Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1896 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. “ ’ r Judge Helm Pronounces Sentence on Scott Jackson's Accomplice—lncreased Demand for Iron and Glass »-Goods-Discovers His Mother. Walling Must Hnng. Alonzo Walling, accomplice of Scott Jackson in the murder of Pearl Bryan, was sentenced to hang Aug. 7. Walling, smiling and defiant, was taken from the Covington jail by* Sheriff Plummer ijnd Jailer Bitzer, and driven in a surrey to Newport. On their arrival they found a. crowd of several hundred surrounding the court house, but there was no demonstration. .ludge Helm at once overruled Col. Washington’s motion for a new trial, ami ordered the prisoner to stand up. Walling, his face flushed, falteringly arose. Judge Helm .-aid: “Have yod Anything to'say why judgment should not now be pronounced against you?” Walling replied with choking voice: “I will ask my attorney to spetik for me.” Col. Washington said: “If I can't, argue fully. I desire to say that there is do evidence - in this case justifying the conviction of this man.” Here Col. Washington sat down angrily. Judge Helm then said: “It is the judgment of this court that you be taken from here to the Covington jail and there coflfined until the 7th day of Ajigust. and then brought from there to an inclosure at. the jail yard in Newport, and there by the sheriff be hanged by the neck until yon shall be dend, and may God have mercy on your soul." Walling turned pale and sat down. A moment later he was on his way back to Covington.

Cheerful News for Labor. The Weatherall Rolling Mill Company of Anderson, met its employes Saturday and asked them to return to work at once, promising to pay them whatever the new scale called for when the manufacturers sign it.' The men refused to go to work. The company is rushed with orders si.ml wants to get its plant in operation as soon as possible. All flint glass—bottle and jar—houses in the nation closed down last night, the rules of the Flint,Glass •Workers’ Assbciation requiring all men to stop work for the summer season. The market -w-rnshod ami the-prices nre.ndvanccd. The manufacturers have forwarded a petition to the workers’ convention in session at Alton, 111., asking them to permit ,the workers to return to their fires Aug. 1, instead of Sept. 1, as is the rule. In case the request is granted all plants will resume at that time. The past year has lieen a most prosperous one ip this department of the glass business, and it is one of the, very few industries that has not suffered a reduction of wage's in the past few years. The Wright Shove! Company of Anderson posted a notice that they Would advance the wages of the polishers and grinders 5 cents on the dozen. This will mean about 75 cents a day to the Workmen, The increase was made unsolicited, and was a great surprise. The company’ states that the business of tile firm is heavier now than for years.