Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1903 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Bandit* Poison and Bob a Hermit— Youth I* Victim to Quarrel Over Love Affair—Sharpsville Has Labor Trouble—Woman Brave* Burglars. Charles Crabbe, a bachelor, w<ho lives alone on his farm three miles northeast of Hagerstown, was awakened by three masked men and tortured and robbed. When the robbers awoke Crabbe they demanded the money he had drawn from the bank the day before. He denied having any money in the house. The robben* threatened to make him take poison if he did not instantly reveal the hiding place of the money. After again denying that he had any money Crabbe was bound hand and foot, thrown to the floor, his teeth pried open with a knife and a drug poured into his mouth, which he was made to swallow. He became very sick and in his agony rev*aled where his hoard was to be found. Slain in a Love Quarrel. Joseph Uncather, aged 20, was found dead on a pile of ties near his front door with his skull crushed. He was the son of Charles Uncather. The other night young Uncather and Harry Grace, whose attentions to Myrtle Uncather, a sister of Joseph, had-been ordered etopped by her father, met the father and mother. A quarrel followed and Grace threw a stone, striking Charles Uncather, who swore out a warrant for Grace’s arrest. Mr. and Mrs. Uncather left the two young men together. Later after Grace had been arrested they returned home and saw young Uncather lying on the ties. They heard him breathing loudly, but did not disturb him. In the morning they found him lying in the nine position dead.

Threaten to Burn Town. The burning of Sharpsville by negroes and Italians employed by the traction company, who had vowed to lay the town in ashes for the killing of one of their number, was, happily, averted by the vigilance of the special officers sworn in by the sheriff. The most belHgerent of the mob were paid off and discharged by the company and were immediately driven from the town by the officer*. A few fights occurred. Woman Drive* Out Bnralara. Alone, unaided, facing two burglars in their door yard at midnight and driving them away by repeated shots from her revolver, Mrs. J. F. Hawkins of Liberty finds herself the subject of much congratulatory comment. Burglars attempted to force an entrance into the Hawkins home. Mrs. Hawkins heard them and put up a fight that speedily put them to flight.

Find Field of Iron Ore. Tiie mystery of .the sudden success of the floating of the $5,000,(MX) bond issue of the Indianapolis Southern Railway Company is cleared up. An Immense field of iron ore, brown and red hematite, free from phosphorus and silica, has been discovered in Greene and Monroe counties. Alt Over the States Nancy Ann Gaskill is dead at her home near Dupont, aged SO. Mr. and Mrs. John Reep of Vincennes have been married sixty years. Crawfordsville’s postoffice has been declared unsanitary by Inspector Fletcher. Etta Lay, a Daviess County domestic, broke smallpox quarantine and was fined sls. A gusher gas well, said to be exceedingly strong, has been struck in Shirley. Light fingered gentry managed to reap about SI,OOO in cadh and jewels at the Elwood fair. Reports say there are good prospects for a hickory nut crop, but that walnuts will be scarce. City Attorney Campbell of Anderson was one of the men who was touched at the Elwood fair. Mr. and Mrs. C. E. WilMams of Daleville are going to New, Mexico to make their future home. Edward Winn, aged 30, was instantly killed on Interurban Bridge at Columbus by an electric shock. Muck from Fish lake is being hauled to Chicago, where it is made into fertiliser for pickle fields. Many Hoosiers are in New York testifying in the case against the Daniels “Get-rich-quick” scheme. Because of a carnival, it was impossible to keep a quorum at a meeting of the Logansport Cjty Council. African churches of the gas belt are making arrangements for a camp meeting to be held in Anderson. Claude S. Brandt of Laporte was bitten by a dog owned by Chas. Guise and now wants $3,000 damages. Joseiphus Wright of Tipton County was probably fatally kicked by a horse he had gone to the barn to feed. An oil well on the Lew Brawley farm, in Delaware County, pumped 30 barrels in the first six hours’ operation. A striped tarantula held a force of Anderson groceryjclerks at bay for about an hour before be was captured. Benjamin Starr, State Senator and ex-commander department of Indiana, Grand Army of the Republic, died at Richmond.

Hartford City has just found out that a municipal water plant does not pay and the figures show that it has lost money for ten years. Edward Berry, a Laporte County farmer, drew sll4 from a bank and was robbed on hie way home with it. He was seriously injured by the hold-up men.

Samuel Hill, 75, a pioneer of Madison County, has just been seut to the State insane hospital for the fourth time. He becomes violent at times.

Maud Carpenter, 40, terrorised St neighborhood in Laporte and kept the police at bay for several hours. She has been adjudged of unround mind.

The annual conference of the Indiana Methodist Protestant Church came to an end at Muncie. The conference placed itself on record an favoring tie union of the Methodist Protentant, the Congregational and United Brethren churches ufte the name es the United Churatu