Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1901 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Lad Takes SSOO and Fecampa—Big Fire Loss at Loganaport-Tragedy Ends Married Life of Forty five Year* -’•lmporting Glass Workers. W. H. Wood, keeper of a store at Deep River, secreted SSOO in a soap box under the counter and then went upstairs for dinner, leaving the placb in charge of James Manly, 17 years old. When he returned from dinner Manly was gone, and so was the money. The grocer went to Chicago and reported the theft to the police. Detective Sergeant Buggie was sent out with him to search the levee district, as it was thought the boy had come to the city. The man from Indiana espied young Manly at Polk aud State streets. Buggie caught him after a short chase. He confessed the theft, and turned over $305 of the stolen money. Bents Aged Wife and Kills Self. Frederick W. Hartman, an aged farmer living near Hobart, fatally wounded his wife, aged 50 years, by striking her several times on the head with a piece of iron. Leaving her for dead, he went into his bedroom and committed suicide by shooting himsell. in the head. Mrs. Hartman’s skull is fractured. The couple had been married forty-five years and had raised a family of five children. Of late they had quarreled over money matters. Bed Bl z- at l.ogansnor 1 . A fire in the printing establishment of Wilson Humphrey & Co. in Logansport caused a loss of $40,000, the blaze starting in the linotype room and gutting the building. Work for the Lewis Publishing Company of Chicago, Bowen & Co. of Logansport and the entire works of the American Bankers’ directory were destroyed. About 140 mon are thrown out of employment temporarily. Insurance will probably cover half the loss. Two firemen were injured, but will recover. Bring Men from Belgium. The party of 240 Belgians who recently left Brussels bound for Muncie will work in tin- the American Window Glass Company. It is said this means that the American company has planned a general importation of Belgians to man its factories, as there is a great shortage of American skilled workmen and the company’s plants have been many hundred workmen short for the last three years. • Veterans Driven Ont. Jerry Ktider, Peter Locke and James Spears, veterans of the Soldiers’ Home at Marion, who have been in the guardhouse of that institution since the night of the shooting of President McKinley for having expressed pleasure over the work of Czolgosz and hopes that the President would die, have been sentenced by the board of managers of the home to be publicly degraded and dishonorably discharged from that institution. Within Our Borders. Martinsville is enjoying life under a $1.58 tax levy. O. B. Dickerson, 96, Owen County pioneer, is dead at Spencer. A cousin of Admiral Dewey is in Longcliffe insane asylum, Logansport. Mrs. I. M. Hass’ residence, Evansville, burned. Loss S7,(MM); origin unknown. Anderson is <<> have more public improvements than ever next year, two to one. The Bell Telephone Company has a line from Columbus to North Vernon almost completed. Laborers are scarce in Elwood, and an- being imported for factories and public imiirovements. John Cripe was killed by a boiler explosion in a Montpelier limestone quarry, his body being torn to pieces. Alon to Smith Hanna of Laporte County killed himself while in a fit of despondency. caused by the death of his wife. Rezim Jamison, for nearly fifty years pilot on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, is dead at his home in Harrison County. The Cincinnati, Richmond and Muncie track has reached Joneslwro, seventy-five miles from Cottage Grove Ohio, the place of beginning. k George Brown, the negro who broke jail at Washington with his throat cut, has been recaptured. He tried to kill his wife and aunt. The dead body of Samuel Connors, a young farnur, was found in Haw creek at a h ’-'.'ly point near Crawfordsville, w here he had apparently been enticed and murdered. Miss Sarah Williams of Muneie, 52 year told, wealthy, is just $3,400 poorer than she was when she In'eauie engaged to Charles Hawkins a few weeks ago. Hawkins is 35 and popular with the sporting fraternity. He first secured SIMM) in cash as a loan, saying he needed it in a business deal. Then he asked tor $2,500 more, and Mrs. Williams' mortgaged her sixty-acre farm, turning the cash over to him. On Sept. she started te buy a livery stable nnd never returned. The biggest telephone deal in the State in years was made at Frankfort when about twenty co-operative companies reptesenting towns nnd rural districts covering practically all of western Indiana and eastern Illinois, controlling nearly 10.000 ’phones, consolidated under the name of lite People’s Telephone Company. Six miles of trunk line will connect the systems with Frankfort, where connection is made with the wires of the new longdistance company of Indianapolis. Tho consolidation is regarded as a great victory of the independent Hues over the Bell. Samuel Brushears shot himself through the head at Bicknell. No cause is known. Two years ago his brother, Edward, also committed suicide. By order of the trustees of Earlham College, fraternities and secret orders are shut out this year, as they are against the Friends' teachings. Andrew Kintzele. near Chesterton, reports that one of his horses was taken from bis pasture and its tongue cut and backed In a terrible manner. The borso returned borne dripping with blood and suffering so horribly that it had to b* kilted. u