Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1903 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OP EVENTS OF THE PABT WEEK. ; ;, v \ J ’ • Lev# of Music Cause# Girl to Commit Crime—Will Be Tried for Old Mar* der—Woman Found Guilty—Change es Religious Views. It was love of qrasic which caused the young woman arrested in Indianapolis td raise $1 bills to $lO. She broke down and told the whole story. First she admitted giving the false name ot Miller, saying she was really Miss Dale Matthewa of Angola. She was poor, she added, and found it impossible to make enough money teaching to educate herself in music. Hence her forgeries. Miss Matthews has l>een a student in the Marion Normal College for about eight weeks, where she Qiade many friends. She seemed completely in love with mte* sic and was regarded as one of the most promising students in the school, her voice being susceptible of high cultivation and her assiduous practice showing an eArnOstness that was highly commended by her teachers. Held for an Old Murder. Justice Kloenne of Cnss County has fixed the bond of Isaac Stover of Sends at SI,OOO after a preliminary examination for murder. This was the case in which Stover’s sister, Mrs. Harriet Bittner, caused the arrest for the killing of her husband in a quarrel twenty-five years ago, she having guarded the secret ever since and only divulged it in a fit of anger. The justice thought the woman’s charge should be received with a grain 'Of salt and held Stover for involuntary manslaughter. Mrs. Bittner on the witness stand told the story of the assault, relating how Stover had hurled a stone at Bittner, which struck him on the head, causing instant death. Stover has lived nn upright lift and has a wife and three children. Find Mrs. Talbert Guilty. In Shelbyville the jury in the case of Mrs. Hattie Talbert, charged with the murder of the infant child of Eva Cochran in September last, agreed upon a verdict of “guilty of voluntary manslaughter,” which involves an indeterminate imprisonment in the female prison for from two to twenty-one years. The prosecutor says he has an intimation that the woman will make a further confession implicating others thought to be connected with the crime. Profess Faith at Funeral. Standing at the bier of their dead brother and son at Michigantown, the father and brothers of R. E. Baker, who had long claimed to be infidels, publicly joined in prayer and professed their faith. This revulsion of feeling was the climax of a dramatic scene, during which a man named Purciful, a brother-iz-law of the dead man and a devoted Christian, publicly denounced them for their lack of religion. Killed by Explosion of Stove. Julius Schultz, aged 22, died in great agony as a result of severe burns caused by tiie explosion of a coal stove, in his home in Wabash. Schultz arose and lighted a fire, but upon its failure to burn he poured coal oil on the coals. A terrific explosion followed, and Schultz’s body was terribly burned. Man Meets Death on Track. William Stainbrook was instantly killed near his home in Shelbyville by a Pennsylvania freight train. He was walking on the track, when the engine struck him. Both legs were cut off. Brief State Happenings. James Cunningham, unmarried, was killed by a Pennsylvania train at Galveston. Gpv. Durbin has declined to be a candidate to succeed Mr. Beveridge in the United States Senate. Semi-official rumors are being circulated concerning a proposed new railroad from Terre Haute" to Chicago. Fire at Urbaua destroyed almost the entire business portion of the place, causing a loss of $20,000, with SI,OOO insurance. A Big Four passenger train crashed into a street car in Columbus. The car had one occupant and he was not injured. The receipts and property of the “Respetti” company was attached at Bedford to satisfy a debt contracted at Bloomington. A street car at Peru hit a buggy and Mrs. Peter Medary and Mrs. Silas Fisher were badly cut and bruised. Two children also were injured. Mia. Charles Trook, wife of a farmer seven miles west of Marion, dropped dead of heart failure in a bargain'counter rush In a city store. A freight train and a work train on the Sullivan branch of the Southern In; diana Railroad came together near Latta. Brakeman John Stafford of Bedford was killed. Conductor James O’Dea, Brakeman Frank Baker and Brakeman John Osborne were seriously injured. A pitiful case of poverty and desertion has been reported to Marshal Prewitt of Seymour. A woman named Crockett came from Columbus and told the following story: She and her husband, with their two little girls, had been living in Columbns until a few days ago, when the husband left. Not returning for several days, she started to find him. He was found living with another woman In a covered wagon just outside of Seymour. She pleaded with him to return home with her, bat he refused, aud drove her out of the camp. She then came to Marshal Prewitt and asked aasistance. The deserted woman and children are in destitute circumstances, they having not enough clothes to cover their bodies. Charles Berry, a prominent New Castle citizen, returning from a drive, went to the sick room of his wife, snd, throwing himself across the foot of her bed, shot himself twice. The reason is thought to be financial difficulties. Berry will die. In 1880 the population of Martinsburg was given as a round 100. The old town has been steadily Increasing until now, by actual count, the population U 105. An increase of one-fifteenth of a population per year is not so bad, and Martins burg will just go ahead, sad in another hundred years gain another fiv*_