Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1898 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Kills His Little Girl Friend-Uphold* the Indeterminate Sentence ActState’s Part in the Spanish WarColor Photography at Last. Little Mamie Brown, a child of 2 years, (lied under most peculiar circumstances. Her body was pierced through by a glancing bullet from a rifle in the hands of a boy friend. Willie Stroud. The accident l happened at the home of the parents of tlie boy, three miles north of Peru. Willie, a hoy of 11, went to the yard with his rifle to shoot a chicken. His mother, little Mamie and her mother went out to watch him. He brought the chicken down from the-tree and Mrs. Brown took it to the house to dress. The two children and Mrs. Stroud followed. On the way Willie saw a bird on the dinner bell and stopped to try bis skill in shooting it. He killed the bird. At the same instant little Mamie. who was a few feet behind, gave a scream. The bullet ttfcut killed the bird struck the bell in such a manner as to be deflected to the child. Indeterminate Law Upheld, The Supreme Court has held that the indeterminate sentence law is not unconstitutional, as an ex-post-facto law. John F. Davis, a one-armed soldier of Jeffersonville. was convicted of shooting with intent to kill and sentenced by the lower court to from two to fourteen years in prison, lb- appealed, holding among other tilings tlrat the indeterminate sentence law having been passed after the shooting was done could not be made to apply to his case without being an ex-post-facto law, and therefore unconstitutional. The Supreme Court decided against him. But the court reversed the ease because the Circuit Court instructed the jury that a man has no right to defend himself with a deadly weapon against an attack by a person who has no weapon in his hands. Indiana’s War Record. The yearly report of the Adjutant General is a record of Indiana’s part in the war with Spain. It shows that 7,301 men and officers were mustered into the volunteer service from Indiana. There is also included a report of the Surgeon General, which gives the number of men cared for in hospitals in Indianapolis, after the return of the troops, at 378. Of this number 321 i hnve been discharged. Six men died after they came back to Indianapolis, three deaths being due to typhoid fever. two to malariu and one to pneumonia. New Process in I’hotography. Will Free of Madison County has at last discovered a process which all photographers have been working ou for years, of photographing on cloth and making colors fast and giving the cloth no discoloration. The colors, are so fast that they will withstand boiling.water and are as clear cut as those of any photograph. The discovery will open a new line in fancy pillows. The first displays are made up in pretty pillows, the picture being about life size.

Within Our Borders. . W. Hamilton of Decatur County has sold $1(5,000 worth of cattle for export. Burglars entered the postoffice at Vistula and secured about SIOO in cash and stamps. John Hogue, a prominent Evansville farmer, was killed by being kicked in the stomach by a mule. Brown County is at last to have a telephone line within its limits. Nashville will he made a station. John Itudell, formerly of Chicago, aged 43, a barber, committed suicide in Valparaiso by hanging himself. Walter Cook, aged 13 years, fatally shot himself with a rifle at his home in New Albany. He did not know the gun was loaded. At New Albany, Isaac I’. Leyden has been selected ns trustee of the creditors and to have charge of the estate of C. W. I )epamv. At Sholhurn. the grain mill of Cushman A Crowder, with nil of its conteuts, was destroyed by tire. Loss, SIB,(XX>; insured for SB,OOO. Charles Edwards, aged 21 years, was fatally stabbed at Gellersburg by Tim Donohue. The nien were quarreling over a trivial matter. Bobbers made an unsuccessful attempt to enter the bank at Westville. The man on guard in the hunk tired a number of shots, and becoming alarmed, the masked men ran away. Six years ago the breech inn flew from a shotgun and buried itself in Edward Hill’s skull at Brazil. The pin was removed and tlie wound healed. Hill is dead of tile injury. President Brown of tin* northern Indiana normal school at Valparaiso has prohibited football absolutely in the college, owing to a member of the college team being seriously injured. Justice (.’order at Princeton rendered a written verdict in the Hosenberger poil soiling ease, binding the defendant, Mrs. Jtebeeca A. Hosenberger, over to the next term of the Gibson Circuit Court in the sum of SI,OOO. Princeton is again excited over a poisoning ease. Mrs. John Sehwichert and her three children were poisoned from what seems to have been arsenic. Where the poison came from is a mystery, but it may have been placed iu the well. The family, it is claimed, has no enemy, Mrs. Delia Carter has brought suit for . the estate of #150,000 left by John .1. Ferrell of Terre Haute, who died suddenly, leaving no will, and whose second cousins are the nearest of kin. Mrs. Carter nleges that she was taken as a child by Ferrell with the promise to make her hie heir. The electric light plant nt Greenfield has been purchased by the city. A cable message hns been received at the Navy Department in Washington announcing the deatli of Ensign George L. Fermier, attached to the gunboat Petrel, on the Asiatic squadron. Ensign Fermier was appointed to the naval academy from this State. William Slagel of Gandy’s bank at Clmrnbusen, who recently went to Columbia City to get $2,200 for the hnuk and returned with SI,OOO, alleging he had started home with two men who bad drugged him, has made a confession saying Hint he had buried the remainder of the uiouey.

From this time on Americans should be slow, indeed, in resorting to the old time familiar pastime of “twisting the lion’s tail.” Had Great Britain’s sympathies gone with the rest of Europe’s there would, almost to a certainty, have been a Bhropean coalition against us at the outbreak of the Spanish war; and certainly beyond all question, bed rint and sympathy of England been openly with us, we would have been prevented, by the united navies of Europe, from keeping the PhiUipine Islands. England has been our only effective friend, though Japan’s friendship ought also to be kept forever in mind by all patriotic Americans.

Spain has accepted our peace conditions and the Phillipines are now ours. They are a rich and glorious addition to our national domain, and their possession will benefit our country to a vast extent and the Phillipines themselves in an immeasurably greater degree. In fact, it is the good ‘ It will do the Phillipines that chiefly justifies, in our opinion, the keep ing of the islands, without a more adequate compensation to Spain for their loss. It is true that according to tim.e honored custom, they were ours by right of conquest; but ns we look at it, the “right of conquest” as so applied, is a survival of barbarism, and ought to follow the right of piracy, the “right of serach” and the right to hold slaves into the limbo of of rights that were not right. But in this case a right that can not be disputed, the right of humanity, demanded that we should keep the islands, and—we have kept them, and should make the most of them.