Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1900 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Hiding Place of Gold .Revealed in q Dream —Pickle Crop of the StateYoung Millionaire Chase Dis&fpewi. j Train Wrecked and Burned. David Schwarze of Galena, a wealthy miller, has just found $l5O iu gold as the result of a dream. The money was hidden by Mr. Schwarze during the Civil War, iu anticipation of the raid of Gen. John Morgan. After Morgan had passed Schwarze looked in vain for the money, and concluded that some one had stolen it. He moved to Galena years later. A few nights ago he had a dream, in which he located the spot where the money was hidden, and, going there, found it intact. • Indiana Pickle Crop Booms. The pickle crop of Indiana, though a comparatively new one, Is rapidly increasing from year to year, and the deliveries to the salting houses established by a big Pittsburg concern are the largest this year since the firm began buying the vegetables from Indiana growers. There are several establishments which are operating in northern Indiana, but the Pittsburg house is- the- largest, with Its thirty salting houses- scattered over the country. a Searching for Young Chase. Defective William J. Sutherland of the Mooney & Boland agency of Chicago has reported to the police the mysterious disappearance in Paris of Moses Fowler Chase of Indiana. Chase is a millionaire and had been placed in a private asylum By his aunt, Mrs. Dull me of Cincinnati, He- was held in restraint because of a dispute over his sanity and the case has- already gone into the courts of America. Train Wrecked and Burned. An accident occurred on the Evansville' and Terre Houte Railroad seven miles south of Vincennes, in which three men wore badly hurt, one fatally, and- five are missing. A freight train ran into a cow and the engine was ditched and eighteen cars, four having oil tanks, were piled on it and burned. Eyesight of Pour Destroyed. During a session of a class in chemistry in Slielbyrille in which chemicals were used, an explosion occurred, destroying the eyesight of,Teacher John Jncklin, Roy Lee, Frank Amos and George Bib lingsley. Jacklin carelessly held a lighted lamp near the pipe through: which, he was- passing the chemicals. Wi tain Our Borders. Tomato pack in northern Indiana is unusually large. .Tesee Rhoads, 78, Shetbyville.awealthy farmer;,, is dead. John Bennett’s” residence, Valley. Ridge, ■was robbed of $957. Fire of supposed incendiary at Howell caused damage aggregating $50,000. A wolf escaped from a- Fort Wayne zoological garden and killed many sheep. Farmers killed it. Fire did $4,000 damage in the carpet department of the Golden Rule dry goods store, Logansport. Independent window glass manufacturers have signed a scale of 5. per cent iu advance of that signed by the trust. Muneie window glass flatteners will receive $lO weekly benefits from their union, pending a settlement with the trust. Amos Coffman, a Dublin farmer aged 67, while working in a cornfield, was thrown from his wagon. His neck was broken.

Joseph Brown, 2:4, Panhandle switchman, killed at Logaasport by being thrown under the wheels of an engine that jumped the track. Hobart dedicated its new German Lutheran Church with all-day/ services. Rev. E. H. Schetp of Pern and Prof. H. Dan of Hammond conducted the dedicatory services. The building cost SB,OOO. Over 2,000 persons were present from surrounding towns. The Kankakee land owners will coinbiue in sending an agent to South Africa and Holland to encourage the settlement of Boer colonies in the KankiMoee valley in La Porte, Lake, Porter and Stark counties. The Kankakee lauds nre ndapted to the raising of cattle ami of recent years immense crops of corn have been produced. The Kankakee valley promoters took the initial steps to encourage colonization during the last stages of the Boer war. A bill is to be introduced in the Legislature this winter creating the office of State firq marshal. Auditor of State Hart is behind the proposition. The duties of the officer would be to investigate the cause of fires and fix the response bility. It is believed he would be able to discover danger from spontaneous combustion in large manufacturing concerns in season to-savo hca\y losses, thus saving the insurant* companies large sums and thereby aid in reducing rates. The experiment has been successful iu several States. Wesley Hummer, a well-known resident of Greene township, was arrested in Elkhart on a charge of passing counterfeit money. He had nine $lO gold pieces, eighteen ,$5 coins and three $1 silver pieces, all spurious, $13.23 in good money and a die for making the counterfeit. His plan was to make a small purchase, tender one of the gold pieces and receive good money in change. The gold counterfeits were poorly executed, consisting of stamped white metal, bronzed with a powder that rubbed off on the paper in which they, were wrapped. Hummer confessed. telling the officers that too one else was directly implicated. He said he bought the spurious money from a man who met him regularly at a point between South Bend and Plymouth. Daylight robberies are frequent in Mari Cigarmnkers’ strike at Rushville settled. Manufacturers bowed. James Derbyshire, 83, Laurel, is the oldest Odd Fellow in the State. Gov Mount has received the deed to the sixteen acres of land in Spencer County surrounding the grave of Nancy Hanks Lincoln, the mother of Abraham Lincoln. The deed conveys the land from rhe county commissioners of Spencer County to the Xancjr Hanks Lincoln Memorial Association, of which the Governor is president •