Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 October 1899 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Peacemaker fhjt anT Killed—>Hn »- band Imprisons His Wife in a Cellar for Several Weeks-Suicide of a Kicb Young Alan—Bobbed by Aiaskg^Mcn.

An attempttMl double murder took place at Colfax. Bert Julian, who W 4? recently discharged from the regular jirmy in the Philippines, entered a saloon and shot Milo Iloulehan, a discharged soldier. Julian had a grudge against Frank Gray, the proprietor of the saloon, and as he came into the place declared that he intended to kill Gray with a shotgun which he carried in his hands. Iloulehan: interfered, when Julian put .the of the gun against his head and discharged one barrel. Houlehan’s head was literally blown off. lie then fired the other barrel at Gray, but missed him. He was takeu in custody and hastened to Frankfort jail.

Wealthy Young Man Kills Himself. Leslie D. Sinclair committed suicide at Vincennes by shooting himself through the temple. He was worth SJ.OO, XM), and belonged to one of the most prominent families in southern Indiana. He was one of the principal heirs to the .$500,000 estate of the late William J. Wise., The coroner found a note Sinclair had written to his sister in which he said his life was a failure. Sinclair Was 28 years old, and unmarried. lie took his life in a restaurant. Woman Chained in a Cellar. Mrs. Herman Gays, who had been reported several weeks ago to have left her husband and gone to her mother in Montreal, was found the other evening to have been hidden in the cellar of her residence iu English, where her husband had fastened her with a trace chain less than five feet long. The discovery was made through Gays’ 12-year-old daughter by a previous wife. Gays learned of his possible arrest and fled, but every’ attempt will be made to capture and punish him.

Woman Kobbfd l>jr M-uknl Men. Mrs. Louie Waudrel, wife of the landlord of the Columbian Hotel at Isigaii'port. was aroused from* sleep by a mdse in another room. Hastily arising, she suddenly found herself iu the grasp of three masked men. They bound and gagged her and then robbed the rooms of ail the valuables, consisting htostly’ of jewelry. Within Our Border* One hundred horses were shipped from Anderson for the Transvaal the bthe£ dav. • "iini. 1 i eio James \Ve-s. farmer near Viavg.onuffif was run down by a Big Four train- ami killed. Rush County commissioners decided to build five wooden bridges instead of steel ones. Mancie has grown until letter carriers cannot cover their routes in an eighthoiir work day. Franchise has been granted‘fd'Ti Lindsay Fitch. Louisville,- 'ih put in -Wat-r works at New Albany.'- - r --'d-t-unA 'tut -*, ~. .-la: ionic nsranyh Construction of the I.ogansporty. ester ami Northern Traction Company's road will begin at an early untie/ ~ ‘ *

Anderson came out first. Columbus second and Seymour third in the baud contest at the Greensburg street fair.

C. 11. Dale, superintendent of the Hartford City paper mills, has won the chess championship of Indiana and Ohio. Three Panhandle engines and tweuty freight e-ars were pile-el up in a wreck at Peoria junction, near Logauspoit. Noboely hurt. Thomas Bowers, who was found elcael in bed at Anderson, was buried by relatives, his wife and daughter refusing to claim the body. Mrs. Helen Shipley, Muneie, confessed that she was given SIOO to testify falsely in a trial three years ago. was conscience stricken.

At Etna Green. Pittsburg. Fort Wayne and Chicago east-bounil freight No. 00 was run into by freight No. 78. The colliding engine and fifteen ears were wrecked. G. L. White, a well-known traveling salesman for the Van Camp Packing Company of Indianapolis, who had been for several -days at the —TVm* -Haute House, suddenly went insane. A serious stabbing affray occurred at Knightstown. Waite Heaton, a banker, is alleged to have stabbed Joseph Alspaugh. The men are aged 00 and 55 years respectively. The trouble is alleged to have originated over a business deal. Dicing the noon hour, while the office force "was away ffrr a slmvt -time, the safe of Lytius & .Johnson. real estate dealers, in the most prominent building in Minnie, was Opened and S4OO stolen, it was done by experts, for the combination was worked and the inner drawers plied open, ai! in fifteen minutes’ time. It is stated in railroad circles that the Vandaiia northern terminal at South Bend will be extended to Michigan City. A corps of surveyors has been running a line to Michigan City which traverses the northern part of La Porte County, and V, T. Malott of Indianapolis, receiver ot the Vandaiia. is credited with being interested in building the Michigan City road.

Sheriff Klingler of Brazil received a telegram from the sheriff at Philadelphia stating that he had under arrest there Fred M. Chapin, wanted at Brazil for forgery', la 1897 Chnpin and Sterling It. Holt, the Indianapolis ice millionaire, bought the plant of the Brazil Ice and Cold Storage Company and Chapin was placed in charge. Soon he disappeared and it developed that he had forged Holt’s name to cheeks for $3,000 on ihe First National Bank of Brazil aud s2,<M>o on the Zeller & Riddell Bank. Ed Speioher, 15, Logarispoit, Went crazy studying flying machines. Window glass combine is taking in Hartford City plants. Labor organizations in Brazil are fining all members who trade at stores that do not recognize the clerks’ union and close at 7 p. tu. There is a man in Goshen whog wpeu he wa* -18, was of medium statute. fla the last nine years he has been afflicted, at different times, with a debilitating conii'.’aint, and each time that he got out of tod found that be had grown a test inches. He is now seven feet tall.