Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1898 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Fatal Head 1 -End Collision at Dillsboro DoublwTragedy In Indianapolis— Traveling Salesman Robbed New Glass Factory at Summitville. There was a head-on collision on the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern Railway between the second section of westbound freight train No. 97 and the second section of east-bound freight train No. 98, in which Harvey Bryan and John Lee of Sparksville were probably fatally hurt. Several tramps, whose names are unknown, were nlso dangerously injured. The wreck was caused by a mistake of the operator in giving the wrong orders. Twenty cars are badly wrecked. The wreck occurred near Dillsboro, and the injured men were taken to Aurora. Kills Wife and Self, At Indianapolis, Robert Lesh killed himself and wife. They had not been living together Jor several months. He sent his wife a note requesting that she see him, wanted txflive with her again. The note was not answered aud he repaired to where she was living. He was refused admittance, but finally forced his way into the house. He and his wife talked together a few moments in the hall. No one knows what was said, but he pulled his pistol, shot her through the eye and she fell dead. He rushed out of the house, looked back once at the dead body and then blew his brains out. Ohio Salesman Beaten and Robbed. Martin St. Morris, a comniercial salesman for the Tappan Shoe Manufacturing and whose home is thought to be Auburndale, Ohio, was sandbagged in Granger. Morris was going from one depot to another when he was assaulted. One hundred and seventy dollars was secured. The victim lay unconscious for three hours. Two men were seen at daylight by farmers driving toward Mishawaka at a terrific rate, but at the Edwardsburg road the trail was lost. * New Glass Factory for Fntnmitville. The Fairyiew Land Company located a 12-pot window glass factory at Summitville and aiTangements are under way for the erection of the plant. The parties who will build the factory are led by L. S. Woodbridge, formerly Dunkirk and Redkey. Within Onr Borders. The apple crop in Madison County is reported to be almost a total failure. Jack Tierney, proprietor of the Senate saloon at Seymour, lias left for parts unknown. The Anderson-Marion electric line will be extended to Hartford City, via Gaston and Gilman.

Forbes Holton, Jr., of Anderson, while playing in a game of football, had his right leg broken. Estie Jackson, aged 10, while returning from school in Shelbyville, was stoned by a crowd of boys, dying from her injuries. Albert Griffith, a contractor and builder, who recently came to Michigan City from Three Rivers, Mich., committed suicide by hanging. It is estimated that Nelson Horine of Howard County, on a little over six acres of ground, had' 40,000 watermelons ripening at one time. William Bishop, a prominent resident and business man of Russiaville, was married the other day to Mrs. Laura Bishop. The bride is his stepmother. The dismembered body of a man was found on the Lake Shore tracks near Whiting. It was identified as Charles Feige, aged 56, of Saginaw, Mich. The Emison and Oaktown schools have been closed by order of the County Board of Health, on account of diphtheria, which is prevalent to an alarming extent in these neighborhoods. The Big Four had a wreck at Crawfordsville. A double freight attempted to run on a switch and let the second engine proceed to the main track. A miscalculation was made as to the distance and the first engine was knocked from the track, blockading traffic. J. B. Connors of Evansville rowed a skiff across the river to the Kentucky shore and opened fire on a man and woman who were concealed on the bank. It transpired thfPt Connors’ wife was with Charles Williams. Mrs. Connors and Williams were both killed and Connors escaped. The mangled remains of an unknown man were found on the E. & T. H. Railroad north of Vincennes. There was nothing by which he could be identified. His luK had the firm name of “Amons & Allen, Newton, 1a.,” stamped on the inside. He was well dressed, and many people believe he was the victim' of foul play. Quincy Coble, a young man of Stilesville, aged 20, was found dead at the sideof the Monon tracks at Putuamville. Coble was on a visit to a young woman friend at Quincy and it is thought that he had boarded a freight train for her home. Where the Monon road crosses the old National road is an overhead bridge which has been the most prolific death trap in that section of Indiana. The death of Coble is the nineteenth or twentieth fatal accident that is chargeable to this bridge. At the yearly picnic of the Baptist Church for Delaware, Grant and Black--ford counties at Mnyhews there was an excitlnglneident not down outhe program. In the afternoon the ordinance of baptism by immersion was to have been conducted in the Misaissinewa river by Rev. James Richnrds, a veteran minister, aged 82 years. The man to be baptized was a physical giant. When the time came forbaptism the strength of Rev. Mr. Richards proved unequal for the task, and both men went under and were carried to a hole of deep water near by. They wererescued, hut it took some time for physicians to resuscitate them.