Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1899 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Supposed Dead Man Returns —Man Starts a Street Fight Which Ends Fatally—Masked Men Rob a PriestDefaulter Fined and Imprisoned. Thomas J. Box, supposed to have died twenty-two years ago and mourned by friends and relatives who identified the body buried as his remains, returned to Vincennes recently. In June, 1877, B»x suddenly disappeared and two days later a body was found in Otter pond, two miles south, and it was identified as that of Box. Several persons were positive that it was the body of Box and others were just als positive that it was not. They admitted that there was a striking similarity. Among those that felt positive that it was Box’s body was his sweetheart, who nqt only recognized the body as that of Box, but also identified the shirt which, she said, she had made with her own hands. Mr. Box says that he first went west, where he worked several years and finally drifted back to Bedford, Ind., where he has been living and where he has prospered. Brick Inflicts Fatal Wound. Albert Ward, a barber, was killed, at Indianapolis by Morris Dalton. Dalton and a friend were standing at the corner when Ward approached intoxicated,. An argument arose and a fight followed and Dalton struck Ward on the back of the head with a brick, fracturing his skull. He lived but a short time. Priest Robbed in His Hornet. Four masked men entered, the residence of Father John F. Stanton, at Clinton and with drawn revolvers forced the priest to deliver what valuables he had on his person, afterward searching the house. They then forced the priest to build a fire, over which they sat until daylight, when they made their escape. Heavy Sentence for a Defaulter. Jay' A. Buck, the defaulting treasurer of Midland Lodge, Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and. Tin. Workers, at Muncie, pleaded guilty and was sentenced .to fourteen years in. the Michigan City prison. Witbin Our Border*. Charles Hennon, Owensville, had hisarm torn off in a corn shredder. Terre Haute police have issued another order closing all gambling houses. William Hogan, Terre Haute, was shot in the back while bathing in the Wabash. First rural mail delivery route out of Terre Haute has been established. It is twenty-three miles long. Buckeye window shade plant, Anderson, sold at receiver’s sale for $10,001). Debts will be liquidated in full. Streeter glass factory, Greenfield, has resumed operations with twenty-four blowers and fifty other employes. There are twenty-four applicants to fill, the places of four mail carriers at Seymour, when free delivery begins. Assistant State Geologist Ashley has found deposits of marl in eleven northern counties that can be worked with success.

Mule street car service in Jeffersonville will be replaced by an electric system, and a line will be extended to New Albany. Indianapolis property owners have sued to enjoin the collection of assessments under the Barrett law, declaring that the measure is unconstitutional. J. L. Brooks, Mount Vernon, in trying to close-a gate without dismounting from his horse, accidentally discharged a gun he was carrying and was killed. The raise in the price of electric light at Kokomo, which went' into effect Dec. 1, will drive the people to forming a new company, or return to the use of gas. Basement fire at Greenfield did $1,500 damage to W. B. Walker’s grocery, La nberson Bros.’ drug store and the building owned by Henry C. Long of Indianapolis. Insured. At Anderson Hugh Alender, a baker, and brother-in-law to W. D. Deitzen, a well-known business man, was fouy.d dead under several tons of hay. Ak-p----der disappeared last September. Emily Cox, Crawfordsville, who brought suit against John McCain for SIO,OOO damages, alleging that he circulated reports about her eighteen years ago, was awarded $275. The costs vrill amount to SI,OOO. Jury in the Morris murder trial, Muncie, found him guilty of manslaughter, and he was sentenced to from twf to twenty-one years. The case will be appealed. Morris murdered Elmer Hamilton while on a spree. Charles Volderjuer, 67, retired business man of Evansville, shot and killed 'aimself in an adjoining building while his family were eating dinner. He left a note, saying his wife’s application fir a divorce had driven him to the deed. His estate is worth $25,000. Livery barn of W. J. Parrish and J. G. Anuison, Edinburg, burned. Out of seventeen horses, twenty tons of hay, twenty tons of baled straw and a number of pigs, seven horses were saved. Parrish, who was sleeping in the barn, narrowly escaped. Loss $6,000. Insured, Believed to have been incendiary. State Gas Inspector J. C. Leach has been talking at Marion. He says the average pressure of gas over the State has decreased from 183 pounds to 154, out that the people are economical. He predicts, however, that it will be some time before gas 1 is exhausted. The old fields are being drilled with success. Some oil companies, which have gas and oil both, have injunction suits pending against them, to prevent them from working, unless provision is made to save the gas. Leach says that if these injunctions are made permanent, and he thinks they w’H be, the fuel will last several years longer. Mrs. George Bender of Laketon was found dead in bed. She was in b<T usual health the day before. Heart failure was the cause of her death. A swindler is doing the north part of the State by “playing broke” and selhftg his gold watch for $3, if can’t get more. He carries a satchel full of them, agd works one off at' every opportunity. Boiler in the Greensburg- Limestone Company’s plant, Harris City, blew up. It started from the basement and weat through the roof, while the engineer, Nels Goodwin, was shot out at a-win-dow. Not hurt. Damage $1,200.