Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1903 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Owe Much to Many Banks—Widow Refuses to Wed Cripple-New Albany Men Go to Jail for Contempt of Coart —Convict Minister Paroled, Bankruptcy court summonses were served at Greencastle on Thomas C. Hammond and Jerome Allen, late president and cashier, respectively, of the First National Bank of that city. Two weeks previously the two men made a voluntary assignment of their individual property after a suit had been filed against them for the collection of a note of $5,000 by Alfred Ilirt, the president of the bank. Since tli&n it has become known that Hammond and Allen are indebted to the First, National Bank for $59,000, to the Columbia National Bank of Indianapolis for $6,500, to the First National Bank of Brazil for $4,000. to the Riddle National Bank of Brazil for $3,000, to the National State Bank of Terre Haute for $2,500, to McKeen & Co. of Terre Haute for $2,000 and to other parties, mostly private citizens, including many women, to an aggregate of almost $150,000. The assignment was made to the Central Trust Company of Greencastle. Their assets are said to be valuable and ought to pay some 50 or CO cents on the dollar. Sent to Juil for Contempt. The six New Albany men who were sentenced to imprisonment in the Marion County jail by Federal Judge Anderson for contempt of the federal court in failing to recognize the jurisdiction of the federal court in appointing Frederick Conner as receiver for M. Zier it Co., have been locked up. The men who were thus imprisoned and their sentences nre: Charles D. Kelso, sixty days; Michael Zier, former president of the company of that name and police commissioner of New Albany, 30 days; Raymond J. Morris, sheriff of Floyd County, 20 days; Claude Sittason, deputy sheriff, ten days; Fred Ruoff and Thoina Smithwiek, custodians of the factory, appointed by Kelso. ten days each. Will Not Wed an Ugly Man. Several months ago C. B. Gibbs, who claims to he a millionaire living at Omaha. Neb., inserted an advertisement in a Chicago matrimonial journal asking to correspond with some widow in middle life. Mrs. Susie File, a widow of Evansville, who has a hoy about 8 years of age, answered and gave Gibbs an invitation to come and see her. Gibbs is crippled, having been in a railroad wreck several years ago and breaking nine hones in his body. Mrs. File was not impressed with the appearance of Gibbs and told him so and no amount of persuasion could induce her to marry him and he returned to Omaha. Gibbs offered Mrs. File SIOO,OOO providing she would become his wife, but was -efused.

Train Stoppedi Man Is Saved. A passenger train crosiug the Illinois Central bridge over the Ohio river several miles above Evansville was stopped and the crew rushed to rescue two drowning men, one of whom they saved, but the other was drowned. William I.egeman and his brother Charles, while duck hunting in a skiff struck an eddy nrd the boat was overturned. They clung to the skiff half an hour, when the train approached. The danger the men were in was seen and the train stopped, but only Charles could be saved. Convict Preacher Paroled. Rev. William E. Hinshaw, sent to prison for life on the charge of murdering his wife nt Belleville in January, 1895, soon will be released from prison on parole. Hinshaw was found with his breast cut aud a bullet wound in his side. His wife was found unconscious from a bullet wound and died without speaking. Hinshaw’s story was that burglars did the deed. Ilinshaw’svmothcr is on her deathbed and the parole is the answer to her prayer that her son may he with her when she dies. Buicide After Divorce Suit. Mrs. Robert J. Wurstcr, nee Pansy Montavou, aged 19, who filial a divorce suit a few days ago, having been a bride but little over a year, ended her life by taking carbolic acid at Goshen. Her father lives nt Detroit. Her husband is the only heir expectant to an estate of more than $100,000., His cruelty, it is alleged, drove her to bring suit against her will nnd settling property rights at SIOO. Iler continued love was expressed in a tender note left by iter.

State Items of Interest. Albert Ileiden, a prominent business man of Chesterton, died suddenly of blood poisoning, resulting from an ulcerated tooth. A street car at Indianapolis was struck by a shifting string of freight cars and fourteen people were injured, five seriously. The street car was thrown from the track. An insanity commission found Emerson Reynolds hopelessly deranged ns tho result of the killing of his son, Wesley Reynolds, who was shot in the Westville Bank by robbers. Methodist minister* of Indian.! have begun a campaign to induce all pastors.of the denomination to refuse to perform marriage ceremonies if cither party to the marriage ha* been divorced. The motion for a new trial for Tyler Cruthers, the Springfield, 111,, fake foot racer, was overruled by Judge Elliott of Kokomo. The judge then sentenced him to the southern prison at Jeffersonvill >. At n meeting of the Pittsburg Plate Glass Company in Kokomo it was decided, owing to tbc opening of several big gas wells on tho company's ground, to build a factory at that place. The present factory will be rebuilt to cover sixty acres of ground and will cost about 15,000,000. l)r. Joseph Mills Ims resigned the presidency of Earlham College at Hiclunond, and Prof. It. Kelly lias been chosen as his successor. It in stated at Indiannpoli* that the nutional headquarters of tho Broommakers’ Union will be removed from Galesburg, 111., to Hint city. I)r. Harry Gifford of Brazil, the surgeon for the Vandnlin Itnilroml Company between Terre Haute nnd Indianapolis, was found dead in the Maxwell Hotel at Richmond. The room was filled with gas. The coroner thinks that Gifft-rd’ff death was due to an accident.