Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1898 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Baptists to Establish a Chautauqua— Hunger Conquers Two Escaped Con-victs-Two Labor Leaders Shot—Soldier Stabbed by His Messmate, Indiana Baptists have taken up ! the proposition to establish a Chautauqua in this State. The matter lias been taken up in a quiet manner and at the Peru State convention a committee was appointed to look after a desirable location. They are ready to make a report. They have found several pretty parks in the northern Indiana lake district and favor one in the vicinity of Plymouth. The plans include a very elaborate building, ami an effort to make it the summer educational center of the central States. Indiana Soldier Fatuity Stabbed. W. S. Snyder, Company M, 160th Indiana, was seriously if not mortally wounded as the result of a stab received from the blunt and rounded end of a Government caseknife in the hands of Louis Gates, bis messmate, at Lexington, Ivy. The two men had trouble one night, and when they got up the quarrel was resumed. At mess Gates seized a caseknife and stabbed Snyder in the left breast, penetrating the lung. Snyder’s home is at Walton, while Gates comes from Logansport. Gates is confined in the guard bouse awaiting court martial. Farmer Fiahtorn’s Logic. George nnd ThomAs Fitzgerald, from Bunker Hill, broke jail while awaiting transportation to the penitentiary. William Fishtorn, a farmer, found them in his field suffering with hunger and cold, and after three hours of reasoning convinced them that a good dinner prepared by his wife and future obedience of the law was preferable to the life now before them. After dinner they were taken to Peru and lodged in jail. Two Miner* Are Shot Down. Richard Reibmeister and Lon Ragsdale, coal strike leaders, were shot at Washington Depot by Austin Ivoeher, a non-union miner, who claims Ragsdale tried to hit him with a brick, aud that Reibmeister offered to strike him. Koclier fired live shots, two of tiiem taking effect in Ragsdale’s neck and one in Reibmeister's side, Ragsdale is badly hurt. Reibmeister u not. Koeber was arrested. Within Our Borders. Fire destroyed the handle works of John L. Davis & Co. at La Fontaine, causing a loss of $5,000. Ernest Freeman, who killed his young wife at Lafayette last May, was given a life sentence by the jury. While walking behind a horse at Shelbyville, 8-year-old Wade Robert had his head kicked from his shoulders. Two hundred miners at. Ehruiandale went on a strike. They say it is because the foreman does not live up to the contract. Near Vincennes, while hunting, Tilton Hoffman, 20 years old and single, son of George Hoffman, was accidentally shot and killed. At Goshen, Mrs. Louis Ruhlman and Mrs. John Good engaged in a knife fight in Main street aud Mrs. Good wajs seriously injured. West River mills, throe miles, north of Hagerstown, owned by Richard Chessman, were totally destroyed by fire. Loss, $5,000, partly insured. Mrs. Elizabeth Buckingham, aged 83 years, was burned to death by gasoline at Terre Haute. She was the leading milliner of Terre Haute"for nearly half a century. The dedication of the new Christian Church of Argos has taken place. The service was conducted by I>r. 1). H. Long, president of Antioch College of Yellow Springs, (>hio. Hundreds of thousands of blackbirds are in their annual roost in the woods just east of Anderson. Their number is so great that big limbs on which they perch give away under their weight. A steep hill and slippery track was responsible for a serious street car collision at Lafayette. Both cars were badly smashed. One passenger, a Mrs. Evans, will probably uot survive the shock. Attorney James Cooper of Russiaville met with n singular mishap. While hitching up his horse to (Vive to Kokomo the animal suddenly tossed up ils head, striking a pipe in Mr. Cooper’s mouth and forcing the stem down his throat, producing a serious injury and interfering with his power of speech. It is thought the faculty is not permanently impaired. A gang of thieves was rounded up at Kokomo. For months the hand has baffled tlie officers, while wholesale burglaries have been carried on. It develops that two heretofore unsuspected women of the city beaded the gang. The women, Mollie Fritz and Mary Bober, were nabbed in the Howard Nutional Bank, where they, under assumed names, wanted checks cashed. One check was for sll, given by a local groin dealer for clover seed stolen from Edward Manship, a farmer, who tracked the women. The Boher home was searched and a large quantity of stolen goods was found. A fight occurred in Mack Clark’s saloon ut Asliboro, which will doubtless result in a double murder. The second slorj,of the building is used by Clark for gambling purposes, and fourteen men were cuguged in a game when Andrew Kuhns and Emery Tribble began a quarrel, which resulted in blows. Kuhns hastily drew a revolver and shot Tribble in the left side, the bullet isissing through both of his lungs. This caused a stampede among the crowd, and Clark, proprietor of the place, reached for bis revolver and discharged it nt Kuhns, sending a bullet in his stomach, which passed through him. At almost the same instant Kuhns shot nt Clark, and the bullet tore out his left eye and crushed bis skull. Fire broke out in the Hoosier Sanatorium, two miles west of Tipton, and destroyed the electric light and power building and the pure food manufacturing department. The handle works of John L. Uavi* & Co. at Lafontaine were destroyed by fire of unknown origin. The loss on machinery and stock is $3,000. Twenty men are thrown out of employment. . Charles Bachelor, while cleaning his shotgun at Brazil, accidentally discharged it and the contents lodged in his 10-year-old brother's right side and thigh, wound* Ing him so badly that he will die.