Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1899 — RECORD OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK.

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. . I§§H Bold Hold-Up ia Oreensbnrc-Vincen-nes, Vevnjr and Sooth Atlantic Bond tq Be 801 l t—Sick Man Wanders Aosy aod Dies—Life Term for Murder. | | i John Linen and James Donahue, ieoMing near Smyrna, were held np the other night at 11 .o'clock while hitching their horse to a buggy in Greensburg to drive home by a man whom they recognized as Robert Manford, residing near Harris City. Donahue was told by the robber to throw up his hands, and at the same time a revolver wps thrust into his face, and In complying with the request one hand struck the revolver and knocked it to the ground and the other hand struck a knife held in the robber’s hand. Linen, who was on the opposite side of the hone, halloed for help and frightened the man away. Road Ia to Coat *10,000,0001 Directors of the Vincennes, Vevay and South Atlantic, a branch of the Black Diamond Railway, met at Vincennes. The contract for constructing the double track railroad 204 miles in length was let to Col. Albert E. Boone of Zanesville. Ohio, for $10,000,000; this includes a branch from Fredericksburgh to Jeffer- ; sonville. Work will begin May 1,1899, at Petersburg, and will be pushed in both directions. Sick Man Dies in a Ditch. Henry Mater, 35 years old, was found dead by the roadside in the western suburbs of Kokomo. He had been sick several days with the grip and left bis bed in a dazed condition, wandering away. In his delirium Mater must have ran nearly ail night, for when found in a ditch the body was mangled by barb wire fences. M Gets Life Sentence for Murder. The jury in the Fitzgerald murder case at Logansport returned a verdict, finding that the accused was guilty of murder in j the first degree, and fixing his punishment at imprisonment for life. He was tried. J for the murder of young Quincy Beebe of Bunker Hill last October. , Within Oar Borders. '1 A company to manufacture beet sugar i is being formed at Marion. Stephen Todd of Toledo, Ohio, has taken a long lease on the New Lindell’Hotei».q Kokomo. Robert Roark of Harrisburg, HI., and j Miss Lottie Knowlton of Fort Wayne m*f|j at Terre Haute and were married. | Frankton, which suffered from a disas-1 trous fire recently, has decided to put in f water works and have a paid fire depart- 1 The grip is almost epidemic in Roek-|j ville.. Many business men are down wipj the disease. There has been no fatall Ollie, the 17-year-old son of H. P. Rich- J ards, living in Marion, was instantly kitt*J| ed while engaged with his father in sett-ll ing timber. At Vincennes, Henry Wagner, while do- Jj ing carpenter work, fell into a cellaivS breaking his neck, killing him instantly. He was 22 years old. A sycamore tree is standing on thi|| Matehett farm, near Piereetoh, which | measures twenty feet in. circumference | near the base and is sixty feet to the firetH] Lucy Van, a valuable pacing mare be-l longing to Van Buskirk Brothers of And derson, died at Pendleton of fever. Lucy Van had a record of 2:20*4, | was five years old and was valued at sl,Chauncey M. Coutant, a well-knowajl Crawfordsville carriage manufactucnS blew out bis brains while suffering tromM an attack of temporary insanity by grip. He was the patentee of the dovkd tail buggy body. An attempt is being made to second headstones for the graves of two revolwd tionary soldiers buried in Wayne CrantjiS One of them is Benjamin Bishop, wbVB died in 1852, and the other is NimrujH Jester, who died in 1853. Eliakim Stowe, known half a centuijfß ago as “Lige” Stowe, died at Fort Wayne*! aged 80 years. He owned one of the finiSl traveling circuses in the United StatMjfl He amassed a fortune in the business, 1*39 lost the bulk of it in the panic of 1873. An explosion of natural gas the home of Charles Null at Kokomo and 9 three women were frightfully burnengfl Mrs. Null’s clothng was burned off. Mill rion Smith and Alza Barns were bwa||B on the hands and face. A lighted lamra in the cellar caused the explosion, gad having accumulated there from a leaking^ At Logansport, the jnry in the case ot’M the State against William charged with murder, returned a venßcM finding the defendant guilty of murder n the first degree and fixing pnni»hmeqt imprisonment for life. Fitzgerald’s crit|fl was the killing of Qnincy Beebe, the ld*| year-old son of Samuel Beebe, a reside*®} of Bunker Hill, on Oct. 5 last. | An Indianapolis paper notes that miii|9 criticism has been aroused among patTMgfl because of the nude statuary gracing th*B halls of the new Jefferson school buitdin||j| at Muncie, and some parents have wjttiH drawn their children from the school. Ihifl statuary meets the approval of Prof. jMK R. Snyder and the School Board, not condemned by many club women andz teachers. M The striking of the lug oil well In Wasfcll ington township is creating intense ezajlf eitement among the oil fraternity. XevfM within the history of the Indiana field ha%| such a tremendous gusher been drilled |mE that section. Oil leasers are flocking m l and snapping up all the available tgriifil tory, and it begins to look as if County is to furnish a new the Indiana field. The well is estimatuS by conservative men at 1,000 per I Emory Jones, aged 40. residing utafl Binkley, and f<.r many yean a proruiawjM teacher in the schools of Randolph Comßß ty, died of lockjaw, the result, probahttl s| of a gunshot wound in the left arm wljUfj he received Dec. 31. The fate of W. T. Sullivan.’a employe at Evansville, offers an Of a warning conveyed in a drean]|®Jfsj| dreamed that he had been killed cars. The next day he was «u«ht un&flH a moving train, but saved himself.** clinging to a rod. A few tagg* later :MM r 0 a pi<£s? ht by 8 swltch onsiDe 1 *