Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1897 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THB PAST WEEK. Old Resident Killed on a Railway i Trestle—Rich Oil trike Near Hartford City- Had Hie Head Cnt Off in a t awmill. Killed on a Trestle. Joseph Knowles, an old citizen and formerly a merchant of Logansport, was struck and instantly killed on the old canal trestle north of town by a Panhandle train. Knowles had lain down by the side of the track to allow the train to pass, and, raising up too soon, was struck by a car step and thrown down the embankment. His back was broken and hip erushed. Kills Himself on His Wife’s Grave. John M. Buley, a wealthy farmer residing near New Albany, committed suicide on his wife’s grave by shooting himself through the heart. Despondency occasioned by his wife’s death caused him to commit the act. He was accompanied to the cemetery by his brother, who was a witness to the deed, but the latter did not suspect his brother’s intentions. f hoots His Landlord. Robert Lane, Wwfco rents Thomas Goode's farm, seven miles scatb of Frankfort, quarreled with his landlord over the division of the' corn crop. Goode was shot twice, a nd'the doctors say he cannot live. Lane surrendered' to the officers, claiming his act was in self-defense. Town ! liu-rnel Oat. Boys celebrating Halloween are reapena.ble for the destruction by fire of almost flie entire business- portion of the town of Fort Branch. A lighted cigarette thrown among some rubbish: in the rear of Silas Gillespie’s implement store started the fire. The loss is SBO,OOO. Ftruck Rich Oil Well*. The Manhattan Oil'Company hos-struek n big oil well one mile and a half west of Hartford City, im wildcat territory, and has secured leases on 1,500 acres of land. The field gives promise of outstripping the famous Peru field. Rain Helps Winter Wheat. Rain has fallen throughout Indiana, and the farmers still have hope that the winter wheat crop may be saved. They say that with two or three weeks of warm weather it will be prepared to withstand the winter. Lost His Head in a f awmill. P. A. Spraggins, a day laborer at Wiggs’ sawmill, near Ayreshire, accidentally fell under the saw, his head being almost severed from his body. Spraggins was unmarried, and abotit 21 years old. Fent to Prison for Life. Charles Pinkerton, Sr., was found guilty at Laporte of the murder of his nephew and son-in-law, Charles Pinkerton, Jr., and his punishment fixed at imprisonment for life.

All Over the State. At Frankfort, Eunice Mikesell, aged 14 years, was killed by a Lake Erie passenger train. The frame depot at Taswell, on the Air Line, was destroyed by fire, with all its contents. A laborer working in a gravel pit was buried under twenty tons of gravel in a landslide at Huntington. The bam on John Hamon's farm, in Orange township, Rush County, was destroyed by fire. Loss, $2,500; no insurance. The new public school building at Odon caught fire from the furnace of the building, but the structure was saved. Loss, SSOO. Miss Mary Krahl, an estimable young woman of Cambridge City, was found dead in the canal and it is thought that she jumped into the water from the locks. The Mentone Box Company factory burner!. Loss is $20,000; insurance, $3,000. William Mannen, a prominent berry farmer, fell dead from heart disease caused by excitement. In Lafayette, St. Mary’s Catholic Church was pillaged by thieves. Tabernacle receptacles on the altar w</re broken into with chisels, decorated panels ruined and sacred vessels removed. Chesterfield Christians have purchased the old church in that place and dedicated it. An orthodox church has never been successful in the village, it being the great spiritualistic center of the State. At Frankfort, Thomas Good, who wm shot in a fight by Robert Lane, a neighbor, is dead. .Just before dying Good sent for a magistrate and. made affidavit that Lane had shot him without provocation.

The new automatic bar mill, constructed by the American Tin Plate Company at a cost of SIOO,OOO, has been in operation at Elwood, and the first bars ever made in central Indiana were manufactured. A well-dressed man, registering as J. P. Stanley, came to Elkhart and stopped at the Hotel Golden. The next morning he was found dead in bed, evideugy having died of apoplexy. Nothing is "mown of him. A Lake Erie and Western passenger train was wrecked by the derailing switch being open at the crossing of the Pennsylvania Company, two miles southwest of Fort Wayne. Beyond a shaking up, no one else was injured. Mrs. Webb Gaylor, while out with a party of Halloween masqueriders at Frankfort."was assaulted by George Maddox, a wagonmaker, who struck her with a club. Maddix was arrested, a*ad claims that the woman first assaulted him with a club. On a recent morning, when the employes of the E. & R. Railroad went to the engine in their yards in Beds« rd, they found John Welch lying dead in the engine. Welch had just taken charge as night watchman. Heart disease was the cause of his death. In the Porter Circuit Court in tje $5,000 breach of promise case of Miss Clara Borg of Chicago vs. Frank Hwsaison, a prominent Porter County farmer, the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff in the sum of $725. Mrs. Ab Kinnaman of Olia was probably fatally burned. Her husband, on hearing the dinner bell ringing, to the dwelling. He found Mrs. Kimjgman on the floor with nearly every shre< of clothing burned from her body. Nothing is known about how her clothing caught fire, but it is thought an explosion of natural gus did iu