Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1901 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Attempted Kidnaping at Vincennes— Street Car Collides with Freight Car —Gypsies Clean Ont Dundee—Jail Delivery Prevented at Marlon. Vincennes was again visited by a kidnapper and his attempt bore little fruit. The victim was Mabel, the 13-year-ol 1 daughter of Mr. aud Mrs. John Paynter. She was lying on a bed in a room when a man entered, picked her up and started for the door. She screamed, attracting the attention of her parents in the next room. They reached the door just as the man went out of the gate and the father leaped after him. Seeing escape with the child was out of the question, the thief dropped her. jumped into a buggy and drove rapidly away. Town Terrorize! by Gypses. Dundee was terrorized the Other day by band of gypsies. The nomads became drunk, and. after cleaning out the two saloons of the town, they rode up and down the main street in wild-west fashion, punctuating thiir whoops with shots in the air from revolvers. There being no police protection they were allowed to continue their revels un becked, while feared to put their heads outofdoOT*. After frightening women and children the gypsies returned to their camp du the outskirts of town and left tjie place. One Kille 1 an 1 c ix Injurs•!. An interurban street car, well loaded with passengers, crashed into a box car which was being backed on a Van lalia branch track across Main street, in Brazil. Brakeman Mort Hunt, of the Vandalia crew, was caught in th? collision and instantly killed. Patrick Coolihan, watchman at the crossing, was bruise 1 and. all the passengeri oa the car were thrown across the seats. The conductor says the air brakes refused to work an I he could qnt stop the car. Prevent Big Jail Delivery. A wholesale jail delivery at Marion was prevented by Sheriff Bradford and his deputies. Bars had been cut from the cell leading to the main corridor and one bar had been sawed from a window by which the prisoners could have escaped in a short time. Forty prisoners tire confined in the jail, charged with murder, arson, grand larceny and other crimes. The officers surprised the inmates while they were making ready to escape. Finds Long-Lost Brother. Mrs. Martha A. Martindill, of Cincinnati, advertised in a Chicago paper for information of her brother, William Yarnell, from whom she had been separated for forty-four years. The published notice came to the attention of James Yarnell in La Porte. He traced the relationship, being a grandson of William Yarnell, with the result that brother and sister will be reunited within a few days.

Within Our Borders. Mrs. Clark Stoneking, Terre Haute, has asked the police to tin 1 her daughter who went to St. Louis.re< cutly with Fred Lewis. Robert Brown. 73. who says he was a personal friend of Abraham Lincoln, was given shelter in the Jeffersonville jail recently. Two hundred bushels of oats belonging to John Garrett, near Hartford City, were burned from a spark from a thrashing machine. Frank White, 23. was fatally kicked in the head by a vicious horse while stooping behind the animal to recover a strap which he dropped. The body of Miss Nora Fiers, who committed suicide by drowning in Whit* River nt Decker, was recovered. The parents of the young woman live at Oblong, 111. Near Lafayette four hundred tons ot hay, owned by 11. B. Cochrane. ex-Coun-ty Commissioner, and thirty tons belonging to Jacob May were consumed by flying sparks. The South Bend Board of Education has secured the consent of the City Council to erect a $75,000 high school building and also a ward school building to cost $5,000. j The attempt of 2.000 South Bend bicycle riders to secure a repeal of the bicycle lighting ordinance, which has worked up so much contention, was defeated in the Council. Owing to the dry weather it is probable that none of the canning factories in the vicinity of Scottsburg will op<n. With the tomato crop almost a failure, the factories would find it unprofitable to operate their plants. The death of Prof. Jatnes M. Wellington. for several years manager of the Magic City Business College, of Muncie, occurred under mysterious circumstance*. There are' some who believe his death was the result of poison taken with suicidal intent. Petrified logs of a peculiar form hav* been unearthed on Morgan's Hill near Logansport nnd the discovery in lieates that they Isdonged to a primitive forest or were flooded to the place ages ago. All the logs are entirely foreign to the variety of trees indigenous to this section of the country ami some look very much like northern cedar. Developments in the Key forgery case* at Andrews show that the American trust aud savings association, Chicago, holds a large amount of forget! collateral paper. A man named Jamison, representing the company, called on the signer of every note, and found that every one was a forgery. Mrs. Key has istained attorneys. She will claim in*, ividual property and the statutory $4)00 allowance. The Governor's office finds in investigating the advertisement for the "Lcnr Beach turf house." that the picture* were sent to many officials, ministers end bankers. At Terre Haute. John Sanders, 71, and Mr*. Emma Warren. <l9, were married by Justice Brown. Both had been twic* married before this, nnd they were boy and girl friends. The general offices of the Tinplat* Workers' International Protective Association of America, which have always been in Elwood, will be moved Sept. 1 to Wheeling. W. Va. '