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From: Mark Bostick <thebigcollector_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:52:18 2004
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First I would like to thank Dave Hostetter for sharing the first article =
that helped me find this. A little more on this non-meteorite, =
including the Indianapolis Journal article that was referred to in =
Dave's article. All from a different paper but the paper does credit =
the Journal for the first article as noted. Thanks, Mark
Paper: Fort Wayne Weekly, Location: Fort Wayne, IN, Date: Wednesday, =
January 29th, 1879, Page: Could not tell, perhaps the last page?

THE METEORITE

Leoidas Grover of Fountain County, Instantly Killed While Asleep by the =
Fall of a Twenty-pound Meteor

(Indianapolis Journal).

Covington, Jan. 15. - On Tuesday night last, Leonidas Grover, who =
resided in the vicinity of Newtown, Fountain county, met his death in a =
way that is probably without parallel in this or any other country. Mr. =
Grover was a widower, living on his farm with a married daughter and her =
husband. On the evening referred to, the married couple had been on a =
visit to some neighbors, and upon returning at a late hour entered the =
house, find everything, in all appearence, in usual order, and supposing =
that Mr. Grover had already retired, went to bed themselves. Next =
morning the daughter arose, and having prepared breakfest, went to the =
adjoining room to call her father, and was horrified to find him lying =
upon his shattered bed, a mutilated corpse. Her screams brought the =
husband quickly to the bedroom, and an inspection disclosed a ragged =
opening in the roof, directly over the breast of the unfortunate man, =
which was torn through as if by a cannon shot, and extending downward =
through the bedding and floor; other holes showed the direction taken by =
the deadly missle. Subsequent search revealed the fact that the awful =
calamity was caused by the fall of a meteoric stone, and the stone =
itself, pyramidal in shape and weighing twenty pounds and a few ounces, =
avoirdupois, and stained with blood, was unearthed from a depth of =
nearly five feet, thus showing the fearful impetus with which it struck =
the building. The position of the corpse, showed the victim was asleep =
when stricken, and that death, to him was painless.=20

(Mark note: Same paper, same page)

The State Geologist Explains - There Aint no Sich a Person as "Leonidas =
Glover, Widower."

(Indianapolis News.)

An air of melancholy sadness, mixed with large quantities of silence, =
pervades the bureau of the state geologist. A News reporter visited him =
this morning. Contrary to his usual custom Prof. Cox talked slowly and =
with much difficulty. He had been deceived twice before on meteoric =
stones, by mendacious hoaxers, but the Fountain county stone has struck =
him as being fully twenty-four carat fine in honesty. So fully convinced =
of the intergrity of this heavenly bowlder was he, that he wrote an =
account of meteors and left a large hole in the article to insert the =
meteorite when Maj. J.J. Palmer, who had been sent for it, should return =
with the trophey. "It would have been a big thing," said the state =
geologist, "and Prof. J. Lawrence Smith would have given $500 for it." =
The major could find no one in the county, who knew "Leonida Glover, =
widower." There was no demolished roof, no desolated household, no hole =
in the ground where the magnetic stone "lit." There was nothing. All was =
a sham, a delusion, a vanity. The major brought back a fourteen-pound =
bewider blackened with ink and burned to look igneous and grimy. He =
intended it as a joke; but it didn't raise a smile upon the state =
geologist's countenance. He was as sad as King Henry, when he heard that =
"the bark that held the prince went down." He livened up a little before =
the reporter departed, and told of a meteoric stone that fell in 1846; =
in South Carolina, within twenty miles of Columbia. The event took place =
during a terrific thunder storm, and the aerolite was seen to fall by an =
aged negro, who picked it up and ran to the house with it, saying: =
"Gorramity, missus! here's a chunk of solid thunder!"

(Mark note: Same paper, same page)

AEROLITES

Something About Them - What They Are and Where They Come From - Mention =
of Serveral of the Largest of These Strange Visitors - Collectors of =
Meteoric Stones

(Indianapolis News)

State Geologist Cox has dispatched Maj. J.J. Palmer to Foutain county to =
procure for the state museum the meteoric stone reported as having =
fallen near Newton last Tuesday night, killing Leonidas Glover, a =
farmer, while asleep in his bed, coming through the roof of his house =
and going through the his body, the bedding and floor, and penetrating =
the earth beneath to a depth of five feet. The stone is said to be of =
twenty pounds weight and pyramidal in shape. Prof. Cox does not entirely =
credit the story but cannot believe that any one would invent a hoax of =
this charactor. The direction from the general rule of their descent, as =
they usually fall at an angle and seldom imbed tehmselves in any great =
depth in the earth's surface. They have been known to fall on ice and =
not break through the congealed surface. The professors day this =
occurrrence will turn the attention of hundreds who are studying =
phenomena of this character to Indiana, and that if J. Lawrence Smith, =
of Louisville, who is making aerolites a special study and who is now in =
Europe, were at home, he would straddle a streak of lightning for =
Fountain county instanter. Prof. G. C. Broadhead, of Missouri, who has =
recently written a pamphlet on meteoric stones and shooting stars, says =
of them that they are likely to fall at any time, but have certain =
periods at which they appear in great numbers. Every year about the 10th =
of August a shower of meteors is seen that appears to proceed from the =
constellation of Perseus. Another period is, at the 12th and 13th days =
of November, after thirty-three years, and for three years thereafter, =
at which time they apparently come from the constellation Leo. The next =
appearence of the November shower will be in the year 1900. Some of =
these aerolites are gaseous and transparent, others solid as the =
bolides. Adams has demonstrated that the zone of cosmical bodies forming =
the meteor system has an orbit extending out into space beyond the orbit =
of Uranus; it is the opinion of some astronomers that we ower to Uranus =
the attraction of these star showers. Meteors, according to Prof. =
Broadhead, appear between 46 and 92 miles elevation; their speed varying =
from 14 to 107 miles per secon. A majority of the November meteors of =
1868 appeared of an orange color, a very few blue. In 1866 the portion =
of the stream of November meteors through which the earth rolled was =
80,000 miles deep. In 1867, the part of the stream traversed was, =
moreover, 50,000 miles down. Prof. H.A. Newton estimates the thickness =
of the August ring at from five to ten millions of miles for the earth, =
moving at the rare of two millions of miles per day, is immersed in it =
for several days. He estimates more that 300,000,000,000,000 for the =
total number of these bodies in the August ring. It has been assumed by =
astronomers that seven and one-half millions of meteors pass the earth's =
atmosphere, and bright enough to be seen by the naked eye every =
twenty-four hours. If revealed by the telescope they would number =
400,000,000. Pyroxene, olivine, chrome iron, angite, etc., are found as =
constituents of bolides or meteoricstones. Their form being irregular is =
a proof that at some time they have formed part of a larger mass. =
Metallic iron mixed with more or less nickel and cobalt and other metals =
peculair to the earth are of constant occurence in these celestial =
stones. They stony portions of these visitors resemble the older igneous =
rocks, and very closely those of some volcanoes. Dr. J. Lawerence Smith =
is of opion that eustatite, bronzite and chrysolite from ninety percent =
of the earthly minerals in the aggregate mass of all meteoric stones. =
Schreibersite and troillite, two minerals not found in the earth, are =
found in meteorites. As to the size of meteorites the Bates county, =
Missouri, iron meteorite was a little over eighty-five pounds, the =
Tazewell, East Tennessee, iron meteorite was fifty-five pounds. The =
Smithsonian Institiution has a meteoric stone from Coahuila, Mexico, =
that weighs 252 pounds, Tucson, Arizona, one of iron, 1,400 pounds. A =
mass of meteoric iron in Chihuahua weighs about 3,853 pounds. The =
largest known mass of meteoric iron is in the mountains east of Port =
Oxford, Oregon, described by Dr. John Evans, and weghing several tons. =
The Gibbs meteorite, in Yale college museum, weighs 1,635 pounds.

The largest collections of meteorites in the United States are those of =
J. Lawrence Smith, who has 171 and C. U. Shepherd, of Amherst College, =
who has 286. A number of meteorites fell in Harrison county, this state, =
in 1857, during a meteoric shower. Another fell at Rochester, this =
state, in December, 1876, which weighed nearly two pounds. It is =
asserted that the crust of the earth is increasing at the rare of one =
foot per 100 years by the accession of meteorites.

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<DIV>First I would like to thank Dave =
Hostetter for=20
sharing the first article that helped me find this.  A little =
more on=20
this non-meteorite, including the Indianapolis Journal article that was =
referred=20
to in Dave's article.  All from a different paper but the paper =
does credit=20
the Journal for the first article as noted. Thanks, Mark</DIV>
<DIV>
Paper: Fort Wayne Weekly, Location: Fort Wayne, IN, Date: Wednesday, =
January=20
29th, 1879, Page: Could not tell, perhaps the last page?
THE METEORITE
Leoidas Grover of Fountain County, Instantly Killed While Asleep by =
the Fall=20
of a Twenty-pound Meteor
(Indianapolis Journal).
Covington, Jan. 15. - On Tuesday night last, Leonidas Grover, who =
resided in=20
the vicinity of Newtown, Fountain county, met his death in a way that is =

probably without parallel in this or any other country. Mr. Grover was a =

widower, living on his farm with a married daughter and her husband. On =
the=20
evening referred to, the married couple had been on a visit to some =
neighbors,=20
and upon returning at a late hour entered the house, find everything, in =
all=20
appearence, in usual order, and supposing that Mr. Grover had already =
retired,=20
went to bed themselves. Next morning the daughter arose, and having =
prepared=20
breakfest, went to the adjoining room to call her father, and was =
horrified to=20
find him lying upon his shattered bed, a mutilated corpse. Her screams =
brought=20
the husband quickly to the bedroom, and an inspection disclosed a ragged =
opening=20
in the roof, directly over the breast of the unfortunate man, which was =
torn=20
through as if by a cannon shot, and extending downward through the =
bedding and=20
floor; other holes showed the direction taken by the deadly missle. =
Subsequent=20
search revealed the fact that the awful calamity was caused by the fall =
of a=20
meteoric stone, and the stone itself, pyramidal in shape and weighing =
twenty=20
pounds and a few ounces, avoirdupois, and stained with blood, was =
unearthed from=20
a depth of nearly five feet, thus showing the fearful impetus with which =
it=20
struck the building. The position of the corpse, showed the victim was =
asleep=20
when stricken, and that death, to him was painless. 
(Mark note: Same paper, same page)
The State Geologist Explains - There Aint no Sich a Person as =
"Leonidas=20
Glover, Widower."
(Indianapolis News.)
An air of melancholy sadness, mixed with large quantities of silence, =

pervades the bureau of the state geologist. A News reporter visited him =
this=20
morning. Contrary to his usual custom Prof. Cox talked slowly and with =
much=20
difficulty. He had been deceived twice before on meteoric stones, by =
mendacious=20
hoaxers, but the Fountain county stone has struck him as being fully =
twenty-four=20
carat fine in honesty. So fully convinced of the intergrity of this =
heavenly=20
bowlder was he, that he wrote an account of meteors and left a large =
hole in the=20
article to insert the meteorite when Maj. J.J. Palmer, who had been sent =
for it,=20
should return with the trophey. "It would have been a big thing," said =
the state=20
geologist, "and Prof. J. Lawrence Smith would have given $500 for it." =
The major=20
could find no one in the county, who knew "Leonida Glover, widower." =
There was=20
no demolished roof, no desolated household, no hole in the ground where =
the=20
magnetic stone "lit." There was nothing. All was a sham, a delusion, a =
vanity.=20
The major brought back a fourteen-pound bewider blackened with ink and =
burned to=20
look igneous and grimy. He intended it as a joke; but it didn't raise a =
smile=20
upon the state geologist's countenance. He was as sad as King Henry, =
when he=20
heard that "the bark that held the prince went down." He livened up a =
little=20
before the reporter departed, and told of a meteoric stone that fell in =
1846; in=20
South Carolina, within twenty miles of Columbia. The event took place =
during a=20
terrific thunder storm, and the aerolite was seen to fall by an aged =
negro, who=20
picked it up and ran to the house with it, saying: "Gorramity, missus! =
here's a=20
chunk of solid thunder!"
(Mark note: Same paper, same page)
AEROLITES
Something About Them - What They Are and Where They Come From - =
Mention of=20
Serveral of the Largest of These Strange Visitors - Collectors of =
Meteoric=20
Stones
(Indianapolis News)
State Geologist Cox has dispatched Maj. J.J. Palmer to Foutain county =
to=20
procure for the state museum the meteoric stone reported as having =
fallen near=20
Newton last Tuesday night, killing Leonidas Glover, a farmer, while =
asleep in=20
his bed, coming through the roof of his house and going through the his =
body,=20
the bedding and floor, and penetrating the earth beneath to a depth of =
five=20
feet. The stone is said to be of twenty pounds weight and pyramidal in =
shape.=20
Prof. Cox does not entirely credit the story but cannot believe that any =
one=20
would invent a hoax of this charactor. The direction from the general =
rule of=20
their descent, as they usually fall at an angle and seldom imbed =
tehmselves in=20
any great depth in the earth's surface. They have been known to fall on =
ice and=20
not break through the congealed surface. The professors day this =
occurrrence=20
will turn the attention of hundreds who are studying phenomena of this =
character=20
to Indiana, and that if J. Lawrence Smith, of Louisville, who is making=20
aerolites a special study and who is now in Europe, were at home, he =
would=20
straddle a streak of lightning for Fountain county instanter. Prof. G. =
C.=20
Broadhead, of Missouri, who has recently written a pamphlet on meteoric =
stones=20
and shooting stars, says of them that they are likely to fall at any =
time, but=20
have certain periods at which they appear in great numbers. Every year =
about the=20
10th of August a shower of meteors is seen that appears to proceed from =
the=20
constellation of Perseus. Another period is, at the 12th and 13th days =
of=20
November, after thirty-three years, and for three years thereafter, at =
which=20
time they apparently come from the constellation Leo. The next =
appearence of the=20
November shower will be in the year 1900. Some of these aerolites are =
gaseous=20
and transparent, others solid as the bolides. Adams has demonstrated =
that the=20
zone of cosmical bodies forming the meteor system has an orbit extending =
out=20
into space beyond the orbit of Uranus; it is the opinion of some =
astronomers=20
that we ower to Uranus the attraction of these star showers. Meteors, =
according=20
to Prof. Broadhead, appear between 46 and 92 miles elevation; their =
speed=20
varying from 14 to 107 miles per secon. A majority of the November =
meteors of=20
1868 appeared of an orange color, a very few blue. In 1866 the portion =
of the=20
stream of November meteors through which the earth rolled was 80,000 =
miles deep.=20
In 1867, the part of the stream traversed was, moreover, 50,000 miles =
down.=20
Prof. H.A. Newton estimates the thickness of the August ring at from =
five to ten=20
millions of miles for the earth, moving at the rare of two millions of =
miles per=20
day, is immersed in it for several days. He estimates more that=20
300,000,000,000,000 for the total number of these bodies in the August =
ring. It=20
has been assumed by astronomers that seven and one-half millions of =
meteors pass=20
the earth's atmosphere, and bright enough to be seen by the naked eye =
every=20
twenty-four hours. If revealed by the telescope they would number =
400,000,000.=20
Pyroxene, olivine, chrome iron, angite, etc., are found as constituents =
of=20
bolides or meteoricstones. Their form being irregular is a proof that at =
some=20
time they have formed part of a larger mass. Metallic iron mixed with =
more or=20
less nickel and cobalt and other metals peculair to the earth are of =
constant=20
occurence in these celestial stones. They stony portions of these =
visitors=20
resemble the older igneous rocks, and very closely those of some =
volcanoes. Dr.=20
J. Lawerence Smith is of opion that eustatite, bronzite and chrysolite =
from=20
ninety percent of the earthly minerals in the aggregate mass of all =
meteoric=20
stones. Schreibersite and troillite, two minerals not found in the =
earth, are=20
found in meteorites. As to the size of meteorites the Bates county, =
Missouri,=20
iron meteorite was a little over eighty-five pounds, the Tazewell, East=20
Tennessee, iron meteorite was fifty-five pounds. The Smithsonian =
Institiution=20
has a meteoric stone from Coahuila, Mexico, that weighs 252 pounds, =
Tucson,=20
Arizona, one of iron, 1,400 pounds. A mass of meteoric iron in Chihuahua =
weighs=20
about 3,853 pounds. The largest known mass of meteoric iron is in the =
mountains=20
east of Port Oxford, Oregon, described by Dr. John Evans, and weghing =
several=20
tons. The Gibbs meteorite, in Yale college museum, weighs 1,635 =
pounds.
The largest collections of meteorites in the United States are those =
of J.=20
Lawrence Smith, who has 171 and C. U. Shepherd, of Amherst College, who =
has 286.=20
A number of meteorites fell in Harrison county, this state, in 1857, =
during a=20
meteoric shower. Another fell at Rochester, this state, in December, =
1876, which=20
weighed nearly two pounds. It is asserted that the crust of the earth is =

increasing at the rare of one foot per 100 years by the accession of=20
meteorites.</DIV></BODY></HTML>

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