Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1912 — DEATH CLAIMS AGED PREACHER [ARTICLE]

DEATH CLAIMS AGED PREACHER

Rev. Robert A. Kemp Dies in the City of New Albany. ‘ ! SUCCUMBS TO APOPLEXY Was a Member of the Indiana Methodist Conference for Forty-Two Years—Pastor of Churches in Southern Part of State. New Albany.—Rev. Robert A. Kemp, one of the oldest members of the Indiana Methodist conference, of which he was secretary for more than thirty years, died in this city of a stroke of apoplexy. His wife died July 1. Six children, E. A. Kemp of Indianapolis, W. E. Kemp, Harry W. Kemp, Mrs. Emma S. Taylor, Miss Mamie Kemp and Miss Lillie Kemp of this city, survive. Mr. Kemp had been a member of the conference for 42 years, and nearly all of this time he was pastor of churches in southern Indiana. He assumed superannuated relations about six years ago and retired from active ministerial labor and since then had been living in this city. Madison Landmark Razed. Anderson. The oldest building in Madison county, a log cabin cituated near Moss island, two miles northwest of here, was demolished to make room for the new buildings of the Anderson fertilizer company. The exact age of the structure is not known, but it was known to have been standing before any settlement existed where" this city now stands. The cabin wa6 built by a settler named Arbogast and is said to have been the scene of several murders at an early day. For years it stood vacant, but has recently been used as a storage house by the fertilizer company. J. L. Webb, the “mayor” of Moss island, who has lived there all his life, said today that the .cabin dated back more than 100 years. He said that an early rumor was that the builder of the cabin was murdered by Indians. Hangs Himself in Jail. Columbus.—Ernest Miller of this city, w'ho attempted to kill his wife at the Columbus Chautauqua, while in a fit of insanity, hanged himself in the county jail, shortly after his arrest. He made a rope of bed clothes. When the officials discovered Miller’s body it was still warm. Mr. and Mrs. Miller were camping at the Chautauqua, and were in their tent alone. People in neighboring tents were aroused by Mrs. Miller’s screams, and when they reached the Miller tent they found Mrs. Miller lying on the floor with Miller bending over her. He was armed with a small knife and had stabbed Mrs. Miller in the left side near the heart, slashed an artery in her wrist and inflicted other wounds. Prisoner Is Captured. Lafayette.—Despite the search made by Sheriff John Fisher and the Lafayette police department only one of the four prisoners who overpowered James Nash, turnkey of the Tippecanoe county jail, has been caught. Albert Dickson, arrested for stealing a horse, was retaken at the home of his mother in-this city. Capt, Clark and two other officers broke down the door of the house and found him hiding under a bed. D. Fleming Guy, who shot William Marlott at Westpoint; T. L. Lucas, charged with robbery, and Lewis Smith, charged with forgery, are still at large. Millionaire to Lead Church Navy. Laporte.—E. K. Warren, the Three Oaks (Mich.) millionaire manufacturer and one of the directors of the Rumly company of this city, has been named as admiral of the World’s Sunday School Convention fleet of four ocean liners which will casry the delegates from the United States and Canada to the meeting at Zurich in July, 1913. Mr. Warren stated that 2 r 900 delegates would take passage on the trip, for which steamers have been chartered. Spontaneous Combustion Causes Fire. Clarkshill. One hundred and fifty tons of hay, some> corn, oats and other cereals were burned in a fire that destroyed a barn and a number of sheds on the farm of Ora Loveless. The fire was caused by spontaneous combustion. Two new silos and some fanning implements were destroyed and a valuable horse was badly burned. The loss, approximately $4,500, is partly covered by insurance. > Four Automobiles Burned. Winona Lake. —Four automobiles valued at $4,500, insured for about three-fourths of their value, were burned here when the Winona garage was destroyed by fire. Only hasty work prevented a spread of the flames. Upholds McMurran Will. Petersburg.—After a ten days’ trial, In which more than 100 witnesses were examined, the jury In the famous Marshall McMurran will case, after being out less than an hour, brought In a verdict in favor of the defendant, Maggie Drain. The suit grew out of a will made 24 years ago by Marshall McMurran, in which he willed all he had to Miss Maggie Drain, then a poor servant girl working near Vincennes, Ind. The estate Is valued at $35,000. The plaintiffs will take an appeal.