Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1899 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Asa Lyons* Debts Too Heavy—Attempt to Kill a Night Watchman*—Officers for the Foresters—House Wrecked by Explosion of Natural Gas. Asa Lyons, who has been conducting a butcher shop in Anderson for nearly a year, has employed an attorney to file proceedings in bankruptcy. He says that he is indebted in the sum of $218,000, his principal creditors being in Chicago, Omaha, Cincinnati, Austin, Fort Worth, Kansas City, Indianapolis, Lafayette, Winchester, Muncie and Anderson. Lyons says he lost heavily on Texas cattle ranges, mainly because President Cleveland ordered the land cleared on which Lyons was herding 18,000 head of cattle. Cowardly Crime at Anderson. A cowardly attempt to assassinate John Hefferman, night watchman of the American Straw Board Company’s plant in Anderson, was made the other morning. Hefferman was making the rounds of the factory, and in passing a window received the contents of a shotgun in the back of the head. The night engineer summoned assistance, and the man, with an ugly wound, was removed to the hospital.

Elected by Indiana Foresters. The State meeting of Indiana Foresters closed at Anderson. The newly elected officers are: Chief ranger, C. W. Ennis, Union City; vice-chief ranger, J. W. Baily, Anderson; secretary, W. W. Wilson, Logansport; treasurer, W. L. Austill, Elwood; councilor, J. E. Teagarden, Anderson; auditors, W. P. Gephart, Evansville; B. H. Stiger, Terre Haute. The next meeting will be held at Peru. Wrecked by Natural Gas. The residence of Mrs. Mary Nichter at Fort Wayne was wrecked by an explosion of natural gas. The pipes were leaking and the gas ignited from a candle which Albert Nichter, aged 15, carried into the cellar. The boy was fatally burned. Mrs. Nichter was slightly injured by flying bricks. Dunkards Going to Dakota. Eastern Indiana Dunkards held mass meetings the other day and formed colonies to go to North Dakota and carry on the national colonization scheme being worked out by the church. During the last three years 23,000 have been colonized in the selected territory. Within Our Borders. Columbus will have a city library. Brazil will have free mail delivery. Upland will have a window glass factory. Clark County peach and cherry crop reported ruined. Bee industry injured by cold weather in Clinton County. Charles Pumfre, injured in a gas explosion at Marion, is dead. The Noblesville and Hartford City electric railroad scheme is dead. Marion had a double wedding at which mother and daughter were the brides. The table factory of Stewart & Blakely, Shelbyville, damaged SIO,OOO by fire. 4. patent exchange has been established at Marion for the benefit of inventors. Albany is excited over a spotted fever case that has developed in a 10-year-old child. Evansville and Newburg electric railroad will be extended to Rockport, forty miles. Hamilton County farmers have organized a short-horn and polled Durham association. i Cyrus C. Boyer, Waterloo, who had both legs cut off by a Lake Shore freight train, is dead. Henry Sutton, Marion, has gone for a two to fourteen years’ visit with friends at Jeffersonville. At Terre Haute, Mrs. Eva Van Pelt was granted a divorce from Lient, Van Pelt of the Salvation army. At the State meeting of Indiana foresters, Anderson, it was decided to admit women to the lodge on the same basis as men. Aaron Cox, a brakeman on the E. & T. H., Evansville, was badly burned by a gas explosion. He entered a box car where there were some empty gasoline tanks with a lighted lantern. At Fort Wayne, the Randall Hotel, owned by Frank J. Stutesman, formerly of Chicago, has gone into the hands of a receiver. Stutesman owes about $15,000, of which $9,000 is in mortgage notes. The yield of maple syrup and maple sugar in northern Indiana this spring will be the heaviest in many years. Because of the severe cold the buds have not started and the sap for this reason is of much higher quality than usual. Oscar Felton struck Edward Vance, a fellow workman in the Upland zinc works at Marion, with an iron bar, which crushed his skull. Felton escaped. Five shots were fired at him by the marshal. Bloodhounds and a posse of men are after him. Stephen Glawser, a German farmer living two miles south of Poseyville, killed his wife and mother-in-law, Elizabeth Kinchloe, and after setting fire to the bnilding shot himself in the heart, dying instantly. Glawser and his wife had lived on Mrs. Kinchloe’s farm since their marriage a year ago. They often quarreled over religion, it is said, Glawßer being a Catholic and his wife a Protestant. There has later developed a strong belief among the farmers living around Poseyville that Stephen Glawser did not kill his wife and mother-in-law and commit suicide, as reported, but that the three were murdered and their house set on fire. A young man who formerly worked for Glawser <m bia farm had a falling ont with him and is said to have threatened to kill Glawser and his family. The -young max has disappeared and cannot be found. Pearl Cutting, member of the Aooth Indiana, in Cuba, is in prison for writing a letter to his parents in Decatur, in which he made threatening remarks concerning his officers. The letter was published. ▲ supposed meteor found sticking In the roof of Henry Siscoe’s bam, Smith ville, occasioned modi excitement. It developed that It was only s piece of metal Mown tram the exhaust pipe of a Monon engine. Michael Gerbrisk, father of thirty-two children, died in the Montgomery County