Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1900 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Killed by His Fat her-in- Law—Fire* Bullet Through Her Own Heart—Deaertel Wife Arrested for Attempted Murder—House la Blown Up. At Cnntridge.John Kessinger was killed by his father-in-law, Harris 11. Rose. Kessinger was abusing his wife nnd her mother, Mrs. Rose, at whose house they were, when Mr. Rose interfered. Kessin“ger, with a knife“Tn~his hand, started for Rose, who secured a shotgun and fired one charge into Kessinger’s body. Mr. Rose is a quiet, law-abiding citizen. Kessinger was a desperate man and hath threatened to kill the whole family, had knocked both his wife and mother-in-law down, and broken his wife’s thumb. He had driven ids wife away from home, and she had fled to her parents’ for protection. -Kessinger followed her and lost his life. i Tries to Kill Her Husband. Edna Stewart, 17 years of age, at tempted to shoot ' her husband, E. C. S-tewart, at the Campbell House in Marion. Stewart deesrted his wife recently in-Muncie after a- year of married life. He went to Marion and secured a position in the Canton glass factory. Mrs. Stewart located her husband at tt boarding house. She called him front the house and requested him’to live with her, anil on his refusal tried to shoot him. Stewart caught his wife and held her until a policeman arrived and she was placed in jail- > . Accused Girl Ends Life. -Bertha Wills of Linden, 17 years old. committed suicide by shooting herself with a rifle. She was employed as a domestic and was accused by her employer of stealing loaf sugar and taking it to bed with her to eat. The girl went to her home, locked herself in her bedroom, pulled off her shoes and stockings, rested a loaded rifle on the bed and pulled the trigger with her toes. She was shfit through tiie heart and instantly died. Attempts to Kill His Family. Michael Pulley, a prominent farmer, who lives six miles northwest of Marion, lias been arrested. The residence of Pulley's wife in Elwood was by -dynamite and the wife suspected her husband of attempting to kill her. She notified the Elwood police. When placed in jail Pulley acknowledged having attempted to kill his wife, stepdaughter and son-in-law. - - ‘ State News in Brief. Dr. David F. Kogers of near Monon, died in the Klondike. Frank Wilson. Alum cave, was killed in battle in the Philippines. ' Clark Cole. Andrews. Wabash brakeman, was killed at Roanoke. The «.verage corn yield in Monroe County will be forty bushels to the acre. Nellie Thompson. I<>. Hartford City, lots disappeared. Foul play feared. Charles Barnes. Rising Sun. was killed by failing through an elevator shaft. George Paul. B<>. a prominent farmer and stock raiser, died near Waverly. The DeHority & Co. buggy and implement establishment, Elwood, was badly damaged by fire. George Clements, Indianapolis, secured the contract to reconstruct St. Andrew’s Catholic Church, Richmond. Amy Troop, 1(5, and Ada Eadwards. 18, Marion, have disappeared. Thought to have joined a theatrical company. Bottle of carbolic acid, marked "good for rheumatism." was left on the doorstep of Mrs. Katharine White, Logansport. Prof. George W. Michael is projecting a of languages which lie will establish on the old college campus at Logansport. In Terre Haute Dorlie Brown, a 15-year-old girl, died from injury caused by being hit on the neck with a return bail during street fair week. Charles Delph. Daleville, had trouble at' Middletown over polities with James Kelly,' Middletown. Delph shot at Kelly. but struck \\ illinm Moneyhun, who may die. William Mitchell, colored, Shelbyville, charged with attempting to kill William Orebangh, white. Orebaugh was struck onjhe head with :| stone tied in a handkerchief. A natural gas explosion occurred at the home of Elmer E. Murphy. “t;t»8 West Michigan street, llanghville. The house was wrecked am! Mrs. Murphy badly burned. William Wittridge, Crawfordsville, lowa, and Miss Anna Vanderaugh, Columb*«. Ohio, were seriously injured by n natural gas explosion in the Marion normal college. Mrs. Natihla Dontine. Laporte, wants a divorce so that her husband may remarry his first wife. She says he again loves wife No. 1, and she does not want tost and in the way of his happiness. Tito mangle steam chest at Campbell’s laundry at Logansport blew up. throwing pieces of broken iron and steel among the twenty employed. Miss May Warner was scalded and injured by flying debris. Bartley Wilhelm. Eaton, of the Glass Flatteners’ Association, shot Hector DeGreve, an L. A. 3<Kt flattent r. at Hartford City. Wilhelm is rhe father of Louis Wilhelm, the Eaton blower, shot Inst week. Two years ago a public highway was constructed through a tamarack grove near Rochester. The other day it began to sink, nnd now about sixty feet of the roadbed hns disappeared, its place being taken by water. The water is filled with a kind of fish never before seen in that part of the country. John Plonrid. * horseman living at North Indianapolis, was standing on the running board of n street cur in Indianapolis and reached in his pocket for his fare as V>c car struck a curve. He was thrown to the ground, the full breaking hia neck., Death was instantaneous. In Evansville Frank Samuelson, a tramp painter, made n wager that he could drink a quart of wood alcohol and walk across the floor, but no sooner had he taken the liquid than he fell in a stupor, and died in great agony n few minutes later. Samuelson’s home was la Sweden.