Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1883 — INDIANA NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA NEWS.

Terre Haute claims to produce rOJ,(XX> barrels of flour a year, ©oasuming 2,500,009 bushels of wheat A school-teacher of Howard county eloped with Miss Olive Robertson, of Kokomo, three days after he had married Miss Malisaa Williams, a county belle. The older they get the better they are. A colored woman, (0 years old, who lives near Rockford, is reported as having shocked 150 acres of wheat ia eight days recently. Samuel G. Roach recently died at Aurora He had been Irving there some years w.th a woman he called his wife • They were faembers of the church, and appearel to be highly re-pectable. It is now charged that the couple were never married, or, if so, it was within a year, and the certificate falsely dated back. About 10 o'clock at night Mortimer Hill, who lived neir Selma, five miles east of Muncie, went to his father-in-law's house and shot his wife, who had left him a few days ago After he had committed this act, he sent a bullet through his own Beait, causing instant death. '1 he woman was the daughter of a well-to-do farmer in the eastern part of Delaware county. She is sti 1 living, with no hope of recovery. The cause is said to be jealousy and drink. Some time ago William Farley, who was confined in the prison at Jeffersonville, escaped from the jail and made his appearance before Gov. Porter and made a moraj plea in his own behalf for pardon. The Governor at the time, while astonished at the audacity of the convict, was compelled to refuse the pardon, whereupon William told the Governor he would go back to prison and serve his time out, and then disappeared from the Governor’s office before he could be detained by an officer. True to his word, he turned up in the Town of Edinburg, Johnson county, and from tha-place took the train for Jeffersonville, where he gave himself up. He was subsequently pardoned by the Governor, and the other day he de* cided on settling down, whereupon he took out a marriage license for h mself and Miss Emma Umbles, and they were duly and legally married. He is now doing well, has a good trade, plenty of work, and has no inclination of renewing his old traits.

There was another horrible tragedy aIndianapolis, which has already lesulted fatally in the two participants, while an innocent spectator is -at the point of death, the result of a wild shot The j.rmcipals were Jacob Altenbe g and Jacob Bush, both Germans and both old men, who in former I years had been great friends. Lately, however, they had a difference over a note for >SO, and Bush got judgment against Altenbeig in a Justice Court This increased the enmity, and the outgrowth of it was a suit for >5,000 damages for slander, brought by Bush against his old friend About noon Altenberg went into Bush’s office, and the two men had some heated conversation in German over the r troubles. They walked ’ Ont tdgfetJher’, nfid Bush stai*tbd to ‘ dfhner. As he walked away Altenberg drew a revolver and fired at him, and he fell. A second shot went wild and struck Samuel Campbell, a bookbinder, who was stand- ' ing near, in the stomach. Altenberg then put the weapon to his own head and made I two attempts to shoot, but the catridges failed to explode, iiy this time some men had arrived and endeavored to restrain him, but he lan into an adjacent yard and aga n attempted suicide. 1 his time he was more successful, and the bullet went crashing through his skull, making a large wound from which the blood and brains oozed. He lived nearly an hour. Bush was found to be • shot entirely through the body, and he died shortly after bis murderer, had breathed his flash Campbell was taken to his home, and his case wad pronoundfed hopeless. The tragedy created a great sensation here, as j both Altenberg, and Bush were prominent Germans and men of means. What was • once strong friendship between them had ■ become undying-hatred cn account of their business differences, and there iff little doubt that Allen berg jdelibejately. planned the murdef and the subsequent suicide. Oiqs of the qjost horrible that have yet been rec cr dep. was-co nmitt,ed in Mount Vernon. ‘ About two weeks ago a ;'young nran'nlimed Vanery, cr Vandever. I from Clayville, Webster county, Ky.? about 19 years of age, went to Mount Vernon. He had all the characteristics-of a ruralist. , For several days he frequented the saloons, i making acquaintances promiscuously. He ! entered the stoie of Rosenbaum Brothers, ! asking permission to deposit his money, as I he said he had been robbed of a portion of it. His money was put in an envelope and , placed in the safe—about >lB. The next 1 day he cabled for it and it was given to him, and that night late he was seen playing pool in one of the saloons, and that was the last seen of him alive. On the following day a gentleman driving along the road, just above an iron bridge, discovered blood on some cornstalks, an evidence of a struggle, and the weeds trampled down leading to the river and covered with blood, as though some body had been dragged through them. These evidences were found all the way to the river's edge. Marshal Paul was notified of these traces, and, believing that a crime had been committed, dragged the river, but without successful results. A man named Tabe Miller, while fishing, discovered a body that had been wasbed ashore. He immediately notified the authorities, and, upon the examination of the floater it was discovered to be young Vanery, or Vandever, with his throat cut from ear to ear and badly decomposed. Three men—Bennett Campbell, Zack Sniaer and John Briderson—were arrested on suspicion, as they were last seen with him. Snider made a confession. Snider and Briderson induced Vanery to accompany them to the iron bridge, saying there was a girl there who wanted to see him. After getting him they tried to bo: row some money from him, and, on his refusal, they attacked him. But, as he was able to get away with tnem, Briderson struck him over the head with a club, stunning him They then beat him to insensibi’ity and afterward dragged him toward the river. Vanery cane to before they got him there, and one of them choked him while the .other drew a Barlow knife, and with his hands sawed his throat acrcss from ear to ear, and, to make sure of his death, d.agged the body into the river and stood on it until satisfied that Vanery was dead. Neither of the murderers are yet of age, while their victim was only 18 years old.