Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1903 — RECORD OF THE WEEk [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEk

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERBELY TOLD. Krrlnic Man Kills Wife and HimselfCourt Declares Sheriff Dudley Illegally Ousted-Rivers Out of Their *s»k»—Railway Gets Franchise. John Stark, living at Rosedale, killed his wife by shooting her through the head. He then turned the weapon on himself, with fatal effect. The tragedy, it is said, had its origin in a visit some months ago to the Stark homestead of Mrs. Stark’s" sister. Stark, it is said, became too intimate with his sister-in-law. Mrs. Stark asked her husband to have the young woman sent away from the place, which was done. This was about six moiltlis ngo. A few days ago n child was born and Stark was claimed as its father. The young mother insisted on coining to the Starks’ home to reside, but Mrs. Stark objected. She did come, however, whereupon Mrs. Stark demanded that she be taken away at once. This was done h.v Stark, and upon his return home he seized his revolver from the bureau and killed liis wife .md then committed suicide. Rivers on the Ram page. Dispatches show that nearly all the larger rivers are on the rampage, as tlie result of heavy rains and thaws. The lowlands .along the Wabash were under water, and in the vicinity of Lafayette the damage is heavy. At Evansville the Ohio invaded many business houses along its banks. Many factories were shut down.'- ■Merchants received warning in time and removed their goods. Between Huntington and Fort Wayne on the Wabash there was a lake of water twelve miles long on either side of the railroad. Terre Halite Grants Franchise. The Terre Haute City Council lias passed an ordinance for a fifty-year franchise for the street railway company, for which the company is to pay $78,000, SIO,OOO to be paid at once and the remainder in annual payments beginning iu 1918. The new ordinance contains no provisions for safeguarding the city's interests in event of new conditions within fifty years. The Council voted an increase of salary for the Mayor and the board of public' works nnd bought a strip of ground for $25,000 for a park. Anti-Lynching Law Is Invalid. Iu the case of W. P. Maxwell, coroner, versus John S. Dudley, the deposed sheriff of Sullivan County, quo warranto proceedings to compel Dudley to vacate the office of sheriff. Judge O. B. Harris decided that the anti-lynching law is unconstitutional, and that Sheriff Dudley was illegally declared ousted by the Governor. The case will be appealed lo tho Supreme Court at once. Fatally- Shot in Saloon. George Baugh was shot and mortally wounded by Charles Iliilen. The sh ading occurred in Baugh's saloon at Vincennes. Hulcii was ordered out and began shooting. Baugh will die. Hulen escaped across the river into Illinois. Theater Burns at Frankfo t. The Columbia Theater, the only playhouse in Frankfort, was burned. The lire is supposed to have been of incendiary origin. The loss is $40,000; insurance, $12,000. Maccabees Hall also was burned at a loss of $4,000. % Brief State Happenings. Grace Jackson, aged 10, was drowned in a cistern in Clinton. The girl had been sent 'after vinegar for supper and fell into the cistern. Notice has been posted, that the New York store, the largest department stort in El w ood, ow ned by Louis F. Knere is in tlte hands of creditors. At .Goshen two trains collided and one was thrown acros another track and struck by a fast milk train. The tracks wore completely blockaded, several cars were burned nnd tlie train crew injured. The property loss aggregated $ 100,000. Fully 1,000 consumers of city water in Noblesvilie been me violently ill the oilier morning and none of them lias fully recovered. The unusual color of the water first attracted attention. The ice breaking up in the river had allowed the river water to enter the water mains. Lewis Clark and John Blight, arrested in Pittsburg, have been brought to Logansport. They are under indictment charged with attempting to hold up the Adams Express office last August. The messenger drove the robbers mvay after a pistol battle in which Blight was wounded. Morris Callahan, the messenger. had $150,000 in his keeping at the time. A man named Morgan, who found the meirin Pittsburg with the help of the Panhandle secret service, gets $2,000 reward. Gustave Charles Earth man. a man of line appearance and address, was taken mip custody by Chief of Police Bongerz at LnPorte. Later an insanity commission adjudged him to lie insane, lie harbors the hallucination that President Roosevelt beat him out of a sum of money. He paced the stone Hngging of the jail forty-eight hours without seeking sleep. The officers believe Earthman is a disappointed office seeker, mid that his derangement is due to failure to secure preferment. Oscar Brickie nnd Florence Merrill, employes of the Rochester Cigar Company, previously unacquainted with each other, were murried the other morning by the purchase of a marriage license in u banter. The groom was jokingly asked by other employes why he did not marry Florence, who was a stripper in tlie shop. Ho replied he would if Charles Beholders, nnotlicr workman, would purchase the license. The girl consented. The bride, groom nnd Beholders went to the cerk’s office, procured a license, a minister wus summoned, the ceremony was performed, and the groom was in search of n house—all in fifteen minutes. Joseph Bogart, 08, of Culver, was found dead in n hog pen with tils face utmost nil eaten off by hogs. He is supposed to have dropped dead while feeding the animals. While en route to n funeral, Benjamin Gillen nnd Thomas Crlsuinn were mu down and killed h.v a Vnndnlia train Ht a crossing at Darlington. Peter MeCrea, a deaf mute; 58 years of age and the owner of $25,000 nnd 100 acres of Innd, was assaulted at Shelbyvllle by Jeff Richardson with a spade and his skull fractured. MeCrea cannot live. Richardson is in jail.