Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1902 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. 1 Wins Heroine for Bride - Syria n Family Has Narrow Escape—Dead Bank Robber Identified—Five Paper Plants Merged—Fatal Gas Explosions. A romance which had its beginning in an act of heroism on the part of a young woman barely past the age for short dresses was disclosed the other day in the announcement that Miss Edna Keener of Logunsport is married to John Driver, a brakenian, whose life she saved. Miss Keener attracted much attention last summer because of her braveryin saving a Panhandle train from being wrecked. She discovered a burning trestle near her home, and, standing on the track waving her red sunhonnet, she signaled the approaching train and brought it to a standstill in time to avert disaster. Driver was oue of the train’s crew. His engagement to Miss Keener resulted from the acquaintance thus begun. Jumped for Their Lives. Mr. and Mrs. George Bashara and their child, all Syrians, came near losing their lives in the Cooley block fire at Hartford City. They were asleep in the building, and when they awoke the flames surrounded them. Bashara made a desperate effort to save SIOO in money, which was in another room, but he,had to give it up and then jump from tho sccoud-story window. He had his wife, who was almost suffocated, throw the baby to him. He caught it, but it may die. Mrs. Bashara then had to jump to save her life. She was scantily clad and stood in the snow in lu-r bare feet. Summitville. Mystery Solved. Sheriff Houston has been advised that the dead bank burglar at Summitville has been positively identified as Alfred Brown. Ilis parents are dead. Bert Simpson, held at Anderson on suspicion of having been a pal of Brown, was identified by young Ainsworth Barrett, a young man who came from Hieksville, Ohio, to visit relatives. He recognized the name of Simpson and went to the jail, where lie identified the prisoner. Large Paper Mills Merged. Five extensive paper mills and strawboard works of Delaware County will be merged into the gigantic corporation effected at Buffalo recently. The transfer will be made at once. Company officials hare Been informed that the corporation officials have accepted the plants. They are located at West Muneie, Albany, Eaton and Muneie. Numerous other similar industries in adjoining counties are also to he taken in. Fatal Explosions of Gas. Two probably fatal explosions of natural gas occurred in Muneie within a few minutes. At the Dickey spool factory Lewis Staggs was horribly burned. Staggs was blown twenty feet. He fell on Otto Richardson, another workman, who was also severely injured. Soon after this W. E. White, a grocer, and his clerk, Claude Dunn, were dangerously wounded ivy a gas stove explosion in the store.

State News la Drier. Farmer Will Ilanner, aged 22. was struck by a train ami killed at Wheeler. Night Watchman William Ray shot and killed a burglar at Summitville. The burglar’s pal, who was robbing a saloon, escaped. Zachariali Chapman wns killed and several other workmen injured by a gas explosion in the Kokomo plate glass factory. The pothouse wan wrecked. The Indiana coal operators have issued a circular announcing that all orders received for coal will be booked subject to the price at time of shipment. James Ryan, a prominent and inoffensive business man of Richmond, was instantly killed in a saloon at Cambridge by James Schook of New Lisbon. Richard Watkins was shot and instantly killed by his 19-year-old son, Theodore Watkins, at Brazil. The son says he fired the fatal shots to save his mother’s life. Watkins came home slightly under the influence of liquor nod objected to his wife attending an entertainment. He seized a hatchet ami started after his wife, who ran to a bedroom whera her son was cleaning a revolver. The husband followed aud was in the act of striking his wife when the son fired two shots, one of which passed through his father’s heart. John E. Seary, aged 27 years, second miller employed by the Noblesvillc Milling Company in Noblesville, was murdered the other day. He was resting on a stairway near a window when an unknown person fired a load of buckshot through the glass, the entire contents of the weapon entering Seay’s head. William Fodrea, aged 23, son of ex-County Recorder Rodrea, was arrested soon after on the charge of having committed the crime. He strenuously protests his innocence. It is said both Seay and Fodrea were in love with the same girl. An elopement out of the ordinary took place from South Bend recently and ended in the marriage of George L. Cassaday, aged about 18, to Miss Carrie Unrein, aged about 20. Because of the standing of the groom's parents, his father being vice-president of the South Bend Chilled Flow Company, one of the largest concerns of its kind in the world, the elopement cuused a sensation. Young Cassaday, it is understood, began to make love to Miss Herein, who was a chambermaid, it is said, in-a local hotel, last summer. G. Burr Cassaday, the father of the groom, is furious and he will take legal steps to have the marriage annulled. The graudfather of the boy. James Cassaday, one of the richest men in the West, is also furious and will make every effort to free his grandson. Wm. Bloekley, Evansville, who is dying, was carried into court aud given a divorce. Wife had quit him. lie had his life insurance policy transferred to friend. Hendricks St Webb, dflg goods dealers at Franklin, hare assigned. Their stock is estimated to be worth from $12,000 to $15,000 and the liabilities, it Is said, will run close to $30,000. J. B. and O. 11. Hampton, of Richmond, claim to have- perfected an acetylene gas process that will revolutionize the art of photography by making It possible to take pictures at night. ,