Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1896 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE - - PAST WEEK/ / ' Grant County Farmers Wifi Fore* Toll Gate* and Fight in Court—Two Tramps Force Boys Into a L;£e of Beggary pnd Crime. Farmers Fight Toll Roads. The farmers of Grant County are la open rebellion against toll roads, and at a meeting 120 of the most prominent entered into a league to ignore tollgate keepers and fight the payment of tolls to the bitter Cud. Under a system adopted by.the Comity Commissioners the county bought a number of gravel roads, built others and was to open them to the public, the people being taxed to pay for them. As all or nearly all of the roads lead into Kokomo,, it was supposed that that city i would receive the benefit, but no protest was made by the farmers and the roads passed into the possession of the county. The cost of keeping them np to the standard of toll roads proved a heavy one, and the commissioners concluded to establish tollgates and make, the people pay toll. This raised the ire of the farmers along the Barnersville road and they entered into a solemn leagtie and covenant to resist payment, to forge the gates open if passage was refused'and defend themselves in person and in the courts, it necessary.

Boys Abducted from Home. While rounding up a gang of tramp* supposed to have had a hand in the robbery of Zeltner's hardware store at South Bend, the police ran across* ten men accompanied by two boys, aged 12 and 13 years. They said they wore the sons of poor' parents and had been abducted by. 1 Bennett.and Stephens and compelled to accompany them on begging tours arourtd the country. When the two men were searched s(> was found upon Bennett’* person and $27 upon Stephens’. The boy* sai<l the men had about s.”>oo secreted on their persons. Chief Cassidy compelled Bennett to take off a wooden leg he wore. In it was found a compartment containing a letter box. and in this was $335. Chief Cassidy will write to the boys’ parents and endeavor to secure the money for them, .as they earned it by begging. The “Ghost” Given Forty Imnhes. The ghost whieh has been , creating * sensation in penton township, Elkhart County, was captured by a crqwd of farmers and proved to tie an unknown tramp. It was finally decided to administer forty lashes, and four men provided themselves with long hickory switch** and the tramp’s back was bared to his waist. The blows were administered and the man was released and left with hi* back bleeding from every stroke. All Over the State. Mr. and Mrs. Martin L. Crocker celebrated their golden’ wefffiing anniversary at Richmond. ~' ~ The - Globe clothipg house at Warsaw .was robbed of twenty suits of clothes, valued at S2OO. » William Croft is lodgdik in jail at jasper, charged with the killing of August Btreigler at a dance near Schnellville. George Corwin, a well-known citizen of -Dublin, committed suicide this morning'by shooting himself through the head. George Durr, a young man of Deeatur, went to sleep in his buggy, and while crossing a railroad was killed by an ex- . press train. » Bryant Barker, a Wealthy farmer of Veedersburg, took a dose of arsenic by mistake, thinking it quinine, and died ire a few moments. Burglars ransacked the store of Ignnce Mergy.’ of Wabash, stealing goods valued at $250. The safe was’blown, but it contained no money. Simon Spalding, a business man of Winbash, was united in marriage with Mrs. Apnie Halea of LnFontaine. They will reside in the latter place. In a fightat William Hays’ park, north of (,’nsey rille, young Hays stabbed his father. Alexander Jenkins, and Benjamin Moore and made his escape. Harrison Simpson, candidate for sheriff at Anderson, tiled suit against Ernest O. Flanders, a wealthy bachelor, for $lO,000 for alienation of hi* wife’s affection*. James Leak, an employe of the Citizens* Electric Light Company at Terre Haute, was instantly killed by an electric shock while trimming a street lamp. He was -i married man. Abraham Cortelyow. 72 years of age, who has been erratic since the death of his wife, wandered away from his home in Shelbyville Monday, and relatives fear he has died from exposure, ,as he was very feeble. Joe Rowe and Elmer Kemp of Brown Point, two schoolmates and fast chums, became involved in a quarrel over some trivial subject and young Rowe struck the Kemp lad a vieious blow, breaking one of his ribs and otherwise seriously, injuring him. » Edward Small, proprietor of a new* depot in Shelbyville, gave a dinner to hi* four married sons —Wilber, Charles. Frank and George. Qn turning over their plates each «>»■ found a thousand dollar check, a present from their parent. Mr. Small has handled the metropolitan papers there for thirty years and has accumulated a snug fortune. Within the last few weeks a number of burglaries have been committed near Richmond, and one' pf the most successful of these was that Sunday at the country home of Charles Savage. The Savage family went to ehureh and did nut return until late in the afternoon, when they found that the house hatTbeen. completely ransacked. Everything of value that could well be carried away was taken and tlie plunder included $14,000 worth of negotiable paper. S3O in money, a gold watch and other jewelry. As soon as the theft became known a posse of men began a search, but the search was fruitless. Harry Leffel and Maud Doan eloped its a buggy from their near Ixtganaport. The couple were followed to Logs asport, but ..all trace was lost after they entered the city. The girl is 12 years old. , A freight train on the Vandalia Railway ran through a bridge near Crawfordsville Wednesday morning, killing Conductor Fowler, Brakeman McKensie and. Fireman John Berber, and seriously injuring Roadmaster J. S. Brothers and Engineer Bowman. The wreck was caused by a washout. The train -was demolished. The general store of Wilbur M. Aderel nt Wagarusa was robbed. Some money and many articles of clothing, boots and shoes, were' carried away. Au unsuccessful attempt wd* made to blow off the door of the safe. The body of J. Roger Briggs, the Chicago bookkeeper who was drowned in Cedar lake near Crown Point, was recovered. When he was drowned he had * gold watch and a large sum of money on his body, and when his body was discovered only sl.lO was found on his person, and foul suspicions are rife, to the effect that his body Was recovered in the night, robbed and then thrown Into the Ink* again, only to be chat up Iff the wavs*. ■■ ■ *>•' '■