Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1901 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OP EVENTS OF THB PAST WEEK. Force! to Sell to the Trnat—Qneer Way of Deserting a Bride—Farmer End# Hia Life —Been Hoot Mourner# at a Burial. C. J. Hurrle, owner and manager of the Hurrle Glass Company, an independent twelve-pot window-glass concern at Hartford City, which for more than eight years has been a thorn in the side of the several window-glass combines in existence during that period, has at last been compelled to quit the business. All the combines and the two labor unions concentrated their forces and it is alleged that through his inability to secure a set of workmen for next year he wiis forced to sell. The plant was sold to James Cleiiand for $15,000., The factory was operated until the last of June in opposition to the laijor unions to which the workmen belonged. Wire# Wife He Is Dead. In deep mourning, Mrs. Minnie Callahan, of Evansville, a bride of six months, went to Wheeling, W. Va., in response to a telegram announcing the death of her husband. She made alb arrangements for a burial place at Evansville, but when she came to get the remains she found np corpse. The police investigated and ascertained that Callahan himself, for some purpose unknown, sent the message. He has completely disappeared. The woman is almost heart-broken. Callahan left home a short time ago to work at Washington, Pa. Remorse Leads to Suicide. George Shaw, 32 years old, a farmer near Dublin, committed suicide by shooting himself. Shaw recently had a fight’ with William Heck, his friend, in which the latter was almost killed. Shaw has since been considerably worried as to the outcome of the affair and the other nifibt he heard Heck was about to die. He went home at a very late hour and retired, but arose later and accomplished the deed. He told his wife he could not stand the suspense any longer and that he would be the first to die. Bees Cause Panic at Funeral Bees broke up n funeral at Salem graveyard. W T ith Undertaker Dimmitt, of Kokomo, in charge, a child was being buried. As the body was being lowered thousands of bees attacked the mourners at the graveside. The attendants fled panic-stricken, anad It was not until after dark that the sexton could return and filrthe grave. Mysterious Case.at Muncle. William Roberts, a respected Muncie colored man, was called to his door about dusk on a recent night by a gang of five colored men, one of whom struck him with a hatchet or ax, fracturing hfs skull and fatally wouading him. He never regained consciousness. The gang fled, leaving Roberts weltering in his blood in his own doorway. fttk a Farmer's Riches. When Ira Smith, a rich Terre Haute farmer, was instantly killed by lightning in his cornfield a few days ago he had not disclosed to his family the hiding place of from $12,000 to $15,000 which he was known to have in cash. The members of his family have been searching for it over the farm night and day since. He had $1,300 in cash on his person at the time he was killed.

State News in Brief. Nick Strofole, prominent farmer near Bntesville, shot himself for no known cause. Mrs. John Hartwell, 54, Columbus, was run down and killed by a Panhandle freight train. The sawmill of Seth Ratcliffe at Bussiaville was destroyed by dynamite. Ilatcliffe was the chief witness in a Rnssiaville saloon fight. D. W. Wood, law firm of Wood & Ellis, Anderson, was killed by a Big Four train. He visited a client, and took a short cut across the Big Four yards back to his office. Rev. D. J. McMullen, who has been at the head of the congregation of St. Mafy’a Catholic Church, at Richmoud, for the past thirty years, resigned on account of failing health. Oliver Willard Pierce, Indianapolis, was re-elected president of the Indiana Music Teachers' Association and appointed a committee of five on the elevation of church music. Charles Buchanan, a 15-year-old Rll- - in Albion, broke his arm, a few days ago, delivering a curved ball. The arm cracked like a pistol. The wrench on fte arm in curving the ball broke it. Mrs. Charles Prahl, of Chicago, aged 20 years, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Shelden, of Goshen, was found unconscious ns the result of an overdose of morphine administered with suicidal intent. Her recovery is doubtful. J. L. Weems, Vincennes attorney, and Mrs. Kate Slaughter, Los Angeles, are to be married. They were lovers twentyfive yenrs ago nt Hanover, Ind., but n rival won Kate Blythe front Weems and he also married another. Their respective spouses have died and they have renewed the love of their yosth. John Moore, of Philomath, lost a fine Jersey cow in a rather peculiar manner. For aome reason the cow seemed to crave drink, and finally died. Moore was determined to know what the cow died from, so he ent her open. When he did so a big black snake six feet in length crawled from the stomach. He killed it with a club. The snake was probably taken Into the cow's stomach several jear* ago and has since lived to grow to Its fall slsc. The cow hid given its usual quantity of milk until recer.tly, when aha becam* sick. Harry Howell, 9, I-afayette, wh'Je trying to dislodge a bird's nest from the eaves of a house fell and died in five minutes. The Wabash and Rochester Railway Company, to build a trolley line between Wabash and Rochester, has organised, and wilt ask subsidies from the townships through which the road passes. Brown Oonnty fanners still eontinus to search for gold with determined spirit, and in some sections they are so confi.dent that thslr ground contains the yellow treasure that they will not part With *4 for anything ilka a reasonable price.