Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1898 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THt PAST WEEK. Monon Train Struck Their Carriage — Aerial Warship to Be Investigated . by the Government-They Nearly Killed Their Teacher. Death Ends Honeymoon. A fatal accident occurred at Terhune. Mr. and Mrs. John Moore and Miss Clara Brattain were returning from an entertainment, when a freight train on the Monon struck their carriage. Miss Brattain’s skull was fractured and she died. Mrs. Moore cannot recover. Mr. Moore was slightly injured. Mr. and Mrs. Moore were married two days before, and this was the first time they had been away fronj home together. Roberta’ Aerial Warship. William S. Roberts, an employe of the Hartford City Glass Company, has forwarded to Robert Craig, chief of the United States signal service, the plans and specifications of his aerial' warship. Roberts has been at work for fifteen years on the problem of aerial navigation. He visited Washington and succeeded in interesting the Government in his invention and later forwarded his plans to Washington at the request of the Secretary of War. Scholars Nearly Kill a Teacher. , William Miller, teacher of Woodland School, in Clay township, reproved a 13-year-old son of Bryant Robinson for refusing to read a Christmas essay. The lad attacked him with a knife. An older brother then struck the teacher on the back of the head with a stick of wood. Mr. Miller received a frightful scalp wound and his shoulder is broken. School was dismissed. The teacher may die. ___________ * Goes to Reform School. Charles Cane, charged with wife desertion, was taken to the reform school for boys from Anderson. Though married he was not beyond the reform school limit, being scarcely 19.: He has been confined in the institution and was out on parole. He is probably the first boy ever taken in for wife desertion. ' Killed by a Train.’ Winfield Haymond of Liberty township went to St. Paul to purchase his children Christmas presents. On his way home he was struck by a Big Four train and his body horribly mangled. Ten Brakemen Are Promoted. Ten Vandalia brakemen were called before Trainmaster Raidy at Terre Haute and notified that each one had been promoted to be a conductor. •• Within Our Borders. • John Kinnie committed suicide at Fort Wayne. At Huntington, Louis Meyer fell deal while eating breakfast. The Bowser Oil Tank Works nt Fcrt Wayne were damaged by fire to the extent of $35,000. Mrs. Seneca Chambers and child were fatally burned by an explosion of gun powder in their home near Anderson. At Brazil, John Smith, an old peddler, shot ami wounded Harry Joseph, proprietor of the Central Oil and Tank lii.e. John Classen, who lived near Reimer, committed suicide by taking poisou. Business troubles is the supposed cause. ‘August Johnson of Babcock was hurt in a runaway and gave his injuries no attention. Lockjaw set in and he is dead. M. K. Michaels was drowned In Devil’s Lake, near Butler. His l>ody was recovered about two hundred feet from shore. A warehouse at Hagerstown belonging to Cheesman & Co. was partly destroyed by fire. The loss is $3,000; insured for SI,OOO. W. Paul Stratton of De Pguw University won the medal by a close margin in the oratorical contest given by the Lyceum League of Sullivan. At South Bend, Charles S. Chapman and his wife died within fifty-five minutes of each other, the former cf apoplexy nnd the latter from pneumoniM. At Fortville, Miss Effie Webb, nged 20, committed suicide bj hanging herself with a rope in the smoke house. No cause for the rash act is known other than ill health. People who purchase meat in Mnrion now pay the regular prices ns existed before the retail stores of Armour & Co. were opened to meet the boycott of union labor. Armour’s stores have been closed. . While dressing a duck Councilman Jas. Marshall of Hartford City discovered two small gold nuggets In the fowl's craw. The duck is supposed to have swallowed them while searching for food in a nearby stream. Dr. E. Chittenden nnd Dr. M. V. Hunt, medical men known throughout Indiana, met nt the Big Four depot nt Anderson. There was a clash and with one accord both drew knives and started at each other. Friends separated the combatants. The Dobson gang of horse thieves was just ready to step out of the Anderson jnil the other night when Sheriff Starr accidentally discovered flint they had sawed the heavy steel liars. The saws were smuggled to them by the wife of the lender. Th<* remains of Albert Giersohki, a young Fort Wayne cigarmaker, were cremated at Lindenwood. He was taken to St. Joseph's hospital a week before suffering with n deranged stomach. He sank rapidly and died. The ’reading of his will revealed the fact that he hud swallowed IMiison with suicidal Intent because he find l»een jilted in love by Emma North, n domestic. The, will leaves n Cigarmakers' Union benefit policy of SSOO to the girl. This she bus refused to accept, as she snys she never cared for Giersohki and had frequently ordered him nwny from the house. The Krug-Reynolds company, wholesale grocers nt Lndhuuqsilis, have l*en forced to assign. The liabilities are fix tn I nt $350,000; the assets will reach $400,000. The cause of the failure was the effort of the company to do a large business on limited capital. Very Rev. William Corby, C. R. C., head of the order of tlw Holy Cross in the United States, chaplain of the Indian* comiunndery of the laiyal I-egion, postmaster nt Notre Dame and commander of Notre Dame Post, G. A. R., died nt Routh Bend after n ten days’ IllucM withi pneumonia.