Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1912 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

HAMMOND The murder of five starving little children by their crazed mother, Mrs. • Andrew Szymanski, of Whiting, was prevented by the visit of a relative who found the mother, armed with a butcher knife, about to stab her six-months-old baby. A desperate encounter followed, in which the woman was finally disarmed. The family has had neither fuel, clothing nor food for three days. Szymanski, the husband, was found in a saloon. Doctors examined the mother and declared she had gone mad from starvation. She is at St. Margaret’s hospital. The husband is under ari rest. In a partially- sane moment Mrs. Szymanski said she intended to kill all her starving children to end their suffering. 1 ■ I GOSPORT— WhiIe making an attempt to get off a passenger train while it was still in motion, A. L. Martin, a farmer living near herb; slipped and fell between the baggage and smoking cars. When the train was stopped his body was wound around the can axle, crushed and bleeding, but the man was still conscious To extricate him It was necessary to jack up the car, take off the brakes and many of the connecting rods on the front trpeks. For three hours, conscious, Martin lay under the car, while the trainmen worked to get him out. He died an hour after he was released. The train was delayed three hours and a half by the accident.

SOUTH BEND Because, she alleges, the 1 conductor of a Southern Michigan railway car refused a worn half dollar she tendered for her fare, stopped the car and put her off in the snow, compelling her to walk a mile and a quarter through drifts against heavy, cold winds while the thermometer registered below zero, Mrs. Mamie Kintre filed suit in the circuit court against the Chicago, South Bend and Northern Indiana railway for $2,000 damag s.

ANDERSON— SamueI Osborne, who lost both of his feet in an interurban collision in North Anderson a month ago, placed a value of $1,500 on each foot, according to the compromise made of his $25,000 damage suit with the Indiana Union Traction company. Osborne received a cash consideration of $3,000. It was at first thought by doctors that Osborn'e’s feet could be saved, but later surgeons decided on amputation. The company paid the hospital bills in addition to the $3,000. i M ■ TERRE HAUTE While he was walking along the Chicago and Eastern Illinois railroad tracks in Ellsworth, David W. Humphreys, postmaster at Edwards, Ind., was instantly to death when the rear car on a passing freight train toppled over on him and pinned him beneath. The fatal accident occurred between 9:30 and 10 o’clock, but Humphrey's body was not discovered until relatives Started a search for him at 3 o’clock in the afternoon.

SPENCER John W. Cooper, seventy years of age, a native of Owen county, died of pneumonia. He was a printer of fifty years’ experience and had been employed on the Owen County Democrat for the last three years. Before coming here he was editor of the Plainfield Progress for several years. He had also worked on the Indianapolis News and was at Martinsville a number of years.

SOUTH BEND Judge George G. Seldman, fifty years of age, dropped dead while he was leaving his office. The cause of his death has not been announced, but is supposed to have resulted from disease of the kidneys. He was the leading candidate for the Democratic nomination for judge of the St. Joseph circuit court. He served eight years as judge of the city court, v .

BLOOMINGTON This city is almost on the verge of a coal famine and unless relief comes within the next few days several families will be entirely out of fuel. The city school will not be affected In the least by the famine as they have a supply that will tide them through the winter. It ; is probable that Indiana university also will not be affected.

ELMWOOD With two other women clinging to the opposite ends of a bolt of silk which, in the mad rush of a bargain sale at the Leeson store, had become wrapped once about her neck, Mrs. H. E. Lyston was choked into insensibility before she could b« freed, and she is still in a critical con dition.

WASHINGTON Robert Simmons, fifty years old, a farmer, was shot' and probably fatally wounded by a young son while the latter was playing with a target'rifle. The lad shot at a mark on the barn, not' knowing the father was within. The ball penetrated the right lung.

VINCENNES Charles Lancaster, of Carlisle, Ind., who was paroled to Indianapolis as a barber Dec. 19, “froze out” and surrendered to the police. “I want to go back to Michigan City," said Lancaster. The prison authorities wired to hold Lancaster.

MITCHELL While he was playing with a revolver, Opal Carter accidentally shot Miss Blanche Shepherd, sixteen, through the head. Carter is just out of the United States army. Surgeons say the accident will Drove