Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1899 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. iFatally Hart la a Rnnawaj-Unocit Boy Acquitted of Murder—Prisoner Fatally Assaulted by a Maniac—Extensive Fire Damage at New Lisbon. ? William A. Healy, Republican member of the Washington City Council, was killed in a runaway. Mr. Healy was out driving, the horses took fright and in trying to stop them the bit on one of the bridles broke. Mr. Healy saw that it was impossible to stop the animals and jnmped out of the buggy. His head struck a curbstone, fracturing his skull, from which injuries he died a short time afterward. He was 51 years old aud leaves a family. Boy Acquitted of Murder. At Muncie, 12-year-old Fred Oland has been acquitted by a jury of the charge of murdering 5-year-old. Andrew Bodenmiller. Last November the body of the Bodenmiller child was found hidden under a box in a gravel pit and officers frightened young Oland into a semi-confession, but when later this was withdrawn, the extreme youth of the prisoner and the absence of all but circumstantial evidence caused the acquittal. Murderer Fatally Hurt. John Flora, the murderer of Jesse Burton, will not be tried for the crime. Confined with him and other prisoners in the Orange County jail at Paoli was Sherman Wall, insane and dangerous. Wall became frenzied and, seizing a wooden poker, attacked Flora, beating him in a frightful manner. Sheriff Jones, with the aid of a crowd, rescued Flora, but not until he was fatally hurt. Town Nearly Wiped Out. The town of New Lisbon was almost destroyed by fire. John S. Nation’s general store and dwelling, the store and dwelling of W. H. Nation and several other buildings were burned. .John S. Nation’s loss is $6,000. Within Our Bora era. Good prospects for fruit around Delphi. Terre Haute has decided to have a street fair. Gale Richards, 2, Kokomo, drowned in a well.

Fresh outbreak of smallpox at New Albany. Highwaymen robbed a farmer of S2B near Marion. James Halpin of Evansville committed suicide. Out of work. Hartford City postofflee turns in SIO,OOO a year from 9,000 people. Two ten-inch gas pipe mains will be laid from Greentown to Chicago. Glass works at Swayzee is the only nonunion factory in the gas belt. A buzzard was killed near Shoals that had a sheep’s bell tied to its neck. John Doenges, Connersville, fell from a ten-foot ladder and broke his skull. E. H. Peters, Summitville, lost an arm in a premature explosion Of dynamite. Water works and electric light question, Pendleton, killed in the recent election. Westerman-Stewart rolling mills at Marion will raise employes’ wages 10 per cent. The old project of a railroad from Fort Wayne to Indianapolis, by way of Marion, has been revived. Kokomo factory received an order for several motorcycles, to be used in carrying mail in Porto Rico. At Valparaiso, John Lenick, aged 11 years, was instantly killed by a telegraph pole which fell on him. Fire did several thousand dollars damage to the Indiana Brewing Company’s $300,000 plant at Marion. Victor Mann, 22, Elkhart, who was a member of the 157th Indiana, is dead from an overdose of morphine. Deputy internal revenue collectors seized 12,000 cigars at Terre Hante and 4,000 at New Albany. Had counterfeit stamps. Henry Weber, aged 26, and one of the best known young druggists in Evansville, committed suicide by taking prussic acid. Program is announced for the tenth annual convention of the Indiana union of literary clubs at Terre Haute, May 17 to 19. A 2-year-old child at Logansport was found sleeping behind a door, after half the town had been called out to assist in the search. Charles E. Williams, of the firm of Wood, Williams & Co., furniture dealers, was found dead with a broken nqgk at Terre Haute. Paris green was discovered in the floor being used by Mrs. K. D. Ferrari, wife of a Shelbyville grain merchant, who had been out of town. - Little son of S! D. Oldendorf, Lebanon, while playing with fire, threw a can of biasing oil on James Smith’s son, and he was fatally burned. James Halpy, aged 35 years and single, committed suicide at Evansville by taking morphine. He was despondent because he lost his position a month before. The Allen County grand jury returned five indictments againqt J. F. Schell, alleging embezzlement and larceny. Schell was until recently president of the Schell Loan and Investment Company. Cora G. Comer of Chicago has filed suit in the Federal court at Indianapolis against Michael A. Jordan of Logansport, demanding $30,000 for breach of promise. Mias Comer ia 20 years of age. Jordan is worth SIOO,OOO and is a physician. Gov. Mount has appointed aa new members of the State Board of Education, Joseph J. Mills, president of Eariham College; William T. Scott, president of Franklin College, and Enoch G. Mach an, county superintendent of LaGrange County. ' : I toe superior v>oun oi nauisou uounty against the Sterling OUjCompany of Chl-