six years his senior, eloped from New Albany and were married by the same magistrate. This couple was followed by Patrick Clark and Josie Pearl, of Lonisville, and Noble Bryant and Mary L. Halley, of Hehry County, Kentucky. John Anderson, a foreman for the English court house contractors. Is dying, the effect of eating too freely of green liersimmons. He is the victim o i a prank played by fellow workmen, and it is not improbable that prosecution may follow. Isaac Doddridge, a Milton pioneer, B*l years old, in many respects is a remark ® able man. Recently he sold 2,700 bushels of wheat, delivering the grain himself. During the summer, unassisted, he built seventy rods of stone wall. Although wealthy, he enjoys work. He is hale and hearty, and stands a good chance of cel*« Jbrating tfls centennial birthday.