Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1897 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE 1 PAST WEEK. Window Glass Manufacturer* and Workmen Agree to Arbitration—Old Soldier Run Down by a Train—Death, of a Strong Man. Agree to Arbitration. Secretary jj. D. Van Deventer of th» window glass manufacturers’ national wage committee has returned from Pittsburg, and a conference has been held at Anderson after the workers had signed the wage scale.and another agreement entered into, whereby all parties agree to leave to boards of arbitration any and all questions arising during this season. It will be necessary to get in every working hour when the plants get started, and this agreement-will insure that no plant will be closed down until July 1. Ben-Hur Cycle Plant Sold. In accordance with an order of court, {he property of the Central Cycle Manufacturing Company at Indianapolis, which went into the hands of a receiver in June of this year, was sold to the highest bidder. The purchaser was the Van Camp Hardware Company of Indianapolis, whose bid was $14,100. Chicago Men Buy a Charter. The Fort Wayne Insurance Company has been purchased by t a syndicate of Chicago capitalists, represented by Jacobs & Lowell of Chicago. The Chicago sym dicate will remove the headquarters to that city ami capitalize it at SIOO,OOO, local stockholders receiving stock. The name will be retained. New Honor for Prof. Amos Butler. Prof. Amos Butler of Brookville, for many years a member of the Academy of Science, was elected by the State Board of Charities to succeed E. P. Bicknell as secretary of the board. Mr. Bicknell will leave Jan. 1 to fill a similar office for the organized charities of Chicago. Strong Man Foust Is Dead. Benjamin Foust, a strong man an<J fighter of Elwood, died suddenly, having been seized with apoplexy. Foust was a man of magnificent physique and great courage and was never defeated in a rough and tumble combat.

Old Soldier Fatally Hurt. Peter Smith, an old soldier and pensioner near Mitchell, was run down by a train and fatally injured. He is about 60 years old and has been badly crippled since the war. Within Our Borders. Two hundred cases of measles are reported at Leiter’s Ford. John R. Trethway, one of the largest retail shoe dealers in Fort Wayne, made an assignment. Brakeman Fred Long, whose home was at Pulaski, Va., fell under an Erie train at Muncie and was decapitated. Enoch Clark, aged 70, a ■well-known citizen of Rushville, was killed instantly by a falling tree and his son Frank had a narrow escape. Frank Cisco of Clarksville died suddenly in a box car in the Monon yards at New Albany. He was returning from Bedford. Heart disease. The saloon at Fountaintown was wrecked. One end of the building was broken out, all the fixtures removed to the road and the liquors destroyed. Citizens of Paoli contracted with expert Anderson gas well men to go to Paoli at once and take charge of a gas well which has just been opened. Charles Getsinger, one of the participants in the pitched battle between farmers and chicken thieves at Muncie, ha* confessed extensive robbery of farmers. Fire destroyed the sawmill, slat-fence factory, brickyard and the mill of Armentrout & Childers, at Newmarket. The total loss will reach SIO,OOO, with little insurance. Charles Shearer of Hobart, tried for robbing farmers and the Baltimore and Ohio depot at McCool, was sentenced to from two to fourteen years in the penitentiary. At Indianapolis, Mrs. D. C. Huffman attempted to commit suicide by swallowing carbolic acid. A few weeks ago her daughter killed herself by the use of the same acid. y Hiram Ogden, aged 70, a respected farmer of Lancaster township, was found drowned in Big creek. He left home the day before to look after two animal traps and never returned. Inspector Fletcher, who was sent to Elwood by the Postoffice Department, found Elwood clearly entitled to free delivery, having more than the necessary population and the receipts of the office exceeding thg requirements, W. H. Trabue, who as a boy forty years ago, ran away from Kokomo, has recently died in New York and leaves his many Indiana relatives an estate of $3,000,000. For years he had been known as Col. Tribbitt of New Orleans,

Some excitement prevailed at Huntings ton over the finding of some gold in a creek a short distance west of the city. About two gallons of dist was brought in and panned out by an old miner, who found in it a quantity of gold dust. Gov. Mount has in manuscript the names of the men who, according to Peter Hostutler, made up the mob that lynched the five thieves at Versailles. It was Hostutler who. acting as a decoy- in the employ of Ripley County, brought about the arrest of the men who were lynched. Having failed to collect from the county $250 which he says he was promised in case he secured the capture of the thieves, he now appears in the role of the friend of the relatives of the men whose live® wore taken and proposes to do what be can toward bringing the lynchers to justice. Charles Caldwell, foreman of the Central Union Telephone gang, building a line from Logansport to Indianapolis, baa been missing from Kokomo for several days. Six hundred dollars sent him to pay the hands is also gone. Louis Serbern at White Cloud, Neb., is in New Carlisle in the interest of the Pottawatomie Indians. Serbern, who is j himself an Indian, claims to have a Government title to 160 acres of land adjoining the city. The load was granted! to his tribe in 1833 and is known as tit* Cingowa ciaim. The present holder M James Reynolds