Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1896 — RECORD OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK.

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELt! * TOLD. ’ ■ “ . <- 1 Fancy Salaries on the Vandalia m Thing of the Paat Two Women! Killed by a 'Train—Farmer* Chop Toll Gates to Plecea. < Salaries Reduced on Vandalia. The announcement of the abolition of! offices and reduction in salaries by Receiver Malott of the Vandalia has caused, a sensation. Receiver Malott saya tihef position of General Superintendent wa» unnecessary and offered H. I. Miller tha position of Superintendent of the maim line, the position he heid before he became General Superintendent. It is not thought he wifi take it. Tlie office or Master Mechanic has been abolished, as! Irave those of road supervisors of the' ■ main line. Train dispatchers have been, laid off. In the Auditor’s office it is understood the order ‘is to reduce the ex-, pense one-half. Salaries of S2OO a month; are reduced in some instances SSO and! the salary of W. C. Arp, superintendent! of motive power, was cut S2OO from; SOOO a month. The salaries of the division superintendents were reduced and' it is understood that General Manager Turner is to work for several thousands* • - dollars less a year if he remains with tha company. It is not the purpose of the receiver to make a horizontal reduction iii -salaries, but to apply the knife in individual cases. Mr. Malott says the wages of train service men will not be touched. •, i * War on Indiana Toll Gates. The Frankfort and Barnersvilie toll road, the last surviving toll pike in that part of.the State, is causing much trouble. The farmers, 200 strong, have entered into a league’ to resist further payment of! toll. The toll gates were torn out a dozen times in the las| week, the farmers coming to town in processions, each with an ax in his wagon. Teams of horses were hitched to the gates and they were pulled out, root and branch. Several of the farmers have been arrested, but, standing altogether, they escaped conviction. More than twepty gates have been! chopped to pieces by . the farmers, whor ileciare they will be destroyed as fast as replaced. Mother and Daughter Killed. Mrs. Martha McGill, a wealthy widow, of Ladoga, and her daughter, Esther, left home Wednesday night to attend a wedding, where the daughter was to act as bridesmaid. They were crossing a 150-foot trestle, when a mail train approached jaehind them. Terrified, they, turned and hurried back across the treatie. When within ten feet of safety, Esther slipped between the ties. Mrs. McGill was safe on the bank, when aha heard her daughter’s cry. She turned t» help the young woman and both wero killed.

All Over the State. ’John.Patton and John Carter, both' sentenced and to be taken to Michigan City, made a sensational escape from tail at Anderson. Between turnkey; catches they tunneled out of the jaiL It was a solid stone and brick wall, and' their ease in getting through is remarkable. They then tied blankets together: and made a safe descent. Bloodhounds were placed on,the. trail, but without rgsuit, although they traced them some distance. La Grange advices say: The Brotherhood of the Co-operative Commonwealth is being established in Indiana and Michigan. This is a new movement among workingmen to assist in the establishment of co-operative colonies, and in certain sections of the country has a large membership. By regular monthly contributions they expect to raise money enoughto establish several colonies a year. Many laboring men And mechanics who have become tired of the old methods of strikes and labor troubles are going into the movement, believing that co-operation will solve the question. Wells Stevens was taken suddenly ill at Shelbyville and Dr. C. A. Tindall was called. An examination so astonished the physician that he called other leading doctors into consultation. Investigation showed that Stevens’ heart was displaced. The apex pulsates at about four inches directly below the right nipple, between tlie eighth aud ninth ribs, making- ir displacement-of fully sixlnehesto—the right aud three inches below the normal position of the heart. The heart sounds can not only be heard but plainly, felt by placing the hand oyer the position described. Its movement can also be plainly seen by removing the clothing. Sixty leading society young women of Goshen gave a remarkably successful amateur negro minstrel entertainment before a packed opera house. Society people from South Bend and neighboring cities swelled the audience. The profits, Tl.OfiO, will form the basis for a public! library fund, the women claiming that investigation revealed little or no unprovided for charity within the city precincts. Prof. .T. N. Hurty, Secretary of the State -Board of Health, has a scheme whereby he expects to save from $3,000,000 to $5,000,000 in human Jife in this State in a year. He has prepared a bill doing away with the present State Board of Health and creating a new one, which is to be supplied with laboratories costing $50,000, to be. maintained at a yearly .cost of $20,000. The Secretary of the board is to* be sty-expert hygienist. The county boards are to be reorganized, and each secretary will be empowered to appoint a deputy in each township. Dr. Hurty thinks that concerted and scientific action on the part of this board as! proposed will result In staying disease, and in the course of ,a year save enoughi in doctor bills, medicines and other ex- ' pensea to rebuild all the asylums in the. State. Hurty is looking after the diphtheria in Portland tind says if proper measures are adopted it wifi be stamped' out in three weeks. 1 *Conrad Becher, one of the publisher* anil editors of the LaPorte Journal, 1* dead, aged 55 years. Mr. Becher served tivA terms in the Uity Council and was ai promiuent Odd Fellow. Mrs. Henry . Koehler, whose child wasj burned a few months ago near Indianap-t olis, has wandered from her home near Terre Haute in an insane belief that she i wifi find the child alive at the cemetery- / She was last seen walking toward dianapolis, and her husband went J®|™. to find her. A letter from him Terre Haute police says lie lias »h®HH no trace of her. A fatalaeeidont took place on tho®|HHß Kt.it N.-e. Vloaay and I 'hi. ago -:\ miles north of Mouticelio MW®® m.ii-niuL', In the derailment of a i rain. Cecil Douglas was ki]H||||||||l| three Other members of the era® ported fatally hurt. s. \ Weeks e\ j® CI S nuns,' It 1 _ :I;.’ '.■ld natch lielo®. lie ofVeiVd a reward f® Tuesday h« received JJ Jm octal ■ M ' watch.