Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1898 — INDIANA INCIDENTS [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS

RECORD OF EVENTS OE TllH PAST WEEK. . >;J| j Robust Shelby ville Woman Atteaaaiflß to Abdnct a Man— Soldiers’ WImB Loses $373 Pension Money—Aeq^^H ted of Murder Charge. .1 At Shelbyville, Mrs. Walter Nading|H stituted divorce proceedings against MB husband, naming Miss Ruby Clark as 00* respondent, and asking SIO,OOO aiimonyJ Xading, it is said, continued visiting Mislfl Clark until one morning, when he toofcfjß train for Flat Rock, where his w if® ,: <aß staying with her parents. Miss ClagjM learning of his action, scoured a Mveijß rig and started for Flat Rock. On reads* ing there she entered the house whena Xading was attempting a reconciliatfifH with his wife, and, he being small stature and she very large and robust, ahel deliberately picked him up, placed him] in the buggy and was starting away wit® him when interrupted by friends of Mes|l Xading. whose husband was torn a way! from the attempted abductress and re*| turned to her. Mrs. Xading will wit'hJl draw her suit. Robbers Pension Money. M Some time ago Mary Nugent, residing! ten miles north of Shelbyville, was al-j lowed back pension by the Government,:! and the other night her home was visited! by robbers. Her 18-yoar-old son John j was called to the yard aud tied to a tree,| while two men entered the house with re- f volvers, making the mother reveal the hiding place of $373 in gold, her only possession. The son had attended the State fair at Indianapolis and talked of. his mother’s wealth. Acquitted of Murder Charge. At Michigan City, after seven days of evidence in the Superior Court the jury in the case of the State against Barney Dolan, an ex-policeman, who on April 4, in attempting to arrest Harry Wilson, hit him with a mace, causing his death, returned a verdict of not guilty. Verdict for 940,000, A $40,000 verdict was given in the Circuit Court at Peru to Dennis Uhl and James McNitt against the State National Bank of Logansport. The money had been loaned to President John F. Johnson. who wrecked the hank and is now in the Columbus, 'Ohio, penitentiary. Within Our Borders. Prairie wolves are reported in the southern part of I.aporte County. Despondent over ill health. Henry Kissling. aged 20 years, shot and killed himself at Columbus. Findlay McGuire of Anderson, private secretary to Consul Gowdy at Paris, I’rnnce, has resigned. William Stephenson, a wealthy farmer living one mile east of Elizabethtown, was robbed of S3OO while asleep. Contracts have been let for the building of an independent distillery at Terra Haute. Its capacity will be 5,000 bushels daily. At South Bend, the Boston store, Chillas, Adler & Coble, proprietors, is closed. Liabilities, $10,000; assets, $25,000 to $30,000. Mrs. George Meyer, wife of a member of the Crane Elevator Company of Chicago, died from carbolic acid poisoning at Indianapolis. At Elwood, Letia, the 4-year-old daughter of Oris Blake, fell into a kettle of boiling water and was so fearfully burned that she died. Andrew Stark of Chicago, president of the Chicago Indurated Fiber Pail Company, located at South Bend, has brought suit for a receiver. A mound where the Pottawatomie Indians buried their dead a century ago was recently uncovered by workmen digging a cellar at Cedar Lake. At Terre Haute, Mrs. H. M. Winslow and daughter, Jessie, aged 12, were poisoned by eating watermelon and the daughter will probably die. Two men boldly robbed the Bi» Four depot at Carthage in broad daylight, taking all the money and several bunches of tickets. One of the robbers was captured. In a quarrel over a game of cards at New Albany, Henry Fischer was slashed across the face and back by Michael Doherty. The wound in his back may cause his death. At Evansville. John R. Carney, who sued for divoree, has consented to take his wife to his bosom again now that he has been convinced (hat she had not been knowingly guilty of bigamy. Isaac Snow, who shot and killed William MeCart near Bedford, Aug. 15, was indicted by the special grand jury. The charge is murder in the first degree. Snow is now in jail at New Albany. One hundred men in the oar and machine department of the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern Railway shops at Washington have been laid off indefinitely. The officials assigned no reason. ' William Reid, a prominent young school teacher of Shelby County, was arrested and thrown in jail, charged with the murder of Samuel Barker, near the fair grounds at Shelbyville during a fight. At Indianapolis, the 5-year-old daughter of Mrs. Cornelius Driscoll, while trying to amuse her 4-months-old brother, accidentally fired a Flobert rifle, the bullet striking the baby in the forehead, causing instant death. Judge Piety sustained the motion of the defense to quash the indictment for embezzlement against former City Treasurer Hauck of Terre Haute bn the ground that it was barred by the statute of limi- ’ tations. The State held that he had concealed the crime, but the defense insisted that, on the contrary, he had openly violated the law and published by the records that he had done so. The amount taken was $14,000. The dead body of Riley McFadden was found in the woods one mile northeast of Austin. He had been hunting, and it is supposed in getting on his horse it . became frightened and in some way one barrel of his gun was discharged, taking effect just under the right arm. Albert Clifton, colored, of Cincinnati, Harry Wright of Indianapolis and Garfield Innts, colored, of Rushville, three desperate burglars, sad David Bright, held for grand larceny, escaped from the Bush County jail during the absence of Sheriff Price. A skeleton key was used