Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1902 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Workmen Find Rare Fossil —Negro Rescued from Mob by Officers—Fast Train In Ditch—Man Wrestles with a Bull—Drowned While Swimming. An unusually perfect fossil of a member of the falcon family was discovered In one 6{ the huge blocks of stone awaiting being set in the walls of the new Masonic Temple at Crawfordsville. The outlines of the fossil are remarkably distinct. The figure is two feet high and the details of the eye sockets, feet and the sweep of the long tail feathers are extremely clear. The block of stone will not he used in building now, but will be preserved with care and eventually wifi find its way into some museum. Scientists say this fossil is extremely rare, Negro Saved from Lynchers. John Haynes, a negro from Wabash, shot and mortally wounded Clarence Gillespie, white, an employe in the Pern steel casting works. Haynes, after the shooting, made an attempt to escape, hut was captured by a crowd of steel workers who were with Gillespie. While officers were hastening to the scene the steel workers were preparing to lynch the negro, and Haynes would have been hanged had not the officers arrived when they did.

Man Wrestles with Bull. A South American strong man. with no rope or weapon, wrestling with a hull was the chief attraction for 12,090 persons at the Terre Haute fair grounds at the exhibitions provided under the auspices of the Order of Railway Conductors. In the first bout the 3-year-old Hereford threw the man and stepped on him, hut inflicted only slight injury. In the next battle after much effort the man threw the bull. Motion Fast Train Ditched. The Monon fast train No. 5, Chicago to Louisville, jumped the track as it was coming into the station at Crawfordsville. The engine and two cars were derailed. the engine turning over on its side just before it reached the platform, which was crowded. Engineer Crawford and Fireman Frank went over with the engine, hut escaped with slight injuries. A misplaced switch was the cause.

Boys Drowned in a Creek. George and Leon, sous of Janies Gudin gt on. a well-known farmer near Valparaiso. were drowned iu Sievers creek, while wading with several companions, Tlie boys, who were 3 and 1(1 years old respectively, stepped into a deep hole in the creek and sank before their frightened playmates could aid them. Swimmer Killed by Lightning. During a severe electrical storm Arthur Jordan, aged 24, and two companions went swimming in a deep hole in the Tippecanoe river near Warsaw. Jordan was drowned. He was a good swimmer, and it is the belief that he was struck by lightning while iu the water. He resided at lliou. F tate New* in Briif. Millions of locusts in Kosciusko County. Charles Byroads. Lebanon, indicted for murdering Joe Herrick. Homer Fuller, 20. Muucie, committed suicide with laudanum. Thomas Mason, aged 14, sou of a farmer near Crawfordsville, was drowned while swimming. Latest returns show that Goodland has been selected us the new county seat of Jasper County by nine votes. Ethel Williams, 21, Terre Haute, killed herself with poison because Charles Taxis said he didn't want to see her again. The quarantine order issued against Indiana on account of smallpox was suspended until July 3 by the Kentucky State Board of Health.

Horace Hadley. 19-year-old son of Mrs. Ixui Hadley of Monrovia, committed suicide with poison. He had chuKed and joked with friends u few minutes before. Harry A. Rosengarten, a merchant policeman, was found dead with a bullet hole above his right temple in Indianapolis. Both suicide und murder theories ore advanced. Marshall T. Harrold, Arthur Stevens and Gerue Trowbridge, three young men of Sweetser, have been arrested, charged with being implicated in the murder of James Lacy and the shooting of Jacob Gottschall on a public road between Marion and ltoseburg. Harrold and Stevens acknowledged having been in the party at the time, but said Gerne Trowbridge did the shooting. The men interested in escablisbing the Nationnl Technical Institute have beeu in Indianupolis. They are Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman of New York, chancellor of the Winona Agricultural and Technical Institute; W. M. Smith, a commission merchant of New York, and Thomas Kane of Chicago, president of the Winona assembly. The men have promised to endow the National Institute and locate It there if Indianapolis will furnish the site. Sufficient subscriptions have been made to pay running expenses for five years and for many scholarships.

As the result of a long standing family quarrel and feud between the families of John Bailey und Oliver Cameron, both living at Falmouth, Bailey aud Cameron nre Isith dead, each killed by the hand of the other. Bailey returned from work and went directly to the house of Cameron. He believed his wife was within und asked entrance. This he was denied and without further words be shot Cameron. Cameron staggered into the house und. seizing a shotgun, returned the fire from the door. Both men fell and died almost instantly. Cameron leaves a widow und four children aud Bailey a widow and seven children. Wallace Steele, aged 7 years, was playing In the yard nt Marion with a kerosene lamp and attempted to light it with a match, wlp'ii his clothing became ignited and he was burned to death. Lon Henderson, who shot and killed City Commissioner llnwville at Marion uine years ago amt served seven years in prison before being paroled, violated his parole and shot two policemen in Indianapolis who attempted to rapture him. Henderson is now carrying four revolvers and demnmls food at farm houses, terrorising women, lie says he will not be taken all Te. ’