Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1903 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Student Located at Atlantic, lowa—Lake Shore Train Kills Three Persona—Man Commits Suicide on a Railroad—Woman Jumps Into a Well. Norman Rohrer, son of ex-Trustee Rohrer of Clintoie township, who mysteriously disappeared Fob. 2,-1902, while attending the Detroit Medical College, has been located at Atlantic, lowa. His brother received a letter from him. He says he has written home often, but no letters were ever received. His mother had been nearly prostrated, as ho was supposed to. be dead. An exhaustive search had been made for him. Rohrer says ill health caused him to leave Detroit and that he contracted to go on the road for a ranch, and has visited ten Western States. He says his health is n<rW improved ami lie expects to return to Detroit and to complete his medical course. Cuts His Throat on a Train. On a Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern train Jacob Rapp of Louisville rushed info a closet as the train was nearing Vincennes and ent his throat with a razor. The train-crew found him weltering in his blood. Doctors were called, but they sdy Rapp had-only a small chance for his life. jumps Into Well with Babe. Mrs. Rolla Gibson, wife of Alexander Gibson, living near Jasonville, threw herself and her baby, a few months old, into a stock well on the farm of her father, Henry Letsinger, and both were drowned. A few weeks ago she made an attempt at suicide by hanging. She left a husband and two children. Three Killed by a Train. Emma and John Cliska, aged 10 and 12 years, while going to school on a recent morning at Otis, were struck by a fast Lake Shore train and killed instantly. Michael Michaels, a merchant of Porter, was struck httd instantly killed by the same train a few moments later. Attempts t uicide from Grief. Frank Allen attempted suicide by taking strychnine in an oyster stew at Newcastle. Despondency over the death of his mother is the supposed cause. Brief State Happenings. Wallace Lake, aged 65 years, a farmer near Hillsdale, committed suicide by shooting. Judge Louis Rasch, who was requested to resign by the Bar Association of Evansville, has declined to do so. Neff & Nixon, proprietors of a Newcastle business college, have closed its doors and left for parts unknown. Henry T. Kirk of Middle township has succeeded Henry I. Eaton ni? superintendent of the Hendricks county farm. Miss Myrtle East, aged 25 yaars, and Charles Harris, aged 30. were killed by a Panhandle train at a crossing at Frankton. Robbers entered the jewelry establishment of R. M. Muench in South Bend, Ind., and carried away goods valued at $5,000. Joseph Bozask, a smallpox -patient, and fourteen others who were exposed by him, have been quarantined at Michigan City. The shortage of coal and the lack of cars to carry fuel that has been ordered threaten to cause a shutdown of Muncie factories. The general store of C. J. Kerns at Valparaiso was nearly destroyed by fire. Loss on stock and building SIB,OOO, insured for $12,500. Alonzo Riggs, aged was shot and killed by his stepson, John Pratt, at Marion. Pratt claims he found Riggs beating his mother. Prof. Nortqn E. Kemp of Yerkes Observatory. Chicago, has been chosen professor of physics of Wabash College, to succeed Prof. John L. Campbell. W. G. I.ynch, 22 years old, a Big Fot:r brakeman, living in Lafayette, was killed at Lebanon. He was riding on the engine pilot and in jumping off fell beneath the wheels. Because of the severe illness of Helen Grantley, the star. "The Girl ami the Judge” company disbanded at Anderson. Miss Grantley will go to Florida as soon ■is she is able to travel.

Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Taylor has selected as a site for the fed oral building at Anderson the prope-ty at the northeast corner of Eleventh and Jackson streets, at a price of $20,000. The joint Republican caucus of the House and Senate met the other night for the purpose of nominating a United States Senator. The only name presented was that of Senator Charles W. Fairbanks. and he was nominated by acclamation. Charles Wantlnnd was shot nnd fatally wounded by Fred Harden at a mining camp south of Clinton. Wantlan 1 accused Harden of making remarks about Mrs. Wantland, and during the fight which ensued Harden drew a revolver nnd fired two shots, which took oft? .‘t in Wantland’s abdomen. Edward Irish, a Wabash engineman, in charge of the Continental limited, made his run the other day with frozen hands and feet. His train was seven hours late. At Lafayette he was compelled to crawl under the locomotive to make temporary -repairs. When lie had finished his hands and feet were frozen, but he completed his run to Danville, 111., making up thirty minutes of the lost time. His hands and feet were swollen to twice their normal size. He is now in the hospital at Peru and amputation of ill the frozen members may lie necessary. Everett Cooper, retiring prosecuting attorney at Danville, has bought a large fruit farm in California, where he will move in a short time. The Indiana State prosecutor has filed suit against the Frbnch Lick Hotel Company. asking that its charter be annulled on the ground that It has violated th%. State law against gambling. A broken switch point was responsible for the derailment of the tank of engine No. 300, pulling the south-bound Monon mail train from Chicago, at Indianapolis. It required three hours to replace the tank aud baggage car.