Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1898 — INDIANA INCIDENTS [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS

RECORD OF EVENTS OF TM PAST WEEK. 1 JH Fire in a Medical College-FatalC® lision at Gas City—Killed by the Mail—Attorney Kun Down by a Tnjfl —Cooked by Steam. I The building of the Indiana MetH® College, a department of the Univeigfl of Indianapolis, was gutted by fire. 39 fire was caused by a defective furnafl Dr. R. (1. Morgan of Plainfield escsij9 by the fire escape from the third floor.-£■ Norman Shobe of Ligonier attempted® escape by means of the stairway, but caught between the second and thfl floors and perhaps fatally burned. He trl rescued later by the firemen. The I® will amount to $40,000; insurance, §39 000. 1 Engine Strikes a Street Car. ; I The west-bound passenger train on 9 Panhandle Railroad crashed into a strefl car at the crossing of Main street in Ga City, seriously and probably fatally ® juring several persons. Seventeen pJ sengers were in the car and the train wj running at a speed of twenty niilesj® hour. The street car was hurled sin feet in front of the engine and demolisfjjM A number of passengers jumped just fore the train struck the car and cscaM injury. The railroad track was torn® and the engine badly broken. I Man Cooked in a Poiler. ..9 Matt Drinkwater, employed at a Pittsburg plate glass factory in Kukonl was cleaning the boilers, and while 9 side wiping the sections a companion, w)i thought he had finished the job and la gone to some other part of the factor! turned steam into the boiler. The flesh® Drinkwater’s legs, arms, breast and fu was literally cooked and fell off on I being taken out. I Slain by a Mail Train. I ■While a party of twelve people wel returning from a ball at Otis early t! other morning on two handcars they wel struck by the Lake Shore fast mail etil of Chesterton. William Seabcnski J® William Kempter were killed outrigil Seabenskfs two daughters,' aged 13 ail 15 respectively, were probably fatally® jured. Others of the parts 1 jumped am escaped injury. I Attorney Killed l»y a Train.. I I Isaac Yandevanter of Marion was t® down and killed by the east-bound Pal handle passenger train. The body w! so mutilated that identification was dim cult, .lodge Yandevanter was one of I] diana’s best known attorneys. He pral ticed in tlie United States Supreme Co® and tvas elected in his district as Stal Senator, lie leaves a widow and « children. I

Within Our Borders. The electric light plant at (Ireen field been purchased by the city. W. W. Hamilton of Decatur lias sold SIO,OOO worth of cattle for Burglars entered the postoffice at tula and secured about SIOO in cash stamps. John Ilogue, a prominent farmer, w as killed by being kicked in stomach by a mule. Brown County is at last to have a phone line within its limits. will he made a station. John Iviidell, formerly of Chicago, 45, a barber, committed suicide in paraiso by hanging himself. Walter Cook, aged 13 years, fatally himself with a rifle at his home in Albany. He did not know the gun loaded. At New Albany. Isaac P. Leyden been selected as trustee of the and to have charge of the estate of Depauw. H At Shelbnrn. the grain mill of & Crowder, with all of its contents, destroyed by tire. Loss, $18,000; for SB,OOO. ■ Charles Edwards, aged 21 years, fatally stabbed at (Jellersliurg by Donohue. The men were quarreling a trivial matter. H The Pierecton sanitarium was ed by fire. The loss is SIO,OOO. It owned by a stock company. Little ance was carried. South Bend is a mother of two e\-Cougressmen. a elect, four ex-State Senators and a tor-elect residing there. H Bobbers made an unsuccessful n:tem|H| to enter the bank at Westville. The on guard in the bank fired a number shots, ami becoming alarmed, the men ran away. Six years ago the breech pin flew froH a shotgun and buried itself in Hill’s skull at Brazil. The pin was moved and the wound healed. dead of the injury. President Brown of the northern diana normal school at Valparaiso prohibited football absolutely in the lege, owing to a member of the team being seriously injured. H Justice Corder at Princeton a written verdict in the Bosenberger soiling ease, binding the defendant, Bebeeea A. Bosenberger, over to the term of the Hibson Circuit Court in sum of SI,OOO. Princeton is again excited over a puH soiling ease. Mrs. John her three children were poisoned what seems to have been arsenic. the poison came from is a mystery, may have been placed in the well. family, it is claimed, has no enemy. jflßn Mrs. Delia Carter has brought the estate of $150,000 left by John J. FeH rell of Terre Haute, who died leaving no will, and whose second are the nearest of kin. Mrs. 'egos that she was taken as a child lH Ferrell with the promise to make heir. 1 A cable message has Inn'll the Navy Department in \Yashingtoii[afl9 uouncing the death of Ensign Fermier, attached to the gunboat on the Asiatic squadron. Ensign FcrndiH was appointed to the naval academy fjrofll this State. Wm William Stage) of Candy’s banfcJßH Churulmseo, who recently weut to Coltufl| bin City to get $2,200 for the bankwHf returned with SIWM, alleging ho started home with two men who lußl drugged him. has made a confession gaXi ing that he hr.J buried the the money. jH