Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1903 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTB OF THE PABT WEEK. Thirty-six Men Disfranchised atShoale for Selling Their Votes—Officials Sent to Jail for Contempt—River Water Poisons Noblcsvillc People. By sentences imposed in the Martin Circuit Court thirty-six men of Shoals were disfranchised for from ten to twelve years and ordered to pay the cost of prosecutions for having sold their votes. Twenty-nine of the defendants pleaded guilty and seven were convicted after having entered pleas of not guilty. Six other defendants were acquitted. Fiftysix cases yet remain to be tried. Some' of these may be postponed until the next term of court owing to the high state of feeling aroused by the prosecutions and because of the lack of unbiased material from which to draw juries. In addition to these cases it is said new indictments will l»e returned by the county officials to put an end to vote selling. The reward of SIOO offered to the prosecuting witness for each conviction is causing much criticism and the county council will refuse to make the appropriation to pay these claims and the county commission refuse to make allowance until the validity of the law concerned is tented in the Supreme Court. Officials Sent to Jail. During the hearing of the Case of Charles Kelso et al. of New Albany, charged with contempt of the federal court in ignoring the receiver appointed for M. Zier & Co., Judge Anderson imposed a sentence of sixty days in the _ Marion Couuty jail against Charles Kelso, the receiver appointed by the Floyd Circuit Court; ten days in jail for Thomas Smitliwick, the custodian appointed by Kelso for the property: twenty days against Raymond J. Morris, sheriff of Floyd County, nnd ten days against Claude Sittason, the deputy sheriff. Poisoned by River Water. In the recent breaking up of the ice in White river a water main connecting several deep water wells was broken, lotting "the river water int o the large reservoirs and mains of the Noblesville city plant, poisoning the water to such an extent that the board of health has reported 1,400 cases of sickness from the effects of drinking the water. Mahy are so seriously poisoned that their complete recovery is doubtful.

Lost Boy Is Found. Thornton Stansfield, 13 years old, son of Dr. Stansfield, pastor of the Meridian Street Church in Indianapolis, who disappeared recently, was located at Saginaw', Mich. The Mayor issued a proclamation asking for a general search, and many cities within 100 miles took part. The boy gives 110 reason for leaving, .»—! Child Burned to a Crisp. Dewey Znrr, aged 4, son of .Mrs. Charles Znrr, residing four miles north of La Porte, met a horrible death while playing with matches. The lad started a bonfire, from which his clothing was ignited, and his body was roasted to a crisp. The charred remains were not found until some time later by his mother. Brief State Happenings. Michael Kindrick, a farmer living near Russiavitlo. committed suicide by shooting after a quarrel with the family. At Frankfort the city novelty department store damaged $5,000 worth by tire. The loss is fully covered by insurance. A movement has been started at Tell City to divide l’erry County and create a ne wcounty with Tell City as couuty seat. The grand jury lias returned eighteen indictments against Tere Haute saloonkeepers for failing to have a State license. The efforts of the Terre Haute board of health to enforce its rules regarding vaccination in tlie schools were a decided failure. The contract Lor the erection of the new Muncle commercial club building has been let to Fred Illingsworth, the bid being $31,000. Earl Woods, who attempted to murder the entire family of his father at Frankfort, dipd from the effects of his sclf-intticted wound. The Rev. Thomas Conroy, assistant pastor of the Anderson Catholic Church, engaged in a shooting match with a burglar in the parochial residence. The priest Is uninjured, nnd it is thought that the robber escaped all the bullets. Newton Perry of Kokomo started up town in a buggy with Mrs. Newton Parker, to see a sick friend. Mrs. Parker applied the whip and drove furiously. On urriviug at their destination she was horrified to see that Perry, her companion in the buggy, was dead and that she had been riding with a corpse. Heart failure wns the cause. Five masked robbers, all heavily armed, blew the safes in the poetofflcea at Mexico and Denver, north of Twenty-five citizens heard the explosion* which blew the safe to pieces and saw the robbers board a handcar, but were afraid to give chnse. The men ran the car to Denver, three miles east of Mexico, and cracked the postofflee safe there. They left Denver on the same car. Small amounts were taken from both offices. The family of Wesley Gohring, living east of Kokomo, has had a thrilling experience with n niad dog. A large strange dog wns taken in and fed. While eating the animal Hew at Gehring and chewed his leg to ttie bone.. His parents went to the rescue nnd the mother was bitten on the neck, the mad heart having plunged at her throat. Mr. Gehring tried to kill the brute, but was himself terribly mangled, one of his arms being almost Btripiwd of flesh. The dog escaped. Game Wnrden James Hamilton has lieen Instructed to go to the marshes of the Kankakee river to look after duck hunters. Hamilton says ho will see that the game laws of the State are enforced. Suit hns lieen begun at Bhelbyville by Winfield 8. Thompsou against Sylvester Tinsley and David G. Tinsley for $lO,000 damages for injuries received from having his wagon overturned upon him, breaking an arm and internally injuring him. The complaint alleged that the de-> fendanta unlawfully obstructed the highway by throwing rails there while building a fence.