Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1896 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. r ' Despondent Woman Burns Herself with Oil-Recent Find May Disclose the Fate of the Zetecares Near* Panama—Shooting Near Avilla. Shocking Attempt at Suicide. At Jeffersonville, Miss Bertha Meyers, 24 years of age, a beautiful Swiss, rendered despondent by her ,inability to return to her dative country and the death of her. sister a few days ago/attempted suicide Saturday afternoon. . Rhe sent the ,-childvei out to play in the afternoon, and, going to a summer kitchen, saturated her elothing with coal oil and applied a match. Every vestige of skin was burned from her body and her death was a matter of bpt a few hours. In endeavoring to save her, her brother-in-law was seriously burned. H. M. Caylor.

The Noblesville veteran who was honpred by his election to the position of Commander, Indiana Department, G. A.R. Body of May Hill Identified. The body of May D. Hill, the Colonnade (New York) Hotel suicide, arrived at Columbus and was identified by the father and other relatives. The body was buried in the family lot, city cemetery. The diamonds she was known to possess were not found among the effects in her trunk. The family believe she was murdered and-robbed. The woman left a note Asking that her body be cremated, but, ganding by the casket, Col. John H. eitli, the dead woman’s father, declar,ed: “I'll kill the man who attempts to cremate my daughter’s body or disturb it ifter burial.” Judge Hill and wife of Indianapolis, parents of the dead womtn's husband, attended the funeral. Missine Men Probably Slain. Charles Manning, while digging a cellar inder an old log house three miles northtost of Panama, found the skeletons of three human beings. This created much txcitement, as about twelve years ago an »ld man by the name of Thomas Valentine Zeteeare and his two sons dwelt there. The old man wks wealthy and, being afraid to deposit his gold in the banks, kept it buried. The people seldom went io town. They never- Went to see their acighbors and they never attended any gatherings. Finally they disappeared. It was supposed they had moved away to parts unknown. The'diseovery of these human bones leads people to believe the three men were murdered for their money. Assassin Fires on Brothers.' An attempt to assassinate two young men occurred a few miles south of Avilla afternoon. Frank and Ulysses Badger, two young farmers, were at work in the woods when some person fired on them from a chimp of bushes a few feet away. Frank Badger is shot through the breast, the ball entering from his back, and he will die. His brother has a bullet in the right shoulder and the upper part of the right arm is shattered by a second ball. The exact identity of the would-be murderer is not known, though suspicion points strongly to a man who formerly resided in the vicinity and who has threatened the lives of the boys for some fancied grievance. t All Over the State. Howard Yocum, the Alliance, 0., Adams Express messenger who stole a |l,000 money package two years ago and was arrested at Fort Wayne, confessed Wednesday to the officers before he was taken to Ohio, without requisition papers. He had tattoo marks all over his body, which he had redecorated by a Chicago artist to prevent identification. Yocum was made to read Boconn and initial let ters were worked into beautiful ornamental designs. He also kept his black mustache a faded blonde. Ed Waren, the Supposed slayer of Cha*. Badger near Avilla, was taken to Goshen for safe keeping, as the sentiment was so strong against him that it was feared that he would be lynched. Early in the evening the men were seen gathering in groups, and upon hearing this Sheriff Simon hastened .his prisoner to the Goshen jail. Ulysses Badger, who was also shot by Waren, cannot recover. When Ulysses fell after being shot he saw Ed Waren running through the woods and after regaining consciousness said that Waren was the assailant. Several months ago Ollie Coolidge, a respected young lady, left her, home in Princeton to join a show company called the “Bloomer Giri.” With the company was Charles T. Robinson, whose show name is Charles T. Hart. Ollie and Hart were married at Windsor, Can. When the show season ended they came to Princeton. On the noon train Tuesday came a handsope young woman from Homer, Mich., who claims to be wife No. 1. Her truant husband had in some way beard of her coming and left the town. Wife No. 1 was married to Robinson at Scottsburg, Ind., July 4, 1892. She called on wife No. 2, but the meeting was not a happy one. Nadel & Kempner, clothing dealers of Elkhart, have assigned. No statement of liabilities and assets has been made. One hundred bushels of potatoes for a book of poems—this is what Clifford Abbott, a rural poet of Rockport, received for a copy of his first work. At their usual price this would be ?25, the same amount that Milton is said to have received for “Paradise Boat” A second offer of 150 bushels was made, but Mr. Abbott declined it, saying that a poet cannot live on potatoes alone. He will probably go down Into history as the “Hoosier Potato Poet.” .While fishing in Bear creek, near Palestine, Ray Dunnuck and Charles Bly, eight and thirteen years old, respectively, took refuge under a tree during a rainstorm. The tree was struck by lightning and both were instantly killed. William Webb, a farmer. Seven miles north of Peru, is in a precarious condition. About two weeks ago his shepherd dog bit ofte of his horses in the nostrils, and then disappeared. In a few days the horse showed signs of hydrophobia and had to be killed. While treating the horse some of the froth from its nostrils fell on Mr. Webb’s hands, where there was a sore, and now Mrt Webb’s condition indicates blood poisoning.