Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1901 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Sleep* on Train and Loses a BrideShot Dead by an Enraged MotherFatal Battle in Kokomo—A Woman Driven Crazy by Acid Burn*. Charles Arnold, of Rockport, has retained attorneys to bring an action for $20,000 damages against the Clover Leaf Railroad Company. Arnold and Mrs. William Stillwell, a widow, were betrothed. Two days were occupied by the groom in getting a license and in a vain attempt to reach the home of his intended bride. He told the Clover Leaf conductor that he wanted to get off the train at Melott and then lapsed into a sound sleep. He was carried miles beyond his destination. Meanwhile the angry bride canceled the engagement by wire. Arnold holds the railroad company responsible for his failure to secure a wife. Killed by Enrage! Mother. William Gray, a contractor and builder, was shot and instantly killed by Mrs. Mark Frieze at the Red mills, ten miles northwest of Shelbyville. Mrs. Frieze, in company with her husband, drove from Franklin, where she resides, to the place where Mr. Gray was working. She whipped out a revolver and fired, the ball taking effect in bis right side and passing through his heart. He struggled, stepped two steps and fell, when she placed the revolver near his head and shot him through the neck. Gray had been keeping company with Mrs. Frieze's daughter, but unexpectedly married another girl, which enraged Mrs. Frieze. She and her husband are in jail and refuse to talk about the crime. Fatal Affray in Kokomo. - Ex-Councilman Jerry McCool was shot by Edward Van Hart, a bartender, in Kokomo. Hart’s wife and McCool's wife had quarreled. The men took it up in McCool's yard, McCool striking Van Jlart with a fence picket and Van Hart s.hooting McCool through the right lung. The latter will die and Van Hart has surrendered.

Jilted Lover's Cruel Deed. Peter Tillbury, an ironworker, called at the home of Kate Phinney, in Muncie, and threw the contents of a small bottle filled with carbolic acid into the face of Mrs. Mary Torrey, a guest, burning out the woman’s eyes and burning her neck, breast and arms frightfully. The man has pleaded with the woman to marry him for years. She is now a raving maniac. Excursion Beat Sinks in Lake. The steamer Ethel, on Webster Lake, twelve miles north of Washington, struck a sunken log at midnight, and in two minutes the boat sank from sight. Twen-ty-nine excursionists were rescued, some of them iu an unconscious state. The boat sank in forty feet of water. State News in Brief. A snake with sixteen rattles has been found near Martinsville. Mrs. Carrie E. Hanliu, Marion, killed herself with laudanum. William Babcock, Porter County farmer, was killed in a mowing machine. Erasmus Calahan. 40, near Brownstown, blew out his brains with a pistol. He had been ill. The body of suicide Frank Eggert was found in the woods near Laporte, partly devoured by hogs. Layrnon & Co., wholesale grocers, assigned at Kokomo, with liabilities of $12,000, and assets of $3,000. Indiana lodges of the Amalgamated Association. iron and. steel workers, will raise a fund to help the strikers. David Jones, well-known Blackford County farmer, died from blood poisoning after being kicked by a horse. Jennie Clark, aged 18, of Lawrence,' jumped from a train which was carrying her beyond her home and was killed. William M. Young. 35, Columbus, was found dead back of a grocery store at Anderson. An epileptic attack is supposed cause. Ralph Gillispie, 9. sou of James Gillispie, Anderson grocer, was thrown from his father's delivery wagon and his skull fractured.

The postoflice at Mier has finally been (dosed. Postmaster A. 1,. Fox has been trying to resign for the past twenty years. He got It! cents a day. The body of Edmund Frank, who was waylaid, robbed and thrown into the Mississippi river at Memphis, has been returned home to Petersburg. Charles Dolan. Elkhart brakeman, was injured in a Lake Shore wreck at Laporte which piled up several cars in the yards. A bursting air hose did it. Maurice Si hufhnuser and his wife, living near Indianapolis, were shot by Herman Sickinger, whom they had sent to jail for abducting their daughter. William Shirley of Edwardsville stabbed his sweetheart, Miss Florence McCulloch. and then inflicted a fatal cut in his throat. The girl is dangerously injured. Farmers around Barber's mills have perfected a trust in handling grain and live stock. Farmers claim the middlemen have exacted large protits, and propose to take up transactions direct with city dealers. Nearly all the farmers in Rock Creek township have signed the agreement. Negotiations for rates on grain and stock for one year have been taken up with the Lake Erie and Western, Erie and Clover Leaf roads, and the line making the lowest bid will get the business. The highest net prices on track in Wells County will be asked of eastern elevator and stock men. varying with the quotations in eastern markets, and farmers in the association will ship to contracting dealers direct. While thermometers at Terre Tauto registered MM) degrees, Mrs. Eliaa aged 52, became deranged by the heat nnd committed suicide by taking poison. Mary Blume, 8, burned to death while hlone in the house at Goshen. Her fu.her was seriously burned in attempting to rescue her. It is not known how she ignited her clothing. Rev. Marion Gause, a former pastor of the Friends' Church at Stillwell and who was believed to have efided his life in Kan Francisco fully a year ago. has been found in Honolulu, where he is preaching.