Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1899 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THK PAST WEEK. Family Narrowly Escapes Death from Poisoned Coffee—Coal Strike Ended at Washington—Monopolists in Dog Show Business—State Law Io Void. > Alonzo Wallet, his wife and Mrs. Wallet’s sister, Mrs. Sarah Kline of Logan, Ohio, who was visiting at the Wallet home in Marion, were poisoned by drinking coffee made from a package found on their doorstep. A recent announcement in the local papers by a new coffee and tea house that they would furnish each house in the city with a trial package of coffee led Mrs. Wallet to believe that the package found was for trial, and she made enough for the family for breakfast. It is learned that the tea and coffee firm haa not yet put out any samples. Miners Long Strike Ended. Indiana’s long coal miners’ strike was terminated at Washington by an agreement of the differences. The strike began nearly two years ago by the refusal of Cabel & Co. to pay for the removal of what is known as “dead dirt.” The agreement entered into now provides that the company shall adhere strictly to the Chicago national agreement; shall pay for the removal of “dead dirt” and put in one and one-fourth inch screens to take the places of the one and a half-inch screens. Corner on Dog Show Business. The Gentry Brothers, the great Indiana dog show managers, have run a corner on the dog show business of the country by absorbing Sipe & Dolman, Sipe & Blake, Norris Brothers, Westlake Brothers, Sig Cannon and C. E. Rice. The Gentrys now own over 400 ponies, 600 trained dogs, 100 monkeys, eight elephants, three zebras and one goat. Their homes are at Bloomington. Says State Law Is Null. At Indianapolis, Judge John H. Baker of the United States District Court decided that the assignment law of Indiana had been suspended by the' national bankruptcy act. He holds that any title may be declared null and void at any time by an appeal to the Federal Court under the bankruptcy act. Within Our Borders. Glanders among horses near Evansville. Dogs are butchering many sheep around Marion. Pendleton will have water works and electric lights. Brooklyn mills have passed into a receiver’s hands. Evansville proposes a municipal electric lighting plant. Will See, Logansport, broke his leg while playing ten pins. Esther Stillebower, 14, Bartholomew County, fatally burned. Madison County has gained $600,000 in wealth during the past year. Henry Osler, Kokomo, slugged the other night and touched for $6.20. Pastors’ association, Kokomo, has declared against slot machines. Daniel Minneman, found unconscious with his head fractured at Osgood. Eighteen-months-old baby of Elmer Flint, Brookville, choked to death on popcorn. Mcßeth lamp chimney factory, Elwood, has resumed operations with 500 employes. Wm. Wright, prominent Gibson County (farmer, is dead. He had been married just two weeks. Timothy RayeJ, switchman in the Pennsylvania yards, Fort Wayne, killed by falling from a car. Another batch of Laporte citizens has been arrested, and it cost each S2O for keeping an unlicensed Aog. Mat Peters, Tipton County, shot himself to death willfully. He was the fath-er-in-law of John McCreary, sheriff. Seven-year-old son of Steven Bolander, near Mohawk, accidentally shot and killed his 4-year-old sister with a target rifle. Fourteen boys and girls from the Cincinnati orphans’ home were distributed among the good people of Windfall and vicinity. Verdict of “not guilty” in the case against Robert McCoy for killing George Newman, Greensburg, was received with cheers.

Panhandle Railroad has promised to build a bridge over Indian creek at Franklin, and the city will withdraw its suit against the company. Exchange of the Home Telephone Company, New Albany, burned during a wind storm. Fire caused by crossed wires or lightning. Loss $1,500. Mr. and Mrs. Theophilus Crumpacker of Valparaiso, parents of Congressman Crumpacker, observed the fifty-second anniversary of their wedding. They are 75 and 74 years of age respectively. One of the biggest gas wells that have recently been drilled in that section is that of C. H. Croninger, on the east edge of Hartford City. The well has a tremendous pressure. A Princeton man climbed a ladder to a roof to sweep off snow. The wind Mew the ladder over and he stood for half an hour in a howling blizzard before he could call attention to his predicament. The failure of the American Brewing Company at Chicago forced the Columbia Brewing Company of Logansport to the wall. The plant is valued at SIOO,OOO, and John G. Keip, its president, is receiver. Receiver Malott of the Vandalia line has turned over the forty miles of road from South Bend to St. Joseph, Mich., to the new owners, composed of New York and Connecti mt capitalists, whose bid of SIOO,OOO for the property to protect themselves when it was sold by order of the court was the only one made. Two .masked men visited the home of John Kissinger In Spencer County and beat him into insensibility upon his refusal to reveal the hiding place of his money. Kissinger is a bachelor living alone. He is supposed to have money hid about his place. Clark Kidder and wife, are raising a baby on raw beef. It is 17 months old. For a time it grew thin and was expected to die. No kind of food did it any good until it was fed raw beef end pepsin. It began picking up, until now it is able to digest a few kinds of Xood« ’ ... i. . ' - -*- r . . . -•* ' ■