Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1897 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Bank Swindler* Get Nothing from Princeton-Supposed Dead Man Cornea to Life—Porter County Counterfeiter* Caught Fatal Cattle Disease. Bank Swindlers Fail. Bank swindlers tapped a telegraph win between Grayville and Mount Carmel, 111., and sent this message to the People’* National Bank of Princeton: “Please express $950 to David Fisher, Belmont, 111., to-day. We missed train. We will remit. A. E. Fuller, Cashier.” Cashier Wellborn declined to take risks, and wited for verification of the message. The telegraph office at Grayville reported that no telegram of that sort had been filed there, and a decoy parcel was sent to David Fisher at Belmont, 111., in the hope of catching the swindlers. They had taken warning, and escaped without the >950; No Inquest for Him. When William Buckley, of Kokomo, woke up the other morning be raw a long, sharp knife in the air above him. He also felt himself lying on a cold marble slab. Then he gave a yell loud enough to scare the coroner and his assistants into the belief that he was alive. Buckley was found the previous evening lying apparently dead on the sidewalk. Life was pronounced extinct by Health Officer Smith and the body was carried to the morgue, where the coroner and a corps of surgeons came in the morning to perform an autopsy. Buckley wakened and stopped the autopsy. Makers of Bad Money Caught. Major Carter of Indianapolis, Thomas B. Porter and L. L. Gallagher of Chicago, secret service men, assisted by Sheriff Green of Porter County, made one of the most important captures of counterfeiters in years. They arrested Henry A. W. Brown, a photographer of Valparaiso, and Theodore Hansen, a farmer’s boy, capturing the entire outfit for making money, together with sl, $2, and $5 bills of their work. Brown is said to be an anarchist and was intimate with Neebe and Parsons at the time of the Haymarket riots.

All Over the State. The Corbett-Fitzsimmons kinetoscope pictures, booked for Indiana theaters, have called down the wrath of Helen Gougar. The poultry establishment and barn of E. R. Jaques & Son, at Lebanon, were destroyed by fire. Six hundred head of poultry were burned. Unknown persons used dynamite t 6 blow up the warehouses and stables of the Mackey-George Lumber and Mining Company at St. Croix. , The South Bend grand jury has indicted George West for robbing the South Bend National Bank of $15,000. West is now a convict in the Michigan City penitentiary. Hamton McCosky, from Kentucky, attempted to board a train in motion at Jeffersonville and was thrown beneath the wheels, receiving injuries which will prove fatal. The working time of the 500 men in the Vandalia shops at Terre Haute was increased from eight to ten hours a day. This is the first time they have had the ten-hour day since 1893. Frank E. Alexander of Chicago, W. S. Morton of Montpelier, A. L. Aylesworth and Ed Cox of Hartford City, Harley Snyder of Petersburg, William Cox of Indianapolis, and Judge Cox of Peru, formed the Indiana Oil Company, with $50,000 capital. The leaders of the cutters and flatteners who withdrew from the National Window Glass Workers’ Association and the Knights of Labor three weeks ago in a body, issued calls for a national mass conference in Anderson for the purpose of effecting a national organization. Kokomo Division, No. 6, Uniform Rank, Knights of Pythias, has decided to disband and will enter no more drill contests. This famous division held the world’s championship for a number of years,'winning first place at the international tournament at Toronto, Canada, in 1886.

The Ingalls Land Company at Anderson has been placed in the hands of A. F. Bradley, as received on judgments rendered against Arthur B. Grover, the manager, who it is alleged, was transferring his property. The land company owns and covers the town of Ingalls, named after the Big Four president. The Economist Plow Company of South Bend has sold its entire plant and business to the Syracuse, N. Y., Chilled Plow Company. Involved in the change is the assumption of the Economist Company’s buildings by the Singer Manufacturing Company. In losing the big plow concern, South Bend will gain a new industry which will amply compensate for the loss. - Indianapolis has determined to take the initiative in the controversy that is expected to arise with the street car company over the surrender of the streets under the law declaring all street car franchises void after 1901. It has been determined to file an amended complaint in the litigation now pending, asking the court to require the company to show by what right it uses the streets and to enjoin it from such use after Jan. 1, 1901. James B. Wilson, of Indianapolis, editor of the People, who was sentenced to two years in the penitentiary for publishing obscene literature, has been notified by the United States district attorney that he has eighteen months yet to serve. Wilson was convicted i early two years ago, but took an appeal to the United States Supreme Court. Eighteen months passed before the appeal was decided, and he claims his term of imprisonment begun with his sentence and not with his actual incarceration. Fire destroyed the commission and produce establishment of A. Lowenthal & Son, at Evansville. The building was stacked with hides, tallow, feathers, rags and ginseng, and is a total loss. The loss is $50,000; insurance, $21,000. J. E. Gray, Pennsylvania ticket agent at Cambridge City, was assaulted and robbed. Bloodhounds were put on the trail of his assailant, who returned and gave himself up. He is Will Knox, colored. Sheriff Larsh has arrested Will Gray and Will Murphy on a charge of being implicated with Knox in the assault and robbery.