Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1897 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. She Thinks She Likes Her First Husband Better than Her Second—Found Her Son After Eighteen Years-Bi® Oil Strikes Near Peru. The Husband Came Back. Several years ago Walter Jameson left Evansville because he was out of work and hard up. His wife remained behind. After waiting for five years after last hearing from him, Mrs. Jameson concluded her husband was dead. She then married George Babcock. A few days ago Jameson returned there to sec his wife and he found her in a predicament. He is now a rich man and still loves her. She, prefers Jameson to Babcock. An effort will be made to get a legal separation through the courts, there having been n<y intent on the part of the woman to commit bigamy. Finds Her Long-Lost Son. Eighteen years ago, when James Fenr died, he left a young wife and a 6-months-old son in destitute circumstances. Being unable to properly care for her Imby, Mrs, Fear placed him in the orphans’ home at Elwood and then went to California to reside. Several years later she married quite a wealthy man and then sent back for the son. The boy in the meantime, however,, had been adopted by a rich bachelor, who had taken him to England, and the mother was unable to find him, although the search for him was never abandoned. Not long since, while in Chicago, she met on a principal thoroughfare a young man who bore a striking resemblan'.-e to herself and whom sho at once believed' Was her son. She addressed him tnd after some explanation found that her surmises were correct. Big (Mt Strikes. The development of the oil field in Cass and' Miami counties- has created a craze for specula tic n among all classes. Less than three mrntlis ago Dick Strouse of Peru organized a company and drilled a well which- proved! a; “gusher,” and now every little village of consequence in thW two- counties- has its own company, awl money at command to drill for oil. Merchants, clerkti, farmers a.nd laborers whit never before ventured their money in speculation have yielded to the oil crazes At present l ent is the most conspicuous point iu the field. Nearly 200 wells hav< been drilled, and only five or six are yi®i<L ing less than fifty barrels a day. Three Killed at a Crossing. At a-dangurous blind crossing betweef Ohklandon and Lawrence three men wer4 instantly kill'd. They had been to a logging camp, and were on their way homtl when struck by a Big Four train.

All Over the State. At Limestone, James Neven was struck on the head with a beer bottle hurled bf Noah George. He will die. At Greencastle, Carl Huffman, aged 14> had both of his legs cut off while jumping on a Big Four train. His injuries arts fatal. Mrs. Liz.’ie Harding, who shot and killed Miss Mary Rosenbaum at Jefferson* yille, was indicted for murder in the first degree. John McCrea, a farmer living threw miles north of Princeton, accidentally shot and fatally wounded his 12-year-old son Charles. John Steward of Kokomo claims to bv the oldest Odd Fellow in the world. He has been a member of the order fifty-five years, and is 85 years old. News has been received of thesuicide of William Gray, a farm hand employed by Horace Hampton, near Dover. He hanged, himself with a log chain. Rev. Dr. W. E. Storey of Chicago has accepted u call to the First Baptist Church of Valparaiso. He was a missionary to Japan for four, years. J. L. Dobson of Summitville, has brought action for a receiver for the City Gas Company of Summitville. He is one of the owners, and states it is insolvent. Mrs. Sarah M. Hooker of Bicknell sued Josiah Phillipe, a rich neighbor, for s•”>,000 damages for breach; of promise. Phillipe is- a widower, 68 years old. Seymour was defeated by the small margin of 188 votes in the late election on tile question of the removal Of the county seat from Brownstown to Seymour. Tile American Wire Nail Company anncuncos that it will increase the capacity of its plants in Anderson By adding twen-ty-five more nail machines-afronce. They now have a capacity of about 2,600 kegs of nails- a day and employ seven hundred mon.

Masked men forced. an entrance into John Wright’s home in Munroe County, dragged him from Itis. bed: and administered. a severe whipping with switches, the alleged grievance being that he did not support his family. Wright is 70 years old and quite feeble. A robbery occurred; the- other night at the home of James Hamilton, who lives nort hos LaGrange. A large fodder stack and a barn were set on fire, and’ while Hamilton and his neighbors were fighting the dames the house was traasaeked. Hamilton sustained a heavy loss. William P. Miller, once a lieutenant in the Twenty-fifth lowa Infantry, and chaplain of Post No. 830, G. A. It., at Ridgeville, has been absent from his home since Oct. 11. On the Sth he sent a trunk by express to bis daughter, who resides at Council Bluffs. lowa, and on the morning of the 11th he got his [tension check on the lies Moines agency out of the Ridgeville postoffice and started to Win-ch'-steT. where he left his horse and buggy, tetling the liveryman that he' would be Itaek in a day or two. and, going to the Farmers and Merchants’ Bank, hud his pension cheek tfor s3l) cashed, since when nothing can be learned of his whereabouts. The Fitzsimmons vaudeville company filled an engagement in Marion the other night, and after the performance Robert Fitzsimmons was initiated into the local lodge of Elks. George Daugherty has been given a verdict for *52,500 damages against the Midland Steel Company at Muncie for injuries received in a pit at the mill some time ago. - Judge Sui(. one most noted Red Men of the country, president of the K. of P. Beneficial Association and supreme dictator of the world of the Loya! Ordef-. of Moose, died at Frankfort.