BEDFORD WEEKLY MAIL BEDFORD, INDIANA JANUARY 29, 1902 TERRE HAUTE, INDIANA MRS. CARRIE PAYNTER sued the Indiana Power Company for $10,000 for the death of her eleven year old son. In preparing powder for the market it is placed in wooden tubs, some of which were placed in an enclosed lot near a public pathway along which came young PAYNTER with a shotgun. He fired at a bird, a spark cused an explosion in a tub, and he was so badly burned he died in a few hours. FORT RITNER ELISHA LEE was at Tunnelton on business Monday. DR. L. G. BOYD was here Monday. JOHN ABLE, of Bedford was here Monday night. MOSES B. LEE was at the Stone City Tuesday. JOHN BELL, Superintendent of the Hoosier Telephone Co., completed the line to Tunnelton, Tuesday and was doing some repairing here Wednesday. JOHN R. BREWER, of Washington Co., was here Wednesday. THOMAS HOOPINGARNER, of Tunnelton, was a cller at ELISHA LEE'S Wednesday. SIMPSON LOWE, of Bedford, was here Wednesday, making his claims on the voters as a candidate for Judge. JACOB W. SPEER was here from Ditney, Thursday. THOMAS HOOPINGARNER, of Tunnelton was here Thursday. There was a man here Thursday night who claimed to be a minister of the Christian Church, and a coverted Jew. There was a MR. BARRETT, of Salem, here Thursday night. The Deputy Sheriff was here Friday announcing parties to appear in Court in February. JOHN P. FLINN, was at ELISHA LEE'S Friday getting somme pension work done, having got an increase of his pension from $17 to $24 per month. HIRAM FLINT moved from here to Tunnelton, where he was engage iin blacksmithing with ELISHA SIMPSON. A lawsuit here one day this week in which EHP EDWARDS of Bono, was charged with stealing $150. He was placed under $500 bond to appear in Court. MRS. HENRY HUDDLESON, of Washington County is moving to Mrs. SUSE WILLOCK'S farm here. ELDER D. L. BROWN, passed through here Saturday en route to Pinhook, to preach for them. He returned Sunday. DR. I. G. BOYD, of Tunnelton was here Sunday to see Mrs. C JONES, who is very sick. DR. H. C. DIXON was here Sunday from Tunnelton. We do not know his business. MRS. HENRY ROOT, of near here has been very sick, but is now on the mend. The whooping cough patients in this vicinity are getting better.