Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1903 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERBELY TOLD. Ttro Young Slen Commit Shields by . # ■booting— I Temperance Lecturer Gets Bruuk—Numerous Thefts at Muncie —Little Girl Kills Herself in Clinton. George B. Williamson, of Chicago, and Marvin Welch, of Janesville, Wis., recently of Chicago, clerks in the auditor’* department of the Central Union Telephone Company, in Indianapolis, committed suicide by !hooting themselves, each in tlhe head. The two young men were brought there from Chicago by ths company four months ago and were close friends. Williamson shot himself at 851 North Jefferson avenue, where he bounded. He had complained recently because the parents of his sweetheart in Chicago objected to hhn. Welch killed hi®self at his boarding-house, 515 North Delaware street. It was said at the hout* he had been acting strangely for several days. The officials are investigating in the belief that the two friends planned the double suicide. Preacher Yields to Drink. The audience at the Congregational Church in Elkhart was surprised the other night to note the rambling expressions of the Rev. Henry Barney, of New York, who was Jiving the last of a series of temperance talks in Elkhart churches, under the aunpices of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union. The pastor, the Rev. Mr. Ogilvie, and others concluded he was intoxicated and brought the meeting to an abrupt close by suddenly announcing a hymn in the midst of Barnsy’s talk. After the crowd dispersed Barney was followed to saloons. Barney was once a light comedian and “reformed” twenty years ago. He drew crowds to the Elkhart churches. Thieves Busy in Muncie. While the members of Joseph Lindsay’s family in Muncie were attending the cireuri, thieves entered the house and stole $25 worth of old coin and a number of other articles of value. While hundreds of people were passing in the street, and while the clerks were busy inside, a thief carried away everything he could find from the front of Itingo & Son’s department store. Among the articles taken were a set of bed springs and a mattress. A number of other robberies were reported. Little Girl Takes Her Life. In Clinton, Anna Eans, 12 years old, committed suicide by drinking carbolic acid. The little girl was taken to Terre Haute the previous day and placed in. the children’s home. She left the institution during the night and walked to Clinton. When Mrs. Crossley, who took the girl to Terre Haute, returned home she found the girl dying.

Twelve Building- Burned. A fire, supposed to be incendiary, destroyed twelve building?, including eight business houses, in Montgomery. The total loss is estimated at $25,000. Letters threatening to burn the town were received several weeks ago and nearly all the insurance was canceled. Mate Items of Interest, John Stevens, an escaped convict from Michigan City, was captured at Marion. John Keiger, a well-to-do farmer, was caught on a railway crossing near Chase and instantly killed. * New Albany police have again been instructed to confiscate every slot machine found operating. Nellie Parrot, a school girl, eloped from her home in Princeton and married Arthur S. Books in Vincennes. David Goodwin, of Richmond, has been acquitted of the charge of attempting to poison the family of Joseph Myers. Mrs. Arthur Swope killed herself in the presence of her baby in Kokomo, using a revolver. Her motive is unknown. Samuel Cunningham, of Hammond, a brakeman on a Chicago and Eastern Illinois freight train, was killed while making a coupling at Marion. 111. The hat of George Ward, who disappeared from Marion, has been found in j the river. A reward of SIOO is offered I by Mrs. Ward for the recovery of the body. The annual “tank-.scrap” between the sophomores and the freshmen of Purdue University raged all the other night, and the sophomores won at 4 o’clock in the morning. During the fierce fight John Stevenson of Chicago, a first year student in the mechanical engineering department, was injured and taken to St. Elizabeth's hospital in the ambulance. It was found that his spine had been wrenched and he died of his injuries. One of the most unique legal complaints on record was filed in the Circuit Court at I.aPorte on behalf of James Povlock, who asks Judge Richter to enjoin his neighbor, Hamilton Hoover, from swearing at the former's children. Povlock is the farther of five children, all of whom refuse to attend school for the reason that they are compelled to pass the Hoover house and are forced j to listen to profane language ni which he is said to indulge. While at play in a woods pasture, near Hutsonville, Voorhees Crow, a 12-year-*old boy, found a die for coining dimes. A thorough search was made and a 5eent die and a number of counterfeit quarters were found hidden at the base of a hollow tree. The find recalls a discovery of counterfeiting in the early 80’#. j David Lewis and William Bailey were suspected of counterfeiting and secret service men investigated the matter. When arrests were about to be made Lewis and Bailey disappeared. Bailey was never heard of again. Lewis enlisted In the regular army in Colorado and is now supposed to be dead. For the first time in eighty-two years women have been permitted to sit with men In the sessions of the eighty-sev-enth yearly meeting of the Society of Friends at Marion. It was voted that men and women should meet together at all sessions. Thirty-fire former students and teachers of the old Sugar Grove school, established in Hendricks County In 1826, when the county was covered with forest, ware present at a reunion in the {Mends’ church In Plainfield- Several handled persona attended the school during its. existence. Of theee 110 are living.