Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1902 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERBELY TOLD. Farmer Slay* Wife for Talking About Him—Girl Whips a New Richmond Man—Train Gets Safely Off a Coilap* aing Bridge. c-v John SteriTiibwrg, aged 52 years, formerly of Chicago, shot and killed his wife in Marion, and when found hidden in a corn field three hours later turned a revolver against his own head and inflicted a serious wound. The officers had some difficultly in preventing a lynching, as tlie mob was restless at the time of the murderer’s capture. When Sterrenburg reached the jail and had been revived with stimulants he was told that he had killed his wife. To this he replied that he was glad, as it had been, his intention to do so. He said lie had intended to cut out his wife’s tongue and had taken a sharp butcher knife to bed with him for that purpose, but she wns restless and did not sleep and ho was not given the opportunity. He said she had talked scandalously about him and lectured him and this was the reason he had killed her. The woman was shot three times in the back and ran nearly half a mile io a neighbor's, where she died an hour after the shooting. The husband died later of hemorrhage of the brain. Presence of Mind Saves 500 Lives. Nearly five hundred passengers who were aboard a train on the Wabash road narrowly escaped a wreck and death near Clark station. A short distance out of Clark the Wabash crosses the Grand Calumet river over a huge trestlework bridge. Some repairs had been made on the structure only recently, and it was considered perfectly safe, track walkers having just patroled the bridge before the Wabash limited left Clark station. As the train, having aboard nearly 500 souls, reached the middle of the structure that (spanned the Calumet the engineer heard the cracking of timbers as the middle span of the bridge sank beneath bis engine. lie opened,the throttle to the farthest limit, and the train fairly leaped from the swaying trestlework. Postmaster Whipped by Girl. Miss Virginia Dewey, the 18-year-old daughter of a prominent New Richmond physician, entered the postoffice at that village and, while J. \V. Holland, the postmaster, had his back turned, drew a big whip and administered a terrible whipping. Holland did not attempt to escape or retaliate. When Miss L*ewey finished she walked out of the office to a justice’s office and paid her fine. The whipping wns determined on by the girl as the only way to avenge insults which Holland is alleged to have offered to Miss Dewey and three others in New Richmond. Holland is married and is a leading politician. Note for Missions Valid. A note for SI,OOO payable to Mrs. Mary Woodworth, an evangelist of the Church of God, for the furtherance of religious work in La Porte, was held to be valid by the Appellate Court. Mrs. Mary J. Vinson had executed the note and the payment was contested tiy the administrator of Mrs. Vinson’s estate on the ground that “the note was not given for a legitimate debt. The ruling is a precedent. Trainer Attacked by n Lion. Dick Dekenzo was attacked by Nero, the big lion with a wild animal show, at the close of an exhibition at Terre Haute. The lion inflicted frightful gashes on J)ekenzo’s back, hands and legs. Only the prompt action of attendants saved the trainer's life. The spectators were stampeded, and a number were bruised in the wild rush for tlie exit. Brief State Happenings, Edward Slinkard, a boy, was killed at the Iloosier quarry, Bedford, by a falling stone. A workman had his leg broken at the same time. The safe in the office of the Charles Hamer Lumber Company at Green town was wrecked by burglars. No money wns secured, but a package of notes valued at $750 was taken. Yandalia passenger train No. S, east bitund, and passenger train No. 21, west bound, collided at Reelsville, completely demolishing both engines. Two were killed and n number hurt. While temporarily insane over religion, Mrs. John C. Ice of Bruceville arose from her bed, said the Lord had commanded her to kill herself, set fire to her night dress and burned to death. Royal Hero, the champion bull of 18!)D, owned by W. T. Miller & Sons of Winchester, became so disabled from pntalylis that it had to lie killed. The Millers bad refused $5,000 for the animal. The home of Isaac Shipley, five miles vest of Nashville, wns totally destroyed by lire. Shipley and his wife were awakened by fire falling on their bed, and hey barely escaped from the house. The body of Mrs. James T. Kelly (Ida Carter), leading woman of the King PingPong theatrical compuny, who was drowned in the Ohio river, bus been found twenty-five miles from Jeffersonville. Jacob Jones wns fatally scalded while cleaning a boiler nt the American rolling mill at Muncle. He had crawled inside when another workman, not knowing lie was In the boiler, turned on the steam. Burglars robbed the hardware store of J. E. Davis in Salem of S2OO worth of stock, including guns, revolvers and cutlery. They took clothing and shoes to the value of SSO from the general store of Horvet & Clark. The Republic Iron and Steel Company's mIH In Kast Chiengo has been reopened, President Schaffer of the' Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers haring ordered the striking pnddlen to return to work. The strikers idieyed the order of their chief. Facts have developed in-the grave-rob-bing case which point conclusively to the fact that Indianapolis for the last three years has been the center and headquarters of the entire country for the nefarious traffic in bodies. Rufus Cantrell, self-confessed chief of the band of grave despullers that has been preying on Indianapolis cemeteries, told bis story to the Marlon County grand Jury. As n result of the disclosures mndo It wns Intimated that Indictments will be found ugalnst nt least a half dozen of the most prominent physicians and surgeon* of th« city.