Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1901 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. NnrtM the Man She Shot —A Burning Tent Cansea Panic at Sull.van Street Fair-Freight Wreck at BurdickTough* Mob Negroes. - Maddened by insane jealousy, Frances B. Fry, a young woman who recently came to La Porte, from Chicago, shot and seriously wounded J. Fry, a saloonkeeper. The shooting took place at Fry's country home. It is alleged tfiat Fry had paid marked attention to the woman and she had insisted that their marriage take place. Fry refused to consent to an alliance and the other night, when she found him in company with another woman, she fired a bullet into his head. The woman is a nurse at his bedside at the Holy Family Hospital. Fatal Fire at a street Fair. A show tent belonging to a New York vaudeville company burned to the ground at Sullivan, where a street fair is in progress. A performance was going on and the tent was packed with women and children, who rushed over one another iu trying to get out. Several small children were trampled ijuring the panic. Lillie May, aged 16, an actress, inhaled the tiames to her fatal injury. 'She was badly burned about the face and arms. A man was also badly burned in trying to save some of the belongings. • Perlons' y Hurt in Wreck. Seventeen cars of a west-bound Lake Shore freight train were piled up in a wreck at Burdick. The air brakes failed to operate and the train was cut into two sections, which collided with terrific force, piling up an immense amount of wreckage. J. C. Teeter, of Garrett, received serious injuries. Ho was taking a car of cattle to Chicago and was pinioned in one of the wrecked cars. The other ears were loaded with merchandise and the loss to the company may reach $20,000.

Negroes Mobbed by Rongho. The riotous gang known as the Bungaloos, which has defied the Indianapolis police authorities for several years, occasionally running amuck and usually singling out negroes for attack, gathered in force the other night at Fairview Park, five miles from the city, and compelled every negro to flee for his life. There were a number of assaults, and one negro named Harris; who refused to leave when ordered, was knocked down with a boulder and his arm was broken. Find Oil at Hartford City. The biggest oil gusher yet found in that field was struck in wildcat territory on a small tract of land just east of the corporation ]iue at Hartford City. The well as owned by Pierce & Thomas, and after being drilled fifty feet into the Trenton rock flowed over the casing. There is no salt water and very little gas in the well. The new strike opens a vast scope of new territory and there is a wild scramble for leases in the vicinity of the well.

State News in Brief. Richard Darling, a Pennsylvania brakeman, fell between cars at Donaldson, and was cut to pieces. His home was in Chicago. Miss Anna Kohr, 19 years of age, a society girl of Mt. Olive, committed suicide by taking carbolic acid, because she imagined her sweetheart, Albert Butts, was becoming cold toward her. The Margdret Smith Horae for Aged Women at Richland has received from William B. Leeds, of New York, a gift of $25,000 in the name of his mother, Mrs. Hannah Leeds, who resides at Richland. The farm residence of Laurin Humbarger, in Thorn Creek Township, was struck by lightning and Mrs. Humbarger and her 14-year-old daughter were seriously injured. The house was badly wrecked. Mrs. Lucy Washington, a colored woman 112 years old, who recently fell down a stairway in the county infirmary at Kokomo, and sustaiued serious injuries, is rapidly recovering nud expects to live twenty-five years yet. Ora Jennings, who was umpiring a game of basebull nt Farmersburg, was struck over the head with a ball bat byMarcellus Forbes, one of the players, who was incensed by one of the decisions. leanings' skull is fractured, and he cannot recover. Washington Collom, a merchant at Mill Creek, engaged iu a fight at 3 o'clock in the morning with a robber whom he found in his store. The two men fought ■a dnel in the dark with their revolvers, four shots being exchanged. Then they grappled and began beating each other with the butt of their revolvers until both were bathed in blood and their heads and faces were a mass of woundsThe robber became weak from loss ot blood and Colloin finally felled his antagonist. The robber refuses to give his name. It is believed Charles Campbell, of Lafayette. a soldier in the Spanish-Ameri-can war, was murdered iu service, instead of dying a natural death, as relations have supposed. His regiment went to Savannah, en route to Cuba. His body was sent to his brother's home, in Albion, with a certificate of death from spinal meningitis, and the casket was not allowed to be opened. Some of his friends raised his shroud, however, and found a gunshot wound, and they recently told hie father. Tho young man had hinted at trouble with an officer, and the war department will be asked to investigate. Leroy K. Stimmel, aged 16, shot him■self at Ri. hmoud and died soon after. It is not known whether the shooting was accidental. The grocery house of John L. Sullivan nt Kokomo closed its doors. Assets $209, liabilities $3,000. Mrs. Laura Blair, of Connersville, has filed suit for SIO,OOO damages. She was injured recently while driving through ■the street, the horse striking a rope and throwing her from the vehicle. Her husband has also brought suit for $5,000 ■damages against the city. Texas capital is being invested in the Indiana oil field. M. M. Bright, of Bennsnout, is said to be at the head of a new 'company, which will operate near Riihanond.