Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1899 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Prisoner Attempts Suicide Four Times —Strange Absence of a Newly Married Man—lllinois Central Gets Into the Coal Fields. Albert Hunter, under sentence at Kokomo for larceny, made a bet that he would not go to State’s prison. He hanged himself with a rope made from handkerchiefs, dangling five hoars, bat was alive when cut down. Next he batted his head against a stone wall and tried to swallow broken glass. He then severed his wrist with broom wire, but a doctor saved him in every case, and Hunter lost his bet. The wager was 25 cents against a pants button and it was paid. He was taken to the penitentiary. Young Husband Disappears. Howard Rhinehart of Terre Haute, a young married man, disappeared from Marshall, 111., several days ago. His disappearance caused so much gossip that a new-made grave in the Marshall cemetery was opened to disprove the suspicion that he had been murdered and buried. The prevailing opinion is that Rhinehart has wandered away while temporarily insane. Dunkards Go to Alabama. Indiana Dunkards have at last officially refused to send any more colonies to North Dakota to aid in the national colonization scheme, and have taken option on 7,000 acres of land near Athens, Ala., on which they will colonize and center their national interests. They will ask the co-operation of Dunkards of other States. Christian Scientists in New Role. "To heal by laying on of hands and to raise from the dead” is the purpose of a company incorporated in Madison County under Indiana laws. The incorporators are Christian Scientists, who propose to operate in the county on a new and legal basis. „ Merged in Illinois Central. The Indiana and Illinois Southern Railway has been formally transferred to the Illinois Central and wifi hereafter be operated as an independent division of the tatter road. The Illinois Central now has a direct line into the Indiana block coal fields. Within Our Border*. Postoffice at Mason discontinued. Oil men anticipate a busy season. Rich veins of coal struck near English. Fort Wayne artillery will be reorganized. Goshen will dust up with a new brush factory. Noblesville will have a new >25,000 high school building. Howard M. Kerr, New Castle, killed in the Philippines. The window glass trust project, Anderson, has fallen through. Floyd Houck, 8, Columbus, died from swallowing a grain of corn. Northern Indiana Teachers’ Association favored medium slant writing. Col. W. T. Durbin has sold his stock in the Diamond paper mills, Anderson, to his partners. Horse struck the 7-year-old son of Samuel P. Ruble, near Vincennes? nearly crushing his skull. There have been seven deaths from meningitis in that many days fourteen miles southwest of Princeton. Strikers will be enjoined from interfering with the non-union workmen in the American plate glass factory, Anderson. At South Bend, Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Greene, prominent pioneer residents, celebrated their golden wedding anniversary. Bertha Wilhelm, Eaton, now 8 years old, is said to have been the largest baby ever born. At birth she weighed 18% pounds. Body of Archibald W. Jones, New Albany, who died in Santiago from wounds received on San Juan hill, brought home for burial. John W. Campbell, Vincennes, will do time for swindling the Bruceville express agent out of >4OO by impersonating another man. At Kokomo, Jonathan Dutton and wife, married fifty years ago, died within an hour of each other from natural causes, the husband expiring first. At Marion, Mrs. Hanora Reidy, 89 years of age, was burned to death at her home in the absence of the family, who had left her alone for a short time. The horse importing barn of Singman ter & Ward of Kokomo burned. Four Percheron stallions, valued at >7,500, perished in the flames. Total loss >9,000, no insurance. A firebug did the work. A decision was made in favor of the Windfall Natural Gas Company in the >5,000 damage suit brought by Bertha Terwilliger, who charged it with maliciously turning off the gas in midwinter, by which she froze her feet, disabling her tor life. Thomas Platt, jointly indicted with Harry Hollowell for shooting with intent to kill Lewis Miller, was found guilty of attempting to commit voluntary manslaughter. Hollowell, who Is not implicated in shooting, will be tried for assault and battery. The miners’ convention at Terre Haute held its election of officers and the balloting resulted in the election of W. D. Van Horn of Terre Haute, president; T. I. Roberts, Rosedale, vice-president, and J. H. Kennedy of Terre Haute, secretary and treasurer. At Evansville. Jonathan Black’s daughter, Stella, aged 12 years, was married to James Darretts, whom she had known only a week. The angry father went to the home of his son-in-law and took his daughter home with him. He says that Darretts cannot come near. At Anderson, Riley Shepard became .a father for the twenty-seventh time the other night and now lays claim to Indiana records. All of the children are alive and are a hardy lot Mrs. Diana Dailey, an old and industrious washerwoman of Vincennes, has been notified that a cash inheritance of >2,000 awaits her from the estate of her father, William Stanfield, at Topeka, Kan. Crawford Fairbanks, Charles Deming and M. R. Williams of Terre Haute have U Cuba in command of the 161st Indiana. l