Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1902 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Lover Found After Ten Years—Made 111 by Poison in Cookies—New Albany Man Charged with Wife Mur-der-Train Thrown from Trestle. Charles Mclntyre, a member of a prominent family of Marion, who left that city ten years ago and was supposed to be dead, was found at Buffalo, N. D., by Lewis Collins, traveling representative for a harvesting machine company. Collins returned to Marion and reported the news to Mclntyre’s family. Mclntyre was a traveling salesman for a local confectionery company and was engaged to Miss Lillie Massey. She told him she would not marry him if he did hot stop drinking, promising’ to marry him in a year if he would be a 'total abstainer for that length of time. Mclntyre agreed to the terms and for eleven months and twenty-six days did not drink. Then he broke his vow and left the State. Collins reports that Mclntyre is the owner of 806 acres of wheat land in North Dakota and has one of the finest restaurants at Buffalo. Mclntyre told Colins he was to return to Marion in September to claim his first love, Who has remained faithful to him-. Poison in the Cookies. The family of Mrs. Mary Collier of Bedford and two boarders were mysteriously poisoned by eating cookies. They were prostrated by what the attending physician diagnoses as arsenic poisoning. Those affected are Mrs. Collier. Lenli Cook, Jesse Frank Lass, Mrs. Kate Lass. Willie Lass. Carl Lass, Cecil Lass, May Lass. Jennie Lass, George Pennington. Robert CloVerdale, Edgar Stotts and Mabel Brown. Among these are seven children, aged from 16 months to 21 years. Martin Collier, aged 52 years, tire husband of Mrs. Collier. was arrested and placed in jail on a charge of poisoning with arsenic the flour from which cookies were baked and served to the household. Collier and his wife have been st parated for some time. Charged with Wife Murder. Minnie Masterton, wife of James Masterson. was murdered at New Albany and her husband is in jail charged with the erime. He says he is innocent. He declares he and his wife were returning from Louisville to their home and had 1 just alighted from a ear when a man stepped from behind a post and clutched his wife, who was a few steps ahead of I him. The woman screamed, “For God’s [ sake. Willie, don’t!” and three shots were fired in rapid succession by her assailant. Masterson says the murderer fired two shots at him, one of which took effect in his arm. He was bleeding profusely from a Wound in his arm when arrested.

Runaway During Funeral. At Kokomo, as a funeral procession was escorting the remains of John Winbigler to the Panhandle depot a horse driven by Miss Blanche Morgan and Mrs. Lavinia Osler, cousin and aunt of the dead man, became frightened at the cars and ran away. Mrs. Osler was dashed against a curb and fatally injured and Miss Morgan received a broken leg. Fireman Ellsworth Wells in trying to stop the horse, was run over and his spine is badly injured. Omer Downey, a cabman, was also badly hurt. Trains Full from a Trestle. Five heavily laden freight ears, running wild down a steep grade, crushed into a heavy train, drawn by two engines, on a high trestle near Georgetown, carrying cars, engines and bridgework to the ground, sixty-five feet below. All Over the State. Josiah Dunkelbarger, Covington farmer, took carbolic acid and died. 11l health the cause. Crawfordsville farmers complain that fishermen are seining and dynamiting Sugar creek. Spiritualists will spend several thousand dollars in enlarging their grounds at Chesterfield. At Liberty a movement has been started to establish a spoke and wheel factory to employ fifty men. J. H. Bearly was held up and roblied by two highwaymen on the Brandywine bridge near Greenfield. Waitoil Brown, married, of Ghent, Ky., was killed by a casting falling upon him at the Peru steel mills. At Terre Haute Ed McCalumet was badly injured in a hay baler which caught one of his feet ami crushed it. The accidental discharge of a revolver imbedded a gunwad in John Hawkins’ eye at Rochester and destroyed the sight. Strong flow of natural gas was struck at Princeton at a depth of 742 feet. It thought to bi l the best in southern Indiana. In a fit of insanity the wife of Jesse Remark. a merchant of Sharpsville, killed her babe, aged one month, and herself with a paring knife. Lawrence Slaner, an Austrian miner aged 29, threw himself under a train at Terre Haute ami was decapitated. He had reported to the police the loss of $l6O. Frank Wright, aged 44 years, of Bodford, through brooding over the mistake of paying too much for a farm, committed suicide by shooting. He leaves a widow and fasnily. At a qs’diil election in Lawrence County it was voted to bulM thirty-six additional gravel roads. The election was carriisl by a good majority and the work will begin at once. John A. Jay. vice-president of the Howard National Bank in Kokomo, was rescued from drowning at Winona lake by Misses Milla, Van Walkenburg and L. Stahl of Hartford City. In a Kokomo saloon Janies Griswold and an unknown man became involved in a quarrel exchanged several shots. Both were badly hurt. Griswold was arrested and lodged in jail, but the unknown man escaped. George Hiatt, Raymond Titiur r.nd George Morris were frightfully burned by a gas explosion at Marion. They were on a traction engine which was drawing a thrashing machine outfit. The enginf passed over a natural gas pipe acroaa a public road. The pipe was broken and the escaping gas wns ignited by the tire under the boiler.