Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1899 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THM PAST WEEK, ||fn Conductor Mistakes Order* with Fatal Effect-Decides Against Faith Cur is ts -Fatal Ending of a Neighbor** rel—Prevent* a Lynching. One man was instantly killed and an-'; other fatally injured in a collision of freight trains on the Wabash at La Otta* A second section of freight train going east, pulled by two engines, bad order* to meet a west-bound train at La OttiLf but it seems the conductor misunderstood the aitustion and started the train. At a point three miles east of La Otta tha--train ran at full 'speed into the west- 4 bound train, also palled by two engines..* The fonr locomotives telescoped aam piled together and not one of the twefaa men on them would have escaped attvt; had they not jumped. In jumping Elmer - Replogle, who was learning the road mi fireman, fell against a companion and; waa thrown nnder the wreckage and crushed to death. The cars were piled up in heaps and some stock was killed. ; Interprets the Medical Lew. |j Attorney General Taylor, at the quest of the State Medical Board, han| decided that it is a violation of the law! for an unlicensed person assuming th* title of a “doctor” to prescribe or pursue any practices for the cure or relief of | diseases. Injury or deformity, especially fj where any fee is charged for such aer* s , vice. He also holds that faith'curists, - mental healers and metaphysical medF : cators, who advertise themselves as physicians and accept fees for treating diseases by silent or other form of practice, by moral advice or by profound thought or by absolute non-action, unquestionably] violate the law. Quarrel Ends In Shoe ting. A fatal shooting affray occurred neafl Capron. The victim is George Quack- J enbush, one of the wealthiest farmers, i»:| that community. The shooting was dlrira by J. W. Lockwood, another substantial! citizen. The men had not been on friend! ly terms for several months, the trooblai originating over a quarrel between their] children at school. Qnackenbush yAut passing the Lockwood place, and it tiff alleged that Lockwood came out, revolver 1 in hand, and called him a thief. Quackenbush made a reply and Lockwood ' opened fire with his revolver, emptying | the weapon. Fonr of the five shots took effect.

Sheriff Heads Off Lrschiag, Plans laid for the lynching of Clyde! Jones, confined in jail in Pent for the! abduction of Nellie Berger, were fra**! trated by the energetic measures takenli hy Sheriff Dunn and the knowledge that l he and his deputies would shoot to JetjS| any mob attempting it. Within Our Border*. | Mishawaka Board of Health has madel vaccination obligatory. Increase in prices of iron pipe is rill tarding work in the oil field. John Cary, 22, Lagrange, shot himseijl because he couldn’t go to college. Honey Creek township will ship 000 quarts of blackberries this season. William llurray left Crawford County! when he found a bundle of switches all his door. Commissioners of Crawford County reii fused to order an examination of county! records. Estus Roberts, Shelbyville, became imm tangled in the net while seining »wA| drowned. . John Wyler, 10, was drowned mVuSk swimming in the St. Joseph river, neajgl Fort Wayne. The Government has stocked seveMaH ponds in the southern part of the Stattfl with black bass. A kissing bug kissed a rooster on thel side of the neck at Goshen the other dayfl and it died instantly. | Rev. F. H. GWynne, Oregon, wj|m preach in the Presbyterian Church 19 Elkhart for $1,300 a year.

The Vincennes Street Railway, Gfijfl zens’ Gas Light plant and Vincenaaj|| Electric Light plant have been conkfjlg dated and sold to Hambleton & Co. 'tima Baltimore, Md. At Franklin, Night Policeman oH Myers, while making his rounds, wall struck and seriously injured by some pe§|§ son unknown. Myers was an important factor in recent poker room raids. Marion Kephart of Kokomo was kQhfl in a Panhandle wreck a mile south tM there. Five wheat cars were ill mnllsUjiM and the track obstructed. The wre4g| was caused by the train breaking in two. Oscar Milly and George Evans, fmnjjll boys, were killed by lightning souttulM Washington. Milly’s body was torn omS from the back of his head to the sole£:fH his feet and his breast was burned and! cut into shreads. 1 A serious fire occurred at the 1 rfijM camp meeting grounds near IndianapiiaH Five cottages were destroyed and the fiS was prevented from spreading by iS razing of adjoining buildings. With aB cottages pulled down, eight were wrecked. Men, women and rf»a«ftwdi were forced to run from the cottas»| within reach of the fire in their nigh s i clothes. !|| Engineer Ensley of the Cleveland dßf vision of the Big Four was dangerowap injured, the result of a fight in as engina j cab while the train was running. NhjHf Farmland a brakemah got into a fighj with the fireman. The fireman waffflßg ing worsted and was about to be throws from the engine when the engineer JH a hand. The fierce three-cornered figfl raged until the brakeman seized Sham mer and felled both his opponents. then ran back to the caboose. The fim man rallied sufficiently to take the lipß into Farmland. jj Heat has killed considerable staff! around Thorntown. Goshen is fishing for a large printiH which will employ 300. >■; Fairroount glass works has for a third bottle factory. t A new electric railway for the southafl part of the State is being agitated. Pil