Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1902 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Jealous Man Kill* Wife’* Father—Car Blown Up with Dynamite—Conference Adjourns Without Making Waga Agreement—Case Will Held Valid. Crazy with jealousy, Richard Oliphant, a telegraph operator at Metamora, murdered Captain Peter Pellser, his wife’s stepfather, who was assisting her to leave her home. The 'shooting was done on the platform of the railway station in his wife’s presence. Then, after holding the town at bay all day long with his shotgun, Oliphant killed himself late in the afternoon by taking carbolic acid. The tragedy was enacted within view of many of the people of the town. Indeed, the whole domestic trouble leading up to it has been followed by the citizens from its early stages. Blow Up Car at Brazil. Strike sympathizers wrecked an interurban street car belonging to the Terre Haute Electric Company at Brazil. A stick of dynamite was placed under a rail in such a manner that it exploded when the car passed over it, throwing the car from the track, tearing off the front trucks, and breaking the windows. The motorman was slightly hurt, but the passengers escaped injury. One woman fainted from fright. The explosion broke a rail in two places and tore a large hole in the ground. Fall to Agree on Wage Scale. President Mitchell and other members of the executive board of the United Mine Workers of America, the full scale committee of the miners in the block coal fields, and Operators Zimmerman, Risher and Zellar met at Brazil to conside the wage scale for the year in the Indiana block coal district. The co iference adjourned without reaching at agreement.

Case Will Is Held Valid. The famous contested will case of William Case of Lafayette, a Spiritualist, who died July 23, 1900, leaving the residue of his estate, amounting to $15,000, to the National Spiritual Association and editors of Truth Seeker and Commonwealth, ended in a verdict for the proponents. The trial began March 12.

Costly Blaze at Kokomo. The Globe Steel Range Company of Kokomo suffered a $20,000 fire loss, the mounting and pattern departments being consumed. Fifteen thousand dollars’ worth of patterns were destroyed. Within Our Borders. Knights of Columbus organized a big lodge in Kokomo. Northern Indiana teachers will meet at Richmond in 1903. Lafayette has raised $25,000 for a Y. M. C. A. building. C. C. Hooper’s planing mill, Nashville, burned. Loss $5,000. The New Castle bottle factory was amaged $5,000 by fire. Macbeth lamp flue factory, Elwood, will use blowing machines. "Aunt” Jane Davidson, Greensburg, celebrated her ninety-third birthday. At Raber W. M. Crowell, stockman, shot himself. No cause is known for his act.

At Greenwood work has begun on ths electric line that will extend to Shelbyville. Joseph Martin, GO. farmer, Gibson County, accidentally took morphiue. Dead. Otto Shgu, Greenfield, is minus a hand which he placed on a saw in the novelty works. Nearly a thousand students are enrolled tor the spring term at the State Normal, Terre Haute. Jerry Thornton, a contractor. Ix>gansport, was perhaps fatally crushed while under a bouse. Interurban line from Richmond to Cambridge City will be completed about the middle of June.

Mrs. McDonald of Clinton, shot by her neighbor, Mrs. Kane, during a quarrel, is dead. Mrs. Kane is in jail. New Castle is trying to locate the Kreil-French piano factory, which recently burned at Springfield, Ohio. Lee Wilson, 19, colored, Lafayette, confessed to robbing six houses, and was sentenced to the Jeffersonville reformatory. D. A. Mcssener, Oxford, who sold Dan Patch for $20,000, thinks Dan Patch's half-brother, Messener, owned by him, will down Dan’s record.

In Indianapolis a fire started in the nasement of the Journal building. The fire fighters were forced to rescue several arsons from the upper windows by bringng them down the ladders. The damage Jone was small, the principal danger being from suffocation by smoke. Miss Florence Thurston, 30 yeys of »ge, for years a teacher in the primary lepartment of the Hagerstown schools, was found by her mother in a dying conlition. She was dead when a physician reached her. Indications point to suicide by carbolic acid. She Itad. been worried over personal affairs. The residents of the townships bordering the Kankakee river iu LaPorte County bare petitioned the county commissioners to place a biunty of $lO upon wolt scalps. Wolves have killed large numbers of sheep, hogrf, cattle and poultry within the last six months and tho depredations are increasing to such nn extent that decisive action is needed t&t the extermination of the animals. Tho coyotes have lairs in the Kankakee swamps.

Samuel F. Winters, an aged Peru editor, fell and sustained serious injuries. Isaac Dishong, a farmer of LaPorte, is (lying of n dislocated heart. Three weeks ago, while attempting to steer a wagon down an Incline, he was thrown from the vehicle. The fall was of such forco that his heart moved four inches out of place. Fire of unknown origin broke out in ths big flouring mill of Hoops & Ressler at Dora, and the structure was destroyed. There was little grain or flour in the building, which, with its machinery, was valued at $40,000. $4,000 insurance, it Is believed the fire was started by an itrCtndiary.