Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1902 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Large Convention of Teacher* Dr. Horne’s Charges Not Proven—Bank Vault Blown Open and $3,200 Taken —Bad Fire at Chesterton. The twentieth annual convention of th* Northern Indiana Teachers’ Association met in South Bend. The convention is the largest in the history of the association, 2,950 instructors having registered. The teachers were formally welcomed to South Bend by J. B. Stoll, president of the board of education. The response was by J. W. Carr, superintendent of the Anderson schools. Addresses were delivered also by J. W. Hamilton of Monticello, the retiring president, and A. H. Douglass, the incoming president. In the evening Jacques W. Redway gave an illustrated lecture on the physical history of the world. The program for the three days included lectures by some of the most distinguished educators in the West. Among them were Charles Zetiblin, Lorado Taft and George H. Locke. Hold an Inofficial Investigation. The refusal of Dr. Brose S. Horne to substantiate his charges against Warden Reid and Deputy Warden Barnard of the Indiana State penitentiary at Michigan City of brutality toward prisoners when given tlib opportunity to produce his evidence did not deter the board from making an unofficial investigation, with the result that the officials stated that the allegations had practically no foundation. A complete exoneration of the officials is therefore expected when the official investigation and probing take place. Dr. Horne refused to go on because Director Biiridy - was not present at the meeting of the prison board, and he also declined to give the names of his witnesses when requested by Directors Nebeker aud Kimbrough. This was done upon the advice of Attorney James Gallagher, whom Dr. Horne had retained, and because, he said, the witnesses might be intimidated.

Saved by a Horae’s Tail. Fred Tieman and Miss Rosa Beard were on their way to a farm house near Evansville to be married. In going there they had to cross Cypress pond, a shallow stream, but by recent raius increased until it was nearly a mile wide. In the middle of the pond the horse stumbled and the bridal couple were thrown into the water, which was nearly up to their necks. The harness was pulling the horse under, but Tieman bravely held up the animal’s nose while he cut him loose from the wagon. Then, Clinging to the horse’s tail and scraps of harness, the young couple were rescued from their predicament by letting the horse swim out. Fire Sweeps Chesterton. Chesterton was threatened with destruction by fire. Assistance was sent to the burning town by special trains from LaPorte and from Michigan City and by heroic work the fire at last was got under control. Chesterton has no system of water works, and this tact, coupled with tbe high wind, made it seem for x time that the town was doomed. A num ber of business houses were destroyed. The origin of the fire has not been ascertained. The damage was nearly $60,00(t. Pennville Batik Robbed. , The big vault in the Camden Bank at Pennville, a private Institution, was blown open and ?3,200 taken. In their hurry the cracksmen overlooked several thousand dollars in paper money and a large sum in gold. A trail of gold and silver coin was left by the robbers from the bank to the street. They escai>ed in a buggy. Although the vault was looted at 2 o’clock, the robbery was not discovered until several hours later. The bank building was not wrecked. Ftate New* in Brief, Muncie meat dealers have advanced prices. The Indiana hotel, Jasper, burned. Loss, $3,500. Webb brothers will build a $32,000 opera house in Pen:. Davis Acetylene Company will build a big factory at Elkhart. Sixteen striking street-car men at Terre Haute went back to work. Miss Nettie Zeiler of Bremen died from burns received while fighting fire. Dalton Stevens, a soldier, Sheridan, was killed by a train at Rawlings, Mont. Chicago capitalists bought the New Albany light, heat and power company lor $147,000. The body of Louis Bergfield, a cigarmaker. was fished from the lake at Michigan City. Suicide. Lawrence Martin, aged 16, of Vincennes, is missing. It is feared he was drowned in the Wabash. Samuel Fleming, aged 70, a prominent Dana farmer, swallowed arsenic and is dead. He was despondent. Mrs. Sarah H. Murdock, 91, Lafayette, is dead. She was one of the oldest pioneers of Tippecanoe County. Miss Henrietta Van Pein, Richmond, drowned herself in Glen Miller park lake. No cause is known for her rash act. Miss Kate Kiefer, n school teacher of Indianapolis, was killerl by a Big Four passenger train while she was walking along the track to her school. A heavy wind was blowing and she did not hear the engineer's warning. The body of Louis Bergeneld, who left bis home in Michigan City several weeks ago after declaring that he would never I be seen again, was found floating in the , hart>or. Bergeneld had arrayed himself ! in his best clothes aud committed suicide Iby drowning. 11l health is the motives ‘ ascribed for the deed. j Coroner McKittrick nt Washington ' brought in a verdict in the George • Kempf tragedy entirely exonerating iln wife, and stating she acted in self-de- , sense. Manson U. Johnson of Anderson is wanted there and at several other points on the charge of negotiating SSO.(MX» iq township warrants that are t»e*g repudiated by banks. Henry Clements, murderer of his sweetheart, Mrs. Edith Holcomb Davis, was found guilty at South Bend ot murder In the first degree and will be sent* •need for life.