Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1903 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. aMaaw_MMßW > Supreme Court Decides Against Ex* press Companies—Saved from Suicide by Fish Hook—Bank Failure at Mil* ton—Man Kills Self and Wife. r « The Indiana Supreme Court has upheld the law of 1901 which requires express companies to interchange business with one another without discrimination, thereby upholding the position of the express company on the Southern Indiana Railroad. The court holds that the act, which was intended to prevent unfair discriminations by one express company or combination of express companies acting as common carriers against any consigner or other responsible company engaged in the same business, does not violate the constitutional provision forbidding the passage of local or special laws for the punishment of crimes or misdemeanors. There is a penalty clause in the act, but the court says the penalty is recoverable by a civil action and not by a criminal proceeding. The law is held to have been enacted in compliance with legitimate exorci.se of the police powers of the Legislature. Fish Hook saves a Woman. Mrs. Florence Evans of Frankfort, who obtained notoriety a year ago by kidnaping her own child, attempted suicide because of a quarrel with her sweetheart. She was saved by a fish hook. She had been divorced from her husband and after the quarrel with her lover went to a deep hole in Prairie creek, a mile from the city, where she disrobed and sprang into the water. Joseph Ostler and a young woman companion, who were near, heard the splash. Ostler cannot swim, but he east his fish line at Mrs. Evans, the hook catching in her hair. She was unconscious and he dragged her to the hank, where she was resuscitated. Prepares Gravel Kills Two. Angered because his wife, from whom he had been separated for two years, refused to return to him, and having prepared his grave and donned burial clothes, Adolph Wuth committed murder and suicide in South Bend. He shot his wife and himself The former lived long enough to crawl over a fenee and give the alarm. Seekers after the murderer found Wnth’s body in the back yard at the residence where Mrs. Wuth had been living and where she also received a fatal wound. Suffer in a Rank Crash. Much excitement exists at Milton over the failure of the Citizens’ Bank of that place. The bank made an assignment and the liabilities will reacli $22,000, and S2OO placed in the bank for safekeeping by William Bragg am! several safe deposits were missing and certificates of deposit substituted. T. E. Kessler, an official of the bank asd also of the Richmond Traction Company, has disappeared. The loss falls on the farmers of the vicinity and the citizens of Milton. Tries Suicide After Ball. Because of jealousy William Miley, a farmer at lona, attempted suicide by shooting himself. Three doctors worked nil tlie afternoon to save his life, but they declare lie will probably die. Miley ami his wife attended a dance at the home of Charles Gibbs the previous night and it is said Mrs. Miley paid considerable attention to two other men, which caused Miley much anxiety. Wholesale Infant Murder. Another new born infant was found in the river at Indianapolis. The child had been murdered and its body thrown into the water. The coroner claims that an organized gang of persons in the city are disposing of infants newly born. All Over the Btsta Muncie ministers are planning to wage war on Sunday ball games. Forty members of the tanners’ union are on a strike at New Albany. thieves are operating iu all the large cities on the Wabash Railroad. The imported cow, Missie, owned by E. W. Bowen, Delphi, and valued at SO,OOO, died of milk fever. The plant of the American Flint 'Glass Company at Summitville was destroyed by fire. The loss is $73,000. Cloudburst at Roanoke destroyed much property and tied up the Fort Wayne and Southwestern interurban road. Mrs. Edward Eggleston, wife of the late poet and author, has bought the Alllug homestead at Madison fgor SB,OOO. While moving a lawn swing, Darius H. Frazier, Lafayette, let it fold up on him and cut off the ends of three fingers. The body of George Stein, who died nine months ago, is reposing in a morgue in Lafayette, awaiting disposition by relatives iu Germany. Stephen Stephens, the 11-year-old son of prominent parents, died from lockjaw in Hammond, the result of a toy pistol accideut. He suffered terrible agony. Gov. and Mrs. Durbin, Mr. and Mss. William Garstaug and Fletcher Durbin have left for a two weeks’ trip through Yellowstone I’nrk and the Northwest.

Martin Fitzgerald, foreman of the Evansville and Terre Haute Railway, swallowed a large doee of laudanum in an effort to commit suicide and may die. He was despondent over the death of his wife. John Stone of Hartford City crawled the length of four squares through a 30inch sewer, filled with slime and filth, for $5. He was an hour in making the journey, and he was compelled to worm his way in intense darkness. When drawn from the sewer he was almost exhausted and was a terrible looking object. Stone says he would not undertake the trip again for any amount of money. James Andrews, a negro, was found guilty of the murder of Doc Lung, a Chinese laundryman, in Indianapolis on May 4, 1902, and was sentenced to the penitentiary for life. Lung was killed with a Chinese meat cleaver. Dr. Edward Stanton, a character of Kokomo for sixty years, died, aged 80 yean. Years ago Stanton lost his practice and fortune, and it affected his Since then he had imagined himself an ox, and grass and hay waa his principal diet. He walked on all fours in the pasture of the county farm, grazing confrttfe tin hory<i tod ilhm^