Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1899 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Myitery in a Woman’* Death—Small Boy Killed by Peculiar AccidentTrain Wrecker* Confess Their DeedTwo Explosions of Natural Gas. The body of a young woman was found lyiilg in the bushes near the Wabash river, near Independence village. It proved to be that of Miss Mehaly Silvers, who had left the home of Saimiel Dntcher, where she hnd been workmgT and had started to walk to her home, a distance Of four miles. Near the body was a bundle of clothing, containing a purse, in which was $5 and a locket. Explosion Costs Two Lives. Charles Pumfrie, in lighting a fire in a stove in his residence at Marion, ignited natural gas that had collected in the house during the night from a leak in the pipe. In the explosion Puinfrie was blown into the yard and covered with debris from the wrecked building. His wife, who was ill in bed, was saved from death from the falling roof by the protection of an iron bedstead. Both,were fatally injured. Explosion in a t'choo4.hon3e. An explosion of gas occurred at the school building in Jonesboro, when 400 children were in the building. Escaping gas Was discovered by one of the pupils and a match was applied to a joint in the service pipe, and an explosion followed which tore up the floor of the building for a distance of forty feet. None of the children was seriously injured. Eib Driven Into His Heart. At Fort Wayne, Carl, the 8-year-old son of Dr. Derbyshire, was instantly killed. Carl, with other boys, hail taken the front trucks of a wagon and buried one wheel in the ground, the other was turned up and revolved rapidly. While Carl was riding on the wheel it broke down and fell on his chest, crushing a rib through the heart.

Attempt to Wreck a Train. Roy Galbrenth, aged 30, and Frank Roadarniol, aged 20. were arrested at Valparaiso for putting tics on the Grand Trunk road for the purpose of wrecking the midnight passenger train. But for an extra west-bound freight discovering the obstruction the passenger train might have* been wrecked. Both men confessed their guilt. Within Onr Borders, Jacob Haddix’s SO,OOO, house and barn, near Claypool, are in ashes. Commissioners have bought the toll bridge over the Wabash at Clinton. Rev. Reed Wright, a Christian preacher, died of pneumonia at English. There is a case of smallpox at Jackson Hill. The town is quarantined, Mrs. Nancy Starr, 80, Borden, is in good health and is cutting a set of teeth. J. S. Peterson, a Lake Shore engineer, fell from his engine at Dune Turk and was cut to pieces. Geo.»lvelscy, a few miles north of Tipton. hung himself. His mother hung herself twelve years ago. Willis Thomas, colored, had both legs crushed while boating his way on a F„ F. & M. freight, at Needham. Azra Smith’s large flock of sheepi near Sheridan, Was attacked by dogs, 200 being killed and 73 wounded. U will cost the county SI,OOO. Chas. McCoy, tobacco grower near Otto, was found dead with a bullet hole in his head. A murder is suspected and detectives are at work. Mrs. Domino Laporte hnd a fight with her husband, during which she cut him ou the arm. Then he was arrested and she tiled suit for divorce. Wade McCoy and son, Martin, were acquitted at New Albany on the charge of being accessories in the murder of Thos. Ithetts iu Clarke County, last July. Wife of Otto Beard, a soldier in the 161st Indiana volunteers, made application for her husband's discharge, and when he received the papers he was dumfounded. Lives in Franklin. Stephen Neal, former judge of Boone County Circuit and author of the fourteenth amendment to the constitution of the United States, has tiled suit for divorce from his wife. Laura Neal, at Lebanon. The plaintiff is 82 years old, and has been totally blind since last July. Mrs. Neal is 62.

Ed Pottmeyer, while working at the Baker ice linage, I.ognnsport, lost his balance and plunged from the top of a high derrick. He fell on Frank Vance, who was working directly beneath him, and both men went down in n heap. Pottmeyer sustained merely a broken rib and Vance escaped with a wrenched back. At Evansville, Charles Brooner, aged 20, was shot and seriously wounded by Charlps Sanders. Brooner had warned Sanders not to keep company with his sister. Sanders took the girl home and was met by Broouer at the edge of town. Brooner beat Sanders over the head with a large club, knocking him down several times. Sanders, rising from the ground half conscious, shot Brooner through the abdomen and escaped. Frank R. Fisher, a traveling salesman for a clothing company of Utica, N. Y., disappeared the other night at the hour appointed for his marriage to Miss Jennie Showalter, a well-known belie of Waterloo. The conple had been engaged for some months. Shortly before the time set Fisher called on the bride and said he would return at the appointed hour. The bride was then attired in her wedding gown and the clergyman on band to perform the ceremony. When all was ia readiness for the arrival of the groom a messenger appeared with a note from the groom, saying that he had been called to Sherwood, Ohio, on important business. Fisher refuses any explanation, only declaring the wedding off. C. W. Carlton, 74 years old, a man of wealth, hanged himself in his room at Indianapolis with a clothes line. He had been suffering from the grip and was despondent. In • saloon fight at Newburg John Lundson shot and fatally injured Frank Sheppard and also wounded Sheppard’s son Frank- It is said the shooting was in self-defense. At Indianapolis, James W. Tyler, father of Marion Tyler, who was lynched at Scottsburg, has begun suit in the United States Court against James Gobin, sheriff of Scott County, for $5,000 damages.