Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1896 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY to", * TOLD, ——■ - ' ' - > Hoosier Town Haa a Family of Giants —Engineer , Lowman Cdhnpromises His Damage Suit tor s3,soo—Fire Loss of SIOO,' OO a’t Waterloo. ■ * . I " , ’ • There I'lnglish and Irish Agree.

OA TItIC K CON nelly and his wife have been residents of English for years. They came from the IfflCMk west of Ireland. He fJTvt is five feet four UTjjj inches tall.- IShe is, - shorter. Each Weighs nearly 290 pounds. When they

landed they were childless. Sindel arrive, irig in English they have had ten children. Smnc of the vital statistics of the family are as follows: IJeight. Weight. James 1;6.9 260 Edward 6.4 245 Sarah .6.4 266 William k 6.7 1 X» 19$ Michael 6.4% 242 Daniel .....1..., .6.6 245 Bernard 6.9 248 Klien. 5.11 200 Bridget .-,4 6.2 195 Thomas 6.6% 178 Average height, 6.5 1-7; average Weight, 227.7. Thomas is only 22 years old and is not ’full grown: ’, —’ —”

Block Destroyed in Waterloo. The brick blbck on the east sidg of Wayne street, at Waterloo, was destroyed by fire early on Wednesday morning. The loss will reach nearly SIOO,OOO. Among the principal losses are: ,1. I). Campbell, drugs, $1,500, insurance, $1,500, in Voutmentai; Boyer & Leas, dry goods and Clothing, loss SIT,000, insurance, tjueen. .1»2,000 on stock, $1,50(4 ,on buihliirg, Continental ¥2,000," Phoenix 53,000, Home' ?2;tJo<),' and $5,00(1 in ot.her compa nies;WHlif & Co., stationery. loss- $2,000, no insurance; F. W. Willis. Press office, toss SB,OOO, ins.tiraiico s2,*>()o on plant and none otCtluHding: .J. 8. Jackman, boots :md shoes, loss $3,000,' no insurance: F. R. Reytield, dry go<>ds. loss $6,000. insurance SI,OOO in North.Jiritish; I. O. O. F. Building, loss $2.5(817 insurance, Queen, for $500; Knights of Pythias., loss SSOO, insurance, Continental, $300; Postmaster W. Gotts, toss ssoo,—no insurance; A.’WB. Darby Building, loss s<>.ooo, .insurance, Phoenix of Brooklyn, $3,500; F. W. Hover arid E. 'Wareham, barbefs, $l5O loss to each, no insurance; Dr. Darby’s office, loss $200; C. Hartwick, loss S3OO, no insurance; P. Fisher, tailor, toss S4W, insurance, Queen, seoo. Compromise of n Damage Suit. P. L. Lowman, of Wabash, settled his daihage suit for SIO,OOO against the Chicago and Erie Railroad Company,Accepting $3,500 rather than proceed with the trial, which had just opened in the Huntington Circuit Court. Lowman was an engineer on the Erie line between Hunt* ingtop and Chicago. East July as his train was going at a lively clip near Bass , Lake a side rod broke and the end of jthte heavy rod began smashing up through the floor of the cnb. It struck Lowman on the heel, tearing away part of the heel and so lacerating the tendons that he was crippled for life. Ho brought suit, but the attorneys reached a compromise -as indicated-, -the—company agreeing ter pay him this sum if lie would not exact fur;her employment and would pay all costs. All Over the State. Recently. >nt Shelbyville, Mrs. John Cc Sehbctoh killed herself by jumping into a cistern, and Tuesday night Mrs. Anna Wordan, wife of Mr. Will Wordan, did the same thing. Mrs. "Wordan was tihe daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Phil Weima, one of "the leading German families of the place, and was their eldest daughter. In her circle of friends no woman stood high■r. Tiieri' is absolutely no cause assigned ■>r Mr-. Wordan” killing herself. She had a nice home, all the comforts of life and plenty of friends. She. was thirty years old and had no children.

Since lire news hits been spread broadcast concerning the big $4,000,000 fortune that Squire Van Winkle, of Crown Point, recently fell heir to. he has been pestered by no fewer than 100 tetters from Van Winkles throughout the United States, writing for his biography, and also of all his ancestors. Tn nine cases out of ten they are sure they are entitled to a share ofJkSM üßoins to :n attorneys’ hands. Every mail brings many letters of inquiry. If this continues mu\-h longer Mr. Van Winkle will be forced to employ a stenographer to do his letter writing. In most every case the writer believes he is the only Van Winkle, excepting Judge Van Winkle, in existence. All that are now living expected an estate for half a century back. The cold wave was welcome over a large area of the West, which was literally mudbound for weeks. In most of the : Zitn-try towns the work done by a pair of horses in hauling an empty buggy two or three miles has been more than an average day’s work on good roads in the summer. Many of the country roads have been in such a horrible condition as to prevent even the passage of a pair of horses drawing a buggy with a sitigle occupant. Such, an experience ought to be sufficient to induce agitation for road improvement by those who hitherto have held aloof because of the prospective cost of making reasonably good roadbeds. It is easy .enough for some fanners to think it does not cost them anything to drive through heavy mud during the spft weather usual in the early spring time, but when it stops the marketing of product in the season which normally gives them little else to do it is a more serious matter. Now is a good time for the advocates of country road improvement to renew their agitation. Alfred E. Gibson, a section hand, has sued the Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad Company for $lO,- . 000 damages for injuries sustained in a head-cud collision on the I*an-Handlc, near Marion, Jan. 10. At Laporte, J. A. Dermott was arrested for a peculiar crime. He deliberately threw a beer bottle through the large plate glass window of a leading store, smashing it to atoms. He was not intoxicated, is well dressed, and no motive can be assigned for the deed. It developed that Dermott has a mania for breaking win4e»'»