Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1902 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. z Enraged Elephant Works Havoc in Vincennes Dwelling Wreck of a Freight Train Prevented by Engi-neer-Fatal Shooting at Charivari. The biggest elephant in the BostockFerori show at the Elks' carnival iu Vincennes went on a rampage the other night. As a consequence a woman is insane. a child badly bruised, a dwelling is partly wrecked and the show has Bed from the city without completing its engagement iu order to avoid legal proceedings. Arkonn, the jumbo elephant, had an angry fit and broke out of his stable. Before his keeper could overtake him he had begun to vent his rage on everything that was in his path. At the home of Clarence Duncan, a candy manufacturer, the elephant broke through a window and with his trunk upset a bed iu which Mrs. Duncan and her children were sleeping. One of the children the elephant picked up and hurled across the room. >He then mounted, the porch and broke down the door of the house. Before he had done further harm his keeper succeeded in prodding him into submission and drove him to his stable.

Will Not Tell Who Shot Him. Homer Berger, member of a charivari party, was fatally wounded near Lewis. The crowd gathered at a house where it was supposed Joe Crist, the township trustee, and his bride were spending the night, but, learning the bride and groom were not there, they went after watermelons. Some otic in the crowd thought it would be fun to scare the others and fired in their direction. Berger fell. His companions tried to make him tell who shot him. He said he knew, but quickly retracted the assertion and said he had fallen and hurt himself. Then he l<M»t consciousness. The bullet entered his head and physicians say it will be fatal.

Prevents Wreck of Freight. An attempt to wreck the north-bound, merchandise express of the Chicago r.nd Eastern Illinois Railway, near Newport, was frustrated by Engineer Ellsworth B. Buckley of Chicago. A rail twenty feet long had been placed across a part of the track where the train was known to travel at high speed. Buckley discovered the obstruction only within a hundred yards. Though ho did all he could to stop the train, the engine struck the rail, but it was forced ahead of the pony trucks, not a single wheel passing over it. It is believed to be the work of an organized gang of robbers.

Electric Car Hits Train. An electric car of the Union Traction Company ran into a freight train at a switch near the Soldiers’ Home at Marion, wrecking both trains and injuring over twenty persons. The switch is seldom used and interurban cars never stop there. The ear was running twenty miles an hour at the time of the collision. The engineer of the freight train claims the bell was ringing and that the motorman did not have control of his car.

Boiler File© Over Honaes. The boiler of a pumping station situated at Tenth street and Slorton avenue, Marion, was tom from its foundation, passed through the air over buildings a distance of one block and then fell in Eleventh street, where it exploded. Hundreds of people were in the neighborhood, but none was injured. The boiler was used for the purpose of furnishing power to pump oil wells.

Recovers His Wife’s Body. The wife of Joseph Neid’linger, south of Indianapolis, died several days ago. The other night some one telephoned Mr. Neidlinger that he would find his wife’s body at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Indianapolis. Neidlinger examined the grave and found the body missing, and it was recovered from the college. It is not known who telephoned the information.

All Over the State. President Roosevelt has appointed Rolla V. Claxton postmaster'of French Lick. Michigan City’s new directory census shows a population of 19,985, an increase of 8,134 since 1900. Two men were killed and a dozen others were injured by the explosion of the boiler in the sawmill owned by Tremont Gant at Maxwell. Elam White, aged 84 years, a widower, and Mrs. Keziah Boswell, aged 70 years, a widow, were married at Richmond. They had been friends since childhood. A large cat attacked the 7-year-old son of Roman Holthouse at Decatur, badly lacerating his leg with its teeth and claws. The boy, who is in a serious condition, was taken to Chicago for treatment. Willis O. Tyler, the young colored man of Monroe County who won the State oratorical contest in 1901 and took fourth place in a field with ten contestants in the interstate oratorical in lowa, will enter the Harvard Law School. He graduated at the State University this year in the department of history and political science.

Lottie Nichols of Cincinnati, 16 years old and pretty, was arrested at Crawfordsville. The police have been on ths lookout for her for some time. She has been missing from home for six months and all efforts to locate her by her mother have been fruitless. She was discovered as the chief attraction of a side . how at the fair grounds. Fire was discovered in C. T. Siddon’s bakery, In the I. O. O. F. block nt Albany. Tho Odd Fel,ows’ loss is about (2.000, McCormick & Sons' lose about (1.500, O. T. Siddon (1,000, Rebekah Lodge SSOO and the I. O. <). F. encampment (500. The building was one of the best in town, having replaced one that was burned about four years ago, with a loss of (20.000. John S. Williams, master mechanic, was Instantly killed by the breaking of a traveler at the Norton Reed quarry at Bedford. James Pearl, engineer, was badly injured. sGtfs Peterson, a workman at the Republic Iron and Steel Works, was instantly killed at East Chicago by falling from a scaffolding while repairing a smokestack. Mlsa Daisy Strickler, daughter of onn of the wealthiest business men of Franklin, eloped from her homo to Paris, 111., where she was married to N. M. Lacey,’ an attorney of Macon, Mo.