Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1898 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Tipton Ditchers Came Near Lynching? a Spaniard-Sad Romance of a Migrating Family—Anderson’s MatchEating Baby Is Dead Ire of Pat dots Aroused. A riot occurred a few miles west of Tipton, in which one man came near being hanged. A ditch is being dug in Jefferson towuship, and about ICG men are employed on the job. A tramp came along an£ wanted work. When asked his nationality he said that he was a Spaniard and was proud of it. He said that in event of war between the United States and Spain, he would fight for his native country. Some of the ditchers became so enraged at this remark that they jumped out of the ditch, procured a rope and but for the intervention of Samuel Watson, the contractor, they would have hanged him. Wheels His Wife’s Corpse. A man giving the name of William Jones, late of Paulding County, Ohio, passed through Gaston aud Eaton, pushing a hand-cart containing the dead body of his wife, with a 20-mouths-old child sitting in the cart beside the corpse and a 3-year-old walking with its father. The story is to the effect that the man has been residing near the Illinois State line in'the western part of the State and that the family stayted on foot for their former home in Ohio. The wife is said to have died of heart disease, and the husband being anxious to get the remains back home, wrapped them in a sheet and continued his overland journey without stopping for sleep. Poisoned by Matches. Three-year-old Willie McCammack, Andersen’s “match-eating boy,” is no more. He succumbed to his diet after loading up on twenty parlor matches. He achieved notoriety and reputation in his three brief years on eartii because of his fond desire for match heads. Ice cream, candy and other delicacies were sidetracked when he got his eye on a match. He wet the head and sucked off the "red” stuff as though it was so much taffy on a. stick. Dying Boy Accuses Another. Joseph Miller, a Terre Haute boy of 12 years, who is dying from a wound inflicted by a youth named Clifford Gage with a rifle several weeks ago, has admitted it was not an accident, and a warrant has been issued for the arrest of Gage. Miller says Gage became enraged at him and shot him at short range, the bullet passing through one of his lungs.

Dr. Griffith Shot in the Back. A serious fight occurred at Cory, in which several unknown men played an active part. Dr. Griffith of that place got mixed tip in the quarrel, and some one in the crowd opened fire on him with a revolver. He started for home on the ran, and some one in the crowd fired a shotgun at him, several shot hitting him in the back. Fishermen Lost in the Lake. Charles Lind, Henry Skitter and Chas. Harradou, Michigan City fishermen, went out to lift their nets. Their boat capsized. and, being heavily loaded, sank to the bottom. The three men clung to the net isiles for several hours. Then Lind and Slutter. Incoming exhausted, were drowned. llarradon was saved. Within Our Borders. Thaddcus S. Rollins is dead at Indianapolis, aged 59. Sherman Bartlow of Holton drove off a bridge. He and his horse were drowned. A general store and the postoffice at Wall were looted by. burglars the other night. - At Evansville, Grand Army Hall and Kohinoor laundry were badly damaged by fire. Loss $5,000, insured. The Pope has approved the transfer of the see of Vincennes to Indianapolis, from which it will take its name. James E. Watson has been nominated for Congress by the Republicans of the Sixth district, to succeed Henry U. Johnson. The Republicans of South Bend *iave nominated Schuyler Colfax for Mayor. He is a son of the late ex-Vice-President, Schuyler Colfax, and is very popular. Keitzer Brothers, engaged in the general merchandise business at Monterey, made an asisgnment for the benefit of their creditors. Assets estimated at $9,009; liabilities, $3,500. Rev. A. J. Bowlin, the Indiana divine, noted for his wonderful voice, considered by many the most remarkable in the country, died suddenly at Westfield, 111. H» was stricken with paralysis. The Governor says that the gambler* must be driven out of Roby and any part of Indiana soil that they are polluting. He says that it is the fault of the officials if they allow it; that they have plenty of law on their side to drive the gambler* out. and if they do not do this they are liable to impeachment. The Grote Chemical Company at Shirley has wholly repaired the damage caused by a recent fire and in again turning out the peculiar kind of high grade nitrie acid. This is the only plant in this part of the country producing the kind of aeid Used in the high explosives that are now in great demand by the Government. Fay Tucker, the little girl who narrowly escaped cremation at the handsvof her insane mother at New London som* weeks ago, still lingers between life and death, with little hope for recovery. An effort is being made to graft new skin oa the burned isirtions of her body. The entire class of the high school to which sh* belonged volunteered contributions, an 4 fifteen boys and girls bared their arm* and submitted to the surgeon’s knife for her benefit. Joseph Tucker, an uncle, ala* furnished twenty separate grafts. Work on the western extension of th* C., I. & E. Railroad has Ixvn commenced by Contractor John Slater of Matthews. The work will be pushed as rapidly aWpowsiblc, and H. E. Drew hopes to have it built to Converse within the next forty days. Indiana natural gas men have at last got together and are sinking a well a mil* deep to try for a second layer or reservoir of gas which many insist will be found at the depth of about 4,000 feet, and will put a new lease on life all through the fieteU The experiment ie being made just norths of the Madison County line.