Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1898 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. A Terre Haate Young Man Released from a Mexican Prison-Woman Charged with Trying to Murder Her Daughter-in-Law-Found Dead. Freed from a Mexican Jail. Mrs. R. N. Hudson of Terre Haute has received a telegram informing her of the release of her son, Morton, who had been held in a Mexican jail on a charge of murder. Several weeks ago Hudson and a companion, when riding into Mexico from their ranch in Texas, met two highwaymen and shot them. Fearing they would not get justice in a Mexican trial, they hid for a day or two, and this fact caused some feeling against them. Ex-Secretary of the Navy Thompson, W. R. McKeon, Congressman Faris and Senator Fairbanks enlisted the State Department at Washington in Hudson’s liehalf, and Minister Powell Clayton asked the Mexican Government to expedite the case. Hudson and his companion were well treated while in jail. Woman Charged with Murder. Mrs. Sarah Shankenberger was arrested nt Frankfort, charged with the murder of her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Ed. Shankenberger. Mrs. Shankenberger died a few days ngo. She made an ante-mortem Statement expressing the belief that she had been systematically poisoned by her mother-in-law. The contents of her stomach were taken to Dr. Hurty of Indianapolis for analysis, and his report was that he had found arsenic in deadly quantities. Mrs. Shankenberger accepted her arrest coolly and denies guilt. The dead woman's husband is a member of the United States navy, on board the cruiser Minneapolis. He has arrived home. The accused was committed to jail without bail. Widow in Fear of I'eath. When Mrs. Norton of Terre Haute returned to her home from the funeral of her husband she found her 17-months-old child dead. When she left the house there was no indication of approaching death. At the time Norton was dying the dial on the side of the court house clock, which could be seen from the house, darkened until the time could not be read. Immediately upon his death the shadow passed away. The widow now believes there is the same fate in store for herself and is prostrated. Found Dead Near His Home. Thomas Stall, 53 years old, a veteran of the civil war, was found dead within fifty feet of his home in Indianapolis. He had been struck on the left temple, the blowcausing concussion of the brain. The fact that his clothes and hands were free from dirt, that the ground was undisturbed and that there were no signs of a struggle suggests the theory that he was murdered elsewhere and that his body was placed near his home by the murderers.

Within Our Borders. Frank Gallaway was run over and killed by a Big Four engine at Milford. The Elwood fair grounds will be temporarily converted into an all-year-round pleasure rcsor.r. Rev. Ralph J. Smith, for two years pastor of the First Congregational Church of Kokomo, has resigned. A mysterious disease lias appeared among the cattie of Oregon township; and is spreading. It is, apparently, not fatal. Levi Jakeway was instantly killed by a passenger train on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at Ligonier. He was 45 years old. While bathing with several companions in Trout creek, near Jacksonville, Fla., Private Ernest Pullman of Company A, 161st Indiana regiment, dived from a high place into shallow water. He was taken to the hospital, where it was ascertained that his back had been broken. He died from his injuries. This is the first death in the regiment. The Populists of Floyd County held a mass convention in New Albany to nominate a county ticket, but before they finished they launched a boom of Lieut. Richmond Pearson Hobson, the hero of the Merrimac, for President in 1900. Resolutions were adopted describing Hobson’s heroism and Americanism, and indorsing him as a candidate for the chief executive of the nation. The Y. M. C. A. of Anderson and Marion leaded aud operated the entire system of the Gas Belt Electric Railway the other day. This gave them the thirtytwo miles of main line between the two cities. Excursion rates were announced, and picnics and excursion parties to the Soldiers' Home and other resorts were organized. The traffic was big, and they will clear S2OO or $250 on the day. The farm house of Tom Wantz, two miles east of North Manchester, was struck by lightning and wrecked in a peculiar manner. The bolt came inside at the comb of the roof and spread to every room in the building, knocking off plastering, door casings and playing havoc generally. It came out at the south side, where it made a large opening. The family of six were in the house and were severely shocked. The house was not set on fire, although it is almost a total wreck. At Hagerstown, Rev. F. M. Moore, a minister of the United Brethren Church, has brought suit against the Central Union Telephone Company for $2,500 damages. The ground of his complaint is the failure of the telephone company to properly convey a message in which Rev. Mr. Mqore was solicited to come to Falinoutih to preach a funeral sermon. After receiving the message the complainant went to Falmouth, but upon arrival there found that the information conveyed in the message was erroneous and that there was no funeral in that part of the county. On account of the levity indulged in at his expense by persons who learned of the peculiar mistake the minister was subjected to great annoyance. Daniel Sandborn, a deaf mute, 50 years old, while in a weakened condition from sickness, fell from a third-story window at the Morgan County infirmary and was killed. All that is mortal of ex-Gov. Claude Matthews now lie* in the Clinton cemetery. The last sad rites were attended by distinguished men from the capital and every section of the State. , ■ Sam Coburn, colored, employed at the Torey mine, near Clinton, was perhaps fatally burned by a premature explosion of a shot In the mine. The negro was lamping the cartridge when it exploded.