Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1903 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA (NCIDENTtt TERSELY TOLD. Attempt to Blow Up Factory at Us«‘ nier— Mun’a Uody Found la Sox ta River Double tuicide Attempted— Trolley "Car Overturned. f .- A " Dynamiters attempted to blow up the plant of the'Ligonier‘Carriage Company. Their effort was parti# .successful. The town was aroused hy an explosion which shook buildings and shattered glass. Investigation revealed the plot to wreck the factory. A hig bomb had been placet! inside the plautr *lt was discharged by n time fuse. Heavy doors were wrenched from their fnstenings and shattered. \Viudows were torn out and a section of wall was leveled. Buggies were smashed into splinters. Mr. Graham, president' of the company, recently received anonymous letters demanding money and making threats to destroy tho plant if the demands were not complied with.

Man’s Body in Hot In River. While fishing in the Tippecanoe river Clyde Kyle and Frank Miller found the mutilated and partly naked body of a main The trunk and the legs were in a wooden box;, from which part of the cover had been washed away. The head and the arms were found in the water near the box. The box was in shallow water near tire shore at a secluded place north of WarsatV. No one has been able to identify the body. The police aud coroner are inclined to think tire body was sent to Warsaw from some big city and hastily placed in the river. Man on.l Girl Seek Death. At Connorsville Van Moore. 33 years of ft£:\ a carriagemaker, went walking with Miss Clara Sherwood, aged 23 years and the daughter of John Sherwood, a saloonkeeper. About 2 o’clock in the afternoon Miss Sherwood was found by some boys in a grove, suffe» mg from the effects of carbolic acid poisoning. She said they had taken poison together and told the boys where Moore could be found dead. The woman was removed to her home and will live. Moore leaves a wife and a 2-weeks-old baby. Car Overturn*! 21 Are Hart. Twenty-one persons were injured by the overturning of a car on the Union Traction line while running at a high rate of sjteed in Marion. The air brake failed to work. The passengers were thrown info a heap and many were bruised and cut by broken glass. The most seriously injured was Dr. 11. A. Woodruff. His arm was broken and he was severely cut. Murdered in Her Own f'ome. Mrs. Hiinck Stewart was assaulted and murdered in her home along the Big" Four Railroad three miles east of Lena. The carpet in the nxun was tom and several chairs were broken, showing that there was a terrible struggle. Her husband was plowing in a neighboring field. It is believed three foreigners committed the crime. Incendiaries Threaten City. Six fires were discovered in the business section of Torre Haute between midnight and 1:30 o’clock the other morning. The fire department succeeded in controlling all before any great damage was done. The fires were evidently of incendiary origin and pointed to an effort to burn the city.

All Over the State, Clinton Masons have dedicated a new temple. Logansport is thinking of building a new city hall. Vincennes will have three paved streets this year. About 100 employes of the Howard Shipbuilding Company, Jeffersonville, struck for higher wages. Hilton Hayden, former treasurer of West Lafayette, who was found to be short in his accounts $15,000, has disappeared. A liquor license was refused to a Crawfordsville man because he had published the notice of his application in a Sunday paper. A statement issued at Waterloo by the receiver of the McClellan and DeKalb banks shows liabilities of SIOO,OOO and assets of $02,000. Raymond Dixon, 9-year-old son of John Dixon, Wtp.t Baden, was killed by falling upon the drive belt of an eugine iti the ice plant of the Springs Hotel. t , ■The First Church of Christ. Scientist, patterned after the Eddy school of faith, lias been incorporated in Vincennes. The membership is limited, bat select; ■ • Two valuable residences in Whitley • were destroyed‘by Are, and a third was damaged/ Origin of the fire a mystery. Within a few days, six residences in that suburb have’brirned. * _ The section men on she Michigan City division of the Lake Erie and Western Railway went on strikeLhnd threaten to “Have the section men of the entire system called v out. Org Ooppenhaver, wife murderer at Indianapolis, cuust hang. The Supreme Court affirmed the Marion County Criminal Court, refusing a new triaL Coppeuhaver’s execution is set for June 10 in the Michigan City penitentiary. Coppen haver shot his wife in cold blood. Abraham J. Perry and Gabriel thrown ware arrested -op the charge *f arson. Perry- is one of the best known lumber dealers of Evansville and came from Chicago six years ago, where h* was employed by the Pullman. Car. Company. Brown is a negro hostler and in his confession to the police said that Perry agreed last March to p»y him $l5O if life t WoOM destroy tbe tnnfber yard of the J.- I-. MfeCntcbon Company, for which conri?ra Perry is the" local agent/ He says after'-He had set fire to the yards Perry paid him SBO. •’ , J. C. X|oUnt of tohncrsvirie,. htta purchased the. interest of! the Rntne! estate in'the old Wabash and EtTe caugt wd for SB,OOO. Tlie purchase thetudfo 111 between T.agro apd Logan-port. ’* Joseph , Maher. o#' % Etansville and Terre. saiilgs aiilg Railway, waa jostled off the' caboose at' Paxton and thrown under wheels, beheading him. He was a man of family. Hod Maxwell, aged'2s. pf Kouta, baa mysteriously disappeared. The other day it was discovered ftst his wife had sloped with * man named'MaMtf* It to believed that Maxwell ha* met JW play.