Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1902 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORp OF EVENTS OF THE PABT WEEK. A Roseburg Man Shot Dead Without Warning —Great Increase hi Land and Live Stock Values Whitecapa Whip a Woman—Bold Desperado. James Lacey, 30 years of age. was shot and instantly killed and Jacob Gottsckull, aged 25, was shot through the right arm near the fork in the Roseburg pike, three miles from the central part of Marion. Charles Sloderbeck, Henry Poe, Gottachall and Lacey were on their way home to Roseburg from Marion. The four men stopped at g suburban resort conducted by Carrie Barnes, but were refused admission. They started down the road and had walked about one mile, when two men approached from the rear in a buggy and demanded the return of a robe, flynet and whip alleged to have been stolen. The men in the buggy then opened fire on the four in the road. One bullet struck Lacey In tile left breast over the heart. Another passed through the right arm of Gottschall uear the shoulder, inflicting a wound from which he nearly bled to death. The other two men were not injured, as they fled in the darkness,. Gain for Indiana Farms.

The census bureau has issued a bulletin giving the final agricultural statistics of Indiana. It shows that the 221,897 farms enumerated in Indiana June 1, 1900, were valued at $841,735,340, of which 82 per cent represents land and improvements otln'r than buildings. The value of farm implements and machinery was $27,330,370 and of live stock $109,550,761. These make the total value of farm property $978,016,471. The total value of Indiana farm product* in 1899 was $204,450,196, of which 40 per cent was in animal products and 60 per cent in crops, including forest products. The total value of farm products exceeded the total for 1889 by 116 per cent. The gross farm income of Indiana for 1899 was $155,980,796 and the gross income upon investment 16 per cent.

White Caps Flog a Woman. Mrs. Alice Hanger, wife of Otto Hanger, a farmer who lives near Marengo, was taken from her home by a band of twenty White Caps, tied to a tree in the yard and severely switched. Her busband was held under guard in the house by a portion of the gang while she was flogged. After the whipping the woman was warned by the band to be more care-’ ful in her care of her stepchildren or she would receive another visit from the mob.

Desperado Jeers at Officers. Harry Kelly, a negro desperado and bank robber, who was arrested at Brazil and escaped from the sheriff of Ballard County, Ky., when being taken to that place to answer for a crime, returned on a recent night. He left the handcuffs and shackles at the Vandalia depot and wrote a warning note to Detective Louderback, who had arrested him, to leave bvS property where he could secure it. . Within Onr Border*. Montpelier will have a street fair, June 24-27. Miss Franc Peddycord, Goshen, will go ou the stage. Mount Pleasant Methodists dedicated a ffefv church. Increase of $266,000 in the tasables of YVflyne County. Dayton creamery burned. Loss $3,500, partially insured. Friends of Richmond will build a new church at Victoria, Mexico. Arrests have been made in Parke County for Illegal hunting. Hamblin township has had fifty cases of smallpox and three deaths. John Dake, 47, Franklin, hanged himself in a barn. Temporarily insane. Police Superintendent Page, Richmond, has resigned on account of ill health. An explosion of dynamite tore off oue of Joseph Gorby's arms, Aiuui Cave. John McCann, Lafayette, was seriously injured by a natural gas explosion.

Water rates for modern homes in Anderson have been boosted to S3O a year. Ehvood has a “Peeping Tom” and several men are looking for him with shotgnus. G. C. Wood’s grain elevator, Nevada, burned. Ix>ss $5.000, with $2,000 insurance. H. N. Gallimore, 34, Kokomo, fs said to be the youngest “grandpa" in the world. W. 8. Evans' mill at Otiseo was destroyed by fire. Loss sll,OOll, fully iusured. AHen Pittman. Sullivan, fell on the blade of a road scraper aud was seriously injured. Epworth League of Richmond district will hold n convention at Union City, June 24-20. Democrats of the Tenth District nominated Capt. William Guthrie of Monti* cello for Congress. A tine Monou engine and several cars were destroyed at Crnwfordsville in a collision. No one was hurt.

Ollie Pitzer, aged ID years, shot and fatully wounded his cousin, Otis Richman, aged 13 years, at Daleville. Fred Noble anil Victor Clark of Anderson will go abroad to cuter the ltoynl conservatory of music at Dresden. A gift of SIO,OOO has been made to Del'auw by a person whose name the authorities have not made known. Willis B. Wheeler, who murdered ids sou-in-law, Elias Burns, in ..Warrick County Sept. 7 last, expiated his crime on the gallows iu the northern Indiana prison at Michigan City. George Bnrr McCuteheon, author of “Graustark," had u narrow escape from death. While he was cleaning the desk formerly used by him as city editor of the Lafayette Courier, an old pistol was accidentally discharged, the bullet grasing his body. Mrs. Florence Mcllrath of Russisvills was thrashed 214 times in about two years, according to her testimony on ths witness stand. She kept a record of ths beatings for use in divorce action. Bho kept piling up evidence until ahe thought the ground* sufficiently strong, then sho applied for a decree. She got it.