SULLIVAN COUNTY, INDIANA
NEWS
Dec. 3, 1899, Yesterday afternoon Mrs.
Decker Stewart, the
wife of a farmer who resided near Fairbanks, abt 15 miles northwest of
this
city went to a neighbor’s, leaving 2 small children alone in the house.
Upon
her return her attention was attracted by cries and she discovered the
house in
flames and the roof falling in, one child having escaped with horrible
burns
while the other perished in the flames. The children had been playing
with the
fire.
Sept. 6, 1899
The Sullivan County Commissioners have sold $25,000 worth of refunding
bonds to Lamphreicht Brothers Company, of Cleveland, at a premium that
brings interest below
3 ½ percent. The bonds run ten years.
Sullivan, IN.
Aug. 31, 1899 the grocery store of JH. Drake has been robbed 5
times within the past week. Last night Mr. Drake and his clerk waited
in the store until nearly midnight, when the thief came in through the
back window, and was captured without trouble. At the jail he was
recognized as Wayman Black, a negro ex-convict.
Sullivan, IN.
Aug.30,1899. Basil Anderson, the 4 yr old son of Emil Anderson, and
undertaker at Dugger, was burned to death in his father’s barn
yesterday afternoon. He and a playmate were playing with matches in the
loft filled with hay, and they soon had a fire started. It was not
known that anyone was in the building until the roof fell in and his
companion jumped from the loft, and told that young Anderson was still
inside. The charred remains were found in the ruins.
Sullivan, IN.
Feb. 24,1898. this afternoon John Jett, the man who eloped with
Walter Booker’s wife, appeared on the streets of this city. He had 2
big revolvers dangling from his belt, and said he was prepared if
Booker should molest him. He was arrested late this evening
by the sheriff. He is the man who put the find steel saws into the jail
to Dan peak, the forger. Peak sawed his way out and has never been
caught. Booker’s wife and Jett’s sister were with him when he was
arrested. He denies running off with Booker’s wife. he said they had
been down to Louisville on a trip. Sue Jett, his 19 yr old sister, who
also went away with them, was supposed to have gone to join her old
sweetheart, Dan Peak, the forger.
Indiana
Notes.9-14-1898
The broom corn crop of Sullivan County, tried last spring as an
experiment, has proved to be a success, and it is thought many acres of
land heretofore unprofitable will yield large sums through broom corn.
Indiana Notes
Oct 4 1899
Wilson Bailey, a farmer of Gill
Township, Sullivan County, is reported to have been robbed of $1,000 in
gold, which he kept in a corn bin.
Indiana
Notes.9-14-1898
The directors of the Sullivan State Bank have elected the following
officers: President J.F. Hoke, Vice president, J.H. Kalley, Cashier
Wake Giles. Former Vice President F.E. Davis retired
Shelburn,
Ind., June 10.- The Star Mining Company gave notice to
their miners yesterday to remove their tools from the mine by noon
today, but the men failed to comply with the company's demand, and it
resulted in the company bringing the tools out. Notices are also posted
on the company's property demanding- that the miners
vacate, the company's houses.
Source:Indiana State Journal June 17 1898
Sullivan, Ind. Dec 4.
Last night between 11 and 12 o'clock some one entered the room where
Miss Ella Bath and her baby slept, and carried the .child, about 150
yards from the house, where it was drowned in a pool and left on the
bank. The mother was found later, bound hand and "foot and gagged. None
of the family was awakened by the intruder. A crowd immediately
gathered and began to scour the neighborhood. Bloodhounds were secured
and put on the track, but without any developments. Frank French,
charged with the girl's ruin was today placed under bond for
kidnapping, but little evidence as yet has developed as to the guilty
parties. The Bates family live a few miles west of here.
Source: Indiana State Journal December 9, 1896
Greenville, Ind. April 22.—At the April election in
this city the official returns showed the present Republican mayor, Ed
Wright, re-elected by one vote. Frank Bachman, Democrat, contested the
election, and by a verdict in Probate
Court a few days ago Mr. Wright was unseated, and the City Council,
which is Democratic, by consent of both _____ his appointed Bachman,
who was sworn in. When he went to Wright for the docket the latter
refused to turn it over, and the
case will now be tested in Circuit Court. The sheriff will be called on
to-morrow to take a hand in ousting Wright from the mayor's office and
arrest him for contempt of court. At present Greenville has two
mayors—one in possession and the other wants to be.
Indiana Journal April 28 1897
Sullivan, Ind.,
April 7.—George W. McCammon, the absconding express agent, recently of
Farrnersourg. on trial here today pleaded guilty of embezzlement
and was given an indeterminate sentence of two to fourteen years In the
Prison South. The sheriff will leave with him at once.
Indiana Journal April 14, 1897
Shelburn,
Ind., April 9.—President Knight, of the U. M. W. A.,
arrived here late yesterday evening. From information gathered it Is
the Intention to reorganize the local unions which, disbanded during
the late strike and make _____ effort to
rally the miners together for the coming contest on May 20. when an
advance will be asked. A great many of the miners here are not
enthusiastic in regard to reorganization, but what action they will
take in case a general strike is called
throughout the State Is not definitely known. Organizer Spots man. of
Linton, for the southern portion of the district of which this mining
belt is connected, was here during the week, but the miners say he was
mum in regard to what plans
wouid be pursued in case a strike should take place in May. It Is said
the Linton miners are receiving the 60-cent scale.
Indiana Journal April 14, 1897
Officers Want
to See Farmer Brock.
SHELBURN, Ind., Jan. 9.—The officers are hunting tonight for John
Brock, a farmer living: two miles in the country for selling impure
meat. He brought a dressed hog to town and sold it to Mr. Ocletree
Carrithers, and it has since developed
that the hog was killed by accident and lay three days' before being
dressed.
Date: 1898-12-28; Paper: Indiana State Journal