Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1900 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY Fruit Jar Factories Again in Operation—School Mistress Wants Damages for Breach of Promise—Burial Followed by Marriage—Hurt in Drama. A conference at Muncie between fruit jar manufacturers and President Hayes of the Green Bottle-Blowers’ Association resulted in the wage scale being settled, and fruit jar plants started on the same conditions as prevailed last year. This practically means the settlement of the flint glass scale, as to which a conference will be called at once. Fruit jar manufacturers, although having large stocks on hand, will start their factories at once. This affects thousands of workmen in Indiana, who are jubilant at the settlement. Legislator Sued for $15,000. Representative Leonidas H. Mull of Rushville, a prominent member of the last Legislature, was made a defendant in a sensational suit for $15,000 damages filed by Miss Floe Farlow, a prepossessing young school mistress living at Milroy. Miss Farlow says she has kept company with Mull for about three years. She alleges that she and the defendant on Sept. 1, 1000, signed a contract to marry within one year from date, but he refused to marfy her. Mr. Mull is one of the ealthiest men in the county. Mourners ut a Wedding. John Mclntyre, son of J. P. Mclntyre, who was found dead in his bed at his home near Michigan City, and Miss Lena Glick were married at Laporte. A peculiar feature of the marriage was that the bridal party which accompanied the happy couple back to their home near Michigan City formed, only an hour before, the mourners at the funeral of the groom’s father. The minister who married the young couple had preached the funeral sermon over the remains of the father. Injured by Stage Dagger.' Miss Florence Gear, a member of the Devonde stock company, was painfully cut in the hand by a dagger during a scene of “The Devil's Advocate” at the theater in Marion. Miss Alma Aiken, in the role, of an Indian girl, attempts to strike ’Miss Gear, who is supposed to wrench the dagger from the Indian girl. In the struggle the dagger was driven through Miss Gear’s hand.

Within Our Borders. Crawfordsville match factory in operation. Aloys Jergens, Michigan City, has a cat with two perfect heads. Rudolph Hoberg, a wealthy farmer near Batesville, hanged himself. Otis C. Newby, Greensboro, was killed in battle in the Philippines. George and William Andrews, Osgood, soldiers stationed at Galveston, were drowned in the storm. John Lightley, 15, Jacksonburg, while cutting corn, severed an artery in his leg and bled*to death before physicians could reach him. Judge Leffler, Muncie, sustains the weekly wage pay law, in the suits insti'tuetd by the State factory inspector against the Republic Iron Company. Prof. James Hagerty, formerly of the public schools of La Porte, has accepted a call to fill the chair of political economy in Pennsylvania University at Philadelphia. At a Democratic pole raising at Oard Springs, Clareriee Hay of Austin was killed and Thomas Weisman perhaps fatally injured. A rope broke, allowing the pole to fall. Deputy Fish Commissioner Oscar Welty, Kokomo, has resigned. During his two years’ service he caused more convictions than all other deputies in that part of the State combined. The 2-year-old son of Albert Kuhn, Warrington, was killed while playing in a baby jumper. A spring broke and part of the apparatus fell, striking the baby on the head, crushing the skull. Judge Morris decides that the Rushville ordinance confining the sale of intoxicating liquors to the business portion of the city is not legal, because it is too indefinite as to what is the business portion. Pod Barnes, who attempted to shoot Chief of Police Bert White at Marion when the officer arrested him last June, was found guilty of attempt to murder and given fourteen years in the penitentiary. Charles Dunbar, New Albany, who elop'd with Mrs. Nora Bradley, is insane. Mrs. Bradley’s husband also• has lost his mind. Dunbar’s mania is to buy all the daily papers and throw them away without reading them. At Rockville the municipal light plant and Fiekel & Graham’s lumber yard burned from an unknown cause. Loss $20,000, with $2,500 insurance. A new light plant is almost finished and will be ready for use in thirty days. Oscar Diltz, formerly of Chicago, and George Porter, his clerk, were badly burned in the former’s store in Muncie. Two attempts to burn it caused the men to sleep there. They awoke to find the store in flames, oil having been poured over the floor. The telephone connection was cut to prevent calling assistance. Mrs. S. R. Hicson of Muncie seized her 3-yenr-old child, supposed to be dead, and rushed about the room in a frenzy, insisting the child must live and refusing to hgve it prepared for burial. In a few minutes she exclaimed that was alive, which was found to be true. A physician says the child was probably resuscitated from a comatose state by the mother’s frantic action. B. 8. Kennett and Simon Haag, New Albany, both past 70, brothers-in-law, quarreled over household furniture, and Kennett was stubbed three times. A play at the Muncie opera house was interrupted while an account of the arrest of the Keating brothers was read to the audience from the extra edition or a newspaper. When Veedersburg changed from a town to a city last spring the Council elected a new school board, and the old town board sued to restrain the new board from acting. Court sustains new board. \