Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1896 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THI PAST WEEK. * W/'' . Two Anderson Pupil* Hart in • Stampede Free Fnel for Hettloc at Wa bus h-B ru tal Burglar. Choke and Rob Mis. Goldcnat Port Waome. School Children Are Panic Stricken. Miss Matrie Reed, * teacher in the Anierson higFschool, fainted while at work 'hursday, and the girls In the room began to cry and halloo, The school building is heated by hot air and the noise was easily communicated to the other room, through the hot air pipes. The pupils mistook the shouting for fire and began to yell. A stampede followed, 400 rushing out into the hall and 4 own the stairway. In the crush that followed Misses Knte Chi pm an and Hedrick fainted, fell nnd were trampled to the ground. They were seriously injured; The pupils hare been drilled for the- test two years for emergencies of this.kind, but panic seemed to seize them and they became confused. Miss 9 Reed is not seriously ill. Generosity of a Gas Company. The Logansport and Wabash Valley Gas Company,' of Wabash, the corporation which is controlled by the Dietrich syndicate, announced that through the summer the company would furnish natural gas for heating purposes free of charge. Where gas is used in n heating stove, grate or fhrnace it will be supplied gratuitously, the consumer paying for the cooking stove or range in his residence only, at the rate 0f,530 pen year. The action of the company is due to the competition of the Wabash .Fuel Company. which last year piped the fuel inta Wabash arid supplied consumers at a 10 per cent reduction from the old company's rate. T,,0 latter then cut the rates DO I*er cent, and follows this up by supplying gas free for heating until Nov. L Choketl by Masked Burglars. At dayiight Friday morning two masked men entered- the home *of Patrick Golden at Fort Wayne and began searching for money. Miss Anna, sister of Mr. Golden, was the only occupant of the house. She heard the men and leaped from her bed to give the alarm. One of the men seized her and nearly choked her to death, while the other burglar sen relied the house and secured about $”00 worth of plunder. The man escaped. Miss Golden is in a serious condition from the effects of wounds on her throat and nervous prostration. Her brother is a Pennsylvania Railway conductor nnd the crooks secured his pocket-; hook, which contained SSB. All Over the State. Elijah Maniiun, a prosperous farmer, aged till years, committed suicide al his home near Eminence by shooting. He had been ill and was despondent. The Hartford City Glass Company's box factory and blacksmith shop burned. Loss, SIO,OOO, covered by insurance. Fire started in Lariaux’s bakery. t Loss, sl,000. also insured. Frank Dniley, ag -d 34, and Joseph Bevard, aged 50, while attempting to cross the St. Joseph river near Leo, nine miles north of Fort Wayne, were carried over the dam and drowned. The bodies were found. Two business failures occurred in Ashley. The Ashley Furniture Company, William Kitnsey appointed receiver, and the Daisy Implement Company, Theodore Gary appointed receiver. Liabilities and assets unknown. The action of the Indiana bituminous coal operators in reducing the wage schedule from »K> to 55 cents bore fruit Wednesday in a strike of the miners at various points in the coal belt. The officers of the Island Coal Company, which has headquarters in Indianapolis, received -yorU by telegraph tfabt all of ttorig-mtaww, . 400-in, number, bad struck. The Island company operates at Linton. The miners are confident that all of the miners in the State, fully -1,000, will quit work, and that nil of the mines will close down. , Joseph Gallagher, an iron worker from Chicago, is in jail at Mnncie, with one charge of murder hanging over him and with another probable. On Saturday night Gallagher met five men who were assaulting James Cunningham, an old man. and started in to help him. In the fight that followed Gallagher stabbed* Joseph Reid, aged 19, in the left side and James Dugan, aged 20, in the head, driving his knife, through Dugan’s skull, Reid died, ami Dugan is unconscious and dying. Gallagher ’•» .12 years old and says his home is near Halsted street and Ar : ehcr avenue, Chicago. He came from there seven months ago. - r A general alarm called out Muncie’s entire tire department Tuesday, and when the apparatus was pulled into the court house yard thousands of citizens crowded around the large stone, building. The firemen hurried into the building and -‘fowfl doors to make their way to the garret and dome, where it was thought the tire was located. County officials and other people commenced to carry out documents, and for fifteen minutes excitement ran high. Finally the firemen made a complete investigation, and then the mystery was sol veil. A number of people had noticed that whiefc; resembled a volume of smoke issuing from the dome of the building, and, thinking there was a tire, turned in an alarm. That which looked like a volume of smoke proved to t>e a dense swarm of small bugs that had congregated about the dome and In the shutters. There were so many of them that if required thirty minutes for them all to leave, nnd they could be seen moving through the air in dense throngs. The firemen were quite indignant to think that they had elimbed to the top of the building only to find a swarm of bugs, and they sought revenge by turning the hose on the rsimaining insects and washed the dome clean of them. F. M, Brown, of Shelby township, Ripley Ouiity, while plowing in his field, unearthed a quantity of Mexican, Spanish. English and American coins. Some of them bearing date of 1794 and none of them of a coinage of leas than seventy years ago. Among the collection were a number of rare coins, worth many times their face value. Altogether the values foot up in ekeess of SI,OOO, but Mr. Brown has deposited them In the bank at Versailles for sale to antiquarians. Thin is the fifth time within ten years that buried treasure has been found in that immediate neighborhood.

The bituminous coal operators issued a statement from Indianapolis in effect that the .mines would, close, as the minors were firm in demanding the Ohio scale, which the operators could hoi pay sive where Indiana coal came in competition with Ohio coal, and that they could only pay 3"> cents where Indiana and Illinois coal coni|»etod for tae same market, this being 3 cents higher than the Grape Creek. lit. schedule. The shut-down Is to be general in the bituminous region. The miners regard the new situation with, much apprehension. They were crippled by the strike of two years ago, and mining has not been profitable since then. .