Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1901 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. C ’ • May Open New Oa* Belt North of Keg* dallville—Two Boy■ Capture Gang of Tramp Incendiaries—Two Towns An Skipped by Cenans Enumerators. While putting down a well on the farm of John Carpenter, north of Kendallville, workmen discovered a flow of natural gas. When down about 000 feet in the rock a low rumbling noise was heard and the machinery was blown from the ground. When ignited the gas made a flame about fifty feet high. Speculators of all stripes are now on the ground trying to make leases for land. Geologists are making surveys and say the prospect* are bright for the opening of a new belt similar to the Indiana gas belt, which ia about sixty miles south. Skip Town* in the Census. More carelessness of the federal census takers is manifest. Daleville, a populous town of Delaware County, recently reported that no one had taken the census there. Now a dispatch comes from Kempton that that town was missed. No satisfactory explanation has ever been heard. Kempton has nearly 1,000 population. Many new buildings and two miles of brick sidewalks are a part of this year’s improvements. The town has a bank and two newspapers and much building is ia prospect. Two Boys Arrest Six Tramps. Two boys, aged T and 9 years, respectively, sons of Jacob Goodwine, living near Kokomo, proved themselves heroes by capturing a gang of six tramps and saving a burning school house to which the men had set fire. With buckets tho boys carried water from the pump, and after saving the structure one mounted a horse without saddle or bridle and rode into town for officers, while the other stood guard with an airgun over the gang. When re-enforcemehts came the tramps were locked up. Burns Herself to Deatb. Grace Adams, 20 years old, died at Greensburg as the result of an attempt to commit suicide. She saturated her clothing with kerosene and applied a match. The young woman’s screams aroused her parents, but before they could rescue her she was terribly burned. Miss Adams had once been in an insane asylum, and it is supposed she had again become mentally deranged.

White Cap* Fire a Milt. A few days ago Maley & Wertz, Evansville lumber dealers, received a note saying their mill would be burned if they did not discharge one of their engineers. The note was signed by White Caps. A few nights later the mill was set on fire, but the blaze was extinguished. The officers are investigating. State Newt in Sriet. Washington is crusading against gamblers. The Indiana quail crop is said to be large. The Tipton County fair may be revived. Baptists at Curtisvilie have a new church. W. J. Wimmer will be Rockville’s new postmaster. Richmond fire department ordered * new chemical wagon. Danville has applied for a membership in the gas belt racing circuit. Milton S. Barrett’s right arm was badly lacerated in a Ivnightstown mill. It is said there are a dozen applicants for every vacant house in Kokomo. Fort Wayne officials were given a free ride to Huntington over the new electric line. , _ Mrs. Zachariah Labr of Andrews was perhaps fatally injured by a runaway horse. Mrs. Zacliariah Lahr of Andrews was dangerously injured while holding an unmanageable horse. Mayor Elmore, Crawfordsville, will prosecute dealers whq sell tobacco and cigarettes to small boys. John Bell, a Cincinnati burglar, was convicted of a robbery in Laporte County and given an indeterminate sentence. James Church, Sulliran, slashed his brother-in-law, Charles Lamber, in the face with an ugly knife. Church is in the lockup. Hartford City is fairly bubbling over with glee at the prospect of getting an electric road that will connect her with Fort Wayne. James Harbinson, charged with murdering Frank Osborn last August, was acquitted at Princeton. Harbinson put up a plea of self-defense. Smith Jones, aged 13, who stabbed and killed Herbert Ilickerson of the same age iu a fight nt Boonville, has been sentene ed to life imprisonment. The city of Marion has brought suit against Grant County, the object being to have the hitehrack around the court bouse removed. The city says it is a nuisance. Frank Martin, deputy auditor of the State, has been appointed warden of the Michigan City State prison. Mr. Martin has been in the State Auditor’s office for many years. A scamp threw a rock through a window of an L. E. & W. coach, near Atlanta, striking Mrs. Meredith Bieknell of El wood in the breast. Other passengers were cut by flying glass. William Vickery, a wealthy capitalist of Gibson County, was found dead in his flour mill at Fort Branch. Twice during the month Vickery dreamt he would die during the latter part of the month in the mill. Guy Goulman, 5, Princeton, was crushed to death by a log corncrib falling on him. Kosciusko county council will pay 10 cents each for woodchucks killed in that county. Contractor Albert Maxwell, Hartford City, fell thirty feet, injuring his spine ami head. May recover. The discovery of a 135-borreroil well at Mount Pleasant has caused great excitement. This develops an entirely new field. W. A. Wyson, a former Lebanon groter, has left his family and gone to Cuba.