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

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Free Rural Mail Delivery Experiment in Delaware County- Preferred Death to Arrest-The Bridegroom Failed to Appear—Murderer Cuts His Throat. Rural Free Delivery. An interesting trial of rural free delivery is about to be made in Delaware ;County. Starting ftom the four postoffices of Daleville, Albany, Eaton and Eelma, especially appointed letter carriers will establish a daily free delivery and collection service over carefully selected routes, which will take in as far as possible every farmer or other resident within a radius of many miles from these points. Cuts His Throat. diaries Pinkerton, the murderer of his nephew of the same name, who was sentenced to life imprisonment, committed suicide in the jail at Laporte by cutting Ills throat from ear to ear. It is supposed his wife, who has been allowed to occupy the cell'with him and to go in and out freely, furnished him with the knife. Groom Failed to Appear. William Vanness and Miss Ida Smock, highly connected Elwood young people, were to have been married, and all arrangements had been completed for the event. The groom failed to show up and investigation later showed that he had returned the license and declared the engagement off for some unknown cause. Death Before Arrest. • Frank Hayden of Gaston, who escaped from jail at Muncie, was captured in ,Remington, but as the sheriff cornered him at the home of William Hammond with the remark: “I’ll not further disgrace my people,” Hayden pulled a revolver and sent a bullet through his left lung. linprocements for Hobart. The Town Board of Trustees of Hobart have accepted the proposal of John P. Dales of Crown Point for the construction of water works and an electric light plant at tho cost of $20,500. The plant will be completed this year. Farmer Fish Shoots Himself. Herbert J. Fish, a farmer near Valparaiso, attempted suicide by shooting himself through the head. The bullet entered his right temple and lodged back of the lent eye. He is alive, but blind. No cause is known for the act. All Over the State. The law on quail in Indiana has expired. Birds are reported plentiful. Elwood has taken the first steps toward holding a gas belt exposition next fall. Judge Vaughn of the Blackford Circuit Court has decided that the city of Montpelier cannot sell its public square. 1 A tank containing 250 barrels of oil at the Harry Carrell oil well, a mile and a half west of Hartford City, exploded. No one was hurt.

, The new Presbyterian Church of Edwood was damaged, by fire, the heaters Ibecoming overheated. Loss, $1,000; fully covered by $1,500 insurance. ! George Smith and Thomas Dodge fought over a game of dice at Greenville, and Dodge was shot near the heart and (fatally wounded. Smith made his escape. Orson Wheeler, aged 83 years, at one time one of the most prosperous farmers in that section, died in the Porter County jpoorhouse, where he had been an inmate •several years. James Lynch, known as a habitual drunkard for eighty years, who-would ■have been 119 years old had ho lived forty-seven days, died at the county infirmary at Muncie. .. Albert Carpenter of West Virginia, who was in Brazil in search of employment, was struck by an east-bound passenger train on the Vandalia and so badly injured that he will die. The Marion lodge of Elks, by a practically unanimous vote, has decided to ignore the order of the Grand Exalted Ruler to expel James Fitzsimmons under penalty of losing its charter. State Senator Thomas E. Ellison of Fort Wayne resigned as a member of the board of managers for the State reformatory at Jeffersonville. Representative W. 11. Eichhorn of Bluffton is named to succeed him. St. Paul’s Catholic Church, a magnificent building, was dedicated at Marion. Bishop Rademacher was the celebrant, aqd the sermon was delivered by the Very Reverend Andrew Morrissey, presff lent of Notre Dame. Assistant Postmaster General Heath has made arrangements for the co<.isolklation of postoffices in the vicinity of Indianapolis, in conformity with the greater Indianapolis plans. Fifteen additional carriers will be allowed. Clarence Richwine, a mail carrier dismissed from the service with others by Postmaster Albert Small of Anderson, was reinstated by the civil service and postoffice commissions, and it is understood that similar action will be taken in the cases of the others. Gov. Mount is being urged to call out the militia to stop the investors in oil lands from wasting natural gas. The contest is between the gas companies and the citizens of the State, who want the gas saved, on the one side, and the Investors in oil lands on the other. Mrs. Nellie Brooks, en route from her home in southeast Missouri to her parents’ home, about eighteen miles from Birdseye, surprised the stage driver early in the evening by telling him she “would not go a bit further,” and requestir« him and a lady passenger who was ajong to make a pallet for her in the stage. The request was complied with, and one hour later a pair of bouncing twin bqys were added to the list of passengers. TBe monument erected by Boone County to the memory of Arthur Andrews, the soldier of the revolution, who lies buried in the Hopewell Cemetery, has been uuiveiled. The dedication of the Liberty township high school has taken place. The building, containing four rooms, is built of pressed brick and Bedford cot stone and finished in doty ash. Winfred, son of the Rev. H. E. Moon of Portland, was assaulted by an unknown person and is hovering between life and death. Bloodhounds on account. at rain missed the trail of his