Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1903 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Woman Confesses Part in Murder Twenty Years Back—Bad Fires in Winslow and Indianapolis—Jealous Lover Tries Murder and Suicide. .¶ Mrs. Nellie Andrews, formerly Miss Nellie Conrad, made a sensational confession just before her death at Jasper that clears up the mystery of a tragedy that caused excitement in southern Indiana in 1885. On the night before Stanford Freeman, a well-known young farmer of Dubois County, was to be married, two men and two women rode np to his house on horseback and called him to the gate. He had a conversation with the visitors for a moment; then there was a scuffle and his intended bride, whom he had left on the porch, heard him groan. Aa she hastened to him the two men mounted their horses and with the two women rode rapidly away. Freeman had received several wounds from a knife. He died without revealing the identity of his slayers. Mrs. Andrews said the other day that she was one of the party that visited Freeman that night; that one of the men died six years ago, and that the other is now in the Tennessee State prison. She said the woman who accompanied them and who disappeared several years ago was murdered and buried in the grave with her mother, the crime resulting from fear that she would betray the murderers of Stanford Freeman. Mrs. Andrews said that she was in love with Freeman, and that one of the men was in love with Freeman’s intended wife. When he was called to the gate that night a demand was made that he marry her at once. When he refused he was stabbed to death. Fire Destroys Entire Block. .¶ A block of business houses at Winslow was burned the other day, entailing a loss of from $40,000 to $50,000. The fire originated in a restaurant and spread to the center of the town. Joseph Millard, while fighting the flames, was overcome by the heat and died in a short time. His sons, Edward and Fred B., were also overcome by the heat and the latter may die. His daughter also is in a serious condition. Miss Carrie Thomas and Miss Dora Carter were badly burned about the face and hands. Several business men were prostrated, but none is in a serious condition. Big Blaze in Indianapolis. .¶ Fire broke out in the five-story plant of the Daggett Candy Company on Georgia street, Indianapolis, one of the most valuable buildings in the wholesale district. Two men were injured in a collision between a street car and a fire truck. The fire was discovered by Russell Harrison, son of ex-President Benjamin Harrison. The loss to the Daggett Company building alone is estimated at $60,000. Shoots Sweetheart and Tries Suicide. .¶ Sain Brady [Grady] shot Miss Cora Seaman in Martinsville and then attempted suicide by taking carbolic acid. Miss Seaman was struck in the left shoulder, but the wound is not serious. It is believed that Grady will recover from the effects of the carbolic acid. Grady was in love with Miss Seaman, and objected to her keeping company with other men.

Brief State Happaalaia Alonzo D. Daoter, a pioneer citizen of Marion, was run down by a Pennsylvania yard engine and probably fatally injured. While watching his brother land a fislf out of Wolf river at Hammond, John Baker, 10 years old, fell in and was drowned. John Stoebel, a former player on the Evansville baseball team, In the Central League, died from lockjaw. He broke a finger while playing and tetanus followed. John F. Jarrell, Edward sport, was decapitated by a train at Linton. Jarrell got on the wrong section, and when he tried to step off he was thrown between the cars. Mrs. Edward Ryan, a poor woman of Valparaiso, was notified that she was one of four heirs to an estate valued at $400,000 left by her brother, John Sullivan, at Seattle, Wash. Tbe Attorney General has given Auditor Herrick an opinion in which he holds that fraternal association* cannot issue reserve fund insurance. The question has been before the insurance department many times, as several of the fraternal insurance companies issue policies wish all the features of the old line policies. The several branches of tbe trainmen employed by the Big Four have formulated demands for an increase of wages, and will shortly present them to the railroad officials. The firemen have already filed with Superintendent Van Winkle a petition for an increase, which is understood to amount to from 15 to 18 per cent. Ezra Miller, aged 15, living near Goshen, forced -his mother to sign a bill of rights before he agreed to return to his borne in Clinton township aft-eT he ran away. His widowed mother belongs to the Amlnh sect and reared the lad in the ways of his father, denying him the privilege of reading any books save the Bible. The boy was not permitted to go to school and when he found the time approaching for school to reopen he ran away. He agreed to return when his mother signed the following bill of rights: That he should be allowed to attend school three months in the year; that he should be allowed to read good books and newspapers; thkt he should be allowed to attend Sunday rchool and to visit on Subday in the neighborhood; that he should be allowed to have 50 cents a month of what he should earn, the balance to go to his mother. Rose Polytechnic freshmen, in a class fight in Terre Haute, captured a halfdosen sophomores and, tying them with ropes, took them in a wagon to Fort Harrison, on ths banks of the Wabash above the city, and left them there to get home the best they could. “How long do you think I will live?” asked Benjamin Buchwalter of Mary Williamson, a fortune teller. Before shb could reply he dropped dead of heart disease. Buchwalter wss a farmer qf Gardner, lIL, and While visiting relative* in Elkhart went with a nephew to'have his fortune told. He was TO yrere old.