Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1901 — A WEEK IN INDIANA. [ARTICLE]

A WEEK IN INDIANA.

RECORD OF HAPPENINGS FOR SEVEN DAYS. Wealthy Farmer from' South Bend Searche* for Bin Couhlo, a Lady Who Disappeared—Widow of Canal Builder Dies. Big Fire at Bedkey. Fire originating in Michael Bader's junk shop, in the center of the business section of Redkey, caused a property loss of more than $6,000. and for a time threatened to wipe out the entire town. Redkey has no fire protection but the bucket brigade, in which the women worked along W’ith the men, by heroic effort had the flames under control within an hour and the town was saved with comparatively small loss, considering the headway the Hames made before the citizens were generally alarmed. The losses and insurance are divided as follows: Michael Bader, junk shop and contents; loss SI,OOO, with $650 insurance; Gteorge Bowser, livery barn, loss SI,OOO, with $1,200 insurance. A blooded stallion valued at $2,000. owned by A. Crisler, was left in the barn and.cremated. William Fier, residence, loss SBOO, with no insurance. The barns owned by A. W. McKinney, George Horn and Michael Snyder were destroyed. Their combined loss is $650, fully insured. The Reese hotel caught fire and was damaged to the extent of SSOO, fully insured. Actor O'NelU'a Kx«Wlf«< Missing. Edwin Walsh, a wealthy farmer from Routh Bend, went to Chicago and asked the police to assist in the search for his cousin, Nettle Walsh, who disappeared from South Bend about three weeks ago. Mr. Walsh stated that he was willing to give a reward of SSOO for information leading to the finding of his relative. The woman, Walsh says, was married to James O’Neill, the actor, in 1883, and after living with him for three y<mjs they separated, she being allowed the custody of a son, the result of the marriage. Shortly after the separation Mrs. O’Neill resumed her maiden name and went to live with her cousin at South Bend about four years ago. Keep Henlora from Banquet. Faculty members of the Tri-Stato Normal College at Angola spread a banquet for the senior class, which is to be graduated this week, but no seniors were there to enjoy it. They fully intended to be there, and had given some evidences about the college of their appreciation of the honor to be shown them. When the hour of the banquet arrived, however, the seniors, attired in dress suits, were at Fox lake, two miles away, where they had been forcibly taken by the juniors. The juniors bad quietly laid their plans and with the aid of friends succeeded in kidnaping all the seniors. The'faculty members are greatly displeased. Marriage Mill to B« Stopped. Attorney General Taylor will take steps at Indianapolis at once to abolish the illegal features of the "Gretna Green” or marriage Industry at Jeffersonville. A secret investigation by Charles B. Lockhart, traveling deputy attorney general, has been going on. Mr. Lockhart filed his report, and the attorney general said he had no doubt the traffic In marriages at Jeffersonville could be greatly reduced. Mr#. Nancy Adami Dead. Mrs. Nancy Adams, widow of the superintendent of construction of the Wabash and Erie canal from Fort Wayne to Logansport, died at Lagro, aged 92. She was the oldest resident of the county, having arrived with her husband from Hartford, Conn., in 1836. She leaves three sons, one of whom Is with the British army In south Africa. • gtate News in Brief. Dillsboro —At a time when it was thought tnat Dearborn and Ohio counties were free of smallpox, four new cases have developed; the victims, Miss Jeanette Cochran, daughter of the Rev. George Cochran, and Miss Rose Mattox, daughter of George Mattox, of Aurora, and Mrs. Loring Craft and little son, of Rising Sun. The evening before they were stricken. Misses Cochran and Mattox were members of a hay-riding party, and it Is feared their companions will be affected. Martinsville—’Squire McNeff, ot Brooklyn, has found for plaintiff In the case of Dr. E. D. Bailey against the Martinsville Gas company, and fined the company $lO-for charging Dr. Bailey 50 cents for 200 feet of gas. when the rate fixed by the city ordinance is $1.25 per 1,000 feet. The suit was filed in this city, but the company took a change of venue. Colfax —No rain, except a slight sprinkle, has fallen in this locality tor forty-three .days, equaling the drouth of 1881. Small vegetation has been practlcaLy ruined, and corn will yield half a crop. Pastures are dry and barren, and the feeding question is a uiscouraging one to farmers. Considerable corn on clay lands has been cut and shocked. Pendleton—Mrs. Will Shipley owned a valuable set of false teeth, which she placed on her dresser upon retiring at night. Afterward she was disturbed by a noise on the dresser, and she awoke in time to see a large rat making off with the teeth. The rodent escaped to his hole with his prize. Monon—Bijou, the pet pigeon belonging to Miss Minnie Tull, which used to display bitter hatred toward cats, has recently developed a strange affinity for a little kitten, following it wherever it goes and staying contentedly by it while it sleeps.