Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1899 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSBLIM TOLD. Mellinger, After Conversion, an Old Crime - Reveals Death After Takinjr Poison—Havoc at Eovanaport Church Is Rained. < J. F. Mellinger, a painter, 24 years sent an open letter to the Fort newspapers confessing that when 6 yearegM old he set fire to a barn in play, whl«g|| cremated his 3-year-old sister. Sumersky, an older lad, was chaimMH| with the crime and sent to the refdMH school for six years. Mellinger recentiH|gH| joined the church and since then his mH science has troubled him. SumerakywH whereabouts are not known. jpg Two of a Suicide Club Dead. | H Andrew 8. Thompson died at FrantfflH fort from a dose of morphine taken wftlK| suicidal intent. Thompson, after tajMfc|||| the drug, told his friends that Fred ner, who killed himself a few day* fore. Thompson and three other younflH men had formed a suicide club and wt|flH| in a month all would be dead. ThosfißM son was 26 years old and unmarried. | |||| Serious Fire at Logansport. S A fire occurred in Logansport whictHg gutted the shoe store of Walker Haugh, Frazee’s dry goods store, BarteMl hart & Son's stove store and Georg*.SH Lucy’s tailor store. The store* WmMS mostly damaged by water. All the firnaßM were will insured. Interior of Church Ruined. mßb Unknown persons broke into MouaflH Hope Methodist Church, south of ly, smashed the windows and door*. deaßj stroyed the pulpit, chandeliers and funsHH ture, tore the church Bible and all testaments to bits and then smeared ,th>ll|| walls and floor with mud. There clew to the wreckers. :I|E| Within Our Border*. »» Glanders in Clay County. Elkhart has a central labor union. B Indiana celery crop blighted by fro*L#«H Diphtheria is on the increase in rion. IB Seymour will have free mail deliveflHß Jan. 1. Elwood is troubled with an epidemic. *||m thieving. Female burglars are at work in ansville. Fort Wayne garbage crematory Wo|H||g up in smoke. 'tlh Evansville is having another epidemjlM of burglary. - ' Anderson Elks have begun their SIO,OOO home. |||| Winter apples are said to be rotttiMgl unusually early. |||| Gambling houses in Anderson baMIHB been ordered closed. A million dollar plug tobacco factoflK|| will be built in Madison. |||| Hamilton, Ohio, capitalists will put a' fifty SI,OOO houses in Anderson. Two district schools in Ripley Could . are closed on account of diphtheria. J w Miss Grace Steere, Carthage, WM found dead iu bed. Cause unknown. .jj || An incendiary is firing barns along .mJH Air Line track, in southern Indiana. , gg Bunker Hill coal mines, SullivMM ||J be worked and lighted by Anderson will swell its population dfe.S by annexing I’ark Place and North K demon. :JS| Eli Lane, 45, Anderson, died from.ta|| juries received in a strawboard factijßM|| recently. Invention that does six boys’ work MM IB been introduced in the Muncie flint botaM factory. •■SgM| Contract has been let for an railroad between Logansport and KtjK| dallville. South Bend police arrested three litdßgl girls the other day for shiplifting. AlbS| under 12. Unless farmers in Wayne County up improved mail boxes, they will lo*«|| free delivery. id B. & O. S. W. train killed W . Smith, Lawrenceville, 111., on the BriggjH| creek trestle. Jill Jamestown wants electric lights, jH school house, two churches and a ical fire engine. |g ’Squire Orr, who disappeared fraaß| Frankton some time ago, has been toesM|| ed in Lima, Ohio. Mrs. Fred Weber, Fort Wayne, ■ her baby a dose of morphine for otmH|| medicine. Fatal. Frank Weikel, Evansville, ran into street and grabbed a strange dog. arm nearly torn off. ; |||| There is now a rivalry between, dig belt cities, to see which can strike at the slightest depth. A deed was recorded at Goshen/ veying a lot in Nappanee, that was dß||| knowledged in Jerusalem. During a fight in the Kokomo city ceiHß etery James Horn was fatally shot William Clubs. Horn had accused -j of alienating his wife's affections. *7s Alonzo Humphrey, 45, a farmer of BuO||j ney. was mysteriously murdered. EM : | body was found in the woods near CItfMSS creek. He had been shot in the neck. J O. E. Fryatt. chief clerk in Haute for the Chicago and Eastern IM||| nois and the Evansville and Terre Hantl Railroad companies, was accidentalWll killed while hunting. He was 32 old and unmarried. William E. Heal, the Grant treasurer, who disappeared from Oct. 5, 1897, has returned home, an absence of over two years. he left Marion it was disclosed was short nearly SIB,OOO, of which 000 was Grant County funds. He WaM stand trial. Cambridge City is having trouble wfl “ki<ls" between 15 and 17. ' Mr. and Mrs. Jeremiah Jacobs, County, have been married sixty-ol yp*”- ■ ImII E. E. Sours, Huntington Goaat y 160. ’