Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1903 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTB OF THE PAST WEEK. y*— ■ i Pome Capture* Mutilated Man Sap* poeed to H« Robber—Girl Attempts to Imitate Snake Eater—Fight on Putting Up Pole* in Elkhart Street*. Lying in a ditch by the Midland Railroad tracks at Jolietville a man giving t.he name of George Marvin was found wit If his right arm blown off at the socket. He is supposed to be a safe robber from Chicago, and. it is thought, met with the accident by dropping a bottle of nitroglycerin with which he intended to blow open the strong box in a store at Jolietviile. Citizens of the town heard an explosion about 3:30 o’clock in the morning, and in the rear of the only store in the village a man's arm was found. A trail of blood was followed past the Midland depot and down the tracks about a quarter of a mile. At the approach of the posse a man was teen to spring from the ditch where the wounded robber lay and run toward a strip of woods. The injured man refused to tell how the accident befell him, but admitted his name was Marvin, and said he was from Chicago. Ilia companion, lie-said, was George Hunt. The village marshal, after finding the arm, took charge of the injured man.

Kokomo Trio Heirs to $150,000. Mrs. Bertha Ellis, a young widow working as a waitress in a restaurant at Kokomo, has, with her two brothers, Clem and Rufus Laudrum, also of that place, fallen ‘heir to $150,000 through the death seventeen years ago of their greatgrandfather, C. C. Mobery of Anderson, Tenn. The heirs had never before heard of a great-grandfather. They are children of the late Thomas Laudrum and will receive $150,000, mostly in Tennessee real estate. The discovery of the heirs was the result of fifteen years’ search. Tries to Eat Live Snakes. Alice Fairchild, aged 12 years, of Logansport, tried to eat a dozen live snakes in emulation of a circus performer and is in a precarious condition as a result of numerous snake bites inflicted by the snakes, which objected to being eaten alive. Alice was taken by her parents to .see a Riiake eater who appeared in Logansport at a carnival. Thursday her brother caught a dozen small snakes and the girl tried to eat them. She was found in convulsions, with the snakes wriggling about her body. She will recover. Forbidden to Fetl Poles. After the city council had ordered the street commissioner and police force to tear down the poles of the Elkhart Electric Company on Crawford street, Elkhart, because put there without permission and against the residents’ wishes, the company secured a restraining order against the city. A bitter fight is expected, as the poles in question have been erected for the purpose of bearing the power wires from the $1,000,000 dam being built teu miles west. Belle a Hog fer $15,700. At a sale in Macy 198 hogs were sold. The highest price was $15,700 for Ideal Sunrise, sold to a stock company of ten men by Mine Lukens of Disco. Sunrise took the first prize at the Chicago world’s fair in 1893. It was a record breaker for Poland China sales.

State Items of Interest. A firebug i.s loose in Terre Haute. Creditors of the Merchants’ and Manufacturers’ Coal Company of Brazil filed application for the appointment of a receiver. John W. Bradford, farmer near Columbus, while feeding hici stock, was seized with a violent coughing spell and died within an hour. William Bruner of- Ohio Falls was struck by a west-bound mail train on the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern Railroad at Georgia and instantly killed. Missie 163, the imported shorthorn cow that won second prize at the international stock show at Chicago last year, died at the Burnbrae farm, near Delphi. E. W. Bowen was her owner. Six-year-old Harold Walters of Elkhart got hold of a flask half filled with gunpowder, poured some of the contents on the walk and touched a match to it. He may lose the sight of both eyes. John MeXairy, a Terre Haute street car motorman, discovered his wife with Elmer Field, a railway brakemail, and shot both of them. Field’s wounds are fatal, but the woman probably will recover.

At Shefbyville the jury in the case of John Maston Ituddell, for causing the wreck of a Big Four passenger train May 20. returned a verdict of guilty and he was sentenced for an indeterminate period of from two to fourteen years. After a meeting of creditors of the DeKalb & McClellan bank of Waterloo, at which the late manager of the bank, former Mayor Garwood, had been warned not to leave the county until affairs had been settled up, the latter at once left the city. Daniel A. Gillespie, a Logunsport councilman, was arrested on a grand jury indictment charging bribery in connection with the recent interurban franchise war. Councilman Boyer also was arrested charged with breaking a quorum of the council.

Vice-President Boyles of the United Mfcie Workers revoked the dinners of three local unions at I.inton. There is much excitement and a riot was narrowly averted following President Boyles’ announcement. Three hundred and fifty men, or all the employes jof the Island Coal Company’s mine No. 2, went on strike because the superintendent discharged a man for loading “dirty coal.’ v „ which is a violation of the agreement. The matter will be arbitrated. Alvine Brown, wife of Albert H. Brown of Indianapolis, who is well known in the sporting world, was granted a decree of absolute divorce and $lO,000 alimony. The defendant’s property is valued at SIOO,OOO. Brown owns tho Casino at French Lick Springa. Samuel Davidson, a saloonkeeper at Metcalf, shot Ed Van Sickle, a pugilist, four times while the latter was pounding Benjamin Davidson, the saloonkeeper’s brother, with a brick on a street in that town. Sickle is said te be dying. Davidson went to Paris and gava SM VOQJooi.