Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1903 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PABT WEEK. ® Think Stepson Killed Her—Railroad Ballde Spur oa Sunday—Outlook Good for Fin# Wheat Yield—Biot by Lot cansport School Children. Mrs. Joel Lyons was. shot and Instantly killed at her home In Brown Township, twelve miles west of Shoals. Her husband was out driving stock on the farm. Investigation of the murder has resulted in Arthur Lyon, her stepson, being accused of the murder. He had threatened to take her life and while she wa| -at home aloue he is alleged to have emtered the house and fired at her. Mr/. Lyons fled from the house pursued by her assailant, who followed her through die yard into the barn lot, where she fell dead. Two bullets entered her body and two were embedded in her head. Mrs. Lylons was a niece of County Treasurer Joseph Cannon and a sister-in-law of County Assessor Henry Montgomery. Young Lyon has disappeared and a reward has been offered for his arrest. Railroad 6teals a March. Before 3 o’clock Sunday morning the Monon Railway Company had a gang of 200 men at work laying a spur Into the shipping district of Lafayette and the work was completed at 0 o’clock that evening. Some months ago the Momm company, with the Fort Wayne, Log an sport and Lafayette Traction Company, instituted condemnation proceedings against Shirks and others who own the old Wabash and Erie canal lied, for the right of way along a portion of the canal lied from Salem to Main street. Appraisers fixed the damages at $5,500, which was recently tendered by the company, but refused by the canal owners. This move of the railroad was n complete surprise. No ope aside from the railroad officials knew it was contemplated until work was well under way. Ties and rails were laid, but the track was not graded or ballasted. The workmen met with no resistance. Indiana Crcp Outlook. Reports on crop conditions throughout Indiana, representing nearly every county in the State, show that the outlook for an average wheat crop is good and that with favorable weather it may pass the average. The recent rains have caused blade rust in some sections and the Hessian fly is getting in its work in other localities. In county after county the reports show that the growing crop never looked better. Although corn has been held back by rains, and in many counties tiie crop has not been planted, yet the prospects are fair. * . Eight Hurt in Trolley Car. Eight persons were hurt in a collision at Jonesboro. A Gas City motor car running between Jonesboro and Marion and a gravel car on tiie Union Traction line, both running nt high speed, collided on a curve. Tiie Gas City motor was smashed. Eight passengers on the (las City ear were injured. Motorinan Stephens jumped in time to save his life. Stndents Engage in Riot. Fifty students of Bates street school, in Logansport, angry at not being promoted, laid .siege to the building with atom's and i&k bottles, smashing all the windows, throwing occupants ft»to a panic and surrendering only when a patrol wagon in answer to a riot call arrived with a squad of patrolmen. Ten arrests vvers mnde mid-others^are expected. Cramps Cause a Drowning. Cornelius Brophy. a young man of Terre Haute, was drowned in the Wabash River at Matthews Island. Brophy was a member of an excursion party given by the Manhattan Club. While swimming he was seized with a cramp and before any of the party could reach him he disappeared in the swift currentAll Over the State. .{’apt. Stephen F. Finney, 7(>, former chief of police of Indianapolis, died of cancer. Mrs. Elizabeth Reibsomer of Fayette County celebrated her 100th birthday anniversary. George Ingle, a coal operator aged 45 years, committed suicide by shouting at Terre Haute; Joseph Cole, a young farmer, shot himself through the head at Vincennes and died instantly. He was temporarily insane. Mr.-. Emma Kambril, aged 37. wife of Juel Gambril of Princeton. died from taking poison. Her husband rvceutly left her. An unknown man. between 40 and 50 years of age, was kilted Sunday night by u Panhandle train near New Hop®*. He was walking on the track. A Big Four switch engine was derailed at a railroad <-rossing in Lawrenceburg. The engine and track were damaged, but tbe crew escaped injury. Six hundred miners returned to work at Black Creek after a bbard of arbitration hud deeided that one of their number, discharged for cruelty to a male, was guilty and should lose his job. At Kokomo. Myrtle McClure, 10 years old. committed suicide by swallowing arsenic. No motive is known for self-de-rtruetion save that her mother reprimanded her for not assisting in housework. Rev. A. Egli, paster of the Gerntau Bt. Paul’s Evangelical Protestant Church of Seymour, is devising a novel gift to send to his father in Switzerland. He is making phonographic records that will reproduce his own voice and the voices of his wife and children. The records will include a discourse by Rev. Mr. Egli. a pip® organ selection and a violin solo as played by hint, his voice in song and chorus singing under his direction, piano music by Mrs. Egli anil singing, talking and laughing by,the children.

Riot started at by North wer fern Traction Company’s attempt to lay street car tracks in defiance of city officials; workmen attacked with tire hose; several persons iujured. Storm victims in Indiana are William C. Gray, killed at Alexander; Mauford Stevenson, killed by tightuing at Walton, and Edward Brennan, an engineer, who died from shock at Hanunond. Buildings were wrecked and wires crippled at Frankfort, Thorntown, Decatur, Windfall, Camden and Geneva. Tha property loss in Howard County alone ia satioaated at SIOO,OOO.