Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1899 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Mother Abduct* Her Owu ChildBunk Wrecker Muet Serve tint Hia Term—Suicide Caused by Domestic Troubles—Fight et North Salem. A man and woman abdueted Elvah, the 6-year-old adopted daughter of JoeO Jackson of Red Bridge. The child was attending school when the pair drove up and the man entered the school room. He told the teacher, Joseph Long, that Mr. Jackson had sent for the girl. They put her into the buggy and drove away. Long, suspecting something wrong, dismissed school and went to Jackson, who started in pursuit. The couple were captured at Logans port. The woman is Mrs. Alvafa Sherrill, of Attica, the mother of the child. She asserts 6he never surrendered her claim to the girl.

Victims Head Off * Pardon. John F. Johnson, president of the State National Bank, Ix>ganspoirt, which institution he was convicted of wrecking by his embezzlement of $500,000, will not be pardoned. The stockholders of the defunct concern have followed up the petitions circulated for his pardon with such diligence that the prayer of the friends of Johnson, now serving a sevenyear sentence in the Ohio penitentiary, wffll never reach President McKinley. The share owners appealed to Judge Baker and District Attorney Wishard, who tried the case, to stop the agitation for otemency and both agreed not to sign the petition for a parole. Die* to Win Bar Insurance. In Terre Haute Mrs. Pearl Kennedy, depressed by domestic troubles, committed suicide by taking poison after beseeching her 17-year-old daughter also to take, poison. The daughter thought her mother was making an idle threat until a few hours later, when the elder woman’s heavy breathing alarmed her. When Mrs. Kennedy paid a premium on her life insurance policy a few days before she told the agent that it would be her last and that the company’s tnrn to pay her would come before another payment would be due from her.

Meets Death in a Quarrel. Shade Mackey, who went to North Salem some time ago from Tennessee, where he claimed to have killed two men and served a term in prison, was killed by William Ragan, a drug clerk, with whom he became involved in a street fight. Mackey was shot through the head and Ragan through the body. Within Our Border*. Jay County farmers will raise tobacco. Hanover College ia making SIO,OOO worth of repairs. John Romos was killed by a falling tree near Terre Haute. Terre Haute street fair association had $483 left to divide among the stockhofflers. Ohio FaUs iron works has begun to “blow in” its furnaces after five years’ rest. William Herrendeems, Wabash freight brakeman, was killed in the yards at Peru. Public monument will be erected to the memory of the men killed in the Knightstown fire. John McGuigan, Mmicie saloonkeeper, laughed at a joke, and could not stop for two hoars.

Peter Rishei, 42, Muncie carpenter, who fell from a two-story building ten weeks ago, is dead. Miss Myrtle Bond, 17. Brazil, killed herself with morphine because her father would not quit drinking. Wm. Herrendeems. a Wabash freight brakeman from Delray. Mieh., was run over and killed in the Peru yards. Rufus Wait Lane, formerly a student at Barlham and now consul at Smyrna, married to Miss Marie Psiache. a Greek. Charles Walker, 19, Evansville, turned his gun loose in a crowd of negroes because some of them jostled a lady. Scott Davis and Ernest Hackner were hit, but not seriously hurt. The biggest sale of wool ever made in Indiana was closed in Orawfordsvi!!e when McClure, Graham & Rountree sold to the Manchester Mills Company of Manchester, N. H., over 300,000 pounds of fine wool. The clip was bought at from 18 to 22 cents and was sold at a slight advance. Dynamite was exploded under the house the house of James Pitman in Rockville. Mrs. Pitman, who was alone with two children, Was in the kitchen, which was wrecked'. Site was stunned, but not seriously injured. Mrs. Pitman says that not long ago she found a bundle of switches and u threatening note at her door.

Thomas Apple, aged <SO years, ami a resident of In wood, shot aud killed his divorced wife and immediately afterward killed himself. The couple were divorced a few days ago and trouble arose when the woman attempted to move some of her effects from the house. Many persons witnessed the affair, but could not interfere in time to save either. W. W. Watkins, the telegraph operator at Lakeville for the Vandalia road, was knocked down the other night by one of three men, who bore down upon him from a dark place behind n box car. Forty dollars in money and a gold watch were taken. Watkins was then carried to the yards of the company. After being repeatedly warned that if be made any outcry be would be killed the three men hoisted him into a refrigerator car. A bottle of whisky was thrown in and the door bolted on the outside. Watkins shouted himself hoarse. He was heard pounding on the door the next Morning, after having been a prisoner more than ten hours. Outlier gas well struck at Hagerstown. Blood hounds are Clacking thieves around Plymouth. v ; V Big Four freight houses at Anderson are being enlarged. Martin Kraeger, GO, Oakland City, was killed by a train. F. J. Hosier’s spoke factory, Mitchell, is in ashes. Loss $12,000. Cause unknown. Richard Mrooncr. Terre Haute, called Fannie Book’.ocker. who had rejected him, to the door and shot at her twice. The womau fell, but was not hit. I