Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1898 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Value of Indiana Property—Pleasant Lake Bank Plundered by Thievss — Woman Convicted of Murder—Eijrlit Railway Employes Injured. The State Auditor has completed the compilation of tlje returns from county auditors, showing the value placed on all kinds of property by county and township assessors this year. The totals are as follows: Value of land, $453,106,683; improvements on lands, $89,181,578; value of lots, $151,351,801; improvements on lots, $167,364,133; personal, $289,364,483; total valuation, $1,149,131,678. As compared with 1897, the value placed on lands shows a decrease of $321,050; the value placed on improvements on lands, an increase of $3,964,967; the value placed on lots, an increase of $13,581,000; the value of improvements on lots, an increase of $4,471,744; the value placed on personal property, an increase of $10,739,500. A. comparison of the totals for the two years shows an increase on the whole of $20,309,792. These figures do not include ths assessments on railroads and other corporations by the State Board of Tax Commissioners. Bunk Is Robbed. The private bank of Chadwick, Ransburg & Co. at Pleasant Lake was robbed on a recent night of over SI,OOO. Five men drove into the town at 2 o’clock in the morning, broke open the back door, wrapped the night watchman in a blanket and tied him to a post. Three of them then turned their attention to the safe and the others looted the company’s store, where the bank is situated. At the second charge the safe was blown into a hundred pieces and the mammoth door was hurled through the window and across the street in front. One thousand dollars of the bankers’ money, the special deposit* amounting to several hundred dollars and the postmaster’s money and stamps were taken from the safe. Everything of value about the store was loaded Into the wagon. The robbers drove north and escaped.

Life In Prison for a Woman. At Frankfort, Mrs. Sarah Shenkenberger, charged w ith poisoning her daughter-in-law, has been declared guilty by a jury and sentenced to life imprisonment. The murdered girl eloped with Edward Shenkenberger five years ago. They lived in various cities nnd returned to Frankfort last summer. The young wife was sick and taken to her mother-in-law, She died and her stomach being examined arsenia was found in large quantities. Rear-End Collision. The second and third sections of Baltimore and Ohio freight train No. 98 wer* wrecked at Walkerton. Eight trainmen were seriously injured. Conductor Chas. Thomas was injured internally and both legs were cut off at the knee. He cannot recover. Two engines were completely demolished and the third derailed. Within Our Border*. Forest fires caused much damage in Posey County. On account of diphtheria the Sherida* schools wdre closed. The State Bank of Jonesboro has gon* into voluntary liquidation. The Sternes woolen mills at Peru, which have been closed for ten years, will be reopened. The last election cost Grant County $4,132.19, an average slightly in excess of 37c per vote. Garrison Brothers’ elevator nnd 6,000 bushels of grain were burned at Converse. Ix>ss $7,000. Alonzo Colbert, aged 50, was instantly killed in the Washington coal mine by falling slate. At Michigan City, Ernest Wills, member of the 161st Indiana, was arrested for desertion. The Illinois Smelting and Refining Company of Chicago will locate its factory at Hartford City. At La Grange, George L. Rowe, a retired merchant, was found dead in bed of heart disease. Mrs. Ellis Pearson committed suicide by drinking two ounces of ammonia. Her mind was unbalanced. • Andrew Comstock, president of the G. 11. Hammond Beef Company of Hammond, died at Providence, IL I. While scrubbing a floor in Washington Miss Anna Boyd ran a splinter into her finger. She is dead of lockjaw. The corner stone for the new Odd Fellows’ Home at Greensburg will be laid next May, and the dedication is set for the ensuing November. Mrs. Lotta Penketh was awarded $4,000 damages for the loss of her left heel, which was taken off last summer on a street crossing in Anderson. William Edson, Charles I’. Briggs, Geo. Moore and James Ryan, all held in the Vincennes jail charged with grand larceny, made good their escape. The proposition to form a cement trust in southern Indiana, all the mills to sell their produce through a Louisville, Ky. r agency, is said to have been abandoned. Rev. Dr. 11. L. Vannuys. whose pastorate in the Goshen First Presbyterian Church surpasses in time that of any other pastor in the State, preached the fortysixth anniversary sermon of his pastorate. The Consolidated Coal Company, composed of capitalists from Terre Haute and Chicago, have begun prospecting near Jackson Hill, where they have an option on a large body of coal land. They will erect two plants. The celebrated Monroe City riot case was ended when the jury returned a verdict against Jacob Tucker. Joseph A. Barnett. Jacob O. Hicks nnd John Bell, imposing a tine of SIOO upon each, and acquitting Dennis P. ('oonrod, W. 11. Harrison, James Coonrod and James Edwards. Mrs. Kate Willard, wife of Hon. J. 11. Willard of Bedford, died of uremic poisoning after an illness of two weeks. A mysterious shooting occurred nt Indianapolis. May Lindeman, the wife of Hurry Lindeman, a young man of 19 years, was found dead, shot through her heart. Lindeman hnd rushed out of the room, shot iu the knee. Detectives hurried to the house and arrested Lindeman, accusing him of the murder of his wife. He denied guilt, und said his wife had shot him nnd then herself. His wife’* parents told the detectives of threats b« had made of 'uking his wife's life.