Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1901 — A WEEK IN INDIANA. [ARTICLE]

A WEEK IN INDIANA.

RECORD OF HAPPENINGS FOR SEVEN DAYS. The Bae* Trouble* at Newburg Are Not Settled Negroee and White* G* Armed —Mlee Jennie Creek ta Vtolt Pasta. Attempt to Rob a Poetotßoe. Entering through a rear window three men made a futile effort to rob the Franklin poetoffice. The combination on the outer door of the safe was broken off and driven inside the door by means of a heavy sledgehammer that had been stolen from a local blacksmith shop. With a drill and punch an opening large enough for the insertion of a charge of dynamltte was made. The combination lock on the two doors was blown off and the door opened. This gave them no obstruction, except the burglar-proof vault. Surrounding the vault are several compartments. These were either broken open or unlocked, with the axoeption of the private box of Deputy Postmaster John N. Hunter. In this drawer was about 1100 belonging to him; also his keys to the entire office. Nothing was missed, and when the office clerks invoiced they were surprised to find that there was nothing at all taken. The work is believed to have been done by local roughs, who were frightened away before completing the job. The contents of the office were strewn about on the floor, and everything was in a turmoil when Deputy Hunter opened the office. The safe was damaged to the extent of about SSOO.

Race Conflict la Imminent. The whites and blacks at Newburg are still going armed, and the trouble is by no means settled. "Jim" Crow, the leader of the blacks, has received another letter warning him to leave the town under penalty of death, but he declares he will remain. The town marshal has sworn in several deputies to help preserve order and they have been on duty. At a meeting of the citizens nothing was dona. The negroes in the river towns are greatly alarmed over the report that a war of extermination is to be made on them. Crow is barricaded in hie cabin with about twenty other negroes, and they declare they are ready for the whites if they desire to attack them. Charles Sandefur, who is Crow’s main lieutenant, walked the streets of the town making threats. He is an Evansville negro, and says he has figured in many race wars in the south. Crow, in an interview, said he would appeal to Governor Mount in case he was driven from Newburg. Keith Sentenced to Hang. Joseph D. Keith was sentenced at Princeton to hang for the murder of Nora Keifer at Elberfeld on April 3, 1900. The verdict was returned after the jury had been out nearly four hours. When the verdict was read the prisoner gazed at the jurors, and there was not the slightest indication of nervousness, not a muscle of his face moved, and he sat as though he had no interest in the verdict. Mrs. Keith, who has been so faitbflully at his aide during the twleve days of the trial, was not in court, neither was the son, Joseph. Keith’s attorneys filed notice that motion for a new hearing would be made in two weeks. Keith was composed when asked for a statement. He said: “The verdict is a terrible surprise to me; but I am innocent, and for this reason alone I am able to endure thia ordeal. lam confident I will vindicate myself. I don’t expect to die on the scaffold. Ao Onset of Legion of Honor. It is announced that Miss Jennie Creek of Millville, the young woman who became famous in 1893, when she flagged the world’s fair train, saving a large number of lives, among the passengers being a number noted Frenchmen, has decided to accept the invitation of the Legion of Honor and will visit Paris. She has often been invited to do so by the grateful Frenchmen. Miss Creek will leave next week for New York, accompanied by an aunt, and a week later will start for Europe. Miss Creek will write a description of her train flagging experience for the Pall Mall Gazette. Denies Big O«B Club Story. Hempstead Washburne denied at Chicago the rumor from Crown Point, that he, with Mayor Harrison and fifty representative men of that eity, had closed a deal with Brown Bros, of Crown Point by which they come into control of 10,000 acres of marsh land on the Kankakee which they would use as a game preserve. "There may have been some talk at some dinner about a proposal to buy that land for hunting purposes.” said Mr. Washburne, “but I am sure no action was ever taken, nor do we contemplate it” Solomon Bear to Ke Tried for Murder. The trial of Solomon Bear will be held in the Whitley county circuit court this week. Behr last August shot and killed his son Levi and than attempted to kill his son-in-law, Is«ac Grawcock. He will make a plea of insanity. ' Lives at the Ago of 104 Year*. Elizabeth Parrigln, who still lives in Clinton costly, is 104 years old. She has lived trader every president of the United States.