Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1896 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. * u Detective Believed to Have Beeu Manacled and Burned by Counterfeiters —Fee and Salary I.aw Now in Essect Tonng Matthews' Self-Denial. 1 Man Dies a Terrible Death. The cabiu abandoned two weeks ago by the Carson gang of counterfeiters, seven miles south of Rushville, burned Wednesday night. The unrecognizable remuius of a man were found in the cellar. The Carsons had bwa under surveillance for some time, as considerable counterfeit money was afloat. Secret service officers were on their trail and they knew of It. The hands of the man fouud burned to death in the cellar were manacled and he met his horrible death deprived of even making an effort to save himself. No oue is missing from the neighborhood and the officials find it impossible to identify the victim. The general stu’infsc is that the man was a secret service detective who had got in with the ('arsons for the purpose of securing evidence. They were aware of who the man was and took him to their cabin. Once inside the three brothers are supposed to have overpowered the detective, placed the handcuffs on his hands, and then throwing him into the cellar the cabin was tired and the man left to a death of horrible torture. Keller, who lives two miles from the cabin, says that, he saw four men pass his house on horseback on a dead run. He could not see who they were. In a short time ho heard an exchange of shots coining from the direction of the burned cabin. Sheriff Wilson says he will spare no means to apprehend the (’arsons, as he thinks they committed the murder. Saves Big Money for Indiana. The fee and salary law, which does away with foes entirely for the State officers and places each upon a straight salary, is now in full force and effect, and hereafter all fees accruing to the offices will be turned over to the State Treasurer. It is generally bhlieved that the State will be the gainer by this system of not Ichh than SIOO,OOO per annum, and this sum represents in the aggregate what the State officers will lose by the change from a fee system. The Attorney General's office was worth from $25,000 to $35,000 a year, and the State Auditor has made not less than $25,000 per annum. Each of those officials is now on a salary of $7,500. The State Treasurer is the only officer who secured an increase of salary under the new law, and he is now to receive $0,500 per annum, and it is declared that hereafter legislatures will make rigid inquiries into the management of the State funds, and in the event that the money is loaned will require the interest to be turned over to the State. If this Is carried into effect it will probably result in from SIS,(MX! to $25,000 being received by Aho State, while heretofore the Tr .i-.urer Ims appropriated to his own use all moneys collected as interest, For Bake of His Betrothed. The indignation which wits aroused throughout Fulton County by the action of Arthur Matthews, n prominent young ■farmer, when he left home- on the evening of his wedding day, hits given way to adfniration of the young man’s character, and friends have begun a vigorous seavelt for him, with a view 1o inducing him to return and take again his position in so-i eiety. It appears that Miss Gertie Reed, whom he was supposed to have deserted, had another suitor, to whom her parent* objected, and her marriage to young Matthews wits rs. bo in conformity with their will and not to her wishes. In the even-. Ing that Matthews disappeared the young lady candidly informed him that she loved another, but that she would marry him in obedience to her parenths’ demand.' Matthews then disappeared, and Miss Reed and his friends now see that ho sacrificed his own feelings in order that he might not longer stand between the woman he loved nmt the man of her choice. Desperate Fight at a Bcvlval. The report has reached Terre Hakte that at the conclusion of revival service* nt n church near Lockport two you ig farmers, Charles Lane and George Burkhall by name, quarreled over the treatment each had accorded the other's girl In the altercation Burkhall drew a razor or keen bladed knife, and slashed his op lament several times across the face ami body. It was reported that Lane’s wounds would prove fatal. William Thompson, a prominent farmer and member of the church, attempted to separate the two combatants and his band was almost severed by one of Barkhall’s thrusts. All Over the State. Don, the 2-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. 11. J. Dick, of Dunkirk, died from a strange cause. He got hold of a bottle of sample pills which had been around the house for some time and ate a portion of them. In less than two hours the child was dead. 1 At Bristow Willie, the 5-yenr-old son of Thomas McCarroi, met with a singular accident which will probably result in his death. The boy went to the pantry in search of a piece of pie and being too small to reach it, fell against the door and closed it. The little fellow wns attacked by rats and the physicians fear hydrophobia will result. The will of the late Rev. Joseph Nussbaum, of Laporte, makes a unique bequest, $5 being given to each of the priests -thirty-two in number—who attended his obsequies. The sum of $5 is given to Bishop Rademacher, S2OO to St. Joseph's Church, and there are two personal bequests of S4(X) and SSOO, the latter amount being given to Mrs. Kohn, wife of Prof. Kohn. A generous provision is also made for the jscor of St. Joseph's congregation. James Graham, who died at Pendleton several days ago, left no heir and no will. The eqfate was taken charge of by the county and will be converted into cash for t IT?- school fund. It amounts to about $4,000 in value. Mr. Graham was 82 years old. For a week a dry goods dealer of Kokomo advertised “dcills for a song." The other day two little girls, children of Alfred Miller, went jpto the store, and clambering up on the counter, each sang a pretty little song and claimed the dolls. They got them. The merchant has since changed the form of his advertisement. David Oliver Allen, of Rushville, aged 77, who was sick with grip, grieved so hard when his mother-in-law, Mrs. Mary Osborne, aged 86, died as to cause heart failure, and he died a few hours after her. John Wesley Thompson committed suicide at the Boston Hotel at Muncie by taking a quantity of morphine. He was aged 76 years, and was a He had been living at the Marion Didiers’ Home, but recently went to Muncie, visiting his ibrother at the hotel. He has brothers in Dayton, .Chicago. and Marion and a gister in St. Louia. ! lie left a note ‘ stating that he was homeless and friendless and had no one to live for, since his wifs died