Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1899 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Life Convict Mar Be Freed—Yonnsr Hatband Poisoned—South Bend Man Nearly Starves in a Hotel-Harvest Hands Are Badly Wanted. Union B. Hunt, Secretary of State, and James E. Parker of Evansville held a conference with Convict Hinshaw, the Belleville clergyman serving a life, sentence in the prison north for the alleged murder of hia wife. Parker and Hunt are Hinshaw’s attorneys and their conference was brought about by the revival of the convict story of Baney and others to the effect that Hinshaw is innocent and a couple of convicts are guilty. The attorneys for Hinshaw attach great importance to the so-called confession, which they have reduced to writing, and they will make another effort in Hinshaw’s behalf. Starving While in a Hotel. P. J. Pixley of South Bend remained locked in a room in the Windsor Hotel, at Denver, Colo., for four days without food or drink. Mr. Pixley was found greatly emaciated and suffering intense agony. He has been engaged in work at Byers, Colo., and went to Denver discouraged. Upon gaining h’is room in the hotel he lay down on the bed and soon became too weak to call for assistance. Letters told of a wife and two daughters In South Bend waiting to go to Denver. Harvesters In Great Demand. Agents from the broom corn district of Illinois have been in Terre Haute to employ farmers to work for a month harvesting the crop and are bidding against one another for labor. One agent rounded up twenty-two young farmers in Terre Haute at $1.25 a day and board, when another agent offered $1.50. The first agent raised his offer to $1.75, with a contract for a month’s work and took the men with him. Find Araenic in Stomach. At Peru, William Quick died under cir* cumstances that puzzled the physicians. CoroneT Yarling held a post-mortem examination. Nothing definite was revealed and the stomach was sent to the secretary of the State Board of Health, Dr. J. N. Hurty, at Indianapolis, who found quantities of arsenic. Quick was 21 years of age and had been married just a month. Big Bridge Is Destroyed. The old wagon bridge, 600 feet long, which for half a century has spanned the Wabash river at Clinton, was wrecked by electricity and now a mass of splintered ruins lies in the river. The bridge Is to be replaced by a new structure, which is to be completed by Jan. 1. Within Our Borders. Public hospital has been opened at Franklin. Street cars were used for a funeral cortege in Muncie. The black beetle pest has made its appearance in Ohio Falls. John J. Joequel, 87, pioneer business man of Fort Wayne, is dead. Factories in the gas belt are now drawing on the coal fields for fuel. Miss Ella Slating, 29, Covington, accidentally drowned in the Wabash. Mrs. Conrad Lucas, Montpelier, Spanish war widow, has received a pension. Frank Shepherd’s mules ran away, near Brazil, and he was fatally injured. Valentine Kelly, New Albany, stepped on the wrong track to avoid a train, and was instantly killed. Winslow bottle house, Matthews, has started up with more orders than it can possibly fill this “fire.” George Bramlet, Ladoga, sought shelter under a box car during a storm and was killed by a train. Thoma# Wells, 104, Madison County, died the other night. He worked up to the day of his death. The McCormicks sold their oil leases at Vanßuren to Thomas Alford, Pittsburg, Pa., for $55,000. Settlers of Hamilton County held their twenty-ninth reunion at Eagletown. There were 10,000 present. Muncie dairymen have organized and hereafter will not deliver a pint of milk unless it is paid for in advance. Herman Schmidt, Sullivan, west away for several days and his dog became disconsolate, jumped into a well and drowned. Brick and a shotgun failed to injure Jack O’Spades, an Evansville negro, and he swears vengeance on the ones, who tried it. A crazy man, giving his name as William M. Clark and claiming Columbus, Ohio, and Muncie as his home, was captured in the woods near North Salem. Benjnmin Gifford, the swamp land king of northern Indiana, is building a railroad of his own for the transportation of products from his 33,000-acre farm. A woman near Mitchell fell out with the family doctor Jjecause he cured her husband of rheumatism. This rendered him worthless as a barometer, which resulted in her getting her new Sunday hat wet. Newton Reed, a Big Four brakeman, i's accused of having kicked a coal mine; named William Henry off the ladder of a box car down which he was chasing him, and causing him to fall under the wheels. Reed is said to have disappeared. After a separation of over thirty years, during whieh the lover went west and amassed a fortune in mining, while the woman he loved married another, who died about eight years ago, John Teer of Lead City, S. D., returned to South Bend and married Mrs. Amanda Fowler of Riverside, Mich. Henry F. Meier, Columbus, drowned whUe seining in White river. Martinsville elevator burst, letting cent split. Greenwood for the Indifts&poiii ftxu) Greenwood electric lfiae.