Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1903 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PABT WEEK. Farmers to Demand |1 a Bushel for Wheat—Man Accnsed of Kilting Hia Nephew-Strenuous Times In Marion Man and Daughter Assaulted. A demand that wheat be increased in price to at least $1 per bushel will go out immediately to all the farmers of the United States. The American Society of Equity will issue the circular, embodying a renewal of an old scheme for dollar wheat. This organization was incorporated last December to form a national combination of farmers to uphold the prices of farm products. This ia the first formal demand for Increase that has been made. The secret circular shows why the consumption of wheat has increased and why it will continue to do no, thatu the lowering of prices is startling and unless controlled the era of prosperity must end. Stab 9 Three of HU Family. Lancaster D. Baldwin, a prominent attorney of Marion, and president of the Baldwin Oil Company, stabbed his stepson, Bert Bitter, during a quarrel. Ritter was cut through the right lung and about the face and head. He may die. Baldwin’s wife and his stepdaughter, Mrs. John Budd, interfered, and they were also stabbed. Believing that he had killed his stepson, Baldwin fled from the house, ami some time later had not been found by the police. Find Girl’a Body in Creek. Martin Kaiser, a prosperous farmer living near Manchester, was accompanying his 17-year-old (laughter home from church on a recent night, when they were attacked by a negro. Kaiser was beaten over the head with a club and fell unconscious, where lie lay all night. The body of Miss Kaiser was found in Tanner’s creek. The skull had been crushed and the face bruised and gashed, showing the terrible struggle she had made in defense. Mob Pursues Wife Player. After murderously assaulting his wife and leaving her on the floor of his home in North Marion for dead, Stephen Iseuhour fled into the country, pursued by a mob of angry neighbors. When they canto upon him four miles north of the city he took refuge in Mount Olive Church, and for Some time held them at bay. Realizing that resistance was useless, Isenhour finally shot himself. He was conscious when the officers found him, but may recover. Killed His Nephew. Upon petition of Prosecutor Ralph Spaugh, Circuit Judge Hord has called a special session of the grand jury to investigate the killing of Charles Abel. Abel’s uncle, Cudawith Aliel, is in jail, charged with the crime. The tragedy occurred at Jonesville. The prisoner is a wealthy Juml owner. Charles Abel was employed on his uncle’s farm, and there was a difference between them, it is said, as to wages. Throws Himself Under Train. In the presence of scores of people an unidentified man threw himself under a Michigan Central train at the Michigan City station. People who conversed with the stranger thought lie was insane. In his pocket a card was found bearing the address, *’II. Matson, Lyousville, Mass.” Brief State Happenings. A Logansport paper says that the potato bug seems to have suddenly disappeared from that locality. The national musicians’ convention at Indianapolis adopted resolutions insisting world’s fair music at St. Louis shall be “union made.” Ten men were imprisoned by a cave-in nt Seller’s coal mine pear Cloverland. Rescuers immediately went to work, and all the men were taken out safely. The judgment convicting Charles Hampton of complicity in the murder of Wilson Haynes nt a drug store in Coatesville, .was reversed by the Indiana Supreme Court. Charles Able, a wealthy farmer and stock driver, quarreled with hia nephew, Charles Able, in the Panhandle depot in Jonesville, drew his revolver and shot him, death ensuing immediately. John McMahon, captain of a Terre Haute fin- company, committed suicide with poison because after seventeen years of abstinence from intoxicants the old habit reasserted its power over him. It has liecome known that Deputy Fish and Game Wardens Leroy Fitch and F. D. Fleming were seriously wounded several days ago by fishermen who were detected seining in Lake Wawasoe. In a fight in which many shots were fired it is believed some of the fishermen were wounded, but nil escaped. “Help! I’ve hooked a catfish as big as a calf,” shouted Arthur Snowberger to a number of companions with whom he was fishing in Rock creek at Flora. The others thought Snowberger was joking and derided him as he struggled to land the monster fish. Seeing that he was in earnest his companions ran to assist him. but before they could reach him the fish had overcome his captor’s grasp. Snowberger, who held on to the rod, was pulled into the water and drowned. The mysterious murder of Mrs. Henry Seward at Lena took a'new turn when public sentiment shifted in regafd to the identity of the murderer. Relatives of the. decedent have caused suspicion to be directed toward Seward. The officers have learned that Seward and a neighbor were at work on the day of the murder lees than two miles from the Sew- . ard house and went part of the way home together at 5 o’clock. Seward could have reached home iu thirty minutes. but he did not report the murder until after 0 o’clock. In a collision between a work train on the Pennsylvania road and a Lake Erie and Western freight at Plymouth, E. Volkee, section hand, wag instantly killed and Daniel Haage and Edith Sebel fatally injured. The train crew escaped by jumping. <H| Henry D. Mascher, a well-known German farmer, south west of Seymour, fired a load of bltdshot into his stomach, inflicting fatal injury. Mr. Mascher was despondent because of deaths in hia family. Four or five years ago four children didd of diphtheria, and last year he loot hia wife and another child

Tippecanoe county canceled its Inst court house bond last week. The postoffice department scandal is growing. Now Superintendent of Free Rural Delivery Maffien has been arrested, charged with accepting thousands of dollars in bribes. Machen is an Ohio product. We notice that the tax-ferrets are getting after the widows and orphans over in Benton. These cases are unusually easy picking for the ferrets, for the reason that t lie party who could, were he living, in most cases easily prove an ‘ Hlibi,” is not to be reckoned with. The National Union American Society of Equity, a cooperative association of farmers, has issued a bulletin setting forth that the minimum equitable price for w heat of the crop of 1903, should be *I.OO per bushel on the Chicago market, and urging farmers to hold their wheat for a price based thereou.

An election is ordered in White Post tp., Pulaski county for June 15th, to vote on the proposition of building twelve mileß of gravel and stone roads in that township. White Post tp., joins Jasper county, and some of the proposed ' roads run up to our county line. The estimated cost of the twelve miles of road is $26,000. Another Indiana man has been hit by the postoffice scandal. Daniel V. Miller of Terre Haute, is accused of conspiracy against 4 lie government, in accepting a big bribe, has had his official head chopped off and is now under arrest. Miller was assistant attorney in the office of the attorney general for the postoffice department. A typical sample of the special legislation which characterizes every Congress has just come to the attention of our Washington correspondent. One Thomas J. Morman of Columbus, Ga., enlisted for the Mexican war September 1,1847. In December he became involved in a scrape, was tried by court martial in January (1848) and found guilty of being accessory to murder, sentenced to various penalties including dishonorable dismissal at the close of war. He subsequently deserted and was absent during January and February 1848. After the war he deserted his wife and ran away with another woman, to whom he ,was never married. Since that time, Mormon and his wife have both died, but the woman with whom he ran away has secured the passage by Congress of a bill (Private No. 473) correcting Mormon’s record so as to make it appear that he was honorably discharged. Now the woman referred to has applied for a pension and it is feared will secure it. It is more than likely that if the Pension Commissioner refuses the pension, m he will if possible, Congress will pass a spe-

cial pension bill allowing it. The prevalence of this type of legislation is well known to every person familiar with Congress and is creating a drain on the Government funds which is appalling.