Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1901 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. c Shoots His Wife’s Attorney—Grantham Enjoined from Blocking; Midland Line —CoHsse Graduate an Ex pert Thief Wounded in Round Grove. Ellsworth E. Weir, a prominent attorney of Laporte, was shot and probably fatally wounded by Joseph W. Brill pt Cleveland, Ohio, in the office of Dr. Geo. M. Dakin. Brill attempted to fire a second shot, but was prevented by Dr. Dakiu. The wounded man was removed to his home, and Brill, who made no attempt to escape, was arrested by a deputy sheriff. Mrs. Brill, who is estranged from her husband/ engaged Weir as her attorney, and in that Capacity he visited her at Cleveland. Brill came to Laporte ami at once sent for Weir. He demanded that the attorney sign a confession that he bad stolen Mrs. Brill’s affections. Weir refused, and Brill drew a revolver and shot him. Stops War on Railroad. Judge Jithn H. Baker of the United States Court in Indianapolis, granted an order restraining a further blockade of the Midland Railroad on the Grantham farm, in Montgomery County, where the movement of trains had been hindered for about a week. The tracks of the road have been torn up on the Grantham farm by Sheriff Canine, who acted under a writ of ejectment. Then some hotheaded young men from Ladoga blew up ..two bridges along the line? Grantham and a number of his friends, armed with shotguns aud rtfles, went to the edges of his farm, where the road enters and leaves, and held back the men sent by the. company to repair the track. The mails have been carried around the Grant ham Ta rill by" wagon? College Man Turns Thie r . , Frank Edmonds, a tine-appearing young nran of Tore Haute, and a "college" graduate of last June, was sent to the prison on a plea of guilty to lareenyMle confessed to twelve thefts aqd put the victims in the way of recovering their property? Dis scheme was to hire a team with which to drive into the country and then, driving to another town forty'xJr’Wty miles away.lie would sell the outfit. It “is not known how many he robbed. He had a deposit ill a Spring--field. I4L,—blink for several hundred della rs. Some of the Illinois authorities came here and begged the officials to let the Illinois law get at him. Wounds Burglar at Work. Edward Dolfin of Round Grove, probably fatally wounded one of three burglars with whom he engaged single-handed, aud himself received a shot in the left arm. Dolfin and his wife were chloroformed in their house while the burglars ransacked it. The burglars then went to his store near by. Dolfin recovering con-, sciotisness, procured shotguns, and finding the burglars at his store, opened fire, causing one to fall. Another fired at him, striking his arm. TVq third carried the wounded burglar to his horse, and they rode away, leaving a trail of blood. Six Men Injured at a Fire, The Marion Pulp Company’s plant was damaged by fire to the amount of $2.iMXj. Chief Butler, Harry Polling. Fred Bennett. Thomas Hamilton and Burr Hamilton of the fire department were badly injured by the explosion of a boiler, ns was also William Nessler, manager of the mill. The Wise hoop factory also suffered a loss of $3,000 by fire. State News in Brief. Epidemic of grip at Crawfordsville. Peru will have an independent telephone system. Dr. .1. W. Botkin, 85. died at Muncie. He lived on the same farm all his life. Austin Widdens, Connersville, on his way home from the Philippines, died in San Francisco. James Lunday, a showman, was attacked anil almost killed by a large ostrich, near Anderson. Walter Hadley, near Danville, son of Judge Hadley of the Supreme Court, had his arm crushed in a feed cutter. An attempt was made to blow up the Iroquois block, Marion, the finest in the city. Gas in basement was turned on. Ex-Secretary of the Navy Whitney has purchased a farm on the shore of Wawasee lake for a breeding purpose and win ter quarters tior his race horses. A new trial will not be asked for William Phersoli, convicted in Franklin of killing Milton Knapp. Pherson was sentenced to from two to twenty years. Clayton Hunter, aged 85. for many years treasurer of the Indiana yearly meeting of Friends and a prominent manufacturer, died suddenly at Richmond. Fishing on the great lakes was poor during the past fall, the catches being not more than one-half what they were in the preceding year. Miehigiut City fishermen fared better than those'in Wisconsin. Rural mail carriers threaten to prosecute merchants who till farmers’ mail boxes with advertising matter. They say they have to remove the “dodgers" before they can see whether there is any mail underneath. T. E. Phillips, Bloomington, has been granted a patent for the manufacture of paper by a secret process. Ho will utilize the canebrnke cany, which grows wild over thousands of acres in the South and can'be obtained for almost nothing. A 20-ton cast iron flywheel an a <>OOhorse power engine in the carriage department of the big Studebaker factory nt South Bend bursted. The engineer and his assistants were out of the room at the time. The accident caused damage amounting to at least $15,000. The Wilson Mercantile Company of Washington, of which Mayor Wilson is the manager and treasurer, failed. The assets und liabilities are each about $40,000. Mnrtin Provision, 80, got from two to fourteen years, Laporte, ou the charge of asqairtt und buttery with intent to kill. The Governor wilt be asked to pardon him. Beard side walks, Elwood, will bo torn up. The city has lost iu three damage suits for accidents. Citizens will hare to build good sidewalks or go through the mud.