Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1902 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Heavy Fire Lona at Brazil—A Young Woman Commits Suicide in RiverEfforts Increased to Find Missing Norman Rohrer—Hit by a Train. Fire in Brazil badly burned the Knight block. The origin of the fire is nnunknown. The firms and their losses are ns follows: Brattin jewelry store, SB.000; Hawkins dry goods, $2,000; Lyttle clothing company, SS,(MX). One fireman was slightly injured by falling from a building. Loss on the Knight block will bring the total to $25,000. Prompt assistance from the Terre Haute department, which sent five men and two hose wagons on a special train, probably saved the entire business portion of the city from destruction. Ends Life in Wabash River. Miss Marie Freeland, 27 years of age, committed suicide by jumping into the Wabash River at Peru. First she went to the home of her sister, Mrs. Charles Daniels, where a reception was being held, anti slipped a note under the front door. It was found late that night. It said: “You will find me in the river. Dear sister, good-by forever. Kiss papa and mamma for me. Bury me ail in black.” In the morning footprints of a woman were found on the river bank. The body was found in five feet of water twenty feet from the shore. The cause of the suicide is veiled in mystery. Ask Police to Locate Son. The parents of Norman Rohrer, of La Porte, a medical student who disappeared from Detroit Feb. 1. will ask the police of every city in the United States to keep a lookout for the missing man. The father believes his sou is still alive. This belief is not shared by his townsmen, who are convinced the young man killed himself. Citizens of La Porte will raise a reward to be offered for the discovery of young Rohrer, dead or alive. Train Hits Hose Wagon. As hose company 16 was responding to a fire alarm in Indianapolis the horses dashed into a Monon passenger train running at high speed at 16th street and the stracks. One horse was killed and the wagon was smashed, but the firemen escaped. A Lake Erie passenger train had just passed and the Monon was following. Indiana Man Kills Himself." C. S. Bitzer, aged 68 years, committed suicide by shooting in the Illinois street tunnel, under the Union station, Indianapolis. His body was found by a pedestrian. He formerly traveled for a Cincinnati distilling company. Within Our Border*. Logansport may get a savings bank. Telephone wires in Muncie will be put under ground. Diamond flint glass works, Hartford City, resumed. Dr. J. H. Bower's residence, Syracuse, burned. Ixrss, $2,000. Muncie Commercial club raised $20,000 for a new clubhouse. Indiana university will establish a department of commerce. Union men, Aurora, lost their strike with the Royer wheel company. Evansville may build a municipal telephone plant. About S2<K),OOO will be needed. Oliver Graham, Terre Haute, shot by Erwin Greer, is dead.' Both negroes, Greer's in jail. Roy Richmond, 20, Muncie, stole ■ pound of honey and a monkey wrench. He was sent to the reformatory. Marcellus Forbes of Sullivan was sentenced to jail for 60 days and fined S3OO for assaulting Ora Jennings during a ball game.

John Banning, a farmer, of Ferdinand, was compelled to pay $125 to the government as tax on whisky handled by him the last two years. After twenty-four hours’ deliberation the jury in the wife murder case at Washington against Frank Purcell returned a verdict of guilty of manslaughter.

George F. McCulloch, president of the Union Traction Company, is said to be working on a scheme for connecting Indianapolis with Chicago by an electric railroad system which is to touch Noblesville, Tipton, Kokomo and Logansport, In the Howard County Circuit Court Elijah and Effie Vernon and William and Bertha Barnes were divorced. Ten minutes later Barnes and Mrs. Vernon obtained a license to wed and were married before the ink on the divorce docket wns dry. A SIO,OOO damage suit was compromised. At Shelbyville the jury in the case against Mrs. Emma Samiefur and her sou, Clarence Sandefur. for the murder of George Scott Dec. 27, returned a verdict of acquittal for the mother and convicted the son. finding him guilty of involuntary manslaughter. Young Hamlefur is aged 23 years and always has borne a good reputation. The agitation caused by the discharge of the Rev. Muncie as principal of the Meridian Street school, in Brazil, on a charge of hugging and kissing one of his young girl pupils was subdued by the school I ion rd reinstating Mr. Muncie and the striking school children returning to school. The reinstatement was brought alHiut by a petition to the school board signed by every parent of the scholars who attended the Muncie school. The father of the girl accuser headed the list. oseph Kouits, a banker at Wanatah, filed with Referee F. I'l Lambert a petition in bankruptcy, scheduling assets of SB6,<HG and liabilities of >57,671. Richmond's eighty cases of smsllpox cost that city $2,500, an average of over S3O to the case. Mnthias Gundick, 02, was killed by a Lake Shore train at Otis. He lived st Michigan City. Mrs. Nora Stinkard, wife of a Bicknell merchant, swallowed too many headache powders and is dead. t'urnvgie library in Elwood will be erected at the southwest corner of N. A. and Sixteenth streets. Dr. L. 8. Keene. 80, of Kaporte, died at Deland, Fla., where be and bls wife were spending the winter.