Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1898 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Driven to Death by MaUcious^tumors -One Man Killed by a Boiler Explosion Convict Accidentally Breaks His Neck-Stabbed by a Companion. 7 i Trouble Drove Him to Death. W. A. Meyer, a hat dealer in Fort Wayne, hanged liinmylf in the cellar of his store. His stock had been damaged by fire a few days before. The insurance adjusters called at the store and found it locked. They sent for Mrs. Meyer and she unlocked the store. She went down cellar nud there found Meyer’s body hanging by a rope from a gas pipe. Meyer was despondent over a report that certain persons believed that he had set fire to his store. Big: Boiler Explosion. The Victor mine of the Parke County * Coal Company, near Fontanet, was the scene of a serious explosion. A mammoth boiler used nt the mine exploded, killing George Markle, the engineer, outright. Two other men, whose names are unknown, were seriously injured. Markle’s body was blown a distance of IOG feet and mutilated in a horrible manner. Escaped from Sullivan Jail. Daniel Peak, forger, and Charles Lancaster, attempted murderer, made their escape from the jail at Sullivan. They procured fine steel saws and sawed the hinges from the cell door and pried them open. They then sawed two of the iron bars from a window in the jail, from which they made their escape. Lancaster was caught iu a barn near the city. Accidental Death of a Convict., “Doc” Hall, a convict from Martinsville, was found lying,on the floor of his cell with his neek broken, at the Jeffersonville reformatory. He had complained of ty*ing ill and weak, nnd was excused from work. It is supposed that he attempted to rise from his cot, and, being so weak, fell and received the fatal injury. Klondike Near La Porte. A sensatioh has been caused by the finding of gold on the farm of John Jones, northeast of La Porte. The metal was found Iu considerable quantities in drilling a well. Particles were assayed by local experts, and a sample has been sent to the State geologist at Indianapolis for an expert opinion. Boy Stabbed in a Quarrel. Willie Liudawood, aged 17, and Glenn Ralston, aged 18, of Crawfordsville, quarreled on their way home from a meeting of the Salvation army nnd Lindawood stabbed Ralston several times in the side, leaving his knife sticking in the flesh. The boy is badly injured. Within Our Borders. Peter Roth of Shelb.vville died from injuries received in a lull. At Elwood Emmett Limpus fell from a fifty-foot ladder and was killed. Harry Warvel, aged 18, has mysteriously disappeared from North Judson. Daniel Meltzer, a prominent Shelbyville farmer, died while at his breakfast table. ItolK>rt Fisher, n farmer, aged <57 years, living near Greensburg, committed suicide. The State Board of Agriculture fixed the third week in September as the time for holding the Stute fair. At Fort Wayne, Thomas Mannix dropped dead. lie had been connected with the’mail service many years. Near Pierceton, James Norris, a farmer, committed suicide in his barn, hacking his neck to strings with two razors. At Princeton, Otto Anderson attempted to commit suicide l(y taking an overdose of chloroform. He and his young wife had qunrreled. Jus. Woods, n worker at the National tin plate plant at Anderson, was found dead in bed. It is thought that his henrt was affected. At Butler Andrew Casebeer, aged 92 years, was granted a divorce from his wife, Mary Jane Casebeer, who is a few years younger. The truant officers of LaPorte County united in an appeal to the Board of County Commissioners for the establishment of a home for incorrigible school children. The new residence of Elmer Ramie, in n suburb of Muncie, was destroyed by fire, causing a loss of $1,500; fully insured. A natural gas jet caused the fire. Some of tin* lending farmers of Peru are taking advantage of the oil boom that hns Ik*cu going on there stir six months and lire using the crude product to feed their herds of swine. Oran Yin Russell, a well-known Elwood man, while intoxicated, swallowed a large* dose of arsenic, unknown to anyone. He died in five hours. Russell leaves a young wife and two children. At Terre Haute Mrs. William Stewart was fatally scalded while her husband was helping her carry a wash boiler filled with boiling water. A handle entne off ami the water poured over her. Mrs. Jennie Fnltze, a young married woman of Martinsville, swallowed two and a half grains of morphine with suicidal intent. A physician’s prompt service has made it possible for her to live. A stranger was discovered robbing risnns of students on College hill, Valparaiso. lie was captured und gave his name ns Frank Moore of New Orleans, but later it was learned that he was James Vanhyde of Ohio. The Indiana Labor Commission effected a settlement for one year among the thousand workmen in the Elwood and Kokomo plate glass plants nnd the Pittsburg Glass Company. The works at Elwood have resumed o|M*ratldiiM. Harry G. Gibson of Abbydell© was convicted at Mississippi City, Miss., of the murder of Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Pnrkhnrst of Oskaloosa, lowa, at Back Hay, a suburb of Hiloxi. on the night of Oct. 21 Inst, nud sentenced to be hanged on March 8 next. A panic prevailed for a time at the county infirmary, three miles from Huntington. The hospital building caught fire, and the fifty inmutes became terror stricken. Several were slightly injured nud bifnied, but none seriously. The city* tire department extinguished tK» fljv. Th» Vss is $1,090, fully insured.