Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1897 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OP THE PAST WEEK. * 1 Shoots His Inamorata and Then Him»elf—Hammond Man Dies of Lockjaw —Found Dead in a Well—He Decline* a Consulship. ' Murder and Suicide. A double tragedy occurred in Logan*» port, at the home of ex-Councilman Schaefer. Miss Laura Bopp, a domestic, was shot by Charles Ward, a young machinist, who then fired two bullets into his own body. One of the shots penetrated his heart and his death was instantaneous. The couple were engaged to be married. Shot by a Boy. At Maulridge Church, four miles west of Bedford, a fight occurred, resulting in the death of William Pierce and the serious wounding of his brother Walter. The Pierces were shot by Alonzo Roach, who went to Bedford and asked to be locked up. The tragedy is the result of a feud of long standing between the Pierce and who live in —the same ■ neighborhood. Declines the Consulship. James S. Dodge of Indianapolis has announced that he prefers the position of department commander of the Grand Army of the Republic in Indiana to the consulship at Nagasaki, Japan, and he sent to the State Department a letter declining the appointment. He is the third to decline the appointment. Lockjaw Kills Henry Huehn. Henry Huehn, former city treasurer and one of Lake County’s most prominent citizens, died at Hammond of lockjaw. Oct. 1 he stepped upon a rusty nail. He appeared to be recovering until three days before his death, when his jaws set. Took Away About $30,000. The Indianapolis police have not been able .to get any trace Of P. A. McDonald, the absconding “banker and broker.” An investigation indicates that he took about $30,000 out of the city.

Found Dead in a Well. Peter Cary was found dead in a well in Taylor township. It is supposed that he was cleaning the well and that his death was caused by “damps.” Bloody Fight Ends a Dance. At a dance at Smyrna there was a bloody battle in which one man was killed and several fatally hurt. All Over the State. All the business part of Center was burned. Loss, $16,000. Thirty sheep were burned to death on a Wabash train near Fairmont. Samuel Mattingly has disappeared from Washington, and is believed to have killed himself. The dry goods store of Onnemous & Owlin at Vincennes has been closed on an attachment. The new St. Edward's Roman Catholic Church, erected at Lowell at a cost of $6,000, has been dedicated. At Wabash, the phaeton of Mrs. M. A. Newman ran over Herman Simon and hurt him so that death resulted. Clyde Montgomery of Scottsburg fell beneath a train near Marshfield water station and was instantly killed. Judge Hiram Brownlee of Grant County created a record for himself by disposing of forty divorces in one day. George Doyle and James Tyler got a three-year sentence at Kokomo on the charge of stealing 40 cents’ worth of beer. Edward Stiffler, a young man of Selma, crazed by jealousy, killed himself by shooting in the presence of the girl he loved. Mrs. C. E. Burns, while fishing at Broad Ripple, found in a mussel shell a pearl weighing six and one-quarter carats and valued at SI,OOO. John Ferriter, who murdered Policeman Charles Ware of Indianapolis, has been taken to the prison at Michigan City to serve a life sentence.

At Princeton, Walter Raney, a young farmer, suddenly became demented. He imagines demons chase him. His mother and sister are now in the asylum. The Christian Church in Marshall has been formally opened and dedicated. More money was raised than was necessary to provide for all the indebtedness. Congressman C. L. Henry, who represents the gas belt district, has officially announced his withdrawal from the congressional race, which is already on. There are 400 cases of Texas fever in Vigo County, and while the death rate so far has not been heavy, there is danger of serious results from the epidemic. A “quart” shop at Greenwood gave the villagers much offense, and a charge of dynamite was placed under the building and the structure and contents were scattered broadcast. Mrs. Sallie Stier, residing east of New Albany, committed suicide by inhaling chloroform on account of a quarrel with her husband, Alonzp Stier. The suicide’s mother was a niece of president James Buchanan. James Ray, colored, was shot and probably fatally wounded at New Albany by Dr. Botany Jones, during a dispute over a doctor's bill. Jones tried to escape, but was caught. The bullet entered Ray’s spinal column, and he is partially paralyzed. Anderson has the littlest humane society in the country and the members have begun their first prosecution. They are tots whose ages run from 5 to 10 years. A week ago they found Patsy List beating his horse over the head. They worked up the case perfectly, and five of the tots appeared and filed an affidavit against him. They have all of their witnesses and evidence. Mrs. Emma Keesling, the divorced wife of Levi Keesling, committed suicide at her home in Mechanicsburg by taking carbolic acid. William Messinger, who shot and killed Charles Nelson, an inoffensive Stark County farmer, in the streets of San Pierre, Aug. 11, was captured by a posse of officers two miles north of Marion. Guy Tate, charged with placing seven sticks of dynamite in a brick kiln, on Benjamin Simpson's place, a few months ago for the purpose of destroying the plant, was acquitted in the Circuit Court at Brazil.