Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1899 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Pitched Head Foremost Into a Fiery Furnace College Singers Dangerously Beaten—Froze to Death Under a Hedge. As a north-bound Grand Rapids and" Indiana passenger train was going into the Pennsylvania yards at Fort Wayne it collided with a rear end of a light freight engine. The freight crew jumped. Both engines were wrecked. Passenger Engineer Frank Perry was terribly bruised, but no bones were broken. Fireman Geo. Crabill had the firebox open at the time and was pitched into it. While his clothes were a sheet of flame he climbed back over the coal, took the cover off the engine tank and dived into the water. Although badly burned about the arms, he will live. Body Found Frozen. J. M. Hinkle was found frozen to death in a hedge by the roadside a mile east of Bloomington. He had been missing for three days, but nothing serious was thought of his absence. He lived on a farm in the neighborhood in which he was found and it is supposed that he was on his way home when he fell into the hedge. Toughs Beat Glee Club Men. The Franklin College Glee Club gave a concert at Morgantown. At the close of the concert a gang of toughs leaped upon the boys and severely beat them with clubs. Four of the singers were badly injured. The assailants escaped. Ko cause is assigned for the act. Novel Plan for Paving Streets. ' The city of Anderson is negotiating to pave her streets on the plan adopted by the city of Norwich, N. Y., by which insurance companies build the streets and take policies on the lives of fifty or 100 citizens as payment. Within Our Borderu. Frank Bowles’ child, 11, was fatally burned at Anderson. Jacob Haddix’s $6,000 house and barn, near Claypool, are in ashes. Commissioners have bought the toll bridge over the Wabash at Clinton. Rev. Reed Wright, a Christian preacher, died of pneumonia at English. There is a ease of smallpox at Jackson Hill. The town is quarantined. Mrs. Nancy Starr, 80, Borden, is in good health and is cutting a set of teeth. J. S. Peterson, a Lake Shore engineer, fell from his engine at Dune Park and was cut to pieces. Geo. Kelsey, a few miles north of Tipton. hung himself. His mother hung herself twelve years ago. Willis Thomas, colored, had both legs crushed while beating his way on a F., F. & M. freight at Needham. At Osgood, Patrick Gonnelly, who struck Norman Row with a beer glass, fracturing his skull, was fined SIOO and cost. Mrs. Martha Cumback died at Greensburg of heart failure, aged 66 years. She was the wife of former Gov. Will Cumback. Azra Smith’s large flock of sheep, near Sheridan, was attacked by dogs, 200 being killed and 73 wounded. It will cost the county SI,OOO. Chas. McCoy, tobacco grower near Otto, was found dead with a bullet hole in bis head. A murder is suspected and detectives are at work. Mrs. Domino Laporte had a fight with her husband, during which she cut him on the arm. Then he was arrested and she filed suit' for divorce. Wade McCoy and son, Martin, were acquitted at New Albany on the charge of being accessories in the murder of Thos. Rhetts in Clarke County, last July. Wife of Otto Beard, a soldier in the 161st Indiana volunteers, made application for her husband’s discharge, and when he received the papers he was dumfounded. Lives in Franklin. Stephen Neal, former judge of Boone County Circuit and author of the fourteenth amendment to the constitution of the United States, has filed suit for divorce from his wife, Laura Neal, at Lebanon. The plaintiff is 82 years old, and has been totally blind since last July. Mrs. Neal is 62. Ed Pottmeyer, while working at the Baker ice house, Logansport, lost his balance and plunged from the top of a high derrick. He fell 911 Frank Vance, who was working directly beneath him, and both men went down in a heap. Pottmeyev sustained merely a broken rib and Vance escaped with a wrenched back. At Evansville, Charles Brooner, aged 20, was shot and seriously wounded by Charles Sanders. Brooner had warned Sanders not to keep company with bis sister. Sanders took the girl home and was met by Brooner at the edge of town. Brooner beat Sanders over the head with a large club, knocking him down several times. Sanders, rising from the ground half conscious, shot Brooner through the abdomen and escaped. Frank R. Fisher, a traveling salesman for a clothing company of Utica, N. Y., disappeared the other night at the hour appointed for his marriage to Miss Jenfiie Showalter, a well-known belle of Waterloo. The couple had been engaged for some months. Shortly before the time set Fisher called on the bride and said he would return at the appointed hour. The bride was then attired in her wedding gown and the clergyman on hand to perform the ceremony. When all was in readiness for the arrival of the groom a messenger appeared with a note from the groom, saying that he had been called to Sherwood, Ohio, on important business. Fisher refuses any explanation, only declaring the wedding off. C. W. Carlton, 74 years old, a man of wealth, hanged himself in his room at Indianapolis with a clothes line. He had been suffering from the grip and was despondent. In a saloon fight at Newburg John Lundson shot and. fatally injured Frank Sheppard and also wounded Sheppard’s son Frank. It is said the shooting was in self-defense. At Indianapolis, James W. Tyler, father of Marion Tyler, who was lynched at Scottsburg, has begun suit in the United States Court against James Gobin, sheriff »f Scott County, for |CyNO damages.