Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1898 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THB PAST WEEK. Lake Bhore Suffers from Four Wrecks In a Single Day—Bloodhounds Attack! a Man—Alleged Juvenile Murderer in Jail—Fell on a Saw. i Four Wrtajm All in One Day. Four wrecks occurred in one day on tie main lino of the Lake Shore Railroad. The most disastrous one was at Waterloo, where the Fort Wayne and Jackson branch joins the main line. A freight train loaded with grain and cattle wa* being switched, when the rear section ram into the front, throwing several ears off the track. Five tramps, who were stealing a ride, were hurt, probably none fatally. The other wrecks were at Swan ton, Corunna and near Elkhart. Ali of these were freight trains, and, so far as can be learned, none was fatally injured. Hmrted Like n Wild Beast. Robbers entered the blacksmith shop of James H. Winters at Atwood. They secured about SSOO from the safe. The next morning bloodhounds were brought from Fort Wayne and placed on the scent. In about two hours they ran down Charle* Cartright in the woods east of Atwood. Before the searching party could catch up the dogs had torn him quite badly. A sum of money was found upon him, and he is under arrest. Twelve-Year-Old Murderer. Eddie Weiu, raged 12, of Schererville, has been arrested for murder and placed in jail without l>ond. He shot and instantly killed John Van Milligan with a target rifle, and at the time it was thought it was accidental, but it is now claimed he had a grudge against the boy and shot him purposely. The trial, will come up next month. Mullany Jury Disagrees. At Laporte, the jury in the case of James Mulianey, charged with manslaughter, informed the court that no agreement could be readied and was discharged. The crime for which Mulianey was tried was the alleged killing of Oscar Christensen, a South Bend policeman, oa the night of May 11, 1807. Fell on a Circular Paw. Frederick Goddard, aged l*i, of near Sandusky, while voluntarily assisting one of the mill hands at n portable sawmill, feu on a circular saw sustaining serious injuries. The saw cut him across the Iwick from shoulder to shoulder, severing the point of each shoulder blade.

Within Onr Borders. A 2-year-old child of Ferry Rodgers was burned to death at Upland. At Milford, burglars robbed Arnold Bros.* safe of S3UO and took S2OO in gods. At Shelbyviile, Alonzo Barrett was acquitted of attempt to murder Edward Skotski. The board of pardons paroled Winnie B. Smith, who killed Weston B. Thomas of Anderson. T*‘ Howard County has five women assessors this year. The engaging of women in this official work is an innovation. The Elkhart County and the LnOrange Telephone companies, which will be consolidated, will make a complete line from Toledo and Detroit to Chicago. Solomon F. Hines of Nashville, who was shot by Charles Henderson, is dead. The trouble arose over a political discussion. Henderson is held on a charge of murder. Principal O. J. Lamb of the Ingalls schools lias been appointed to a position as superintendent in the Government Indian schools at the Pine Root (Dakota) agency. ' A special election was held in Vienna and Finley townships on the proposition to build about of free gravel roads. The contest was quite hot, and the roads carried by a majority of eighteen. Edward Wilson, while working in the basement of a business building in course of construction at Kokomo, was struck on the head with a keg of nails that fell from the second story. Only a slight scalp wound was inflicted. The Ringgold Band of Terre Haute will probably take the place of the Warren Band of Evansville, as the regimental band of fheAFirst Regiment, Indiana Legion. \£ne Evansville men have withdrawn from the service. The remains of Commodore Brown, a wealthy farmer of Burrows who died suddenly Jan. 19, were exhumed by direction of Prosecutor Odell of Carroll County. It is suspected that Brown’s death was due to poisoning. About five years ago a natural gas well in Prairie township, failing to produce gas in paying quantities, was abandoned and the i>ipes pulled. During the last few months gas was noticed issuing from the ground thirty rods from the well in such, quantities that it could be ignited. A fivefoot hole was sunk, a match applied and there was a four-foot blaze. Farm houses near by are threatened with fire and explosions. Several abandoned wells in what is known as the Ivempton field areacting likewise. Several welts that have been dead for four or fire years are now producing gas in paying quantities. . The trouble which has resulted in shotting down many gas belt glass plants due. ing the past month aud threatened a national sympathetic strike which would close all plants was compromised at Anderson by President Burns, acting for the Workers’ National Association, making concessions and lifting the boycott against certain workers. The trouble is a national one, and has reached such a point that although this settlement apparently removes all obstacles there is little hope that season will bo run without a general shut-down. The trouble arises from the fact that two rival unions are endeavoring to dictate working terms. The trouble among the glass workers at the Enterprise window glass factory at Dunkirk, where there was to have been a walkout of the blowers and gatherers, has been declared off. It required 2(54 ballots to make a nomination at the fifth Indiana congressional district convention of the Republicans at Martinsburg. George W. Faris of Vigo County at last drew the prize. At Sullivan, the jury In the Bates murder trial returned a verdict pf not guilty. Ella Bates was charged Wtth murdering, her illegitimate child, which was found la a crook ouo morning In .February^