Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1902 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERBELY TOLD. Girl'a Body Found in Wabash River— An Insane Operator Almost Causes Wrecks—Wronged Husband Shot by Politician—Farmer Klled by a Cow, The body of Carrie Stengeimer, who had been missing for a week, was found by her father in the Wabash rivers seven miles from Lafayette. Her forehead was crushed and a man’s hat was found 300 feet up the stream. The place where the liody was discovered is a short distance below a questionable summer resort. The girl was, seen with a young man the evening of her disappearance from the home where she was employed ns a domestic. A note which was found indicated the girl intended to commit suicide, but her father says it is not her handwriting. Dispatcher Goes Insane. Frank Orrell, operator at the Vandnlia depot at Knightsville, became violently insane. He nearly caused n collision between- the east and west bound passenger trains and iwo fast freights. He ran up the main street of Kuightsville, shouting that the depot had been robbed ami brandishing a revolver. The engineer of a freight thought the operator was insane when he handed him an order, as it was not readable. The engineer made quick time to Brazil and reported <>rrell’g condition. Operators were soon put to work and stopped all trains till order* could be straightened out. Shoots Outraged Husband. Firman G. Smith of Toledo is iu jail in Huntington for shooting Coy Lassiter of Whitly County, who probably will die. Smith was discovered in the company of Lassiter's wife by Lassiter and his neighbors ami a bloody encounter followed, in which guns and clubs were used. Smith is a politician and was a member of the Indiana Legislature in 1898. fchot by a Jealous Husband. Ryan Ivlatt, a prominent merchant of lvoufs, shot at his wife three times, one ball striking her in the head. Emma Porton, a domestic, who came to her assistance, was shot in the face. Jealousy is blamed for the rash deed. Cow Kills a Farmer. Levi Schillinger, aged 00, a well-known Elkhart farmer, was found dead at the roadside. He had been leading a fractious cow and it is supposed that sho jerked him to the ground with the fdtal result. ttate News in Brief. Strike at Pioneer hat works, Wabash, is off.

Xoblesville ministers want cigar stores slosed on Sunday. B. C. Best, Oaklandon, lost three fingers in a sawmill. Mrs. Rachel Brankle's house, Windfall, burned. Loss $4,000. S Anderson gets the Democratic Congressional convention. June 18. Mrs. Anna Michelson, 86. Seottsburg, committed suicide by hanging. Marion City Council is considering sprinkling her streets with oil. The Borne and Thompson elevators, Lafayette, burned. Loss $45,000. Thieves stole much valuable machinery from the Sharpsville canning factory. Noble Cosby, 50. Madison, shot himself through the head with a revolver. J. H. Garvutt fell from a pole in Anderson, receiving perhaps fatal injuries. Broken axle caused fifteen Big Four freight cars to go into the ditch at Muncie. Columbus Bolin, an old soldier, New Albany, fell from a window and was killed. The plant of the Enterprise Stove Company at Vincennes was damaged $200,000 by fire. The insurance is $75,000. Feaster & Davis, Shelbyville, were awarded the contract for building the Carnegie library in that city, at $15,895. Katie Allen, the beautiful 18-year-old daughter of one of the leading citizens of Knightstown. took strychnine and died within an hour. James Weidenbeek of Elkhart, a traveling engineer on the “Three I’s,” was struck iu the arm by a 22-caliber bullet fired by a bov us the train passed Momeiice. 111. Ills injury is not dangerous. Clarence, son of Nathan Bates, aged 5, returning from Sunday school in Madison. attempted to cross the track in front of a stri-et car. The wheels caught the boy and crushed him to death instantly. Images of n woman, of the face of an Indian squaw, of two doves, of boasts and reptiles and passages of scripture in ancient language manifested themselves on tile calcimined walls and ceiling of the cabin of Israel Brown, a colored artisan of Vincennes. Hundreds of people of nil classes were attracted to rbc place to see the phenomena. Brown is intensely religious and a deacon in the African Methodist Church. He avers the signs are direct answer to his prayers that God manifests himself to the world that all might believe in Christianity. lutense excitement has iieeu caused in the eastern part of Lnporto County by repeated attempts made to kill Perry Runnels, son of a wealthy farmer. Two weeks ugo while Runnels was driving home he was pursued by men who filled his buggy full of bullet holes. A man named Ittsldingbui was mistaken for Runnels one night by a party of men nnd be says he would have been killed if he hud not proved that he was not the man wanted. Runnels is a recent convert of the holiness faith nnd i# a religious zealot. People in the neighborhood believe a conspiracy exists for the taking of the young man's life. Six-year-old daughter of John Mills, Marion, was fatally burned. Clothe* caught from a grate. Daniel Wtkel. 78, Portland, while In a buggy, was struck by a train und received perhaps fatal injuries. Eighty boys at the lieuiitigniy glass factory, Muucie, struck, throwing fifty skilled laborers out of work. The lad* want 10 cents more a day. When Mrs. George Waguer awoke fho other morning she discovered her husband, lying by her side, was dead. Wagner was a glass worker and his home was \t Marion.