Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1899 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. . Z Attempts to Kill Hie Family-Young Woman Drinks Phosphorus Solation —Fort Wayne Street Hailway to Be Sold—Bpworth League Lecture Trust. -James B. Crosby, a wealthy manufacturer of Marion, attempted to shoot his wife and family. Mr. and. Mrs. Crosby had domestic trouble and separated last January. Previous to the separation Crosby had transferred to his wife stock in the Crosby paper mills and the Marion strawbeard mills, which are both owned by him, that he might better fight the American Strawboard trust. After defeating the trust he demanded the return of his stock, but his wife refused to surrender it. He visited his wife’s while she and her six children were eating their dinner and again demanded.the stock. She refused, and he pointed a revolver at her and polled the trigger. The cartridge failed to explode and he tried the second. Mrs. Crosby ran from the house. A son about 18 years old attempted to strike his father with a chair, and the father attempted to shoot him, but the revolver was a center fire and the cartridges were rim fire, preventing a tragedy.

Wish for Death Gratified. Miss Emma McCarty, the Rushville young woman who a few days ago took a dose of water in which match heads had been soaked for two weeks, for the purpose of hilling herself, had her wish gratified. She died of phosphorus poisoning after suffering terrible agonies. Miss McCarty opposed the marriage of her father, John McCarty, to his niece, Miss Katie Cohee, who is thirty years his junior. The girl decided on self-destruc-tion. Street Bailway to Be fold. A decree was handed down in the Circuit Court of Allen County for the sale of the Fort Wayne Consolidated Street Railway and its holdings to satisfy a mortgage to the Guaranty Trust Company of New York for $724,829 and a mortgage to the Guardian Trust Company of Cleveland for $2,085,321. Other claims and attorneys’ fees aggregate SIOO,OOO.

Lecturers' Trust Is Victor. The Indiana lecture field has-l>een cornered as by a trust by the .Epworth League, which has tied up the entire eastern section by entering all cities of importance into an agreement against the lecture bureaus. While the league will not book all of its own attractions, it demands a 25 to 50 per cent reduction on last year’s prices from the bureaus. Engineer Mysteriously Killed. W. W. Howard, a Lake Shore engineer, left his train at Pine Station and, failing to return, the fireman went in search and found him dead beside tfie track with a deep gash in his head, supposed to have been caused by a coupling pin. The murder is as yet a mystery. Within Our Border*. Evansville has registered a kick against seiners. Indiana Adventists meet near Elwood, Aug. 10-25. Mrs. Della Holler, Saltillo; tired of living. took strychnine. J. E. Hall. Anderson, sneezed his right shoulder out of place. J. L. Aroson passed a forged check for $72.70 on a Valparaiso bank. Sylvester Freeze can’t run a saloon at Centerville, the people declare. William Bridgett's baby was smacked by a kissing bug at Hagerstown. John Brown, 28, Paoli, killed while lying in a drunken sleep on the railroad. Giri baby born to Ed Davis and wife, Travisville, weighs a pound and a half. Not a “drap” of firewater is sold in Cloverdale, not even for medical purposes. B. & O. S. W. railroad tracks in Ripley County torn up by a baby cyclone and cloud burst. Brazil minors want their pay every week, and are going to make the operators crack down. It is estimated that Wabash County farmers will make from $75 to sllO an acre on tomatoes. Opening of DfPauw University will be postponed until Sept. 27 on account of the Methodist conference.

(Soods that were swiped from a car in Muncie during the Elks' carnival were found under a culvert. A demented Shelbyville boy has been firing buildings and turning in alarms just t 6 see the department run. Body of Breidenstein, Fort Wayne, who disappeared a few days ago. was found in the canal. Supposed suicide. ’Christian Church of Indiana has bought assembly grounds nt Maxinkuckee, and will later establish a theological seminary. William Wilsey. Fort Wayne, sues for divorce because his wife smashed him with kitchen utensils and doused him with a bucket of slop. Hugh McMahan, a Vincennes street car motorman. was shot and fatally wounded by Peter Saeger, who mistook him for a burglar trying to break into the house of All« i rt Wheeler, a mail carrier, who lives nest 1 door. Miss Anna Mack, aged 17, daughter of the proprietor of the St. James’ Hotel at Pana, 111., who eloped with Wilbur E. Peck, a traveling salesman, caused his arrest in Anderson for the theft of a bicycle from a Muncie dealer. Frank Leech of Arlington had his hand cut by the fins of a black bass he was handling. Blood poisoning developed and the arm was amputated in the hope of saving his life. The effort was vain, however, and lieech died in great agony. An old-Quaker church that stands near Fairmount and has been used for divine services for fifty-six years, is to be converted into a stable. Mrs. Dora Grainger, Evansville, answered a matrimonial advertisement and has packed her duds and gone to* Maine to meet her man. The first person in Muncie to become a victim of the kissing bug was Oran Green, aged 18. He was atung and has been in a precarious condition ever since. The sting was upon the upper lip and the young man’s Uce became terribly swailea.