Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1899 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. ! Mystery in a Disappearance—A Boy Kills Two Men—Beer Causes a Mur-der-Y. M. C. A. Homes Are Projected —Sale of Licht and Power. Most mysterious circumstances surround the disappearance of Henry S. Brown of Anderson, one of the best known and wealthiest men in that section. It is thought that he has killed himself. He left home the first of last week and a letter to the members of his family, stating that he had gone for good and that they would never see him again. He told them how all of his financial affairs stood, where his money was and that he had taken but slo—all that he would need. No trace has since been found as to his whereabouts. Brown is 63 years of age. His finances were in good condition and his family relations were pleasant. Boy Shoots Pawnbrokers. Willie Brown, a 16-year-old boy, entered the pawnshop conducted by H. Horwitz at Marion and asked to be shown a revolver. The clerk, Max Cunapop, waited on him and filled the chambers with loaded shells. A dispute arose as to the payment of the purchase price, and the proprietor and clerk attempted to throw the boy out of the store, when he opened fire on them, shooting Cunopop twice through the stomach and Horwitz once through the bowels. Cunopop is dead. The boy was taken to jail. Plan Y. M. C. A. Homes in Cities. At a State conference Anderson was selected as the place and Nov. 23 to 26 as the dates for the State Y. M. C. A. convention this year. There are many issues on which will make this the most importaut annual State convention yet held. The movement to establish and build Y. M. C. A. homes in all cities of 20,000 and over will be pushed through. Wedding Ends in a Tragedy. At Jonesboro a keg of beer given to friench by the bridegroom resulted in the killing of one of the wedding party. After drinking the beer James Terrell and Samuel Wiley quarreled and Wiley killed Terrell. Wiley says that he killed Terrell in self-defense. Wiley was arrested. Light and Power Plant fold. The Hartford City Light and Power Company has disposed of its business to H. M. Herbert of Cambridge City and R. Eilison of La Grange, who took immediate possession. Within Onr Borders. Another electric line has run into Elwood. Robbers are making nightly raids in Princeton. Ed Hevenridge, Ladoga, cigarettes, golden gates. Leah Stanton, 2, Sweetser, drank gasoline and is dead. Mrs. Mattie Gorman, Centerville, suddenly went insane. Edfldn Terrell, farmer near Franklin, found dead in his barn.

Logansport police will get more money for guarding the town. Mrs. Lucretia W. Denlingen, Morristown, found dead in bed. Washington letter carriers promoted from S6OO to SBSO a year. George Armstrong, 32, Newport, nearly sawed in two in a sawmill. Earl Ambler struck by a Big Four train near Lafayette and may die. Frank Thacker, 17, Terre Haute, is under the waves of the Wabash. Charles Wilcox, Elkhart, caught a 23pound pickerel in Baldwin lake. Evansville cops are arresting everybody that hasn’t taken out vehicle license. Swain Bros.’ sawmill, Rushville, is in ashes. Loss $20,000, and forty men are out of work. Rev. Alonzo Childs, 88, Franklin, sixty years in the ministry and an old circuit rider, is dead. Mrs. R. E. Johnson, Hartford, found a blue racer coiled on the bed with her sleeping baby. No one hurt. Godman Brake Company, Anderson, has been taken from a receiver’s hands by a new company, which paid all debts. William Eichele, 26, Evansville, was drowned in Pigeon creek by a boat capsizing. Three companions narrowly escaped. James Lytle, Strawtown, returned from the Valparaiso school, with what had been diagnosed as chickenpox, but it has turned out to be smallpox. Charles Schultze, aged 50 years, a farmer, committed suicide at Valparaizo by taking half a pound of paris green. He leaves a wife and six children. 11l health was the cause.

The whole family of John Houk at Bruceville, consisting of eight persons, was poisoned by eating green beans that had been in a brass kettle. The prompt arrival of a doctor saved their lives. Thomas W. Wright of St. Louis paid down $503,120 in cash for the Union steel mills id Anderson, which he purchased at receiver’s sale. He will at once turn them into the Republic Steel Company. The Standard Oil and other unsecured creditors, who will not get a cent on the settlement, began suits testing the validity and the priority of the secured claims. The extensive barn owned by Nathan Lawson, near Gaston, was burned the other night. This makes the tenth building that has been mysteriously burned and the farmers are greatly exercised, believing that a gang of robbers are looting the buildings and then setting them on fire. The farmers will organize a vigilance committee and endeavor to run the gang to earth. At La Porte, the jury in the Calloway murder trial reported a disagreement after being out forty-six hours and was dismissed by Judge Truesdell. Calloway’s second trial will take place at the September term of court. Eight hundred employes of the Jeffersonville plant of the American Car and Foundry Company refused to go to work the other day because of the refusal of the company to pay them their wages each Saturday evening. The plant ia rushed with work, but the officials locked the gates, and none of the strikers were allowed to enter the yards.