Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1898 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Son’* Cruelty to His Mother—Husband Shoots His Wife and Himself—Deserted the .Army to ,Wed— Dunkirk Striker* Resume Work. George Fortune, a young farmer of Prairieton. accused of assault with intent to kill his mother and stealing her- crops and farm property, and who was hunted by deputy sheriffs and a party of lyncher* the other night, surrendered to the sheriff. On the occasion of his former arrest tho mother begged for his release. In this instance she swore out the warrant. He had held n revolver at her head to make her sign a bill of sale of the corn crop. When the neighborhood learned what she had done, thirty or forty young men went in search of him. He was not at home and escaped from a relative's house while they were approaching. Shoot* Hi* Wife aud HimeelC Failing to effect a reconciliation with his wife at Scottsburg, who left him last summer, Marion Tyler of Indianapolis shot her and then turned the revolver upon himself, inflicting fatal wounds. When Sirs. Tyler refused to again live with him he drew a pistol and began firing. The first bullet struck the woman in the sacs and the second in the side. He then shot himself, once in tho head and once in th* abdomen. The wounds of the man ar® fatal, while those of the woman are not necessarily so. | 1 Desert* That He May Wed. ! Frank ftompulah, a member of troop A, Seventh Uuited States cavalry, was arrested in Evansville on the charge of desertion. Hompulah said ho was to ba married Thanksgiving day, and as tha officers refused him n furlough he decided to desert. He was stationed at Fort Thomas. Hompulah is a Bohemian and has been in the regular "row six years. His home is at Lincoln, Neb. I i Fatal Accident at Fort Wayne. A steam chest on the engine at the Kelgeraann mattress factory at Fort Wayna exploded and Charles Kelgemann’s bead was crushed in. He died the next morning. James Voutric was crushed beneath a falling tree west of the city. His spinal column was broken. Strikers Go to Work. The committee of window glass workers from Dunkirk that went to Pittsburg to investigate the situation before returning to work at the terms agreed uppn !«■ ly, have decided to resume, and tb Dunkirk factories have starte' tions. Freight Train* In At Milford Junction, * 28 on the Baltimore » 1 while taking water. f. No. 86, resulting in i: persons, in ndditiot Ige to botli trains, J Within Out mr*. South Bend's new court house coat $239,162.78. Fifteen new gas wells have been drilled in the vicinity of Gaston. Rural free mail delivery has been established in Hamilton County. Robert Lowe was shot and fatally wounded by James Eden, Jr., a druggist, at Bryant. Joe Tolbert and Chnrles Finch had a fight at Connersvillc and Tolbert shot hia adversary in the hip. Private Frank M. Green, Company D, 161st Indiana, died in the division hospital, Jacksonville, Fla. The Indiana State Dairy Association will hold its ninth annual meeting at Mooresville Dee. 14 and 15. At Kokomo, Fronk Lewis, colored, waa killed by the cars by rolling off the depot under the wheels while asleep. Near South Rend, Lee Styles, a wealthy farmer, was attacked by a bull he was leading and received probably fatal injuries. I , The city theater in Oswego was completely gutted by lire. Loss about SB,OOO, uninsured. An amateur rehearsal was In progress at tho time of tho fire. Mrs. Edward Hilligoss, one of the oldest residents of Madison County, living north of Anderson, was killed by a train on the Panhandle, ns she was returning in u buggy to her home after a trip to market. Herman Schnumnnn of Wis., was found dead in his boat, which w«n floating down tho Kankakee river. His guu had been accidentally discharged and the top of his head was blown off, causing instant death. William Helm, aged 55 years, of North Manchester, committed suicide by hanging in bis barn. He was absent from tha house only nil hour, when relatives Instituted a search and found-him suspended from one of the timbers. Thieve* entering the postoffice at Gravelton the other night nroused a dog, which is kept in the room, and- the postmaster was brought out of his home near by. Heverul shots were exchanged, but tha robbers escaped without injury aud with S3OO. •The body of Miss Katie Ilefferlin wa* found in the Ohio river at Evansville. Mis* llcfTwrliu disappeared from home two weeks before, uud her parents feared aha had committed suicide. She became despondent because her lover broke an engngemeut with her. A |x?culinr disease has broken out among the horaes in the north part of Carroll County, and several have died. The animals' throats become inflamed so that they cannot swallow, and consequently they starve to death. There aeema to be no remedy for the disease. At Elko, William Ellison was shot and dangerously wounded by Juiuea Shield*, s Seventh I)uy Adventist, who was being persecuted by several boys on account of his religious belief. Isaac N. Hoop, an insane man taken t® the Eastern Indiana Hospital for the Insane about aix weeks ago, has escaped and his whereabouts are unknown. Hi* boma is in Madison County. At New Albany, Mis* Leona Peers was shot and dangerously wounded by Charles McCoy. The lntter did not know the gun was loaded and the bullet entered her abdomen and may cauae death. ]