Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1902 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Engineer Claims Heavy Hum a neoFort uue for Convict Upon Hln Re-lease-Women Will Work for Suffrage—Snatched from Gallows. Robert Melroise of Battle Creek, Mich., engineer of the midnight Grand Trunk Western passenger train which was wrecked near Haskells on the night of April 25, lias tiled suit against the railroad company for SBOJHX) damages. Melrose was pinioned under the engine for two hours mid liis injuries necessitated amputation of the right leg at the hip, while the left leg is crippled, his back sprained and he lias sustained other in’uries which it is claimed will make him a cripple for life. He war ,'!4 years old and was earning a salary of SI,BOO a year. The amount of damages claimed is based on the amount of wages he would have earned during his probable lifetime. Fortune A waits a Convict. John Slatton. a former convict in the Chester, 111., penitentiary, now serving a term in Michigan City for attempted murder, will, when be is released 'rom custody, come into possession of a fortune left him by his grandfather which is valued at $4:5.000 and which is in land, bonds, stocks and cash. Slatton comes from one of the best known and wealthiest families in Davies County. It was while Slatton was in prison that his grandfatherd died, leaving an estate valued at more than $2511.090. The bonds and stocks are paying handsome returns and the fortune promises to he nearly double when Slatton terminates his sentence of fourteen years. The term Inis now serving is the second in this State. Women Want f-uffraire. The Woman's Christian Temperance Union organizations of tile State have determined to make another fight before the Legislature which will he elected in November for the enactment of legislation which will give Indiana women the suffrage. The plan of agitation will be the placing of petitions in circulation in e l 'ex r county of the State, and it is iiope-1 to obtain several thousand signatures. When the petitions arc ready for presentation to the Legislature a lobby will be organized composed of the most influential women in the State and a determined fight waged for the pa sage of a suffrage law. Save 1 from the Gallows. M ardeq Read of the Michigan City penitentiary receive!] a message from the Governor commuting the sentence of Lewis Russell, a murderer, who was to have been hanged within a few hours. All arrangements had been perfected for the hanging and the death warrant had been read to the prisoner. When the warden informed Russell of the communication from the Governor the prisoner stared blankly. Presently his face brightened and he said quietly: “I thought I was gone sure.” Tonng Woman Drowned. Miss Mary Ilinkle, 25, who lived on a farm four miles south of Lafayette, was drowned in a spring. She went to the pasture to water cattle from a walled spring six feet deep. As she did not return a sister went in search of her aud found her body in the water. It is supposed she lost her balance amj fell in head foremost. Orphans Are Heirs. M. C. Whitehead, superintendent of the Boone County Orphans’ Home at Lebanon, has been notified that the five Pqies children who are inmates of the home are heirs to valuable land in West Virginia. Oil has been found on the land, and the children now have s4,."i<)o coming to them, besides further royalties from the oil taken from the land. Brief State Happenings. President Roosevelt has been asked to lay the corner stone of the new court house at Hammond on his western trip. Veterans of the ltKltli Indiana infantry will hold a reunion at Wabash on Sept. 17, when Senator Beveridge will he the principal speaker. Fred Kinle.v. a fireman on the Chicago division of the Big Four Railway, fell from an electric ear and was instantly killed near Anderson. Clinton Pierce, an iron puddler, was killed in a tight with five policemen at Terre Haute, and one of the officers was so badly injured that he may die. Piel Brothers, who have withdrawn from tlie starch trust, will establish an independent starch factory on thirty-six acres of land on the west side of the river at Indianapolis. The total investment in the new plant will he over $500,000. Oil has ben struck near Bird's Eye on the Southern Railroad. The flow is about twelve barrels a day, and the drillers say it cuu he brought up to fifty barrels a day. Other wells will he drilled. The company is composed of Evansville capitalists. John B. Beds sued Hartsville Lodge, No. 1(52, Knights of Pythias, for damages, demon-ding SSOO. Heels alleges that while he was being initiated into the lodge, April 10. he was roughly handled and fell to the floor. Then, he says, four able-bodied men fell upon him and he was Injured so seriously that lie was confined to his bed for three weeks. Mrs. Victoria Hnrthel of El wood has filed action in the Circuit Court to Contest the will of Michael Buhl, who died at Elwood July 17. Buhl was survived by two daughters, the only heirs andt the law, hut in the drawing of the will one of them. Mrs. Bartbel. was cut off from any share in the estate. She alleges that Buhl was of unsound mind at the time the will was drawu, which was on the day that lie died. The estate is valued at $25,000. Chnrlea Nunn, aged 14, had hi* oy» shot out and wan mortally wounded by William Kramer in Warrick County. The Imy was in a thicket with a rod Handkerchief about his neck. Kramer, mistaking him for a squirrel, fired the fatal shot. Kramer is prostrated. Lieut. G. E. Thorne, l', 8. A., brother of Muyor Thorne of Kokomo, is visiting in that city with his bride, who crossed the Pacific to become his wife. She was a school teacher in the Philippines and they became acquaint,si while Lieut. Thorne’*..regiment was stationed in th*Ulanda.