Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 92, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1899 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERS£la| Attempts to Kill His Fasib-Tcfl Woman Drinks Phosphorus Pointing —Fort Wayne Street Sallwaj’to ■ Sold —Epworth LeagueLectsnTriil 'r James B. Crosby, a wealthy manual turer of Marion, attempted to shobjjfHi wife and family. Mr. and Mrs. Cm 3 had domestic trouble and January. Previous to the separaJß Crosby had transferred to bis wife StS* in the Crosby paper mills and the Ma|fl strawboard mills, which are both otgj by him, that he might better tight 9 American Strawboard trust. feating the trust he demanded the iet9 of his stock, but his wife refused to iB render it. He visited his wife’s n w hile she and her six children were ijm ing their dinner and again demanded 9 stock. She refused, and be pointeqn revolver at ber and palled the trqcjß The cartridge failed to explode and* tried the second. Mrs. Crosby ran fnl the house. A son about 18 years oldjß tempted to strike his father with a chs9 and the father attempted to shoot hfifl but the revolver was a center fire andll cartridges were rim fire, preventtflfjH tragedy. Wiah for Death Gratified. Jjj Miss Emma McCarty, the Rasbvjn young woman who a few days ago b|l a dose of water in which match had been soaked for two weeks, for purpose of killing herself, had her wm gratified. She died of soning after suffering terrible agoaH Miss McCarty opposed the marriagjj her father, John McCarty, to his nUM Miss Katie Cohee, who Is thirty yearsj junior. The girl decided on self-deatjM tion. ‘1 Btreet Railway to Be fold. j j A decree was handed down in the G| cuit Court of Allen County for the JH of the Fort Wayne Consolidated StH Railway and its holdings to satislH mortgage to the Guaranty Trust u 9 pany of New York for $724,829 aigflj mortgage to the Guardian Trust UH pany of Cleveland for $2,085,821. JoH claims and attorneys’ fees aggM^m Lecturers’ Trust la Victor. •! J The Indiana lecture field has been nered as by a trust by the Ep«i|H League, which has tied up the egS eastern section by entering all dti&jtM importance into an agreement againseH lecture bureaus. While the leaguejH aot book all of its own attractions, It 9 mands a 25 to 50 per cent last year’s prices from the bureaus, J I Engineer Mysteriously KilledJSi W. W. Howard, a Lake Shore enfl neer, left his train at Pine StatiohdH failing to return, the fireman weo|H search and found him dead besid||H| track with a deep gash in his head, jH posed to have been caused by a coupM pin. The murder is as yet a mysteiSM 1 1 ——— Within Our Borders. 9 Evansville has registered a kick seiners. ’.9 Indiana Adventists meet near EIM|H .Mrs. Della Holler, Saltillo, tired of® toot strychnine. 9 J. E. Hall, Anderson, sneezed shoulder out of place. * |9 9 J. L. Aroson passed a forged $72.70 on a Valparaiso bank. 9 Sylvester Freeze can’t run a salooiSj Centerville, the people declare. 3 9 William Bridgett’s baby was sms9| by a kissing bug at Hagerstown. J 9 John Brown, 28, Paoli, killed ing in a drunken sleep on the Girl baby born to Ed Davis andliH Travisville, weighs a pound and a htfH Not a “drap” bf firewater is Ck'verdale, not even for medical fnmH[ B. & O. S. W. railroad tracks in Rl County torn up by a baby cydoM^9 cloud burst. |9 Brazil miners want their pay *9| week, and are going to make the afll tors crack down. |9 It is estimated that Wabash farmers will make from $75 to SU|9E acre on tomatoes. WM Opening of DePauw University |w9h postponed until Sept. 27 on account Methodist conference. 99 Goods that were swiped from * <9§l Munc-ie during the Elks’ carairw9H found under a culvert. 99 A demented Shelbyville boy hag9|| firing buildings and turning in al&nfjHl to see the department run. |9| Body of Breidenstein, Fort J|99 who disappeared a few days ago9|9 found in the canal. Supposed snidtflflf Christian Church of Indiana has b9|| assembly grounds at MaxinkucknHH will later establish a thcologi«lfii(9|9 nary. 99 William Wilsey, Fort Wayne,.jigHH divorce because his wife smasbe<99 with kitchen utensils and dow)dH9 with a bucket of slop. 99 Hugh McMahan, a Vincennes stIJHIE motorman, was shot and fatally weMSm by Peter Saeger, who mistook hiigiHjfl burglar trying to break into the haH9 Albert Wheeler, a mail carrier, wbmßm next door. 99j Miss Anna Mack, aged 17, d*fl9 of the proprietor of the St. JaffiiiM|||f at Pana, UL, who eloped With H E. Peek, a traveling salesman, § j his arrest in Anderson for a bicycle from a Munc-ie dealer. "1 Frank Leech of Arlington had lu9||| cut by the fins of a black bass Jb9 handling. Blood poisoning develop® the arm was amputated in saving his life. The effort however, and Leech died in greats Martin Crnpp was bitten on in three places, the hamstring 99§lf tally severed, during a tight at near Sodom. Death from gangren* -"j ticipated. 'll HI

Most of the silver leader themselves are confessing that silver is a losing issue. Even while in Europe, Hanna continues his fiendish connection with the money octopus in this country. The wages of over 100,000 American workingmen were recently advanced. Chairman Jones has announced his intended sacrifice. He proposes “to stand by the democratic party, no matter what happens.” Everybody knows just what is going to happen to the democratic party. For the last three years since McKinleys election, the excess of our gold expots over imports has been over $200,000,000. In addition to this, the mines have poured out rapidly increasing millions of fresh supply. Since the nomination of Bryan by the Chicago convention of 1896, the money circulation of the country has increased nearly half a billion dollars. The enormous increase has been steady month by month and has kept pace with the country’s prosperity. Four years age William J. Bryan was a poor and a struggling young lawyer—one of the masses. Today he is reputed one of Lincoln’s richest citizens and wears suoh luxuries as silk nightshirts and diamond pins—in short a plutocrat.

General Warner the silver apostle of ’96 now admits that the increased production of gold has made silver less of an issue. Other things have wickedly conspired with gold to produce this result; for instance, the verdict of millions of voters in 1896.

The latest democratic hope to be announced is Dewey. Now Dewey is a name beyond doubt to conjure with for he has only to ask anything he wants of the American people to get it. But there are one or two things about Admiral Dewey very annoying to the democrats. Dewey is a staunch sound money republican I and he has explicitly stated that he would not accept the nomination for President. Then Dewey has a way of always meaning what he says, so that as a whole, the chance of getting him to run on a discredited repudiation platform are not considered the best in the world. It Assistant Secretary Vanderlip of the Treasury who has just re- | turned to Washington from the West takes with him enthusiastic reports of material and political conditions. “I feel sure” he said, “that the East does not realize how rapidly the silver sentiment is waning. The efforts of the Western democrats seems to be to i make trusts the paramount issue of next year. I do not believe I that the Western democrats will | care to risk an issue on the Philipi pine policy of the administration. The people of the West are too 1 heartily in favor of the political ; course of the administration in the > Philippines for the democrats to hope to carry any territory with | that as the leading issue. From a fe oommercial and business point of | view, the situation in the West is splendid. Everybody is at work, and prosperity has brought con--5 j If te fitment., &.»: ■7 ■- VBuy the H ohn Deer plows. Best