Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1898 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. » i Anderson Man Shoots His Wife and Himself — Waste Land Alone tha Kankakee to Be Reclaimed Boy Hanes Himself for Fun—Bie Fire, Bloody Deed at Anderson, Neighbors broke open the house of Jas. Harrington at Anderson. In tho center of the parlor lay the body of the man with a bullet wound in the right temple. Kneeling at a chair near a window as if praying, but dead, was the wife. Her head was resting on her clasped hands. A wound in her right temple told the story. There was blood over everything. It is thought that Harrington killed his wife, and then, realizing what he had done, shot out his-own brains, first locking all doors and drawing all curtains in the house. Harrington was subject to violent outbursts of temper.

Bottle Works Fire. The fruit-jar factory of Wilson & Mo Culloeh at Marion was visited by a destructive tire. One of the feed pipes burst, the gas took fire from tho engine and in a moment the engine room was filled with flame. In a short time the stamping works were apparently a total wreck. The main plant, in which the jars are made, was saved. The estimate of the loss is from $30,000 to $35,000, on which there ia insurance amounting to $18,500. Will Reclaim Waste Lands. The Kankakee Reclamation Company, which proposes to reclaim from 50,000 to 75,000 acres of land in the counties of Porter, Lake, Laporte, Starke, Jasper and Newton, along the Kankakee river, has been incorporated under the State laws. It is the purpose of the company to make the river ns straight as possible and remove all debris and then cultivate the land for sugar beet raising. Little Boy Hangs Himself. Herbert Stanley, the little 12-year-old •Bon of I’. S. Stanley, a prominent and wealthy farmer residing one mile west of Nottingham, attempted suicide. He placed a loop of a rope which was suspended to a beam of the barn around his neck, then jumped from a ladder. His brother ran at once to the house and informed the mother, who reached the lad before he was strangled. Death of Judge Claypool. Judge Solomon Claypool died at Indianapolis. For many years he had stood in the very front rank of the great lawyer* of Indiana and had been employed on either one side or the other of nearly all of the most prominent legal battles of the last quarter of a century. He aided in the prosecution of tho notorious Sim Coy.

. Within Our "Borders. Henry F. Elliott was found dead in bed at Lincoln. Kokomo hns just completed a new high school building. The city schools of Cahrleston have been closed on account of a prevalence of diphtheria. At Shelbyville, Edward Wilcoxen quarreled with his wife, aud Mrs. Wilcoxen drowned herself. The Lakoton flouring mills were destroyed by fire. The loss on the mill and machinery is SII,OOO. The stove foundry of Bridge, Ford ds Company of Louisville will probably be moved to New Albany. Harry, the 7-year-old son of Sol Addison, was drawn into a sewer at Elwood during a rainstorm and drowned. At Vincennes, William Osterliage murdered hns wife, then placed the revolver to his head and blew his brains out. At Crawfordsville, the jury in the case against William Thompson for shooting his wife, returned a verdict of guilty. In Spice Valley township a natural gas well formed by nature has just been discovered on the farm of C. W. Bryant. The electric clocks owned by the Western Union Company in Columbus were ruined b.v tlie crossing of tlie city’s electric wires with those of the Western Union. Morton Hudson, son of Col. R. N. Hudson of Terre Haute, who was prominent in public affairs in Indiana during his life, is under arrest at Tenauciogo, Mexico, on the charge of murder. A. V. Ward, who is under arrest at Terre Haute for passing a forged check, surrendered the diamond jewelry he obtained frm C. I). Peacock, a Chicago jeweler, with a forged check. ' James Dickey of Kokomo, one of the oldest employes of the Toledo, St. Louis and Kansas City Railroad, was found dead, sitting upright in his chair. Heart disease was the cause of his demise. Mrs. L. C. Dillman arrived in Spokane, Wash., from Terre Haute, to meet her husband, and gri*atly til her surprise found that she had been divorced over a year ago, and that Mr. Dillman had remarried. John 8. Moore, n “drummer” for an Evansville tobacco house, was found dead in bed at the Acme Hotel, EvnnSviffe. It la reported to he a ease of suicide. He resided in Clarksville, Tenn., whert* he has a wife nud two children. At New Jjondou, an insane woman burned herself and her 10-year-old daughter to death. In the absence of other members of the family Erast us Tucker poured kerosene upon the girl, her only child, applied a match to the saturated clothing uiui then pushed her into n closet and bolted the door. The mother then threw herself u[x>n a pile of burning straw in her own room ami perished in the flames, the straw being taken from the bed. Tlie girl broke down the door of her flaming prison and ran across the street to a neighbor's to rail for help. The house was saved. Mrs. Tucker had been mildly insane for a year, brought on by religious exciteuient. Charles Welch, n liveryman of Farmersburg, has sued the Evansville and Terre llnute Railroad for injuries he received when the dead body of William Bostick, who was killed in Fnrmorsbtfrg some weeks ago, struck limn nnd broke bis (Welch’s) leg. At Colutubul, the jury in the ease of Noble I. Burilge against Frederick Altemyor and wife, his father nnd mother-in-law, for the nlienntion of his wife's affections, win out of the court room Just ten minutes when it returned a verdict for the defendants. The case came from J&ckso« County on a change of ventw, J