Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1899 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Tries to Kill His Under Vigo County- Kokotfio Boys Arrested for Serious Crime—Killed in a Boxing Bout-Tin Plate Plant Sold. While visiting his dying father near Shelbyville, Edward Bernheimer became desperately insane. Going into the house, he threatened to kill the little child of his sister, but was prevented, and apparently became quieter. Later in the evening he had another seizure, and in bis frenzy secured an ax and tried to brain his brother George. As he lifted the ax the other brother jumped behind him and succeeded in grabbing the handle of the weapon. The three men then engaged in a rough and tumble struggle, in which the crazy man freed himself and once more securing the ax drove his brothers, sisters and stepmother from the house, they being compelled to flee to the house of a neighbor for safety. It was feared the furious man would kill his father, but he made no attack on him. The officers were sent for and Bernheimer was placed in jail. Excitement Over Oil Find. There is much excitement in Terre Haute over the preparations being made to commence boring for oil east and south of the city. A month or so ago oil was struck by men who were boring in an endeavor to locate a vein of coal and, although the flow was not large, experts profess to believe that there is much oil underlying Vigo County. A company headed by Crawford Fairbanks, president of the American Strawboard trust, is securing options on a large number of farms and it is understood that drilling will commence as soon as the frost is out of the ground.

Boys Cause $50,000 Damage. Eleven schoolboys, aged from 11 to 16, were jailed at Kokomo, as part of a gang of thieves who have been dismantling machinery in shops and factories and selling the brass at junk shops. They are sons of prominent residents and business men. They sold two car loads of brass before detection and destroyed $50,000 worth of machinery. Tin Plate Plant Is Sold. For a consideration of $1 the American Tin Plate Company’s $2,000,000 plants at Elwood—the largest tin plate plant in the nation —have been turned over to the tin plate trust through D. W. McCarghey of Chicago. The valuation of the plants was placed at but $250,000 and $650 worth of revenue stamps were attached. Blow Bursts Boxer's Heart. Charles McCoy and Carl Comer, each about 17 years of age, were boxing at Center, when Comer struck McCoy a blow over the heart that burst a vein, and allowed all the blood to pour out into the abdominal cavity. Death was almost instantaneous. Within Onr Borders. Trolley line will be built from New Albany to Wyandotte cave. Deadlock at the miners and operators’ meeting, Terre Haute, over wage scale. Lewis N. Noble and wife, Goshen, celebrated their sixtieth wedding anniversary. Robert Gortne’r, Goshen, appointed district attorney for four counties in New Mexico. An all-night cocking main was given on a barge near Lawrenceburg, feixty-two birds fought. At La Porte, Barney & Bowen’s livery stable was destroyed by fire. Five horses were cremated. Kokomo Council has let contracts for street improvement, contrary to the dictate of the Mayor. Case of Walter S. Randall, Shelbyville, against Big Four, for $5,000 damages, decided for defendant. Kokomo will fill the gap in the proposed Indiana baseball league, made by the withdrawal of Marion. Lafayette soldiers’ home has the oldest and youngest inmates of any similar institution in the country. Krein Chain Company, Marion, will move its factory from St. Mary’s, Ohio, and consolidate the two. Mrs. Augusta Schmidt, the Indian baroness, refused the parole granted her by •Gov. Mount and it has been revoked. Deputy Coroner Weaver of LaPorte has rendered a verdict that Blanche Thomas came to her death as the result of eating a banana. The case is interesting the medical fraternity.

J. H. Bissett of Anderson, formerly of Battle Creek, Mich., has made application for patent covering the latest idea in perpetual motion. The machine which he has constructed has, it is claimed, been given practical tests and worked perfectly. Instead of following the time-beaten path of resorting to balls, weights or sliding gauges, Bissett has constructed his machine on condensed air principles. By turning the flywheel once enough air is compressed jo drive it ardund again. It automatically compresses and discharges the air, and will run until stopped. A gauge regulates and holds speed at any desired notch. Willis R. Gosnell, a wealthy .citizen of Montgomery County, lent a widow a large sum of money to pay off certain incumbrances on her land and subsequently they were married. He held her notes for the money loaned and it was not questioned that she used it to pay off her debts. She died a few years later and Gosnell presented the notes against the estate that she left. Payment was refused and he brought suit to recover the amount. The Supreme Court has decided that he could not collect the money and held that it was clearly a common law rule that a woman discharges all her indebtedness to her creditor when she marries him, and that this rule has not been abrogated by statute in this State. In an explosion at the Aetna powder works at Miller’s Station, Superintendent Harrington and two employes were badly injured. Harrington will lose the sight of both eyes. At Fort Wayne, Jipnes Jacobs, former proprietor of the City Trucking Company’s barns, recently destroyed by fire, was found guilty of arson and sentenced to the penitentiary. Michael Shea, supposed to be the oldest man in Indiana, died at his residence in ■-»1I 1 , . < ’ - • 'Sr.:.', ?