Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1899 — RECORD OF THE WEE [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEE

INDIANA INCIDENT# TEll#fi » *VV%I f% VfT' Muncie Resort Wrecked with mite- Work of a Bold j|| Seek Klondike Gold.' fgjm ■■ 1 The Maple Grove gardes, 'iiffffi 11 Bert Foster, the ex-heavyweight fljj pion of Indiana, was destroyed by * m Muncie. Mr. Foster, hi* 7-year-si® and his housekeeper, Mias My*t%JJ-y : M escaped with their Uvea la thefc.# 9 clothes. Three tramps, who we**lß.i| in« in the athletic garden, barely Met being cremated, two of whom WS**3 aj ribly burned. At an inveatlgatl<»| aj next day it was learned that the bnflf: M H was blown up with dynamite, there S.Jfl ing been for the last alx montM;do#J erable opposition by the residents «f portion of the city against the gamH IS ' Steals Weekly Pay RoH*l ;§§ The most daring robbery ever perpetrjj| ed in Madison County occurred alj| |g the other day in El wood, when sonlgj Jj known thief stole the pay rcdl Model Radiator factory, owned by Gjn.aj Converse of Chicago. The loesl#x«|| ager took the money, $450, out of J ® bank and stopped at his home en rOW'-ffl the factory to eat dinner. He overcoat in the parlor and was only ftWl from it about ten minutes, but fin M that time the thief entered the door, the pocket down the side, sack of money and disappeared, gl J|| • ‘m Gain a Fortune in the Klondik^|j| With several hundred thousand doßj Dr. and Mrs. W. F. Howe have jast || turned to their home in Indianapm* after a year and a half in the lOdlM 9 The husband and wife trudged togef&mt from Skaguay over the White F»*j S Lake Tagish. There the doctor buiß L-* open boat and they crossed to tb*|jßj| son country. They lived for montlWs the mercury 56 degrees below zertk Vi|j| declare the best days in the Klondil yet to come. They hold fine d*bj| gj| joining, one of which has paid $250,0#,. Aged Engineer Dies. I 1 Davis Verrill, the oldest enginedg g point of service on the Lake Shore 1 road, died at South Bend. He J •••'|| railroading as a fireman in 1846 tnd made an engineer in 1852. Since 180# |j has been with the Lake Shore rood. jj ■ jgj was 73 years old. M Within Our Borders. M Steuben County has no saloostgi A wolf was seen in the Kank*lH#»«|j ley. Jjjj Franklin is about to lose It* pants fl tory. 111 l The Hessian fly is in Fountain Cos* wheat. H Arcadia file work* is arranging tjffl oil for fuel. ;j| Incendiaries are burning barns ley County. f«J John Detrick, Greencastle, exhJMH 8 six-pound turnip. jj Floyd County has a new asylum fo*4| incurable insane. S John Royer, New Albany, fonnd/jH in his room. Paralyzed. jj Voting machines are being testtra 8 Crawfordsville. May buy. '-m Milroy township is said to.hAIMB Jj gest crow roost in Indiana. ‘tM I Twelve-year-old son of Henry YetflHShelburn, drowned while skating. 1 Jg Floyd Wilkins, 14, Summitville, dentally shot and killed Fred |g John Martin, Terre Haute, fell i feet from the new high school building : Linton and was fatally hurt. J| ■ Fred Meier, 25, farmer neat* $ ville, was struck on the head by rofcw dj recently, and has become insane. 3 County commissioner* la® j sered a SSOO reward for the conviction of those who lynched MitißL; Tyler. 'lll A “county cistern” that was stgaNHlf the rear of the jail at Garnett kaa?#W between $7,000 and SB,OOO and is not finished. fl Harry B. White, Terre Haute, four footpads the other night and Wmjm to work the next day as if SOti®g Sm happened. f|g Two children of Mrs. Decker #Mk|| near Sullivan, were left alone and phi * ed with fire. The house burned doffd One escaped and the other was Mine workers of the Indiana frltnmßg ous district have been ordered to pay||W 1 per cent of their earnings, imMH 2, as that is deemed sufficient to for the few men who are now idle, j |j| J. A. Buck, defaulting treasurerofjflKj land lodge, Amalgamated AssodafiW*j Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, pleaded guilty to embezzlement aa#| sent north to do from two to years. .2* ‘’’ jtpugß Wm Vincennes officers are death of Karl Wilson, 2, son of FaMM Thomas Wilson. The family tian scientists and the child,- after longed illness, died without medial .jjjg tention. 9H Indiana Dairymen's convention at Cambridge City. The *.a-.£ officers are: President, C. B. Lei toy; vice-president, John Bhnga|gJ§§ retary-treasurer, H. E. Lafayette. 11l Bert Julian, charged with ninad# Michael Houlehan at Colfax OriM .1 when he refused to give him a drinltf |||| convicted of murder in the seconds! ;|gg on the first ballot, at Frankfort, *f|B fenced for life. jßj Kokomo merchants say that being held up by church and chartl j gauization committees, who insttt *■ boycott if they refuse to that is asked. They have called m q ■ ing to devise means com tot the <