Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1900 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Lafayette Musician Attempt. Suicide —Killed in Saloon Row at Montgomery— Washing Causes Woman’. In-sanity-Falls in Front of ■ Corn Cutter. Harvey Scott, a Lafayetfe musician, tried to kill himself by cutting bis throat. He became known several months ago, when he fell heir to SIO,OOO cash and 210 acres of land, left by Mrs. Malinda Johnson, Anderson, Ohio, whom he had saved from drowning several years ago. The case was fought by the woman’s children, who compromised with Scott by giving him $4,000, which he presented to his mother. His Neck Broken in a Fight. Because one man in the crowd had not been asked to drink with the others, seven coal miners got into a free-for-all fight in James Conroy’s saloon at Montgomery. Lawrence Allen was, struck in the face during the fight and he fell to the floor with a broken neck. Death resulted instantly. One ■Tincole is in jail charged with having delivered the fatal blow. Washerwoman Goes Insane. Mrs. Mary Evans, Hoagland, a washerwoman, who washed the blood-stained clothing of a neighbor that killed himself, has gone insane from brooding over it, and spends the time washing imaginary blood from her hands. One day she was detected putting paris green into coffee to kill her two children. Killed by a Corn Cutter. John F. Lightner, a young man living about three miles southeast of Dublin, was cutting corn with a riding corn cutter and fell from the machine, the knives lacerating his leg. He died in a short* time from loss of blood. Quick Work with This Marriage. At Marion Fred L. Brodt and Addie McKibben, aged 30 and 19, respectively, met at noon the other day, and in half an hour were engaged. They were married the next day.

State News in Brief. Mayor Golding, Marion, is dead. Muncie may have a manual training department in one of her new schools. Pickpockets stole a SI,OOO check from George Crozier, Muncie, while he was on a train. Hartford City dog owners, will organize to protect their canines from dog killers. The Evansville Grays is to be the name of a crack new military organization in the river city. William Sweeney, Columbus, died from blood poisoniiiT, resulting from having a tooth extracted. Grand jury of Hancock County indicted Marcellus Gant for the murder of Charles Gordon. Crawfordsville police have decreed that grocers shall not obstruct the sidewalk with display stands. ('apt. S. B. J. Caster, founder of West Lafayette, and a veteran of the Mexican and Civil wars, is dead. Fred Harrison of Washington, D. C., and Miss Caroline Fansler of Muncie, deaf mutes, will be married. Tn a test the Crawfordsville fire department harnessed the horses and were on the street in twelve seconds. It is now denied that Moses Fowler Chase, the young millionaire, is insane and confined in a French asylum. The artificial gas mains at Martinsville are choked and the City Council had to make a tax levy in semi darkness. Oliver Thomasson and John Gaines were indicted by the grand jury nt Bedford for the murder of Frank Lentz. Fishermen are complaining that the fish are not taking the bait as they usually do this month. They can’t understand why. The Anderson plant of the American Wire and Steel Company will be started soon, after an idleness of fifteen months, due to a strike. Three skeletons were found in a small mound on a farm near Whitestown. They are much larger than skeletons of the present day. During the Democratic county convention at Evansville a nest of bumble bees was stirred up by some boys and the delegates left their seats in a rush. Several of the candidates were stung. L. W. Huyck, a blacksmith of Stillwell, who was confined in the county asylum on account of insanity, had to be removed to the jail, owing to his efforts to demolish the asylum. When crazy, he becomes as strong as a giant, twists iron bars, etc. Master McDonald, youngest son of Jas. McDonald, Kendallville, was walking barefoot on tbo Lake Shore tracks near the target house. Tnrgotinan Voss threw the target for an east-bound freight, pinning the lad’s toes between the rails. His screams brought the section men and he was rescued. A bulldog belonging to Lyman Alcorn pulled a drowning Iroy out of the water at Elkhart, and when he laid the little fellow down on dry laud stood over him, wagging his tail as if to apologize for lacerating the youngster’s arm in the struggle to save his life. The lad was Thomas Wilson, aged 8. Retta Burkhart, whose body was found on the hill north of Martinsville, waa murdered and the murderer, Louis Baker, a worthless character, is now in jail. He has signed a statement saying that he accompanied the woman from her home to the scene of the crime, where they quarreled. He choked her and pummeled her head upon the ground until life was extinct. Charles Kindig. Jamestown, was cutting wood. His ax caught in a clothesline, and caused it to strike him on the head, cutting bis scalp open. Albert F. Mullett, 20. Peru, wns refused a Mcensc to’marry Mrs. Edith Quick, acquitted some time ago of the charge of poisoning her husband, ns he didn't bnve his father's consent. The examination of the stomach nf Gertrude Wbceder, the Adams County girl who died under suspicious circumstances, shows thut it contained lodine. TYic coroner returned a verdict of inur<ler.