Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1896 — All Over the State. [ARTICLE]

All Over the State.

Miss Pearl Sheppard, living at Everton, Fayette County, was riding in a buggy with her brother George, He had lighted a cigar iiiid threw a match in the baggy, which ignited his sister’s clothing. He quickly lifted hey from the vehicle, ami, by tearing her clothes off and then wrapping her in his coat, he extinguished' the fire, bus not until the sister was fatally burned. Wednesday afternoon there was a shooting affray in a cross-roads village in Sullivan County, ten miles from the County seat, in ~which, vJiai'les Bell, ft .saloonkeeper, was instantly killed by young Clemens, who is a son of a minister. There were a dozen or more spectators and after Bell had fallen they made a rush to arrest the murderer, but he held them at bay with two revolvers mid escaped nt his leisure. Frank Oldhnm, aged 56, an inmate of the poor farm, left for Cripple <’reek - Saturday nignt with 85(H) in his pocket and good clothes. Before he was reduced to poverty he purchased' a Cripple Creek patent. It him some distance from the big finds. Thin disease overtook him and he came East. Ilis brothers left him at the pofiit of death. He received notice Saturday that 812.001) had lieen deposited for the transfer of his ten acres. Thomas Rockwell, aged 78, arrived at Muncie from Wabash Tuesday eu route home to Fort Recovery, O. He met Benjamin Smith and asked to be directed to n hotel. Smith led the old man east of the city to the Lake Erie and Western Railroad bridge, robbed him and left him senseless for the train to mangle, Rockwell recovered, called for help and was rescued just in time.. An hour later the police arresteil Smith, who was at once identified. The contest between the saloon men and the Good Citizens’ League at Terre Haute resulted in two assaults on members of the league. Franklin Porter, a Vandalia employe, was struck and badly injured while in his ottii’c by a saloonkeeper named Reedy. Edgar Harkness, who filed two affidavits against saloonkeepers, refused his brother John's request not to appear ns a witness, whereupon the latter Knocked him down. The Good Citizens’ League has filed charges against both assailants. The last two conventions have wrought distress for at least two persons in English, who hud th? l additional misfortune of having been born shortly before those events. Elmer O.ayton, an enthusiaßtic Republican, inflicted his newly boru son with the euphonious nmno of Abraham Lincoln Ulysses Grant William McKinley. But John Vaughn, a Democrat, not to lie outdone, stylwl his latest calitiqn Thomas Jefferson Andrew Jackson James Monroe William Jennings Bryan. The boys are said to boar the strain very well. In a brawl at a pimtic at' in wliicn he was not a participant, Charles Gamble of Taswcll wiik fatally Injured. He was struck on tne head with a bottle and his skull crushed. Fire Tuesday night broke out on the second floor of the greut Lielwr brewery plant at Indinilapulift. Frank Hotiltiger, night watchman, was badly burned by an explosion of a barrel of shellac. Twenty thousand barrels of beer were ruined by destruction of the ice plant. The entire loss may reach SIOO,OOO. The syndicate. which operates three plants, carries over SGOO,tHH) insurance. An unknown tourist, claiming to hnil from Ohio, met with a frightful accident in Anderson Sunday morning. He attempted to board n passenger train ont of the city. The train was going fastei than he enlcu.atcd and he was thrown I head first to tne ground, alighting upon his face. > At Clay City, while l f rof. T. T. Grinlcy wns preparing to nmke u balloon nsceiiHion. one of the latae poles used in supporting the baiioon during its iuHation fell to the ground. Clyde' Obofholtke, 11 years old. *<►“ <' f I,w postmaster, mid Herschel Griffiths were .instantly killml. Ben Elrod will die and Millard Woods injured. . .