Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1903 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Made Almost Penniless by Series es Trades—Sermon at Fnneral Displeases Mother—Accused of Blackmailing Plffit-Blg Coal Deal at QraziL B. F. Zell, of Eugene, purchased the Collett farm of 701 acres last May for $42,000. He shortly afterward told rt to Lorenzo Platt, of Chicago, taking in part paymeut the Alabama Hotel of that city for $25,000. A few days ago a man offered to trade. Zell 5,000 acres of farm land in eastern Tennessee for the hotel. After the deal had been completed Zell went South to look at his farm, but when he got there he was surprised to find it covered with the town of Huntsville and that his deed was worthless. The hotel, however, had in the meantime been sold again and the owner ha* A clear title, Zell has been made alrnoat penniless.

Drive* Mother Pram Bier. During the funeral of Albert D. Selby at Richmond, his mother, Mrs. Mary Frame Selby, a well-known writer and thinker who believes there is no death, took offense at the remarks of the clergyman, Rev. Allan Jay, who referred to her son as dead. She left the room and caused a scene. Not believing in secret orders, she would not attend the services held by the Knights of Pythias or accompany the remains to Waynesville, Ohio, for interment because a committee of Masons was in charge. Suspect Trie* to End Life. Fred Hess, aged 24, son of a wealthy farmer of Whitley County, tried to escape arrest by shooting himself twice in the head before the officers could wrest the weapon from him. He is suspected of sending a letter to the Walter Lewis Carriage Company, of Goshen, demanding $3,000 under threat of blowing up the factory. Hess is likely to recover, but says he will try again. He is under bonds of SI,OOO at Columbia City, and $2,000 at Fort Wayne to answer to similar charges, Big Coal Deal Completed. The merchants and manufacturers in the Co-Operative Coal Company, most of the stockholders residing at Chicago, and the Andrews Coal Company disposed of their coal lands and mines in Clay County to the National Coal Company of Detroit, Mich. The Andrews company was the oldest coal company in Clay County. P. D. Andrews, now deceased, sank the first mine in the county on the ground where the First National Bauk in Brazil now stands. Mother Wield* Horsewhip. Mrs. Nellie Ashton created a sensation on the street at Branchville by horsewhipping W r illiam Carney upon the charge of insulting her daughter. Both families are wealthy find prominent and Carney was her prospective son-in-law. The whip used was a rawhide and the victim’s face is badly cut. Plung-a Beneath a Train. George W. Gouser, of Kokomo, former Deputy Secretary of State, committed suicide in Indianapolis by plunging beneath a train of Big Four cars. He first slashed his throat with a razor. Worry over financial embarrassments caused the act. Brief State Happenings Lafayette will hqve a labor day celebration Sept. 7. Mrs. Julius Luesig of Hammond was fatally burned in a lamp explosion. Newport wants some one to open a new addition of building lots, as there are more people who want lots than there are lots. William L. Wilson, Sr., a hardware merchant of Valparaiso, died, aged 88 year*. He served four years m county treasurer. Henry Jones, 10 year* old, Was frightfully burned by an explosion of gasoline at Frankfort. His mother was burned about the arms. William Uednion, aged 45, was shot and instantly killed by Alexander Humphrey at Terre Haute. They quarreled about a woman. Humphrey was arrested. City Marshal John H. Williams of Indianapolis shot and killed William Feldbuscli iu a duel on the river. The marshal had a warrant, issued on the complaint of Felubusch’s wife. Miss Maude Brown, a young woman of .Washington, 18 years old, was appointed a rural mail carrier. She is probably the first woman in the State to be named as a mail carrier. Dr. John White wHI succeed Dr. Noyes as the head of the department of chemistry at Rose Polytechnic Institute, Terre Haute. Dr. Noyes goes to the new Department of Commerce at Washington. West Hammond is apparently at the mercy of a murderous incendiary, who sets fires to buildings only where women and children live. Six buildings have been burned during the last few weeks in a mysterious manner. William, the 18-year-old atm of Attorney W. H. Pennington, assaulted his mother with an ax because she would not grant him permission to drive the family horse to a picnic. Mrs. Pennington is only •lightly injured, but the *on was arrested and put in jail. By the completion of the Dayton and Western traction line into Richmond Indianapolis and Dayton, Ohio, are joined by a continuous line which is one of the lofigfer* in the world. It not only links Ohio and Indiana, furnishing many important connection*, but it will be one part of the trunk line that will eventually connect St. Louis and New York, wRh branches that will touch Cincinnati, Cleveland, Toledo, Detroit and other important points. George Allen, 20 years old, an employe of an ice plant In Lafayette, had both legs cut off at~~the hip by a Monou passenger engine and died at the hospital soon after.

Clem Bolt, the Fort Wayne incendiary who started tight fire* in one night and had the people panic stricken a fed weeks ago, escaped from the Richmond asylum the other night. j C. C. McMorria’ drug store nt Hall was wrecked by dynamite. McMorria says he knows of no reason for such treatment He claims hie stock and buiMing wten damaged about f 1.090.