Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1898 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Sparrows Poisoned in Indiana for Bounty Offered by Michigan—Romantic Marriage of a Muncie Couple —Farmer’s Fatal Trip. The State of Michigan pays a bounty of 2 cents for every English sparrow’s head turned in to the authorities, and young men are visiting northern Indiana towns and poisoning the birds by the wholesale to get their heads to take to Michigan. Secret Marriage at Muncie. A secret marriage that took piace near Muncie recently became known by the departure of Mr. and Mrs. William Shiveley for Florida, to spend the winter on their honeymoon. Mr. -Shiveley is owner of Shiveley’s famous park near Mount Summit, where he owns a great amount of property. They were married under a large tree which was planted by the couple forty years ago when they were lovers. Mr. Shiveley is 60 and the bride ten years younger. Fatal Trip for a Collin. George Cummings, a respected citizen of near Bedford, was caught on a crossing of the Southern Indiana Railroad and fatally injured. He was on his way after a cofiin for a neighbor’s daughter wnen the accident occurred. The wagon was torn to pieces and the horses mangled. Within Our Borders. On account of diphtheria the schools at Royerton have been closed. At Brazil, Newto'a Fisher shot and badly wounded Charles Gross. Jasper W. McLead was crushed to death at Brazil by two sawlogs falling across his body. The Wood & Williams Company, furniture dealers in Terre Haute, have made an assignment. John Powell, an alleged housebreaker and thief, was shot while fleeing from the police at Columbus. Jesse Reynolds of Olean was accidentally killed by the discharge of a shotgun while rabbit hunting. Samuel Bates, employed at the coal mine at Fontanet, was killed by a falling tree which he was cutting. The Standard Oil Company has abandoned the attempt to run the independent companies out of Terre Haute. Uniformed secret orders of Kokomo, headed by the Knights of Pythias, have decided to build an auditorium. The international convention of tihe railroad Y. M. C. A. opened at Fort Wayne, with 700 delegates in attendance-. The Indianapolis postoffice receipts for September were $34,283, an increase of $1,402 over the corresponding month in 1897. The fifth pair of twins was bom to Mr. and Mrs. Luther Fish, living near Auiderson. The father is 42 and the mother 38 years old. The Salvation army was arrested for holding services on the streets at Columbus. Some of the business men complain that it is a nuisance. Frank P. Wright, a farmer, living near Edinburg, has a variety of coffee bean that matures perfectly and yields abundantly in this latitude. James Duzan, a pioneer of Vermillion County, was buried at Newport. He was 80 years old and had been a resident of that township sixty-three years. The fifty-eighth anniversary of the foundation of St. Mary’s Academic Institute near Terre Haute was celebrated by the dedication of the new academy. Michael Murname, who mysteriousdy left Muncie three weeks ago and has been sought after by his grief-stricken mother, committed suicide at Worden, 111. Farmers in Wabash County report that the fly is working great injury to the growing wheat. Some fields have been practically destroyed by the insect. In a petition for a divorce, Mrs,. Frank Hasty of Huntington sets forth as valid grounds for a separation the fact that her husband would not take her to church. ♦ The farmers of Sugar Creek township are adopting drastic measures to be rid of the epidemic of hog cholera. Within a few days more than 100 head have died. The shoe store of W. E. Fitzpatrick, at Whiteland, containing the posioffice, was burglarized. About $75 worth of shoes and some six or seven dollars in cash was taken. Mrs. Alonzo Strong of Kendallville was accused by the postoffice inspector of sending obecene matter through tihe mails. Before a warrant could be issued she had committed suicide. At Elwood, Robert Knotts quarreled with his wife. While she was preparing to leave him he cut hia throat with a razor. He will probably die. They have been married but five months.

Fred Speyer, the young son of H. E. Speyer of Brasil,, while riding his wheel, colllcled with a team and was badly injured. When he recovered consciousness it was discovered that he was totally blind. One of the most disastrous fires that ever visi’ed Tipton broke out in the business canter. The flames were first seen in the clothing store of I. Freymark and In a few minutes communicated witli adjoining buildings. Minas Lowe, aged 68, one of the oldest residents of Columbus, is dead. Mr. Lowe is the father of twenty-three children. At one time he was considered one of the richest men in the county, but reverses came and ho died n poor man. At Muncie, a mass meeting of the one thousand residents of the suburb of Westside unanimously decided that the place be incorporated and be knowu as Normal City. White river separates the town from Muncie, and it is the site of the Eastern Indiana Normal School being built.

It is just made known that an attempt was made to wreck the Vandalia pay car the other morning a few miles west of Terre Haute. During the night rhe section car bouse yas broken open and tools were taken, with Which the wouldbe wreckers disjointed two rails. The rails were separated slightly, but in a manner which would cause the wheels of a west-bound train to spread them apart. A special east-bound train came along at tfac time the west-bound pay car was expected. The train passed over aaMy. but the jarring of the loosened rails called attenUon to what had been done.