Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1899 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THt' PAST WEEK. Will Not Make the Fiwht-Opoi-.atore •nd Miners Fail to A<ree-Blx Fire at Patoka—Fatal Fend Between Bel- , atlves-New Industry for Pern. The manufacturers of the gas belt who organized a short time ago to fight the foreign gas pipe line companies have abandoned the project. The foreign companies assert that the pressure in their main Hue* does not exceed the 300-pound limit prescribed by law, and that the powerful pumps used are not for the purpose of drawing the fluid from the earth, but to force it through the mains. On these points the companies are prepared to make a prolonged fight, and as the outcome, after much expensive litigation, would be uncertain, the manufacturers have decided to drop it. Coal Men in a Wrangle. The meeting between a select committee of block coal operators and miners held at Brazil to make a final effort to adjust a scale for a year closed sine die without an agreement being reached. Miners insist upon suspension of work at once, and it will be a difficult matter for the officers to induce the men to work longer. AU the men employed at the Big Four mine, belonging to F. 8. Peabody of Chicago, quit work on account of no settlement being reached. The miners are prepared for a hard fight Greater Part of Patoka Destroyed. Fire at Patoka came near destroying the entire town. The fire started in Samuel Burns’ saloon. The total loss is put at $20,000, partly covered by insurance. The fire is supposed to have been of in-? cendiary origin. There have been six attempts within the last year to burn out the town of Patoka and there are now seven firebugs serving time, convicted of incam diarism in the town. " Biscuit Plant for Peru. Hugh McCaffrey will establish at PefM immediately a biscuit works which may? compete with the trust. He is a man of large means, who .has spent most of hfoj life in the grocery trade, and sees a profit in crackers and kindred articles at the? prices paid the trust. He has placed an order for nearly $40,000 worth of ery and will install his plant at Peru before July. Fatal Fight at Carbon. Walter Jones shot and instantly killed! Edward Adams at Carbon. Jones and Adams were relatives, and there had been a long-standing feud between them. Ad-j ams and Jones met at William Baxtct’M saloon and a fight followed. Jones shot Adams in the head and continued until he emptied his revolver. Jones was arrested. ’ Within Our Borders, ' J Attica will have a $50,000 sanitarium. J Anti-trust bottle house erected at LafeL Diamond coal mine, near sold for $13,000. Markham & Stephens will reopen tiMdsl distillery near Rosewood. i | Indiana stands second in glass produs*| tion in the United States. Shelbyville Council cut the mandHM salary from S7OO to $350 a year. Samuel Gronnert, an Indianian, is man-J aging editor of the London Telegraph. Miss Gertrude Kemp, Fisher's Station,! went to Chicago and is mysteriously missing. Mrs. James Keiser, Anderson, went! shopping the other day and did not re-1 turn. . The Grant Daffron sawmill was blowik! up at Noblesville, the explosion iiwfrahßjil killing Alfred Bennett and destroying 4m| mill machinery. Because Dr. Joseph D. Kelley of EhlM mandale squandered his money for liquor, his wife, Mrs. Elsie Kelley, shot him* through the breast. 8. M. Austin, a traveling salesman tor sh Philadelphia wholesale paint house, was instantly killed by the Chicago-New special on the Lake Shore at Osceola. John Ferriter, serving a life sentence Um the Michigan City penitentiary for the? murder of Policeman Charles Ware of In-* dianapolis two years ago, escaped by overpowering a guard he was assisting outside! the prison walls. The lamp chimney factories in the In-I diana gas belt have closed down indefinitely, many of them discharging all workers and advising them to seek employment! in other channels. The reason given the shut-down is the sluggish markets. | Five persons were injured, two fatally,? in a runaway during a funeral at Evansd ville. The five persons were in a hkeM and the team became frightened at street car. The hack was completely de-! molished and the funeral procession warn stopped an hour. •'.-'W Congressman A. L. Brick and Joseph 8.3 Arnold have sold to Josiah C. Houck acres of land in Olive township, the COtt-1 sideration being $11,600. The land is adjacent to the great Kankakee region andl is partly marsh. It will be drained and anfl Amish colony will be started there. Monroe City was thrown into a flutter | by the elopement and romantic marriagdg of Frank Owens and Miss Annie Lloyd.! Miss Lloyd ostensibly went to church, but instead met her lover, who was waiting! in a buggy, and started to Rev. Mr. Denny’s home to be married. They met tiM| minister on the road and made knowM their wishes and insisted that the ceremony be performed then and there, upon the minister, while alb were Beaten in their vehicles, had them join han&wjM pronounced the words that made theura one. The couple, accompanied by the reS erend gentleman, drove to the home oftfceS bride to ask parental blessings. The girl’sj mother, when apprised of the fWct, faint-;] id. Postmaster Lloyd had forbidden hM daughter keeping company with OwiijM which resulted in the elopement. The Christian Church congregatitoß'tO Vincennes has decided to build a fiireaMi|| stone church and $8,500 was raised Mr voluntary subscriptions at the first meeting. Congressman George W. Cromer chosen Scott Fulton of Hartford Citv tii! a?^gXt tb to & thi tt WTOt a po£t academv ’-“iSl -'i A ‘ 1* ' * '