Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1898 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Van Brock Gets a Penitentiary Sentence -Snicide of a Disappointed Young Man-Kille I While Watching a Blast-New Electric Railway* Guilty of. Embezzlement. Henry Von Brock, treasurer of the CigarmiUcers’ Union in Marion, wba was captured in Cincinnati by Sheriff Alexander haft, brought back to‘answer to the charge in the Circuit Court and sentenced to the penitentiary for from two. to fourteen years. Von Brock, it is also charged, embezzled funds of a church in Marion and qf William Irishman, a cigar whom he worked. ,A Fatal Entertainment. While wotkijiien Were blasting stumps from the roadway of the Union Traction Company I liter urban Railway one mile south of Summit villa Handy Crowell was killed by lieing struck on the bead by a piece of fulling stump. He was a spectator and behind /i tree watching the work and-dad not, notice a piece of th<? stump which v'as.mfjiyn above , the tops of the trees. He leaves a wife and two children and carried SI,OOO insurance.

Fatal. Shooting at Geneva. A man named Jar Vis Kvas probably fatally shot at Geneva. Jarvis was in company with Peter Ddno, with whom he had boon boarding. The men had been drinking, and when in the neighborhood of Buffo’s saloon became involved in a fight, in which Jarvis received the wound. Jarvis is a young cni*]ienter, who recently came to Geneva from Chicago, The cause of the quarrel is not known. _

He Wanted to Join the Army. It is thought that T. F. Purcell of Corydon Inis drowned himself because his parents opposes) bis enlisting in the army going to Culm. A message was sent to. the secretary of the Odd Fellows’ lodge at Corydon saying that T. F. Purcell, a member, had.drowned himself in the Ohio river near Jeffersonville. The man that scut the message answered the description of Ihireell exactly.

Electric Line to Maxinknckee. The 'proposed electric railway from some point-in Michigan to Danville, 111., via Argos, is now an assured success, as tlu> arrangements have been made for the right of way through Marshall County. The road will Ik> built on the survey as made some time ago and will touch Bourbyn, Argos, Lake Muxinkuckee and Winautac. ■>■ - • Marion Physician in Trouble. Dr. J. C. Lacey, u licensed physician of Marion, was arrested on a charge of counterfeiting. A full set of dies and some spurious coins were fount) in his possession. A small amountjgd the product had been put in circulation. Within Onr Borders. Yorktown, Delaware County, is soon to have a new eight-room school building, to cost SIO,OOO. Clark Lance, aged’ 10, Vas instantly killed at Vincennes trying to board a Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern switch engine. During a thunderstorm Homer Barnes, aged 10, oh George Cortleyow’s farm, near Shelbyville, was instantly killed by lightning. Mrs. Anna Whalen horsewhipped Mrs. Hattie Warner of Crothersville. Mrs. Whalen accused Mrs. Warner of meddling in her domestic affairs. Trof. Drybread, principal of the North School building -at Hartford City, was badly burned about the face by an explosion of hydrochloric acid-iu his laboratory. The Republicans of Parke, Vermilion and Vigo counties nominated Dr. O. M. Keyes of Dana for joint senator, and J. F. Compton of Perrysville for joint representative. The body of an unknown man waa found in the river at Madison. He had a sandy complexion, heavy red mustache, fairly well dressed and was about 35 year* old and five feet six inches high. The laxly was buried by the coroner. Jack Herrington, a South Bend stonecutter, killed himself, first attempting to murder Mrs. Teresa K. Vnhlert, with whom he boarded. The man was madly in love with the woman, who had rejected his frequent proi>osals of marriage. The trial of Perry Fair, ex-deputy treasurer of PeKalb County, for raising county orders came to a close in the Steuben Circuit Court. Hhe jury disagreed. This is the last of the De’Kalb County men held under indictment for conspiracy to rob the county pf $50,000. Mrs. Eliza llulen, aged 100. the oldest person in Knox County, was burned to death at her home iu Edwardspott. She was partially paralyzed and In lighting a pipe her clothing caught tire and her charred body was found shortly afterward by the family, who had been iu the field at work.

Ihivie Hedrick, a deaf mute, was shot in the head in the woods not far from l’e«dleton. His-throat was cut in a fiendish manner. A man named Thamer Cory was with him at the time of his death and is held at Anderson as the murderer. Cory had taken the mute's money from hit pocket. The managers of the Penn Plate Glass Company, the anti-trust concern, whottH plants at Irwin, Pa., were destroyed by fire three weeks ago at a loss of $750, have l>egun a wholesale reduction of saw aries aud wages at the American plants! in Madison County; which they secure* recently at a cost of $700,000. One bun* dred and fifty-polishers walked it is feared all employes will follow thefcg lead, and a serious state of affairs will result. Mauy men are coming from lewd to till the positions. Scott Brothers, druggists and station ers, with two stores in Kokomo, made «■ assignment. J. C. Dolman was made ad signee. Assets, SIO,OOO, with $4,000 lid bilities. J Richard H. Green, aged 75, one of tMj pioneer residents of Jeffersonviilp, wm| found dead iu bed. He was a civil gineer worked the greater part q>t the day. The Democratic convention to noiaffl .bate a SftMlHSenator for the joint distrUla of Cass and Pulaski counties was ImH at Logansport and Jndge Maurice Wtji| field was nominated ou the first ballot^