Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1898 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Three Foreign Building and Doan Associations in Court—Receiver for Michigan City Street Railway—Example of Canine Sagacity. Receivers Are Named. The appointment of receivers for the Indiana affairs of the Security Building and Loan Association of Minneapolis, the National Home Building and Loan Association of Bloomington, 111., and the Equitable Building and Loan Association of Bloomington, 111., by the courts of Madison County, is but the beginning of an action which will wind up the affairs of most foreign companies doing business within the borders of this State’. • The associations all have large capitalizations, hut in each case it has been the stockholders who have brought the action for receivers, and have alleged’that the affairs of the companies were in very bad condition. Receiver at Michigan City. •Tudgo Biddlq of the Circuit Court At Michigan City appointed I. I. Spire receiver of the Lake Cities’ Street Railway Company, Russell Harrison’s road. The appointment was made upon the application of the John Davis Company of Chicago, dealers in machinery. The receiver is now in control. The company has the city lighting in connection with the street railway. The assets and liabilities are unknown. Dog Died for His Master. George Taylor, boss carpenter at the Ehvood plate glass factory, was awakened by a little dog, which slept in the kitchen, scratching and whining at his bedroom door. Mr. Taylor arose and found the bouse on fire. He and his mother escaped, but nearly all their household goods were consumed. The little dog, which had -probably saved the lives of Mr. Taylor and his mother, perished in the flames. Fatal Crossing Accident. James Brown, 14-year-old son of David Brown, living a half-mile east of Augusta, was struck by an east-bound Big Four train near that place and Instantly killed. The boy was thrown sixty feet from the crossing and his skull crushed. The horse was thrown twenty-five feet further on the opposite side of (he track. Trouble Causes Suicide. Dr. E. C. Johnsou, for twelve years a practicing physician in Hammond, committed suicide by shooting himself in the right temple. Death was almost instantaneous. Domestic troubles recently led Mrs. Johnson to secure a divorce. Dr. Johnson visited her and a quarrel ensued, ending in the tragedy. Within Our Borders. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Brummitt of Furnessville observed their golden wedding anniversary, A strike occurred at the Elwood bottle factory, and the employes quit work on account of too much wnre off. The Sunday school children of all the Anderson churches forwarded to the Cuban junta, New York, sll7 in behalf of Cuba libre. Mrs. Sarah Pogue, living near Fairbanks, while returning from a neighbor's, was suddenly stricken with heart disease and died. At Princeton, Daniel Myers took morphine. Myers is in love with a Miss Bass, but she does not reciprocate the affection, lie mny recover. John Mclntosh of Logansport has been taken to the Michigan City penitentiary to serve a life sentence for killing Saloonkeeper Frank Pottmcyer. Investigation revealed the fact that grave robbers had stolen the body of the lute Jona Fertig, widely known and father of Attorney Fertig of Nobleaville. The nnnunl March combination sale of harness horses by Fleming & Son, at Terre Haute, this year will have between 250 aiul 350 horses to dispose of. Soul Rudy, aged 17, who ran awny from his home at Hagerstown two weeks ago, was killed by the cars at Terre Haute while trying to beat his way back to Hagerstown. , I. N. Miller and G. 11. Wood of the Kokomo Pulp and Paper Company have taken a five years’ lease on the plant of the Howard Paper Company and will put the concern in operation to its full capacity at once, giving employment to forty men. Joseph CantreH, Jr., of Williamsport jumped off a fast freight near the depot at Attica, resulting in crushing his skull. When found an hour later Cantrell was dead, lie wns übout 21 years old. George Fry, a Columbus farmer, prayed earnestly for death ns a relief for the pain caused Vy cancer of the ear, and his supplication wns answered by almost instunt death. A post-mortem examination ■bowed that the cancer had eaten into his brain. Will Slavin of St. Louis and Charles Fowee got into an altercation at a saloon near Vincennefcand Slavin shot Fowee twice. One ofthe bullets struck Fowee in the mouth, knocking out five teeth and glancing off. Slavin escaped by rowing a bout across the Wubnsh river. At Anderson, Thomas Carey, aged 21 years, wns committed to the Richmond asylum by a commission on lunacy. It was found that his mind had been affected to such an extent by nicotine taken in by cigarette smoking thnt he is perhaps hopelessly deranged. Mrs. William Bell of Millville committed suicide. She was 40 years old and her husband, who is 80, is an invalid. He is unable to leave his bed and is almost helpless. His wife had quarreled with her daughters. She hanged herself with a rope to her husband's bed. He witnessed the net, lint wns tumble to inform any oqe of the deed for fifteen minutes. The 8-year-old son of George Berry of Austin bored holes in a stick of wood and filled them with powder, which ho ignited. with the result that hi* eyes were blown out, a finger blown off and Ills life is despaired of. The First' Presbyterian Church, tho largest in New Albany, was totally destroyed by fire. The total loss will be $50,000. The buildlfig was insured for $20,000. The fire was on used by a defootive flue. The First National Bank building, adjoining, wan damaged to tho extent of $2,500, .alsa covered by inaur-i ante. v