Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1899 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Deserted Husband Commits Filicide at Crawfordsville— Charged with an Old Murder—Statue of War Governor Unveiled—Wholesale Robbery. ~ / James B. Leffew, a discharged Philippine volunteer, returned home to Crawfordsville to find his wife had just instituted divorce proceedings. He used every means to dissuade her, but she at*solutely refused to dismiss the case, whereupon Leffew procured and swallowed morphine with fatal results. The wife relented when too late and was crazed with grief. Charged with Wife Murder. Thomas Skelton, who, it is alleged, murdered his wife fifteen years ago at their home west of Owensville by ’splitting her head open with an ax, has been arrested and is now in jail at Princeton. The grand jury had the case for several days before a true bill was found. Unveil a Ftatue of Morton. A statue of Oliver P. Morton, Indiana’s war governor, was unveiled at Anderson, under the auspices of the public schools. The address was made by Mr. Foulke, the biographer of Gov. Morton. Mrs. Morton, the widow, was present. Use Wacon to Steal Goods. On a recent night at Windfall robbers looted the general store of J. H. Sellmer, hauling away more than SI,OOO worth of merchandise, including 200 pairs of shoes. A team and wagon was used. Within Onr Hordern. Salem had a shower of grasshoppers. Mariou will have another opera house. Goshen has a manual training school. Anderson and El wood are preparing to burn wood. A Laporte preacher says the world will last until Nov. 11. Anderson Davis, Hope, was killed by a train at Greensbnrg. John Goodin, wealthy farmer near Brazil, has disappeared. No clew to the robbers who blew up the Reynolds bank. A $25,000 addition will be added to the Marion normal school. Muncie’s court has decided that piano playing in saloons is legal. Thieves are averaging about one horse a day in northern Indiana. South Bend sold SIO,OOO worth of water works bonds for $541 premium. Eastern capitalists are making heavy investments in the Indiana oil field. Frankfort is flooded/with Mexican half dollars. They pass for only 25 cents. Muncie druggists say they sold 250,000 glasses of ice cream soda last summer. Tipton County canning factories are canning pumpkins. There is a large crop. Chas. Altvater’s family, Terre Hajite, had a close call by eating poisoned meat. Kids destroyed fifty trees in the school yard at Montomery, just for devilishness. "William Gibson had his knee cap bust-? ed in a fight in the soldiers’ home at Lafayette. John Michaels, 14, Greenfield, accidentally shot and killed himself while hunting. S. F. and A. H. Loekridge, Greencastle, sold 260 head of fat (tattle that brought them $25,960. Treasurer of Hamilton County sold $12,000 worth of gravel road bonds at a premium of $625. Burglars blew a safe in a general store near Logansport, but citizens chased them away before they secured booty. Henry Bell, Ripley County, claims to have an apple tree that is bearing blossoms, green and ripe apples. Mrs. Ellen S. Richardson, Osgood, an invalid for three years, who lost her voice, claims to have been cured since she joined a magnetic healing class, nine days ago. Indiana Brick Company has let a cortract for the largest brick plant in the State, to be built at Anderson. It will burn coal and will have a capacity of 70,000 brick a day. A farmer named John Winmill went insane on the streets of Laporte the other day and had to be forcibly removed from a corner where he had fixed his gaze on a telegraph pole. William Killion, Washington, mistreated his wife, and when his father-in-law, William Buckley, upbraided him for it, Killion shot him four times in the stomach. Buckley died and Killion was arrested. It was reported at Muncie that the differences between the American Window Glass Manufacturers’ Association and the Workers’ Association have been settled, the men to receive an advance of 7 per cent. Farmers in Grant County are combining to keep hunters off of their farms, and agree not to shoot birds themselves. It is said they will control 6,000 acres. They say it is the only way to protect game birds. William Marmin, alias Jones, of Louisville, stole a horse and buggy from a hitch rack at Marion. He drove to Muncie, where he contracted with a glass flower to sell the rig for S4O, and went into police headquarters to draw np the papers. The police superintendent became suspicious and locked Marmin up until he telephoned to Marion. Miss Edna Osborn, Kokomo, has walked on crutches for twelve years, and for the last three months has been helpless. The other day the family gathered around the bed, thinking she was going to die, and, after prayers were offered, the girl raised up ond stood on her feet. She then walked across the floor, and is still improving. They think it i* a case of faith cure. i Gusher gas well struck at Hagerstown. Blood hounds are tracking thieves around I*lymoutb. Big Foiir freight houses at Anderson are beW enlarged. Martin Kraeger, 60, Oakland City, was killed by a train. . F. J. Bosler’s spoke factory. Mitchell, is in ashes.' Loss $12,000. Cause unknown. % , ju-j w?T ?ad U^£Xd niiu, W UAHAI., *» uu