Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1902 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Thieves Betrayed by PhonographTwo Kentuckians Fight It Out at Whiteley Blinded by Explosion Gale Places Many Lives in Peril. A phonograph betrayed four youthful thieves to the Michigan City police. An officer, hearing the instrument in a house where he knew the family was not able to possess such a thing, made an investigation. which resulted in the arrest of Henry Bader, aged 16; Walter Thomas, aged 17; Frank Wright, aged 15, and Louis Wright, aged 17. They are charged with having robbed a large number of houses, stores, boats in port and railroad cars. Blunder that filled several wagons and included in its list hundreds of articles was found at Wright’s house. The arrests clear tip a number of recent mysterious robberies. Two of the lads have been in trouble before and one is now out on a suspended sentence. Confessions have been secured from two of the youthful thieves. Two Are Wounded in a Duel. J. L. Tartar was shot fatally and Harry Kern was wounded slightly in a pistol duel at Whiteley. The fight was the result of a quarrel which had been started previously in a gambling house. Tartar stepped in front of Kern, remarking: “I will stand no affront such as you gave me, as I am from Kentucky." Kern replied that he also was from Kentucky. Both drew revolvers, and a fusillade of shots at close range followed. Tartar shot three times and Kern fired five shots. Tartar sank to the ground and Kern walked away. Tartar was shot through the pit of the stomach, and cannot recover. Kern was arrested, and it was found he was slightly wounded in the side. Find Long-Lost Brother. James B. Guenther, formerly of La Porte, bu,t now a resident of Chicago, and his sister. Miss Guenther of Saginaw, Mich., have been reunited with a brother. George Guenther, who has been mourned as dead for thirty years. He has been found at Covina, Cal., where he has amassed a fortune. Hurt by Explosion. Charles Adolf of Jeffersonville lost the sight of both eyes and had his right arm burned to a crisp while making salve, which exploded. Lard and gunpowder were among the ingredients used. The lard boiled over on the stove and the gunpowder ignited, causing an explosion. Hundreds of Lives in Peril. A terrific, gale wrecked hundreds of oil derricks near Marion. While shooting a xvell near the city limits a wagon with 300 quarts of nitroglycerin came very near being struck by a falling derrick. Hundreds of people would have been killed if tlxe wagon had been struck. Boy Killed While Riding Wheel. Herman Sholtz, aged 12, was found lead with his skull fractured in the street at Clinton and his bicycle with its handle bars twisted was at his side. It is supposed he was run down by a horse and wagon, the driver of which had not stopped after the accident. Witixiu Our Border*. Falling slate killed. Robert Mercer, 45, Brazil. Train killed Antonio Ezuballio, a laborer, Richmond. Mrs. George Straight was killed by a train at Laurel. Helen Gould will give the Peru Y. M. C. A. a fine piano. Inghtning killed several sheep belonging to I. M. Silver, near Marlon. Business Men’s Association building at Evansville will be converted into a hoteL The Methodist Church and Red. Men’s Temple at Russiaville burned. I*oss $15,UOO, not insured. Lee Fowler, 21, Cloverdale, attempted suicide by shooting. ’Twas the result •f a Love affair. M iss Anna VoldertHir. a school teacher of Evansville, committed, suicide by taking carbolic acid. llo>M Manning, aged 18 years, of Anderson, was burned almost to a crisp while bn ruing rubbish. Ralph E. Bundy, Charlestown, was awarded first prize in the oratorical contest at Illinois University. John Gerhard, Greensburg, was badly injured by a railway crowbar tearing a piece out of his thigh. Charles I*. Cochrane, 45, Indianapolis carpenter, fell from the second story of the Purdue agricultural building and was seriously injured. Stacked lumber covering seven acres belonging to the Indiana Box Company, was destroyed by tire at Anderson, causing a loss of S4O.<XM). At Plymouth tire completely destroyed the Simons electric light plant and damaged several residences. A high wind carried the flames many blocks. The loss is over $30,000. A blaze which originated from a marsh fire at Wolfe lake destroyed twelve residences and the Methodist church. The loss is estimated at SOO,OOO. Wolfe Lake is without Are protection. The buildings and fence of the Converse fair grounds and the dwelling of Quill Dangerfield were destroyed by lire, caused by a spark from a Cincinnati and Muncie Railroad engine. Arthur Wheaton, a brother of Gen. Lloyd Wheatou, and trainmaster on the Lake Shore Railroad, announced in Elk- * hurt that he married Mrs. Margaret Snyder, his houseke<“per, recently in Keuo«ha. Wis. The friends of Mr. and Mrs. Wheaton are astonished at the news. Miss Lydia G. Woods, 18, near Renslelaer, was accidentally killed while (hooting at birds with a rifle. She was u>ou to have been married to Elmer Johnson, who was with her when she was shot. As Mrs. Janies Baxter, wife of the proprietor of the Decker Hotel nt Brazil, itepped into a side street she was seized by three men and carried 200 yards to aa alley, where the men cut off her cloth>ix to secure a purse containing S4OO she kad concealed iu her skirt pocket. After lobbing her they gagged and released ter.