Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1898 — INDIANA INCIDENTS [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE. / PAST WEEK, Mysteriously Slain in His Cab-Killed by a Slot Machine-At-tempt to Rob a Freight Train—Murderers Sentenced to Imprisonment. Engineer Slain in His Cab. S. 11. Gipe, an engineer employed by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, died very mysteriously in his cab on the Union tracks at Indianapolis. When found he was dead from bruises on his body and at the base of the brain, and a deep gash was also cut in his throat. The fireman said that he was on his own side' of the cab and did not know that Gipe was hurt till he failed to answer signals. Fatal Slot Machine. Jacob Slusser, a guest of Hotel Neufer at Goshen, met a singular fate. The hotel gas meter is controlled by a eoin in the slot attachment. Slusser went to bed,' Waving the gns in his room lighted, and while he slept the pressure on the illuminaut became exhausted. When the hotel attendants dropped the necessary coin into the meter the pressure filled Sluaser's room with the poisonous vapor. Booten’e Slayers Convicted. The jury in the Booten murder case at Princeton brought in a verdict of guilty and providing that Martin Cross be confined in the State prison at Michigan City for the term of fourteen ears, and that Benjamin Putnam be confined twen-ty-one years in the State reformatory’ at Jeffersonville. Freight Train Held Up. An attempt wus made to hold up a local freight train on the Michigan division of the Big Four near Summitville. Five masked men presented revolvers at the crew and attempted to gag them. The crew showed fight and several shots were fired, when the men took to the woods. Zinc Works to Be Started Up. E. W. Humphrey and John W. Ludwig of tho Phoenix spelter works at Wenona, . 111., have secured possession of the Indiana zinc works at Upland, which were partially destroyed by fire,some time ago, and will proceed to put the plant in operation at once. ..Cast Off Their Jewelry, At Laketon a revivalist has worked upon some of his hearers till they have thrown away their society emblems, while a few impressionable women have cast off their gold rings and other ornaments of value.

Within Onr Borders. John Armstrong was accidentally shot and killed while rabbit hunting near Noblesville. Tho Edgerton woolen mills at Butler were destroyed by fire, the loss reaching $5,000. At Shelbyville, William 11. Creed died of blood poisoning from a scratch of his finger nail. Fifteen cars wore wrecked in n collision between freight trains at Converse, but no one was injured. The Wright Shovel Company of Anderson started a carload of shovels to Hong Kong, to be jised in Government work. Theodore Prowl, who was shot by a. guard during n fight on the Tolleston Gun Club’s grounds, has secured a verdict of $5,000 damages against the club." The youngest bride in the West is Mrs. Otis Hutte, who was Miss Rhoda Cox of Elwood. She was only 12 years old when she became the. bride of Otis Hutte of Findlay, O„ who is 18. Rev. Earle M. Ellsworth, pastor of Grace M. E. Church, Springfield, 0., and Miss Dorothy Cottrell Carson of Piqua, 0., eloped to Marion mid were married by Rev. J. < M. Driver, D. D. A horse owned by City Treasurer Wey of Pern kicked n mad dog to death and then had to be killed because he developed symptoms of hydrophobia, ns a result of bites received in tho tight. John Mundy, n prisoner in the Knox County jail at Vincennes, awaiting trial for murder, has diphtheria. The prison is strictly quarantined and no prisoners are admitted and none can be released. Passenger train No. 46 on the Fort Wayne and Cincinnati division of the Lake Erie and Western collided with a flat car loaded with steel bars just south of Muncie. Five persons were injured. Uri Decker of Princeton, aged 10, was sentenced to six years in the penitentiary for forgery and attempting to kill Marshal Murphy of Patoka. Decker’s tender years saved him from more severe punishment.

The venerable Enoch Thompson and wife, near Veedersburg, were assaulted by a masked robber in their home, maltreated and beaten, after which they were fastened in a closet while the robber plundered ut his leisure. Four prisoners escaped from the Gibson County jail by cutting a hole in tho wall over one of the windows. The prisoners who obtained their lilsTty are Dr. John Hudspeth, Austin Jones, Martin Hobbs and Henry Land. By a majority opinion handed down by the Supreme Court the right of the State tax commissioners to list for assessment 1 ami taxation paid-up au<l non-forfeitablo life insurance |xdicies was denied and tho question will be relegated to the Legislature. ElijulrFord and 11. L. Fisher, two wellknown farmers and stock buyers of Crawford County, 111., were held up and roblx‘d a short distance west of Vincennes. The two mon were badly pounded. In their haste the robbers overlooked $l7O on Ford. The joint committee representing the State Ron rd of Education and the nonState colleges met at Indianapolis and discussed the differences between the two educational factions. Overtures were made by csch side, but no agreement was entered into. James Munroe and Charles Bird, tho convicts in the Michigan City prison who were reported missing, were found in a famished condition. The mon were in hiding under one of tiro prison buildings, where they had remained three nights and three dnys without food. The town of Daleville wns given another severe shaking by an explosion, window panes falling out and buildings seeming ready to topple over. The trqubl* was causisl by a natural gas explosion at B. F. Lcftcr's tile factory, in which John Rinker wns killed aod twq otboc dangerously injured, " 4