Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1899 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Thirty Thousand Hoosier Glass Workers Out of Employment—Jury Fixes Monetary Value of a Hon at $l4O 50 —First Joint Township School. A Madison County jury returned a decidedly novel verdict, in which they established the monetary value of a boy from his fourth to twenty-first birthday. Chas. Guy’s 4-year-old son was drowned in an Elwood sewer two years ago. The father brought action against the city for $lO,000. The jury was instructed to find actual damages and this they did by figuring the cost and earnings of a boy each year from his fourth to his twenty-first birthday. On one side they figured his keeping, his schooling and all other expenditures and on the other side they figured his earning power. Up to his eighteenth birthday there was a deficit, but his earnings after that point made that up and on the seventeen years there was a margin of $149.50. Guy was rendered a judgment for this amount of damages. It took the jury two days to figure out their proposition. Indiana Glass Workers Idle, The closing of the various glass factories as the hot weather approaches brings to light statistics concerning the glass industry. In Indiana alone there are 30,000 men employed in the glass factories. During the hot weather this number of people are out of employment, with few exceptions. Indiana is the greatest window glass producing State in the Union. There are forty-three window factories, thirty-three flint glass factories, twenty-five greenhouses and three place glass concerns. The window glass industry is controlled entirely by three labor organizations. There is not a non-union window glass factory in the United States. Three Townships to Build a School. The first joint township school to be erected in the Stqte will be constructed on the line between Jackson township, Hiami County, Jackson township, Howard County, ana Richland township, Grant County. The trustees of the three townships met Deputy Superintendent of Public ruction Cotton and have approved the for the erection of a SIO,OOO school building at a point convenient for the pupils of the three townships. Should the experiment of consolidating the country schools prove satisfactory other buildings will be built. Is Guilty of Manslaughter. The trial of Walter Jones for the murder of Edward Adams at Carbon March 28 was concluded in the Circuit Court at Brazil and given to the jury. After remaining out until 2 o’clock in the morning the jury brought in a verdict convicting the defendant of manslaughter. Judge McGregor will pass sentence on him. Find Big Field of Asphalt. A large field of asphalt has been discovered lying under the east end of Logansport. The discovery was made while men were engaged in drilling for water and it is thought that the field joins that in the vicinity of Litchfield, 111. The quality is of the best, being produced by upheavals, forcing the oil to near the surface.

Think It’s Their Own Business. The suit brought at Seymour against the First National Bank and the Seymour National Bank by the Assessor, to compel them to open their books for inspection, was decided in favor of the plaintiff. The banks will appeal to the Supreme Court. School Teacher Going to Persia. Miss Lillian Beaber, a teacher in the Fort Wayne public schools, has resigned her position, and will leave in August for Persia, where she has been assigned to a position in the missionary field of the Presbyterian Church. , Sues for SIO,OOO DamaKes. Charles Null of Kokomo filed a suit for SIO,OOO damages against the Indiana Natural Gas and Oil Company for the death of his wife by a gas explosion last winter, alleging negligence in the maintenance of service pipes. Within Our Border a. Indiana cement combine is busted. South Bend is to be heated with hot water. A non-sectarian hospital is being talked of at Muncie. Senior class at DePauw is again stirring up the dap and gown controversy. Louis Shulte, 46, farmer near Seymour, killed by lightning on a load of hay. T. E. Wilson, Farmland, has patented a combination dining table and bathroom. Al Morris, clerk in the Spencer Hotel, Marion, will go to the Bearss Hotel, Pern. James Meeney. Anderson, went to sleep on a flat car and rolled off. Fatally hurt. Gold has been discovered at Logansport, and some capitalists are going to hunt it. Sebastian Miller, Fort Wayne, won a $1,713.94 verdict against the Wabash Railroad. Train sparks burned up his willow farm. Increase in the price of oil has stimulated business in the oil field. New capital is being invested, and many test wells are being sunk. The Barrett law scare, that has caused street improvement to be abandoned in many Indiana cities, has subsided, and work has commenced again. Sisters of the Holy Cross have decided upon the erection of a chain of hospitals in Indiana. They will establish one in every city of over 10,000 inhabitants. Deputy Fish Commissioner Welty has filed affidavits against nearly 100 residents of Cass, Fulton and Kosciusco connties for violation of the new fish law. “Billy,” a horse that has headed the parade in Bloomington every Decoration Day for eighteen years, was at his old place this year. He is 26 years old. The State Grand Army encampment committee finds that it has a surplus of $1,470. The sham battle receipts, gate and privileges, were $2,332, of which s2 r 020 was from gate receipts at 10 cents each person. The total receipts were $6,095. At last the terrible green worm that has been eating the bark off of shade trees and chewing the leaves for dessert, has run up against the real thing now. It is paris green. Another good remedy is to sturf brick dust down the worm’s throat with an umbrella, and, although tedious, it i$ sura J