Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1901 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA* INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Moat Active Troiecntor Gets Convict Out of Prison—Closely Contested Race Bring* About Law Suit—Kentucky Man Shoots Wffe—Boy Shot in Play, Thirty-five years ago John 11. Terhune, a wealthy citizen of Anderson, aided itr* the capture, trial and conviction of James Meffullongh on the charge of murder. McCullough was given a life sentence. The other day Terhune took to the Michigan City prison a pardon for the aged conviet. Terhune became convinced as the result of developments that McCullottgh was innocent and his zealous work to prove him guiltless was continued tilt executive clemency was exercised. McCullough is now 70 years of age. Shoot) Wife for Taking Children. Percy Nathan of Henderson, Ivy., murdered his wife at Evansville by shooting her. Some time ago the woman eamo to Evansville with two. of her children because of domestic differences, while two others remained with their father. The children finally decided to join their mother, and this angered Nathan so that he arrived from Henderson the other morning, and, visiting his wife, shot her to death. He then surrendered to tlio police. Horae Knee R-snlt) in $10,0)0 Suit. Suit for SIO,OOO damages has been filed by James Carver, a jockey, against John Bronnenberg, a horseman, for injuries sustained iu a race at the Middletown fair. Bronnenberg'* son rode his horse, and his father is alleged to have ordered him to “Win this heat if you have to kill somebody/” Carver says he was entitled to the pole, but young Bronnenberg crowded him, causing him to fall, sustaining injuries for life.

Shot Posing as A.cKiniey. Omer Peolee, aged 10, was fatally shot at Winchester while posing ns President McKinley at. Buffalo for Emil Miller of the same age, who was playing the anarchist in the case. The lads were playmates and decided to go through the Buffalo tragedy. Miller secured his brother's Flobert rifle for the work. The ball passed almost through the child's stomach, inflicting fatal injuries.

Criminal is Capture]. George Brown, the negro who attempted to kill his wife, her aunt, Mrs. William Reed, and subsequently cut his own throat and severed his windpipe, aud who broke jail at Washington, was captured at Odin, 111.

State News in Uriel. El wood plants of the American Tin Plate Company have resumed work. Levi Miller, 7<l, near Kokomo, fell from a cider wagon and was dead whea found. A Butler man has made himself popu* lar by giving a party and cooking all the eataldes himself. A big l>enn dinner at Nashville givap by the Jackson Wood Post, G. A. R., drew 8,000 people. Fred Cook. Klwood machinist, was caught in shafting at tin* Pittsburg plate glass factoty and killed, Warner Titus lias sold the I.indeil Hotel, the second largest in Kokomo, to R. A. Brown for $17,000. Robert Walsh, Evansville, was sentenced to three months for * desecration of President McKinley’s pictures. A splendid monument will la* erected next spriug over the grave of ex-Gov. James A. Mount at Crawfnrdsville.

Frank Beatty, Covington, raised a peach as big as an ordinary muskmelon and weighing eleven ounces. He has 3,000 tree*. The body of a man, supposed to be J. Mandersoa of Chicago, was found on the Baltimore and Ohio tracks at Miller's Station. Isaac Rarekmnn, his wife, Lucy, and iiis daughter, Helen, were acquitted at Viucenues. where they were charged with burning Barekmau Chapel last March 1. The famous campaign horse, Dollie, owned by ex-Recorder Joseph E. Yaile, Kokomo, is dead,* aged 30. Dollie had marched in every political parade sine* 1800.

Fifteen Big Four cars were derailed in a rear-end collision pear Greencastle. The two crews jumped aud escaped, but some tramps in au empty box car had a narrow escape. A double-header extra freight on the Wabash Railway met a local freight at a curve three miles north of Peru, resulting in three engines being badly wrecked aud nine cars ditched. The American Straw Board Company brought suit against the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railway Compauy-'for $130,000 for the loss of a mill at Terre Haute in April, ISi>7, by fire alleged to been due to the faulty condition of the locomotive's spark arrester. Dr. Z. 11. Staiuets, Auburn, narrowly escaped lynching because he is alleged to have said that President McKinley was only suffering what he had been instrumental in causing others to suffer, and that Roosevelt would probably meet the same fato. As it was he was badly beaten. Considerable excitement prevails In Bremen over the striking of a strong flow of natural gas at a depth of 700 feet. Drilling had been in progress for ten days at the second experimental oil well located one-half mile south of the city in the fair grounds. The pressure of gas was so strong that drilling had to is? suspended. Prices of real estate have rapidly advanced and are "till going tip by bounds. Speculators arc already on the ground, offering fabulous prices for leases on the surrounding ground. .Claus Johnson, formerly of La porta* was killed by a Lake Shore train near New Carlisle. William Cullers was found hangiug in his barn *east of Auburn. He had used a-hltch strap. No cause known. Mrs. Catherine Hook, Igiporte. discovered that she had been declared insane and attempted to kill herself with arsenic. David Matthews, a well-known eitiaru of Frankfort, ha* been indicted, charged with rajain* thistles. It hi the first casa under the new law.