Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1898 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. I Highwaymen Captured at Kokomo— Waldron Depot Burned by an Incendiary—Fatal Train Wreck—Sawmill Boiler Kxplodes. Late the other night tjie Kokomo police had a battle with a gang of highwaymen and captured six, one* of them getting shot in the hip. They were waylaying shopkeepers en route home. The stolen money was recovered. The men gave their names as William 11. Fisher, Frank Fisher and George Cook, 88 Erie street, Cleveland: William Myers, 1014 Pine street, St. Louis; William Boyd, Lima, O.; David Roberts, Oueida, N. Y. William Fisber, the leader, was shot, the others surrendering. They claim to be iron basketmakers recently employed at the Variety iron works, Superior street, Cleveland. Work of Incendiaries nt Waldron. Fire destroyed the freight and passenger depot at Waldron. The freight department was filled with goods, all of which were consumed, some of them being very valuable. The town has no fire protection except a few hand extinguishers. Citizens turned out and saved other buildings. A tramp had been put off the train there the day before, and threatened to get even with the railroad company. The fire was undoubtedly of iucendiary origin. Two Men Killed in a Wreck. A south-bound freight train on the Vandalia was wrecked at Honey creek by the breaking of a coupling pin. When the engine and forward section of the train slowed up at the creek the rear section crashed into it, demolishing five cars and badly wrecking eleven others, killing two men who were riding on the bumpers. The men are supposed to be Albert Gibb of Elkhart and John Metzler of Wakarusa.

Fatal Boiler Explosion. The boiler iu the sawmill owned by Thomas Noitemeyer of Freelandsville exploded, killing the engineer, Frank Jerel, and seriously injuring Will Robbins and George Boyer. Jerel was blown about thirty feet and was badly mangled. He leaves a family. Within Onr Borders. Texas fever has appeared among cattle near New Trenton. The corner stone for a $45,000 Presbyterian Church has been laid at Vincennes. The suburb of Muneie, known as West Side, will be incorporated and renamed Normal City. An Elizabethtown farmer has harvested a second crop of timothy from the same field this year. J. W. Mplar, a miner in the Jackson Hill mines, northeast of Sullivan, was killed by fnlliug slate. At Shelbyville, Harry Golding and Elijah Snider quarreled over their sweetheart and Snider was killed. Patoka had three fires within a week and the people are inclined to think the town is harboring an incendiary. It is probable that the next quadrennial meeting of the general conference of the United States will meet qt Winona Lake. David A. Jones of Madison County, who has a record of 15G sleepless days and nights, is gradually recovering his normal condition.

James Hillis of Clinton County is said to be the oldest native-born Indianian now living in the State. His birth occurred Jan. 8, 1814. The State gns inspector reports to the Anderson people, after a tour of the gas belt, that the Indiana natural gas held is in excellent condition, and no shortage is anticipated in any quarter. John O’Keefe, the Valparaiso mail carrier who was arrested recently by the postoflice inspectors for abstracting letters containing money on his route, was bound over to the next term of the United States Court in the sum of $1,500. A boiler explosion in the sawmill plant owned by Humphrey Gaunt at West Marion, wrecked the plant and injured five men. James Moore, head sawyer, died two hours later. Daniel Adams, engineer, and William Swafford were fatally hurt. A big industrial deal has been consummated at Elwood, the Wright Spade and Shovel Company of Anderson purchasing the Akron Forge factory. It will be changed into a rolling mill and tho company will manufacture heavy sheet iron for their Anderson factory. A head-end collision occurred on the Bedford Belt Railroad about a mile west of the city limits between the east-bound passenger train and a work train. Both were making good time when they met on a curve. Four men were injured by jumping, but none fatally hurt. Jacob Dunkle of Cass County, while digging in his field, uncovered the head and shoulders of an Indian, which had petrified after burial. A south-bound passenger train on the Fort Wayne, Cincinnati and Louisville division of the Lake Erie and Western Railway ran down n horse and buggy being driven by Charles A. Smith near Eaton. The horse was killed, the buggy demolished and the driver fatally injured. Miss Mattie Thomas of Chicago was reunited with her brother, James Fowler, at Van Bureru She wns abducted from tho Fowler homestead twenty-five yeurs ago, and was reared by a wealthy family, whore she was called Mattie Thomas. An old nurse told her the story of her abduction, and when 15 years of age, being a line singer, she became an nctress. While Miss Fawler was singing her song on the stage the other day the young man entered the theater anil the recognition was mutual. The young man told how his parents had died of broken hearts, and said their dying requhi-t was that he should not giVe up the Hcureh for his sister. Watt Buchanan of Lawrence County, Illinois, was found d ad at Haycr’s Hotel, Vi neen ncs. Tlie youngest von of Mr. and Mrs. Znchnrinli 11. Stanley of Liberty was fatally burned while playing before n grate tiro in the absence of its mother. The child had lighted some paper which set his clothing on tire. It is reported that the fly is already injuring the wheat in Wubash Couuty. Borne fields have been pructicolly destroyed by the insect, which will ravage a larga acreage of thb early sown grain uulesa cold weather wua« wuu,