Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1901 — Indiana State [ARTICLE]

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The Kokomo Rubber Tire Company has increased its capitalization to 1200.000. Webb Allman of Ridgeville was kicked by a horse, fracturing his skull, and his death is probable. James C. Dean, indicted for embezzlement on complaint of a client, has been released, at Windfall, under SSOO bonds. Mrs. Emma Weatherwax of Bloomfield was caught by a train at Ellston station and her right foot was severed. John R, Mason, whose saloons at Russiaville and Sedalia have been dynamited. was tried at Kokomo on nineteen counts for the Illegal sale of intoxicants. Bert Johnson of Stockwell is accused of attempting to assault Mrs. Bessie Schultz, who put him to flight with a butcher knife, and then caused his arrest. Word has been sent out from the headquarters of the Western Oil Men’s association at Portland that a meeting to be held at Toledo, 0., in January the name will be changed to the National Oil Men’s association. Following this branches will be organized in every oil town in the United States and Canada where a membership of twenty can be secured, the idea being to take in the crude producing fields of Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Kentucky, Kansas, Wyoming, California and Texas, with those in Canadian districts, while there will also be branches at such metropolitan centers as Chicago, New York, Buffalo, Cleveland, Toledo, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, New Orleans, San Francisco and other cities.

A large owl struck the headlight fronting a Pan-Handle passenger engine driven by Bert Smyser, and when Smyser completed his run, which he did without a light, he found the bird inside the frame badly stunned, but reviving. Two members of a party of dancers who were making merry at the house of Charles Marshall, a well-to-do resident of Lpland, were shot down without warning by Harvey Deering, who had entered the door but a moment before, pistol in hand. The victims are Marshall, the host, and John Larkins. Both probably will die. Consternation prevailed among the dancers when Deering burst into the room. Some jumped through the windows, carrying sash and glass with them; some fell on the floor to escape the bullets, and others huddled together against the walls, screaming with fright. The cause of the tragedy is not known, but it Is supposed to have some connection with the separation of Marshall and his wife, which took place recently. Deering refuses to say anything, and Marshall cannot make a statement.

Ft. Wayne—Church circles are gratified over the election at Altoona, Pa., of Dr. C. B. Stemen of Ft. Wayne as president of the National Association of Local Ministers of the M. E. church. Harry Leo, who left Clinton, 0., November 10, 1900, to ride 31,000 miles around the globe and make $2,000 on a wager between two Clinton men, is in South Bend. He had three years In which to complete the journey, but gave it up at Nagaski, Japan, after riding 18,000 miles. His wife, who accompanied him on part of his travels, died at Nagaski, and broken-hearted he returned to Oakland, Cal., with the remains, and June 20 decided to give up the trip. Leo has ridden 875,000 miles, all road work, and in addition has broken records in slx-day races. The Knox Crescent, established two years ago because a few Democratic politicians were dissatisfied with editor Gorrel and the Starke County Democrat, has yielded up the ghost. The township assessor at Evansville entered suit against the broom corn trust through its local agent, A. J. Klein, asking for $5,000 taxes. It Is alleged fraudulent schedules were given In. It is said that similar cases will be filed in other towns. Dr. George W. Burke, clerk of Henry county, died at Richmond.

Federal Judge Baker at Indianapolis continued the charge against Edward Bezette, a member of the Chicago Typographical Union, who is accused of violating Judge Baker’s injunction in the Conkey strike at Hammond, Ind. President Colbert of the Typographical Union in testifying said that Bryan in his last campaign lost at least 20.00") labor votes in Chicago because it was alleged that his book, ”lhe First Battle,” had been manufactured by nonunion labor at Hammond. Judge Baker will probably not render a decision in the strikers’ case for a few days. More than a dozen printers are to be tried for contempt. U. B. Kellogg, George H. Wellington end Harry L. Bryan of Lafayette have transferred- 60,800 acres of zinc lands near Joplin, Mo., to an English syndicate; consideration 8350.000. The home of Willfam M. Pence, president of the Cit'zens’ St te Bank and a director in the Columbia National Bank of Indianapolis, burned at New Castle because of an overheated stove. The jury in the Matthews murder case returned a verdict at Frankfort finding him guilty of voluntary manslaughter. Matthews shot and killed Adam Camp in July. William R. Newby, whose death occurred at Spiceland during the civil war served in Company D, Thirtysixth Infantry. Asa Cockran, a Louisville & Nashville brakeman, fell from a moving train at Howell and was killed instantly. His wife dreamed a few nights ago that* her husband would meet death in this manner.

Mayor Bookwaiter of Indianapolis has surprised saloonkeepers and gamblers by ordering the enforcement of the statues, prohibiting the sale of intoxicants on Sundays, holidays and after 11 o’clock at night, and prohibiting gambling. Hundreds of gamblers have flocked to the city during the last few days expecting to be allowed to operate during the carnival this year. However, the saloons after hours Monday night were closed, and in addition there was no gambling conducted in Indianapolis. Chief of Police Hyland’s orders are emphatic, and raids will be made where It is suspected the law is being violated. The Shefford Oil Company sold to the Commonwealth Oil Company, composed of Cleveland, 0., and Chicago capitalists. Its property, which lies tnree miles west of Montpelier. The deal takes In 780 acres of leases and forty-four producing wells. John M. Dye of Wabash is suffering from nervous prostration. He Is an heir to the Dye coal lands in Pennsylvania and has been threatened with abduction. Lafayette McWilliams, a Chicago capitalist, has purchased the Preston Oil Company’s interests in Wells countyy The property consists of 500 under leases, and twentysix producing wells with a dally production of 100 barrels. The price was $90,000. F. E. Henderson, a business man of Muncie, and Miss Edna Whlteker, daughter of Postmaster Whlteker of Kokomo, were married by Rev. Mr. Naftzger, pastor of Grace Methodist church at Kokomo Wednesday evening.

Indiana university at Richmond has a collection of birds that were caught, mounted and labeled by President Roosevelt. They came from the national museum in 1884. Eleven of the seventeen specimens are in a good state of preservation. They are highly prized. The October term or court at Washington convened and within an hour Edward Nolan and Thomas Songer were sentenced to the Jeffersonville prison for stealing a bell from a railway locomotive, and Ross Ruth was sent up for stealing a suit of clothes. None are old enough to vote. The annual conference of the Illinois German Congregational churches has closed at LaPorte. Rev. G. B. Baumann of Waukegan, 111., was elected secretary for the ensuing year. The next conference will be held at Waukegan In October. 1902. The street fair opened at Terre Haute opened with less incompleteness on account of bad weather the past three days than has been expected. Monday night there was a mask carnival and confetti battle until 9 o’clock, when all masks had to be removed. There are more than thirty pay shows and ten tree attractions.

Miss Irene Heoard Cook, society leader at Vincennes, and Albert W. Titler of Kansas City, Mo., were married at the First Presbyterian church in Vincennes. Rev. George Knox of Indianapolis officiated. charlotte E. Dill filed a suit at Logansport against Robert M. Gibson, a wealthy farmer, for breach of promise, demanding 810,000 damages. She also demands the setting aside of conveyance of suitable farming property to Gibson’s son and daughter, naming them as parties to the suit and alleging that the conveyance was made for the purpose of defeating her cause. James Culp has purchased the plant of the Vernon Republican, but as he is Democratic in politics, it is presumed that the political complexion of the paper will be changed.

the general store of Thompson & Bernard at Howell, a railroad station two miles west of Evansville, was entered at an early hour Wednesday morning and the safe blown open. The robbers secured 8130 in money and several valuable papers. In a subsequent encounter with the burglars Marshal Sumpter was shot in the knee and one of the robbers in the side. Henry McCarroll was shot in the back and will die and William Dumm received a slight wound in one of his arms. The safe was completely shattered and the noise made by the explosion woke people all over town. The burglars opened Are on the marshal and his posse, which was returned and in all about thirty shots were fired. An ambulance was sent to the scene of the shooting, but when it arrived the wounded burglar had disappeared. He is supposed to have jumped on a freight train. By this time the officers from Evansville had reached the outskirts of Howell. They were joined by hundreds of men, women and children and a thorough search for the robbers was begun. There is a great deal of underbrush at. this place. The officers had almost given up the search when two men were spied under the brush. Fire was opened on them and one of them was wounded in the back. His companion fled. After being chased through cornfields and swamps for about three miles he was captured. He was found to be wounded in the arm. Joseph Brown, a well-known farmer, dropped dead at his home near Fortville of apoplexy. William Smith, a miner, forty years old, with a family at Evansville, was instantly killed in the Montgomerymines by falling The late Mrs. Sarah GartreH of Terre Haute bequeathed 81,090 in aid of a Masonic temple and 8500 toward a union hospital. Dollle Richards, who was kidnaped ten years ago in Brazil, Ind., is to be restored to her parents. Woman abductor at Chicago confessed. ‘