Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 80, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1899 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Stockyard. Company Organized at In* dianapolia-Surprises Prisoners at Work on a Tunnel— til ,000,000 Estate Divided—Big Land Transfer. The Interstate Stockyards Company, which proposes to build a second stockyards plant in Indianapolis, has been incorporated. The capital stock is $500,000 and is largely held by Daniel P. Erwin of Indianapolis and Frederick Squires of Boston, The project is the outgrowth of a long fight by some of the local stock dealers against what they call a trust operated in connection with the old stockyards. The new company announces that it will establish branch yards at several towns in Indiana and Illinois. Jail Delivery Is Prevented. Ap attempt at jail delivery was foiled by Sheriff Bradford of Mario®, and his deputies the other night shortly after midnight. Three prisoners were- found in the corridor engaged with a- gas pipe in heating the- stone ini the floor and! then dashing wafer on. it, causing the stone- to crumble. A hole nearly large enough to admit a. man had been made over a tunnel passing under the jail fijomi the boiler house to the court house-. Divides a 8T,000,000 Estate. The will' of Mrs. Winnie- Doxey, widow of Maj. Charles T. Doxey, formerly a candidate for Governor;, was published! at Anderson, dividing almost $1,000,000' equally between her mother,. Mrs. Winifred Stillwell; her sisters;. Mrs. Kinnard' and Mrs. Burr of Chicago, and! Mrs. De Frees Critten< of New York, and! her brothers, Thos. N. and Horace C. Stillwell;, both of Anderson, Big Deal in Indiana Land; A large land deal was consummated at Vincennes. W. R. Baldwin of Delavan, 111., bought 1,475 acres of land! of J. C. Chancellor of Vincennes and Huggins & Spargur of Springfield, Ohio, paying $60,000. The land is all im one body andl some of the best in the county.

Within Oar Borden. Smallpox in' Tipton-. Indiana, oil has advanced! 2! cents. Smallpox broken out anew in> New Albany, Bryan spoke- thrice- in Fort Wayne Saturday, Hail, of the henregg: size- fell; im Sullivan County. Knox County was- hammered! with a terrific hail; storm. High; school commencements- are- coming thick and fast. Van ; Shertzer, 10). Bloomfield, drowned while swimming. The storm; Monday sort o’ tore-things up near Greene astle. North Vernon, has- laid, a new Masonic Temple corner stone. Southeastern Indiana B. I, F„ U. held a convention) at Columbus. Madison. Telephone Company has connected! up- about fifty towns. Former JiudgedEl C. Buskirk of Indianapolis has been, declared, insane. Miss Daisy Moss, Brazil, vras thrown from a buggy and! fatally injured. It cost Green, County $3,000 to send Murderer Gray to- the pen for life. Charles F. Muhler, ex-Mayor of Fort Wayne, dropped dead on the street. Elkhart Century CLuby with 200 members, has opened! a $20,000 club house. Shelbyville Methodists dug $12,500 up at one meeting for a new $15,000 church. Southern Michigan and northern Indiana Latter Day Saints met at Clear Lake. Miss Stella Metzgar, 19, Evansville, ordained as a minister in the spiritualist church. Goshen Gas Company incorporated with $60,000 capital for the manufacture of artificial gas. “Green worm” is riddling the orchards, while the Hessian fly slaughters wheat, in Wayne County. The nail trust at Anderson is trying to fasten down 6,000 acres of gas land in Adams township. Two owls have been placed in the city hall at Evansville, as models’for the municipal statesmen. Work will begin at once on the $17,000 improvement that is to be made on the Michigan City prison. Three carloads of strawberries were shipped from New Albany at one time the other day for Chicago. It is out that Auditor A. C. Manor, Jay County, was married to Mrs. Susie Moss, Covington, Ohio, May 4. Property of William H. Culbertson, New Albany, which cost SIIO,OOO thirty years ago, sold for $7,150. Mark Raynor and Mrs. Robert Osgood met Rev. E. E. Connelly, Versailles, and were married in their buggy. Clarksville will keep her post office. Attempt was made to have the town made a sub-station to Jeffersonville.

Richmond is organizing an economic league to promote intellectual welfare. Home speakers will be used. Hartford City has put out more window and flint glass in the last season than any city in the United States. The partially decomposed body of an unknown man found in' the woods near Brookville. He had cut his throat. John Mosby shot and fatally wounded Richard Latham at the Roby race track. Both men are colored and tend the stables. Studebaker brothers. South Bend, will build a $400,000 addition to their wagon plant, for the manufacture of automobiles. They have received a contract for $1,000,000 worth. Old Missouri harmony singing class, Morristown, organised sixty-three years ago, held its annual reunion Sunday. The youngest member of the class is 70 and the oldest 86. * Howard County claims the most successful co-operative factory in the country, the Indiana Goblet and Tumbler Company of Greentown. There are 300 employes and nearly every one owns stock. George Grover found his son, who is now 25 years old, bearing the name of Raymond Wright, in Huntington. The boy’s mother died when he was 6 yea m •Id. and the Wright family took him im,