Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1902 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTB OF THE PAfi T WEEK. Marlon Resident Deserts His Wife and Baby Calnmet Canal Project Will Not Be Revived-Two Violent Deatba in lVaba»h-Many Divorces. “I am going to leave the city and you will have to dig for yourself or get somoone else to dig for you,” was tho note Floyd Turner left for his wife in Marion when he left home. Turner is an oil operator. He was married to Miss Hazel Perry about it year ago. Six weeks ago a baby was horn to them and the mother of Mrs. Turner came to visit them. She left a few days ago nnd mnde her daughter a present of quite a smn of money, which Mrs. Perry alleges her husband took with him. A warrant was sworn out for his arrest, charging him witli wife desertion. Mrs. Turner was left with Hos fine cent" of money. Her parents live in Ehvood. Calumet Canal Plan Dead, Semi-official announcement is ifinde that no attempt will be made at the coming session of the State Legislature to pass the Calumet canal bill, which was defeated after a hard fight a year ago between its promoters and a railroad lobby. The scheme was to construct a ?(inal from Lake Michigan, near East Chicago, to the Calumet river, near Hammond. This would open an immense tract of lands for factory sites. The Legislature, however, refused to authorize a special assessment of taxpayers of Lake County to construct it. The principal objection of the railroads was that they would have had to expend millions in erecting and maintaining drawbridges. Two Die on Rail at Wabash. Within four hours the other morning two persons were killed by Wabash trains in the Wabash city limits. William Hopkins, aged 50 years, was struck by a fast freight while on his way to work in a stone quarry. Miss Grace Overly, a school teacher, aged 23 years, threw herself in front of a freight train in the western part of the city. She.was ;.-ut to pieces. A brakeman who rode r n the pilot saw Miss Overly leap to death, but he was powerless to save her. She was engaged to marry I. Church, an engineer. No reason is given for the suicide. Thirteen Per Cent Divorced. The State statistician hns compiled tables showing the relation between marriage and divorce in Indiana for the year ending June 30 last and finds that for every seven marriage licenses issued there is one divorce, or that 13 per cent of the marriages are followed by legal separations. To He Hanged in Michigan City. The jury in the ease of Ora E. Copenliaver at Indianapolis, charged with the murder of his wife, returned a verdict of first-degree murder nnd fixed the penalty at death by hanging at the Michigan City penitentiary. This is the first death sentence passed on a murderer in Marion County in seventeen years. Young Woman’* Suicide. Mrs. Maria McGoran, 20, committed suicide at Brazil by taking a large dcse of morphine. She was married six months ago, and her hushnnd deserted her. This, it is thought, caused the act. All Over the Btat* Anthony Tasso, an Italian, 39 years old, was killed by a bicycle rider at Coxville. At Seottsburg J. A. Eckhart, aged 55, died of blood poisoning caused by cutting a corn. As a safeguard against grave robbing the Common Council of New Albany has ordered electric arc lights placed in the city cemeteries. The congregation of Rev. Dr. Yannuys of Goshen surprised him with the gift of SSOO on the eve of his golden anniversary as pastor. Nelson Mains, aged 00, was found dead in jail at Hagerstown, lie had been arrested for being intoxicated and died from congestion of the brain. The bodies of Pleasant Pruitt, aged <l2, and his wife, aged 47, were found in tire basement of their home in Indianapolis. The police say Pruitt killed his wife and himself. The big tin-plate factory at Elwood has opened up its doors and the wheels have begun to turn. While the men have no definite idea of how long the plant will run. they feel that the resumption is to be permanent. After three weeks of life in the woods, Zncli Smithson, charged with the murder of George Boswell, has surrendered to Sheriff Cooirer at Green Castle. He has been living in a cave in the western part of the county and lias had nothing to eat hut pawpaws and apples since the murder. Isaac W. Martin of La Porte, who was sued for divorce by his wife a few days ago, 4rought suit for $5,000 damages for alienation of affections, the defendants being Richard Fleming and Vilette Fleming of Chicago. Vilette Fleming is the daughter of Mrs. Martin by a former marriage. After an idleness of six months, nearly one hundred strikers at the Evansville glass Leveling works will return to work. The men demanded an increase in wages. Business men have suoveded in getting tlie contending parties to arbitrate. The workmen gain about all tlrey asked. Indiana Harbor, a town only n year old, but having about 2,000 inhabitants, had its first church services Sunday. The Lutherans of the town dedicated their new structure, the First Evnugelicn! Lutheran Church, with solemn services and in the presence of u great throng of people. many of whom were from If aiiitnoiid, East Chicago nnd Whiting. 11. F. Watson, an old soldier, was ■truck by n mail pouch thrown from a Pennsylvania train at Amboy, aud hud his shixilder dislocated. A stick of dynamite was found under a bridge near Bt. Paul. The fuse which was attached to the stick was partly burned. A few days ago an attempt was made to blow up a hotel at Bt. Paul. The lirery ham nnd undertaking establishment of J. I>. Sells at Elwood was burned. Mr. Sells was overcome liy smoke while trying to rescue a horse and la in n serious condition. The loss la 18,090, Insurance 13.000.