Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1901 — Indiana State News [ARTICLE]

Indiana State News

Many of the 200 miners who marched from Montgomery and Cannelborg Saturday to Kaglesville aud closed 'down three coal mines because the employes were non-union men have camped at the scene and will remain until the trouble is settled. A number Of the miners agreed to join the union this morning and demand the scale wages, but the marchers say the mines will remain closed until all have joined. The operators are preparing to resume operations. They have not asked aid of the sheriff. Trouble is expected. Fire Sunday night in the Masonic building at Evansville gutted the plant of the Crescent Printing and Engraving company. The loss is $50,000, insurance $20,000. The fire is believed to have been started by a discharged employe. Mrs. Polly Caubles celebrated her one hundredth anniversary at Richmond Sunday. An impenetrable mystery still shrouds the finding of Mrs. John Mulllnix’ body in an abandoned cistern at the home of her father, John Sharp, at Ashervllle Saturday. Coroner Mushon held an inquest and several witnesses wore examined, but not one has been ablo to throw any light on the case. The coroner says there was no water in the lungs, which convinces him that death was not causod by drowning. No clew to any crime has yet been developed and the parents of Mrs. Mulllnix are confident she Jumped into the cistern. They say Hhe had been brooding over her husband's death, which occurred a year ago, and at times was morose and acted queerly. The Snarps are among the most prominent families of the county and hundreds of people attended tho funeral of Mrs. Mulliutx Sunday and viewed the remains. She left no statement as to her intention if she did commit suicide.

Earl McClain of Peru, a brakeman on the Peru and Montpelier accommodation train of the Wabash railway, saved the lives of twelve people and prevented a bad wreck Saturday evening. Just after his tratfc had left Chill, a little station near Peru, McClain heard a fast freight which does not stop at Chill thundering around the curve behind him. He stood on the rear platform of the last coach and waved the freight train down with a lantern, the engineer of the freight managing so to check the speed of his train that although the passenger coach was stood on end when the engine and coach came together, and the twelve passengers got a bad scare and a severe shaking up, all escaped injury. McClain jumped to save himself, a few scratches from a cinder pile into which he fell being the extent of his injuries. Ihe Indiana, Illinois and lowa railroad has Issued a defiant challenge to the city of South Bend and despite the fact that the common council and the board of public works have refused to grant a right of way through the city over tho route selected by that railroad for its eastern extension to Detroit, Mich., via Toledo, the railroad people put a big force of .men at work Friday morning on the proposed line. The city refused the right of way because the route passed too near the heart of the city and residents made strenuous objection. The contention of the company is that it is not absolutely necessary for them to secure the sanction of the city authorities to thefr proposed route, but that such course has been pursued to avoid any legal squabbles and consequent delays. The city will uphold its end of the fight. The railroad people have another factor to consider. A few years ago the Indiana, Illinois and lowa cut off the Vandalla from use of the old northern extension which the new tracks must cross. The Vandalia has brought out engines and freight cars and has blocked attempted progress. The varsity broke the training tables at Notre Dame. Salmon, Notre Dame’s star full back, was elected captain to succeed Fortin. This is Salmon’s second year on the team. He is the best line-bucking full back Notre Dame has ever had and by western football critics is compared favorably with any full back in the country. Next week Frank Morrissey will give a banquet at the Oliver hotel, South Bend, to the football team.

Virgil Weber of Evansville, 24 years old, is a prisoner in the guardhouse at Fort Sheridan, 111., and is said to be dying from grief because he cannot seie his mother, who has been sick for some time. Weber deserted last March and went to Evansville to see his mother. An officer from Fort Sheridan arrested him and took him back. He was sentenced to the guardhouse and, it is said, has beep confined there ever since. The old mother has worried herself gray over her son, and it is feared she cannot survive many days. A letter to her from Chicago states her boy was fast turning gray. Lou—“l declare, since I came back I’m quite another woman.’’ Biddy “Oh, won’t your husband be pleased.” Austin A. Durand, a veteran of the civil war. died at Kendallville of apoplexy, aged sixty-seven. As a result of a mass meeting at North Vernon, a jojnt stock company, with SIO,OOO capital, was organized for the manufacture of lamp chimneys. J. W. Linkart was elected president and T. W. Russell secretary.

An engine on the Illinois Central railroad at Evansville struck a wagon containing Thomas Nichols and Charles Rich. Nichols was killed and Rich will probably dl« from '’his injuries.

Elwood has cabled acceptance of $25,000 offered by Andrew Carnegie, with condition, made, it is said, in deference to labor unions, that building shall not bear Mr. Carnegie's name. Son of Attorney j. E. Henley of Chicago quits college, elopes with young Indianapolis girl, marries, deserts young bride and again disappears. Rudolph Fischer, a prominent tobacco merchant of Lafayette committed suicide by taking laudanum. The act is attributed to domestic trouble. The suicide occurred at the home of John B. Wagner, where Fischer went to see his wife, who left him recently owing to ills unbearable temper, and was given shelter at the Wagner home. Mrs. Fischer, it is said, is the daughter of a Hungarian nobleman, who disinherited her at the time of the marriage. William Norris, the character actor, this season a leading member of Otis Skinner's company in his big production of "Francesca Da Rimini,” returned to the cast at Imllanapolid. Mr. Norris was taken very ill two weeks ago In Ixmisvllle and underwent treatment at a hospital in that city. The appointment of u receiver for the Chicago and Southeastern railway company was affirmed by tho Supreme Court at Indianapolis. The application was resisted on the ground that several of tho claims held by the plaintiffs were Invalid.

John N. Redmond, Patrick A. McHugh and Thomas O’Donnell, Irish envoys to America, who spoke at Indianapolis, were entertulned later by local Irishmen. They enjoyed a carriage ride about the city. They left Indianapolis for Pittsburg. As a result of a practical joke, Mrs. Moses Llnson, aged 35, Is now lying in Buch u critical condition at Columbus that there is no hope of her recovery. She and her husband, the Rev. Moses Llnson, were out driving when the horse became unmanageable and threw the occupantß of the buggy over a steep embankment. Mr, Llnson was uninjured. It developed that mischievous boys had put burrß beneath the harness on the horso, causing it to run away.

William Heck, a coal miner, went to the house of Bird at Terre Haute and while sitting in a chair was struck from behind and injured so badly that he died. At first it was said that Jameß Bird, a 22-year-old son who is thought to be demented, had struck the blow, but Levi Bird and the mother, a Bister and Mrs. Hansen, a stepsister, who were present, have been arrested. The son escaped. The story the coroner is investigating is that Heck was lured into the house to be assassinated because he was a “blackley” miner. Northwestern defeated Purdue university on Stuart field at Lafayette Thanksgiving day in a close and exciting contest by a score of 10 to 5. Purdue scored its first touchdown after eighteen minutes’ play by working the visiting eleven down the field by steady line plunges and around the end plays until Davidson was sent over Northwestern's goal line. Miller failed in tlie effort for a punt out for a goal kick. Purdue should have scored another touchdown near the close of the half, but lost the ball on Northwestern’s flve-yarfl line, being ponallzed for holding in the line. In the first half Purdue outplayed the visitors in both offensive and defensive tactics. In the second half Northwestern played fast ball, scoring Its first touchdown in fifteen minutes on tandem plays, sending Flaeger over the line. Johnson failed to kick goal. The team scored Its secodn and final touchdown by tandem plays near the close of the half by sending Dietz over the goal line, Johnson missing an easy kick for goal. The game ended with the bait In Northwestern’s possession on Purdue’s forty-yard line. Mrs. Eliza Fowler of Lafayette, widow of the late Morse Fowler, has given Purdue university sfio,oGo for an assembly hall. The gift was accepted and there was a demonstration in the chapel, followed by a parade of 1,20 Q» students to the Fowler home. Miss Daisy McOittnis, who was on the ill-fated Wabash train, No. 4. which was wrecked at Seneca, was fatally Injured, according to a dispatch received from Peru, to which place she was taken for medical attendance. Miss McGinnis is a public school teacher In Butler and has lived there since her birth, being the daughter of one of the pioneer Bettlers there. An electric car loaded with twentyfive glass-workers at Anderson collided with a coal car while returning to the city from the factory. All of the workmen were more or less injured and threo will probably die. A vicious horse seized the cap from the head of a 6-year-old boy, Homer McKee at Fort Wayne, and when the boy ran to recover the cap the animal struck him down with his hoofs, killing him instantly. Private Albert Francis of the Fourth cavalry was killed at Fort Leavenworth by his horse falling on him. His home is in Indianapolis. He was 20 years old. Sylvester Beach of Petersburg has made an assignment. Assets, $10,000: liabilities, $16,000. Edward Neible of Evansville, a young man of family, has been fined $25 and coets as a “Peeping Tom.” Louis Ebel of South Bend is reported as meeting with wonderful success as % pianist at Lelpsic, Germany. The City Council of Noblesville has refused to grant a fifty-year franchise to the Union Traction Company, considering the contract with the Central Traction Company the better of the two.