Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1898 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. A Terre Haute Young Man Released from a Mexican Prison —Woman. Charged with Trying *o Murder Her Daughter-In-Law-Found Dead. Freed from a Mexican Jail. Mre. R. N. Hudson of Terre Haute ha* received a telegram informing her of the release of her son, Morton, who had been held in a Mexican jail on a charge of murder. Several weeks ago Hudson and a companion, when riding into Mexico from their ranch in Texas, met two highwaymen and shot them. Fearing they would not get justice in a Mexican trial, they hid for a day or two, and this fact caused some feeling against them. 'Ex-Secretary of the Navy Thompson, W. R. McKeen, Congressman Faris and Senator Fairbanks enlisted the State Department at Washington in Hudson’s behalf, and Minister Powell Clayton asked the Mexican Government to expedite the case. Hudson and his companion were well treated while in jail. Woman Charged with Murder. Mrs. Sarah Shankenberger was arrested at Frankfort, charged with the murder of her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Ed. Shankenberger. Mrs. Shankenberger died 8 few days ago. She made an ante-mortem statement, expressing the belief that dhe had been systematically poisoned by her mother-in-law. The contents of her stomach were taken to Dr. Hurty of Indianapolis for analysis, and his report wa» that he had found arsenic in deadly quantities. Mrs. Shankenberger accepted her arrest coolly and denies guilt. The dead woman’s husband is a member of the United States navy, on board the cruiser Minneapolis. He has arrived homj. The accused was committed to jail without bail. Widow In Fear of Death. When Mrs. Norton of Terre Haute returned to her home from the .funeral of her husband she found her 17-months-old child dead. When she left the house there was no indication of approaching death. At the time Norton was dying the dial on the side of the court house clock, which could be seen from the house, darkened until the time could not be read. Immediately upon his death the shadow passed away. The widow now believes there is the same fate in store for herself and is prostrated. Found Dead Near His Home. Thomas Stall, 68 years old, a veteran of the civil war, was found dead within fifty feet of his home in Indianapolis. He had been Btruck on the left temple, the blow causing concussion of the brain. The fact that his clothes and hands were free from dirt, that the ground was undisturbed an£ that there were no signs of a struggle suggests the theory that he was murdered elsewhere and that his body was placed near his home by the murderers. Within Our Borders. A $1,660 brick parsonage is being built by the Christian Church at Edinburg. City Clerk Daniel S. Monaghan of Washington has mysteriously disappeared. Oscar Fawber, 26, unmarried, was killed at Kokomo by a Panhandle passenger train. Joseph Heber, a wealthy farmer of Hcxlt township, aged 80 years, died suddenly. t,

Rev. T. J. Shuey, pastor of the Edinburg Christian Church, has resigned and will locate In Seattle, Wash. The new Hotel Davis at Sullivan woe opened Thursday with a reception to one hundred citizens of that city. . A etrnnge man and woman rifled the safe of A. J. Haworth at Greentown, taking SIBO cash and other valuables. Greensburg will hold a big free street fair for six days, beginning Monday, Oct. 3. The Newby family held its annual reunion near Cadiz Sept. 1. Representatives from every town in the county were present. James Mills, a prominent grocer ant dry goodß merchant of Knightstown, has made an assignment for the benefit of his creditors. At Anderson, Thayer Thomas, Forest Burton and Ernest Hunt, 7-year-old boys, have been arrested charged with wholesale horse stealing. C. C. Van Pelt of Monticello, a track walker for the Monon Railroad, was run down and instantly killed at St. John. Invitations had been issued for his marriage. William Bigler of New Albany was probably fatally wounded by Louis Kreut* zer, while squirrel hunting In Franklin township. Kreutzer’s gun was accidentally discharged and twenty-eight shot entered Bigler's right side. Bigler is In a critical condition. The town of Smithville is excited over the work of a number of men who rods in on horseback and demolished the Max saloon, a resort that has created much feeling in that vicinity. The doors were broken down, windows shattered and th* beer and whisky distributed in every direction. Miss Lnura Winslow of Seymour, a domestic in the family of Mrs. Erwin Rosst was stricken totally blind while working about the house. She has not experienced any previous trouble with her eyes, and the blow has almost set her crasy. She has been taken to the home of her mother at Valionia. Webb Cnsto, a well-known Republican, died at Torre Huute'of apoplexy. He had a quarrel with u court official. Casto ae- ' eused a friend of the official of having [ been a traitor to W. R. McKeen at the I time the latter was a candidate for United States Senator In 1890, and in the quarrel struck the official. The excitement brought on the fatal attack. The Dealers’ Distilling Company hea practically closed negotiations for tha erection of a distillery at Hammond to cost $1,000,000, on the site owned by Marcus M. Towle and State Senator Gostlia, whose plant was destroyed a few yoara ago by fire. An excursion train on the Lake Erie and Western Railway was wrecked at Gould’s cut, near Laporte. William Byers .baggageman, was dangerously hart, Harvey Williams, engineer, seriously, and Fireman Stuart slightly injured. The peesengess escaped. The damage is eetie meted et $13,000.