Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1903 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Anti-Liquor War at Winslow—Kokomo Maids to Seek Happiness in North Dakota—Steel Workers to Take Trust Stock—Suicide of Merchant. A reign of terror prevails in the town of Winslow as a result of a contest between the temperance people and the saloon men. Houses have been blown up. citizens assaulted and beaten at day and night in the streets, and one murder is attributed to the anti-liquor war. At present the town is patrolled by a large force of deputies appointed by the marshal. The resideftee of John McConnell was wrecked by a charge of dynamite. A saloon man who had been refused a license met McConnell in the street and assaulted him. Lawrence Goff, the town marshal, while attempting to make an arrest, was pounced upon and injured seriously. The drug store of F. J. Fenton was blown into the air niiii surrounding buildings were damaged. The more active of the temperance workers maintain a close guard around their homes during the day and night. Arthur White, a prominent league worker of Princeton, was assassinated while changing cars at Hazelton. He was standing on the station platform when an unknown person shot“him five times. Girls to Go Miles for Men. Forty-eight Kokomo and Howard County girls are making preparations to start to Rugby, N. D., to become wives of men they have never seen. Several weeks ago J. R. Walters, formerly of Kokomo, now a resident of North Dakota, wrote a letter to a Kokomo paper stating that there were 500 bachelors near Rugby wanting wives. As a result Walters received nearly one hundred letters from young women of Kokomo offering ty go there and marry their share of tlie lonely bachelors. Tlifi names of the women were given the Dakota men, nnd correspondence was opened, the young women being willing to take chances on securing good husbands with quarter sections of land. The girls are making preparations for the journey, and will go in a body if rates can be secured. Steel Employes to Take Stock. Iron, steel and tinplate workers in the Indiana mills of the United States SteeW ’orporiitionrntrTlieif~feceht meetings reconsidered tlie profit-sharing plan of the steel corporation and will take some of the $2,006,<100 worth of preferred stock. Tinplate workers of Anders >n have prepared their applications for stock. Subscriptions will be made by the men in mills in Anderson and at Muncie. Elwood. Gas City and Terre Haute. Of the 6,000 men in tlie steel corporation lifiliana plants, about one-fourth will take corporation stock, being advised that it will not affect their positions or future wage schedules. Injunction Against Strikers. Judge Anderson of the federal court lias granted a temporary restraining order against the striking employes of the I Rockwood Manufacturing Company in Indianapolis, to be in effect until such 1 time as shall be set for a final hearing. 1 For several months a strike has been on at the Rockwood plant, and the owners i charge that men who have been willing to work have been intimidated and as- • saulted by strikers. Indiana Merchant Ends Life. • B. F. Cohee, a wealthy dry goods mer- \ chant, was found hanging in his xvoodi house at Frankfort. He had been a suf- > serer from nervous prostration for sevi eral weeks, but had apparently about recovered. When he left his bed he told ' Mrs. Cohee he was going to kindle the I tires. Temporary insanity is the only j explanation.

Alleged Forger Brought Buck. Thomas Dunn. Vincennes chief of police, returned from Bastrop, Texas, having in his charge John Selby, who is ♦anted for forgery. Selby's alleged forgeries on prominent people amount to nearly >15,000. All Over the State. William Holliday, a Civil War veteran at Brookville, was found dead in bed, fully dressed. Levi Huffman, a miller of Wheeler, was caught in a belt, drawn to the ceiling and fell to the floor, dying instantly. Mrs. Mary Forba Cobb of Kussiaville celebrated her one hundred ami first birthday. Her father was a captain in Gen. Washington's army. State Senator D. L. Crumpacker of Laporte County will introduce a bill in the Legislature to establish whipping posts for the punishment of wife beaters and wife deserters. Affidavits have been tiled against William Tobin and George Cunningham, of the Muncie polo team, who engaged in a fist fight during a game a few dayti ago. They are charged with assault and battery. In Elkhart the jury in the case of Dr. Harry Gulmyer returned n verdict finding Gulmyer guilty of assault with intent to kill. The penalty is an indeterminate term of from two to fourteen years in State's prison. A motion for a new trial was made by the defense. Joseph Swoboda, an old tailor who died in Terre Haute, wah tailor for the Suita* of Turkey a number of years, and escaped from Constantinople at a time, thirty years ago, when the Sultan of Turkey was condemning to death persons suspectci! of complicity in a political conspiracy. Walter Clark. 10. preached at the General Baptist Church in Vincennes, to n large congregation. Be made a big hit. Six weeks ago tile boy caused excitement in his neighborhood by declaring that he bad been visited in the night by an angel which told him he should begin preaching. He took up the study mid made his debut in Vincennes. Notwithstanding the general discussion of the coal shortage in December the Indiana output in that month was 10 per cent larger than in December a year ago. Taylor Browning, aged 18 years, shot twice at Miss Ernestine Arnold, who was passing on the other side of the street in Terre Haute, but missed her. Patrolman Westetidorff called on him to surrender and he replied with a shot. Starting for closer range, a second shot bit the policeman in the leg and then the officer fired nnd struck Browning in the breast, a fatal wound being averted by the bullet passing through a. package of papers.