Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1900 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIA N A INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Elaborate Plan to Burn Two Stores in \ Terre Hante—Children Run Away to Wed—Minister’s Prophecy of His Own Death Conies True. An attempt was made at Terre Haute to burn and blow up three storerooms over which thirty-two persons were sleeping. A fire in its inhipiency was discovered in the office of Dr. Casto’s drug store, and when it was extinguished it was found that in each cellar and store there were improvised gutters and troughs filled with oil and fuses made of saturated toweling running through the stocks of clothing, dry goods and groceries in Casto’s general store adjoining the drug store. Holes were cut in the, floors to make stronger draughts, and dynamite and gun powder placed where they cause the greatest destruction. The fire had not reached the troughs and fuses when the firemen put it out. Enough dynamite was found to have destroyed all the buildings on the block. Casto and some of his clerks were arrested for arson. He says his enemies did the work because he has prospered in business. He carried a large insurance. Says Farewell to His Flock and Dies. Rev. Charles Harvey has been pastor of the Methodist Church at Eaton for many years. On a recent' Sunday he preached his last sermon. He explained that his congregation would never hear his voice from the pulpit again, as he had a premonition that he would die before another Sunday dawned. He hud never felt in better health, he explained, but nevertheless he felt sure that death was nigh. His prediction was fulfilled. He is dead. Shortly after leaving church he was seized with an illness. He gretv rapidly worse and died before the night was past. He was 58 years old and had been a minister thirty-seven years.

Four Young People Elope. Roy Teagardner and Ethel, the 15-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mi?!?. Marion Creek, and Guy Whetzel hnd Miss Pearl Landon eloped from Trenton. All arc the children of well-to-do farmers, and the only objection to the marriages was the age of the parties, young Whetzel being only 18. The two couples have been devoted lovers, and feeling that they could 'not gain parental consent disappeared together, young Whetzel leaving with his- father’s horse and buggy. Baby Suffocated, Woman Hurt. The home of William Miller, four miles west of Mtincie, was destroyed by fire. Frank Stephens and wife discovered the blaze while driving past the house. Mr. Stephens jumped from the buggy to notify the Miller family and his team of horses ran off. Mrs. Stephens was thrown from the buggy and will die from her injuries. A 2-year old grandchild of Miller’s was suffocated.

Within Our Boraeru. In Salem, sihallpox baa been dubbed “Cuban itch.” Andrew J. Carmichael, 70, near Hartford City, is missing. Sugar water camps are being opened in Montgomery County, 1 ' A general vaccination order has been launched at Martinsville. Postmasters of congressional district 0 have formed an organization. Ghouls were frightened from the T)unlapville cemetery by a pedestrian. Charles Blovings, 25, Mitchell, B. & O. brukemaii, was killed near Huron. Oil well drilled just across the Indiana line in Ohio will open up a new field in eastern Indiana. Anderson capitalists have secured a large tract of land on the isthmus, of Tehuantepec, Mexico. Dante Comstock, 17, Marion high school student, lias invented a system of wireless telegraphy. Marcus C. Smith died at his home in Mancie of general debility. He had held many important political positions. A human freak was born at Mooresville the other day. It had neither eyes, ears nor nose. It lived but a few minutes. Mrs. Olive G. Hall, Kokomo, has purchased the William Henry Harrison homestead, at North Bend, Ohio. It consists of the old mansion and seven acres of land and cost $55,000. It is the birth place of ex-President Harrison. Tax levy in Grant County will be upon $22,853,700 worth of property, amounting to $301,655.31, and represents a poll of 8,357. One of the trustees of the Methodist Church at Montpelier has rented his business room for a saloon, aud there is a ruction in the church. A free-for-all fight occurred in the basement of a Lafayette school among the smaller pupils, the other day, aud it was all two..teachers could do to quiet' them. Mark Hillis, soldier in the Philippines, and son of John Hillis, Kokomo, committed suicide by shooting himself in the head. Au open hole was found near the body. A successful test has been made of etude oil for fuel in the Anderson steel mill. On account of shortage of gas the company intended to move, but will now stay. Nearly all the fruit growers in the fruit belt, report it total destruction Of buds. Th(i warm weather brought the trees out in bloom and the first frost destroyed them. Albion has ah economical genius in the pexaon of Janies Hyde. He makes his own teeth out of hickory wood and holds them in place w'ith a wooden handle. He is able to eat the toughest meat and is qpite an interesting sight while engaged in eating. ' - Residence of Joseph Sylvester, Green township, was wrecked by a gas explosion. Two children and the mother may be fatally hurt. Cause unknown. Eleven hundred tons of straw, belonging to the American Straw Board Compatay, Noblesville, went up in smoke. Loss $6,000. Origin unknown. Mills may dose until another season. Clifford, the 12-year-old son of Charles Newhall, residing near Parker, was instantly killed by a ball from a flobert rifle. It was nil accidental discharge, the ball penetrating the brain over the left eye. _ .