Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1897 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Death of One of the Btndebaker Broth* era—Bloodhounds Trailing a Criminal—Strawstack Fire Nearly Causes the Death of Two Children. ."’3 P. E. Studebaker Dead. Peter E. Studebaker, second vice-presi-dent, treasurer and general manager of the Studebaker Bros.’ Manufacturing Company at South Bend, died in the sanitarium at Alma, Mich., of heart disease. Children on a Burning Stack. Two sons of Daniel Bowman, living a few miles north of Hagerstown, while playing with matches set fire to a large straw stack. The children climbed to the top before the fire gained much headway. Suddenly the immense pile of straw was enveloped with fire, and the children were fast being suffocated. The older boy threw himself off the stack, and the younger was rescued by a neighbor. Her Scalp Torn Off. Kate Shane, while washing her hair in a laundry of the Indianapolis Surgical iftstitute, met with a serious accident. Throwing her hair above her head, it was caught in the shafting, and all the hair on the top of her head, with the skin, and all the skin on her forehead, the eyebrows and part of the nose and cheeks, was torn off. The woman will probably die. ’ Bloodhounds on the Trail. Joseph Horton shot Albert Dian at Amity. Horton called at Dima’s to buy some hogs. Dinn said it was too dark to look at them. Horton was intoxicated and a quarrel ensued, in which Dinn was shot. Bloodhounds have been placed on the trail, and Sheriff Weddle has ordered all suspicious characters arrested. A Miner Fatally Stabbed. Art Lents was fatally stabbed by Tom Walker in a quarrel at Montgomery. Both men are miners. All Over the States Windfall is to have an opera house. Silas Green shot himeelf at the home of his aged father in Fort Wayne. Bishop Ninde of Indiana dedicated ft new Methodist church at Anderson. Mrs. Banda Barely, aged 55, was killed at Wolfe lake in a runaway accident. Charles Roulden and Fred Cook were arrested at Frankfort, charged with counterfeiting. Several cases of scarlet fever have broken out in Brooklyn, and the public schools closed indefinitely. Flames caused a $5,000 loss to the Henry lumber plant and adjacent property at South Bend. Daniel Shene field, employed at the Holland radiator works in Bremen, was caught in one of the ratling machines and horribly mangled. Bread at Elwood for the past six years has been sold for 2 cents a loaf, but the price is now raised to 5 cents, the bakers having combined, At Franklin, a 5-year-old son of James F. Brown was instantly killed while playing in the barn. A hay frame fell on him, breaking his neck. The court has declared the office of Elkhart county treasurer vacant and Delos N. Weaver of Elkhart was at onoe elected to fill out the unexpired term. At Jeffersonville, the occupants of the county jail claim that the ghost of William Dailey, who committed suicide by hanging, comes back and haunts them. The Windsor Hotel, the leading hostelry of French Lick, was wrecked by fire. The loss will reach $40,000. No casualties among the guests or employes are reported. Judge Hefron of Washington holds that the law passed by the last Legislature fixing Jan. 1 as the time for county treasurers to take their offices is unconstitutional. Mrs. Mary Shannon is the only female section boss in the United States. She has a section between Hartford City and Muncie on the Lake Erie and Western Railroad. The Akron steam forge factory at Elwood and the land belonging to the forge company were sold to George W. Crouse and George W. Perkins of Akron, 0., for $30,000. Major Butler of Greenwood received notice from attorneys at Boston that an nnele had died, leaving $1,000,000 to be divided among the heirs. Mr. Butler will get $12,000. Charles E. Breckinridge and Miss Stella L. Wise, prominent young people of Knightstown, gave their friends “the slip” and were married in Rushville by Elder W. S. Campbell. • . ' The Monon Railroad Company has purchased the Chicago and Southeastern Railway and the proposed extension of the road from Anderson to Muncie, which is partially graded, will be completed at once. . At Patriot, during the past three weeks four barns have been mysteriously burned. Port Oaks of East Enterprise, while trying to save his horses, was dangerously burned. Circumstantial evidence points to incendiary work. At Martinsville, a verdict in the case of John Ferriter for the murder of Policeman Ware, April 27, was readied after the jury was out for seven hours, a verdict of murder in the second degree was rendered, fixing the penalty at imprisonment for life. Charles Sitzell, aged 30, committed suicide at his home in Donaldsonville by cutting his throat seven times with a razor. Sitzell was infatuated with Mrs. Carrie Lloyd, a comely widow, and some trouble arose between them and Mrs. Lloyd sent Sitzell about his business. Robert S. Scott is to be the next postmaster at Thornton. A serious shooting affray occurred at Asherville in which Mrs. George Church and Lewis Gumm were badly wounded. Gumm and Church are neighboring farm* era, and it is alleged that the trouble woe the result of a long-standing feud. A C., H. & D. train bad a close call at Arlington. The train is the limited mail and makes very fast time. An incendiary set fire to the bridge over Little Blue river at Arlington, and before the blase was noticed the tram was almost on the> trestle. The engineer turned on all steam and the limited passed over the burning bridge in safety.