Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1899 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Slain for Striking a Woman—Fatal Vandalia Wreck-Walk-Ont of Gian Blowers Fire at Brownsville—The Wheat Crop Is Light This Season. John Sage, a restaurant keeper, shot and instantly killed William Garvey, a well-known character, in the rear of his restaurant in Terre Haute. The trouble arose through Garvey, who was intoxicated, striking a young woman in the mouth. The girl complained to Sage and Garvey, who had followed her to tne reetaurant, commenced to hurl stones upon the roof of the building. Sage procured his pistol and after warning Garvey to desist, fired, killing him instantly. Sage has not been captured. Engineer Killed in Freight Wreck. Engineer Frank Crookshank was killed on the Michigan division of the Vandalia as his freight train was ‘approaching Terre Haute. The engine struck a freight car door lying on the track and was derailed. The engine after running on the ties for five rail lengths turned over and ten cars were piled up. The engineer was crushed below the waist. When found he was apparently sitting on his seat uninjured. Fireman Hollman and Brakeman De Bolt were thrown out and badly injured. Taxdodger’s Heirs to Pay. The Supreme Court has affirmed the Marion Circuit Court decision in the Gallup tax case, and the estate must pay in taxes the sum of $46,996.69, which William P. Gallup, president of the Meridian National Bank, should have paid. It was discovered after his death that Gallup had succeeded in dodging taxes for over twelve years. Horses Burned to Death. The Spotwood Hotel at Brownsville, conducted by G. W. Harvey, was totally destroyed by fire. The fire extended to the residence of Charles Douthit and Henry Campbell’s residence, contents, stable and three valuable horses; the large storage house of Keller & Campbell, including contents, and the C., H. & I. depot. Loss $20,000. Bottle Blowers Walk Out. The blowers in the non-union bottle factory at Mill Grove notified Manager W. H. Cox that unless they received the scale of the American . Flint Glass Workers’ Union they would walk out. The request was denied, and the men and their helpers, numbering fifty in all, quit work, and the factory was shut down. Light Wheat Crop. Indianapolis grain dealers have completed their estimates of the Indiana wheat crop and report that the yield will not exceed 17,000,000 bushels. In February the estimate was 55,000,000 bushels. The yield will be the lowest in twenty years. Within Our Borders. Evansville will have a street fair in October. Dr. E. A. Dye, Jefferson County, disappeared. Frank Mugg, 15, Lafayette, drowned while bathing. . Freight wreck near Brazil tied up traffic several hours. A Chinaman in Vincennes will soon have a negress for a bride. James Nelson, 58, Furnessville, struck by a train and fatally hurt. “Queer” coin is floating in Muncie. Supposed to be a local product. H. J. Shirky, Connersville, used a rawhide on George Elben, on the street. Three boys shooting firecrackers burned Rev. McDowell’s tabernacle tent, Muncie. Polk canning factory, Greenwood, put up 2,500,000 cans of peas during the season. Allen County commissioners threw out all bids for new furniture for the court house. In Madison County, 1,100 mortgages have been released, and but 797 recorded in a year. Chandler coal mines, Evansville, have been bought by Anderson men. They’ll be reopened. “Old Jumbo,” Hartford City, once the greatest gas producer in the country, will be revived. Miss Maud Hupp, Elwood, fatally hurt in a runaway, while out driving with three other young persons. Miss Effie Dooley, Daleville, and P. F. Rudy, Yorktown, went to Muncie to get married, but Effie backed out. Destitute woman abandoned her child in a farm house near Griffin, trusting to kind-hearted farmers to care for it. B. F. Fisher, Ohio, sent a check for SSOO to the United Brethren publishing house, Huntington, just to be doing. New Yorkers bought the Matthews lamp black factory for $32,000. They will drag it into the printing ink trust. At Diamond, the building occupied by Cummings, his stable and outbuildings, and two large buildings belonging to Mrs. William Spears burned. C. A. Orland, Anderson dentist, will pull teeth in Havana, where dentists are scarce. His wife, who is a stenographer, accompanies him and will take a position at SSO a week. Peter Healy went to the Logansport jail for protection from Italian quarrymen. He shot an Italian who tried to make him drive his team over an embankment and attacked him with a shovel. The first of the new wheat from that section was marketed at Terre Haute at 65 cents. It is from a week to ten days earlier than in former years. The grain is of excellent quality, testing sixty pounds to the bushel. Postmaster Joseph D. Johnston, who had served under thirteen Presidents, died at Terre Haute, aged 85. The Pearl Evans mystery at Kokomo is still unsolved. The alleged dead body seen in a wagon by Miss Orem proved to have been that of a fisherman. Frank Connors went to the house of Michael McDonald at Marion and called McDonald out and asked if it was him, and opened fire with a revolver. McDonald fell to the ground at the first report with a bullet in his groin. Connors escaped. The men were good friends and mystery surrounds the shooting.