Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 106, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1899 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Murder Is Seen in a Dream—Poiaou Scattered in an Ice Box—Oil Activity Around La Porte—English Electric Light Concern Assigns. A mysterious affair occurred at Muncie the other day. With his face literally beaten into pieces, Elmer Hamilton, aged 33, married, was found near the center of the city at exactly 5 o’clock in the morning by workmen. There was no clew until Alfred Sites, an intimate friend of the murdered man, informed the police that he saw the murder at 3 o’clock the same morning in a dream. He said: “I saw Hamilton walking with five men. I saw them grapple him and after some little time Hamilton fell and did not rise. I made an effort to rescue him from his assailants and was in the act when I awakened.” Attempt to Poison a Family. A most sensational attempt was made at Anderson by arsenical poisoning to exterminate the Henry Bronnenberg family. The ice chest was opened during the night and the meat, milk and other foodstuffs were impregnated with arsenic and a lead preparation. The servant made the discovery by accident while preparing breakfast. A slice of meat was analysed by a chemist and was found to contain enough poison to kill a family. The affair is a mystery. The Bronnenbergs are wealthy and have no enemies they know of. New Oil Wells in Indiana. Excitement prevails in the oil regions near San Pierre over the striking of several big “gushers." Five wells which had been abandoned have begun to flow oil in paying quantities. Prospectors have leased nearly an entire township, and an experimental well will be drilled in Cass township. A company with a capital of $500,000 has been incorporated for drilling wells in White, Tippecanoe, Jasper and Pulaski counties. Electric Light Concern Assigns. The English Electric Light and Manufacturing Company, operating electric light and spoke factories and doing the largest retail business in southern Indiana in fertilizing and agricultural implements, assigned at English. The assets will aggregate $250,000. The liabilities are unknown. Within Our Borders. Anderson will have a new fair ground. Evansville will have a new stock yards. Worley Leas, 77, pioneer, Kokomo, is dead. Charles Wills, Chesterton, is dead from morphine poisoning. He did it on purpose. Manager Pittman of the Colonade Hotel, Maxinkuckee, is missing,’and the hotel has shut up. Two children of John Taylor, English, poisoned by eating pickles kept in a tin cup, have become paralyzed. Lightning struck a barn on the Trotting Association’s race track at Terre Haute and killed five horses. A South Bend dentist who had his carpet cleaned says that sl7 worth of gold dust was beaten out of it. Everett Mod, Muncie, was found in the Big Four yards at Anderson with his skull crushed. He fell from a train. Charles Smith started home from Salem and in the evening was found lying in the road with his back broken. Mystery. Clinton Snyder, Pike County, has sued Janies S. McCoy for SIO,OOO damages, alleging that McCoy kidnaped his daughter. The Columbia Milling Company’s plant burned at Oakland City, together with 6,000 bushels of wheat. The loss is $lB,000. Laporte Christian scientists will resist the vaccination order for school children recently issued by the State Board of Health. Harry D. Smith, Hoopeston, 111., and Miss Eva Armstrong, Lima, Ohio, met at Muncie and after four days’ wooing, were spliced. At Ora, lightning killed three horses belonging to Ferdinand Ludwick and knocked his son Henry senseless. Several other horses were injured. Richard Pendleton, colored, Washington, and two friends, all race horse drivers, were attacked by a Huntingburg mob and Pendleton was shot In the back. The Vandalia Railroad will spend $60,000 for improvements at South Bend. Judge Wilson, Elkhart, in granting a divorce to Mrs. Noah Whitehead, disposed of the three children by letting the father and mother have them thirty days, alternately. The tin plate strike at Elwood has been practically settled, the men returning to work pending adjustment. W. H. Evans, whose discharge caused the strike, was not reinstated. Fireman Jack Terrel, on the Panhandle, Logansport, became crazed from overheat and kept giving the engineer wrong signals. He was put in the baggage car, where three men held him. Two women of Nappanee clambered oh top of their house and put out a fire. After the fire was out, they were overcome with* the nervous strain, and had to sit on the roof until the men folks returned. Jim Brown, colored, Rockport, was bitten on the hand by a copperhead while “suckering” his father’s tobacco. With the aid of a spring chicken cut open and applied to the bite and a jug of whisky he recovered. Senator ..Thomas E. Boyd, Noblesville, ■ was held up the other night. While talking to the robbers he put his hand on, his revolver pocket for a bluff. The highi waymen stepped back and the Senator scooted for home. Oil pumping station of the Indiana Oil and Gas Company, near Hartford City, burned. Loss $5,000. Receiver has been asked for the Fairmount smelting works, on account of unpaid salaries. John Sidener, Crawfordsville, seriously shot Clean Ralston in the stomach with a revolver that he didn’t know was loaded. James Doolittle, 15, and George Cox,