Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1898 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Despondent Father Kills His Two Daughters Blacklisted Conductor Kills Himself—Saved the Baby’s Life and Lost Her Own. Crazed Father’s Awful Deed. 1 In the town of Garrett Fred Simons shot and killed instantly his two daughters, aged 2 and 4-years, and then shot himself. The deed was committed in his own home while his wife had stepped over to a neighbor's. Simons had been nn employe of tho Baltimore and Ohio Railroad for a number of years as ticket agent, but lost that position a short time ago. Later he was employed as car inspector gnd lost that position the day of the tragedy. He became despondent and, it is believed, lost entire control of his mind. . -

An Aunt’s Grand Sacrifice. In Indianapolis Miss Carrie Lynch, 19 years of age, was holding her sister’s infant on her lap before an open grate, when her clothes caught fire and she and the Infant were enveloped in flames. She caught the infant’s clothing in her hands and succeeded in smothering the flames and then threw the child on a bed. While thus engaged the flames extended to all parts of her clothing and she was so badly burned that she died. Suicide of Blacklisted Conductor. At Fort Wayne Elijah Rarig committed suicide by hanging in his barn, and his body was discovered the next morning, when his children accidentally strayed into tho barn. The body was frozen stiff. Despondency at not getting work was the cause. He was for years a conductor on the Nickel Plate, but was discharged on account of the A. It. tl. strike. Unknown Man Killed by a Train. At Greeneastle, an unknown man, bearing a letter addressed to Louis Graneman, Elwoodj care American Tin Plate Company, was killed by a train. The letter wns evidently from his sweetheart and was signed by Josie Trigg of St. Louis aud wns mailed from station “A” iu that city Jan. 13. ~ l - Suicide in a Depot. Siek and friendless, Grace Evans, 16 years old, died from the effects of a dose of morphine, taken with suicidal intent in tho ladies’ waiting-room of tho Union station, in Indianapolis. She went there to take the drug, thinking that no one would suspect tho cause of her drowsiness. Killed Doing Ills Duty. Merchant Policeman Lewis Keller was shot and instantly killed while endeavoring to arrest men who had entered McInerny & Dornn’s cigar store in the heart of South Bend. He is the second officer killed within six months while in the discharge of duty. > Within Our Borders. The Maule Coal Company at Princeton closed its mines. Seventy-five miners are out. At Huntington. William Cecil was stricken with paralysis und died in a few minutes. At Columbus, William Ivnigbt was released. The coroner found that his wife's death was accidental. Raymond Stay, traveling salesman from New Albany, wns run over by a train and killed at Bird’s Eye. Gov. Mount, determined to cheek mob law by summary examples, has begun his warfare on tho Ripley County lynchers. Ed Ebersole and William Van Devender, Huntington infirmary inmates, fought with clubs and an iron poker. Ebersole may not recover. The Godmnn Brnke Company, a steel industry, lias located at Anderson. The company will erect plants at once and start with 300 men. At South Bend, Frederick D. Harris of Denver contests his mother’s will, alleging that four sisters were given SBO,000, while he got $3,000. Dr. W. L. Dick, a prominent physician residing at Wooster, wus struck by the Fort Wayne and Warsaw accommodation on the Pennsylvania while driving over a country rond crossing. He was hurled fifty feet and killed instantly. Chnrles Ilnrlcy, warden of the State prison at Michigan City, says he would lie glad to have the bonrd of charities make an Investigation of the charges that have recently been preferred against the prison by ex-convicts. He denies that any cruelty is practiced. Justice Craig at Cross Plains rendered a verdict acquitting Hez Hughes, who was charged, in an affidavit filed by Gov. Mount, with complicity in the Versailles lynching. Governor Mount has appointed David M. Foster of Fort Wayne and C. J. Murphy of Evansville trustees of tho soldiers’ home at Lafayette, each to serve three years. Aaron Jones of South Bend was appointed a delegate to the pure food and drug convention nt Washington, I). C. Ephraim Pounds, wlto left Terre Haute when H years of age. forty years ago, was married to Mrs. Adu Watson, who was his childhood's playmate, and they have started for Loudon, where he will deal with a syndicate of capitalists in regard to his rich claims in the Klondike country. W. F. Huff, a burhor, living at Lucerne, was found Injured ami badly frozui, lying alongside the roadside about two mil<>s east of Metea. Mr. Huff had been in Rochester und started to drive home late iu the evening. Near the |>oint where lie wns found his horse wandered from the rond and became entangled iu i bnrl>ed-wire fence, and in attempting to extricate the animal Huff was injured *o painfully that he wns unable to seek assistance, and s|>cut the night in his buggy. The horse, in its struggles, became so badly entangled iu the wire that it fell and was drowned Iu n ditch by the roadside. • At Columbus, Mrs. William Knight died from a gunshot wound in the abdomen. Mrs. Knight lived but a few minutes after the shooting. The husband wns arrested. He protests his innocence and says his wife’s dentil wns due to an accident. About cue hundred sports from Evansville and Mount Vernon assembled a few miles from Evansville nt n pit, in which n number of fine birds contested. The betting ran high niul the affair broke mi In a free fight. Chris Corning of Evnnsville wns shot. He had his face cut open and his skull crushed. Others were also badly hurt.