Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1900 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Boya Prevent a Train Wreck—lncencendiarlee at Kockficld—Shot While Fleeing from Arrest -Decision Against the State—Life Taken by Whitecap*. Willie and Wilber, twins, aged 12 years, sons of Mr. and Mrs. John Stonestreet, living near Cedar, are heroes. They prevented a fast' express train on the Wabash Railroad from being wrecked while running ‘at the rate of sixty miles an hour. While walking down the Wabash traeks they discovered a broken rail, hrtrrietl home,-notified their father, and lie went to the home of the Wabash agent, J. M. Smith, and reported the boys’ discovery. Agent Smith reached the seeue just in time to flag the St. Louis express. The train was brought to a stop just on the brink of the broken rail. Inyendiarlea Threaten Town. The _ vicinity. o.f Rockficld is considerably agitated over tires of incendiary origin and threatening letters sent to citizens. Recently an unsuccessful attempt was made to burn the store of Frederieh Krunim, and later Mr. Krumm received a letter stating that if his son-in-law, George Knight, did not leave within a certain time he would be burned out. Mr. Knight is a good citizen and no reason is known for these unlawful acts. Fugitive Killed by Officers. Fred Hadwick was shot dead in Union City by Marshal Wait. Hadwick attacked Chnrles Thompson on the street and when the marshal and Policeman Harris appeared started to run for the Ohio State line to evade arrest. The officers gave chase and fired four shots on Hadwick’s refusal to halt. One of the shots took effect in the neck ahd the other in the side of his body. Indiana Loses Big Claim. Noble C. Butler, master in chancery in the Federal Court at Indianapolis, t 6 whom was referred the claim of the State against the VandaHa Railroad Company for $2,000,000, growing out of the granting of a special charter to that company, submitted a report covering the law and the evidence taken in the ease, and finds that the State is not entitled to recover auything from the company. Masked Men Murder in Night. .¶ Masked men rode to the farm residence of Lot Barger, near Shelbyville, and fired numerous shots from revolvers through the windows of his house, one of which took effect in Barger's body and caused his death. Barger was a widower and had been notified anonymously to discharge Mary Magee, his housekeeper, which he refused to do, hence the assault.

Within Our Borders. .¶ Geneva has established a crusade against slot machines. .¶ A horse bit a large piece from the cheek of the 4-year-old child of W. H. Clark, Hartford City. ¶ Ella Bricker, Anderson, 14, has been divorced from her husband, 18. She charged cruelty. Married a year. .¶ Owing to differences between the miners and laborers in the mines of Vigo, Greene and Sullivan counties, a strike was inaugurated. .¶ Amalgamated Association Iron and Steel Workers has overruled the Muncie scrap iron workers and the strike in the Republic iron and steel mill is, over. .¶ George Sizmore hit Allie Hornaday on the head with a brick at Marion. Hornaday may die. Sizmore is a paroled convict and will go back to prison. .¶ Gay S. Webb, Terre Haute, says the story that he saw Col. Jack Chinn shoot Goebel is false. He saw the shooting, he says, but his account corresponds with others published. .¶ James Alkire, blind soldier in the Marion home, has a talking watch, which tells the hour and minute by a speaking cipher, which none but the owner understands. It is a Swiss $300 instrument. .¶ Jonas Harris of Kokomo was mistaken for a horse thief and was instantly killed by Joseph Fowler, a plate glass worker. Harris was passing through Fowler’s yard and the latter supposed he was entering the stable. Fowler surrendered. .¶ Between 5,000 and 6,000 acres of the best farming land of northern Indiana, north of and along the Wabash, the Missinsinewa. Eel, Tippecanoe and other streams, will be given over this spring to the cultivation of the sugar beet. .¶ Reports from every county in the State to E. P. Rush, one of the largest grain dealers in Indianapolis, indicate that Indiana has been estimated variously from 30 per cent to half a crop. The reports are from correspondents and appear to be authoritative. .¶ A stranger who committed suicide by throwing himself under a train at Muncie was identified as William Love of New Lexington, Ohio, who deserted from the army in Porto Rico after being ordered to the Philippines. He fought in the battle of San Juan Hill, Cuba. .¶ William D. Westerfield, a wealthy Rush County farmer, 74 years old, and Mrs. Helen J. Conoway, 73, of New York, were married the other day, the wedding being the outcome of a romance of their youth. They had not seen each other for forty years. They were lovers in 1848. .¶ The placing of Samuel Dine, a young man, in the county asylum at Frankfort concluded a most unusual and sad story. Dine and his father recently drove to Tennessee in a two-horse wagon, and about a month ago started to drive back. The father was taken sick and died suddenly, the shock incident to the death causing the son to become insane. For nine days he continued to drive aimlessly about the country with the corpse in the wagon, the stench from decomposition leading to discovery when within a few miles of home. .¶ A. T. Ginley, Greenfield, threw an agent bodily out of his bouse the other day. .¶ William Boyd, tried at Princeton for the murder of Simon Skora, was sentenced to life imprisonment. .¶ William Frame, who is charged with the murder of Louis Gates at Loogootee six years ago, was arrested in Washington. Frame disappeared immediately after the murder. A few days ago he returned to Loogootee and was arrested. On the way to jail he knocked down the town marshal, but he was recaptured and placed in the jail.