Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1899 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELyJ told. —— - - JStarke County Preacher Predicts World*. End Soon Natural Gas| ply at Peru Deficient—Woman FOUIhM Htuband Wa» Kmbalaed AHVS,| The Rev. Dr. J. T. Boyd, a Stzrjl County preacher, predicts that | will come to an end soon, and, to be BtHlB specific, he has fixed upon Nov. 11, 189|| J as the date for the earth’s dissolttpafli I He bases his prophecy upon science Biblical facts. The Rev. Mr. Boyd'. S*y«W that the earth passes through a stre*w|| of meteors in different places evsoH thirty-three years, and that on the datjg® above mentioned the world will come ianS contact with the solid bodies that the head of this meteoric stream. SIM® thus cause the extinction of the hnauMM race. ® Gas Shortage at Peru. The Peru branch of the Dietrich nral gas syndicate announced that gM||j will be turned off at all factories, publie® buildings, gas engines and other piaCM||| where much gas is used. It is claimed! the pressure is so low that gas cannot W \ supplied without pumping, and the confr*® pany will not put in a station unless thm® city will compromise its suit for a one*® third reduction of rates which is now? pending in the United States Supremg§| Court. Oil drillers and pumpers will btSi greatly affected by the cutting off ots®; their engines. j Sensation at Summitville. Summitville is excited over the an-® nouncement of Mrs. Edward Hunter flMrijflj; her husband was embalmed before he|| was dead. She said that after the undctj! taker left, she held a mirror to his noa-i s trite, and the surface was soon cover*aflL with moisture. She became The doctor and undertaker say the mad® was dead. | j Within Our Border*. i j Miss Nellie Etchison, 18, Elwood, missing. ] Mrs. Earl Parks, Martinsville, has gone® to New York to ring in a series of con-'’l; certs. Howard Satterfield, DeSoto, accideraHj ally shot and killed hie brother, 20, a shotgun. 1 Mrs. Edna Matthews, took “rough on rats” successfully. Causa®! unknown. * | Ezra Woodring, Muncie, arrested friF:|| keeping his grocery open on Sunday, w«i9 fined <21.35. 1 It is proposed to build a telephone IfnKu along the Ohio river from Madison w® New Albany. 1 A fine two-story brick house in was torn down the other day because it | was “ha’nted.” | Logansport high school football teaa*||; has challenged anything within a radtos?| of fifty miles. • | Time lock in the Citizens’ State Hartford City, got out of whack an<f' <75,000 was tied up. 1 Willard Brown, the Marion boy on trials® for killing Mendal Knapoff, pawnbrokeßjll said he did it in self-defenee. 1 Terre Haute hunters are grumbling be-1 cause they will have to pay <lO licen**M to shoot in Illinois this winter. .MS 1 John F. Staley, Martinsville, stumhl«Bi with a gun while hunting and shot him<l self in the breast. Died instantly. | Plans are being arranged for the enter- i tainment of the Indiana delegation to tbgh'fl C. E. convention in London in 1900. | Rev. 11. A. Percival, chaplain of the I 161st, has been made pastor of Broad<fl way Presbyterian Church, Logansport; || | Robbers stole <SO from the familyof 1 Nehemiah Ellis, Windfall. The money, | had been saved to buy winter clothing. J | There is a good thing in lumber at pres-1 ent, and several companies in have been organized, with prospects for® more. fl Explosion in a gas regulator statioiß near Union City injured Ed Goodriti®| Millard Woodbury, J. C. Hirscb and jjjjfl B. Gares. fl At Upland, the 15-months-old child of® S. R. Penrod, a farmer, died from stran-fl gulation, a chicken bone having lodged in ■ its throat. * fl Additions being made to the Eaton® lamp black factory, near Mancie, wgj® make it the largest plant of the kind in s the United States. fl Thomas Bowers, Seattle, Wash., capijflfl talist, who has been negotiating for a foe- fl tory in Pendleton, was found dead wfl bed in an Anderson hotel 1 Prof. Dan McDougal has presented Dafl Pauw University with a very fine coilebj® tion of plants, which he gathered in zona while working for the Governmes®® there. ,® Morris Gustin, Anderson, threw a shot-® gun across a fence he was climbing, and I both barrels were discharged. One® charge tore off his right arm and the® other lodged in his heart. fl Moses Smith of St. Paul, Minn., and I Miss Dora Thuman of Evansville were® married the other day nnder circumstances. The wedding was to have ® taken place the previous night and t&® bride was overcome when the groom £aJf®| ed to appear. Smith was delayed Terre Haute. The bride did not regaWM consciousness until Smith entered '-heri® room and touched her hand. ® Articles of incorporation of the Indian-S apolis and Fort Wayne Railroad been filed. The capital stock is fixed at® <IOO,OOO. with the understanding thaM this may be increased. The road. It announced, is to be built through the foLs® lowing counties: Marion, Hamilton, Mad-1 ; ' ison. Grant, Huntington and Allen. f|fl| is proposed to make it a direct route frOt®! ' Indianapolis to Fort Wayne. An dance of capital is behind the enterprise. 1 Ed Speicher, 15, Logansport, west| ■ crazy studying flying machines. Window glass combine is takings Hartford City plants. |g Labor organizations in Brazil are all members who trade at store» f not recognize the clerks’ union and at 7 p - m - ■ 0 There is a man in Goshen who, wh<® he was 18, was of medium statnre. the last nine yeans be baa I