Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1896 — RECOUP OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECOUP OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Miss Moberly at Last Gets Action on Her Tradncer—lndianapolis Hailway Employe in a Peck of Demeatic Trouble—Sunday Observance. Verdict for Miss Mary Moberly. The case of Miss Mary Moberly vs. James R. Heary, eashier of the Indiana State Bank at Indianapolis, for SIO.OOO damages for slander, was decided in favor of the plaintiff at Brazil. After remaining out twenty-eight hours, the jury brought in a verdict allowing Miss Moberly >I,OOO. Henry was charged with slandering the plaintiff by publishing a protest before the School Board of Gosport, beseeching them not to employ her as a teacher, claiming that in his opinion her action and language in the school room was unbecoming a lady. The case was venued to Brazil from Owe® County, where it has been in litigation for over seven years. Olliver Leads a Dual Life. Charles Olliver, of Terre Haute, an employe of the Vandalia Railway Company, who was thought to have been a victim of a blackmailing adventuress, seems to have been leading a dual life. time ago he made the acquaintance of aNWcftw, and, it is said', represented to her that he was a single man. An engagement to marry was entered into, and Olliver, it is alleged, took Mrs. Grimes’ child from the Orphans’ asylum, saying he would find a home for it until they were married. He postponed the wedding day several times. A few days ago a neighbor of Mrs. Grimes saw the child playing ip front of a house in another part of the city. It was not the locality where Olliver said he had placed it, and Mrs. Grimes went to the house. Then she learned that Olliver was married', and that he had taken the child to his own wife to be cared for. Olliver came home while the two women were talking and denied all that Mrs. Grimes said. He also denied it in the newspapers, and many persons believed him. He said he had adopted the child, and that he did not know Mrs. Grimes at the time. Then the woman swore out a warrant for his arrest and he pleaded guilty. No Sunday Ball at Indianapolis. For several weeks there has been considerable agitation of Sunday baseball by the ministers of Indianapolis, and communications have passed between them and Mayor Taggart and Sheriff Womack. The former did not think it his duty to interfere outside of the city and the latter declared that the police had jurisdiction within four miles of the city and should prevent ball playing if it was attempted. The Civic Federation then took the matter in hand, and Sheriff Womack notified the officers that there should be no ball playing on Sunday. All Over the State. Knights of Pythias of Kendallville, have dedicated their new temple, one of the finest in the State. Goldie, the 3-year-old daughter of Isaac Howell, of Wabash, was fatally injured by a train. She was playing on the tracks near a curve. Bituminous coal operators of Indiana, at a meeting in Terre Haute, have appointed a committee with power to arrange a scale for the year. Albert Anderson, hailing from Detroit, Mich., has been sentenced to one year in the penitentiary from Muncie, for stealing clothing from a washerwoman’s line.

The ice dealers of Terre Haute, who carried on a war of prices last season, have agreed on an advance of 75 to 100 per cent for this season, which means 40 and 50 cents a hundred for domestic use. Leo Hirth, a merchant at Indianapolis, was shot and killed by masked burglars in his house early Sunday morning. He and his wife were aroused by the movements of the men. He was attempting to reach for his revolver, which was on a table near his bed, when the burglars fired four shots at him, two of which passed through his head. The men escaped. A heavy damage suit will come, out of the visit of the Michigan University team to Bloomington. W. F. Holmes is arranging to bring suit for SIO,OOO against George Owen, city marshal, for false imprisonment. The trouble occurred after the game, when F. J. Sexton, of the Michigan team, struck a young man, knocking him down. Marshal Owen was given the warrant to arrest Sexton and Holmes was arrested by mistake and placed in jail. Hallie Shafer was released from jail at Muncie by Judge Koons, after being kept for three months on the charge of being illegally married. In January Miss Shafer, who is white and quite pretty, was married to James Walker, a negro, Each was placed in jail and have Siape. been held. In his finding Judge' KoOnst'kays the white or black woman who marries the opposite sex is not guilty aif'-erime according to Indiana statutes, it is a felonious act on'the part of the man, and Walker will likely get a tern in State prison. The Shafer girl has parents near Newcastle, who are highly regarded.

An appalling accident occurred on the Belt Railway Monday morning at Bedford, when an engine and one car loaded with stone went through a'sixty-five-foot trestle, killing five men instantly and badly injuring two others, one of whom has since died. The dead: Bevins, Sherman Carpenter, Charles Davis, Warren Leonard, Masterson, Charles Ogden. The injured: Henry De Vaull, Menzer. Henry De Vaull, the brakeman, Was standing on the rear end of the car and jumped when he felt the trestle giving way, catching on the timbers and thus saving his life. The injuries of Engineer George Menzer, aside from being scalded, amount only to a small Cut in the head and one in the breast. After much difficulty Sheriff Strahn made a clever capture of two strangers at Winchester. They were selling pocketknives and revolvers on the street. When searched ninety-six knives and revolvers were found on them. They gave fictitious names. Mrs. Mary Suhr, of Kokomo, has sued Charles Kirkhoff for $30,000 damages for breach of promise to marry. Mary alleges that Charles jilted her, yes Suhr, and married a sweet creature named Sophie Syrup. If this candied statement can be substantiated we hope Charles will be stuck for a good round sum. Thomas Evans, a glass-blower, of Anderson, committed suicide by drinking carbolic acid.

One year ago a gas well was drilled on the Eaton farm, near Ekin, and a tremendous flow of water shot high into the air. continuing until much of the country around the well was submerged. It was a magnificent sight while it lasted, and was visited by thousands of people. Finally the flow of water was controlled, and recently the casing of the Well was taken out. There is no longer any flow of either gas or water. The ground ffias caved in about the well, and some of the people in that neighborhood are fearful lest the earth should sink.