Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1900 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. d Young Soldier Takes Poison—Son Murderously Assaulted by His Father— Insane Over Christian (Science—Hunter Accidentally Killed. At Scottsburg the dead body c* Floyd Merrill, a prominent young man, was?found in his room in a hotel. He was - married about two months ago. His young wife left him for a few hours to visit her parents. Returning she found the door of the room locked, and, becoming uneasy, the door was forced open and the husband was found lifeless on the bed. He had taken four grains of morphine, purchased from a druggist on false representation. No cause is known for the act. Deceased was a soldier in j the war with Spain and was formerly I from Rising Sun. Nearly Murders His San. Thomas Morris, nurseryman at Clin- I ton, committed a murderous assault on his 18-year-old son, and is now in jail pending the results of the boy’s injuries. Morris ordered the boy to go home, and when he refused to obey struck him with ‘ a stone, causing a severe fracture of the skull. Young Morris was removed to Terre Haute hospital. Morris is an announced candidate for sheriff. His wife is in au insane asylum. Tortured Himself with Fire. Lotiis "Kuntz, a carpenter, became vie- I lently insane over Christian science at Elkhart. He drove his attendants from the house with a chair and then put his foot in a coal stove, almost burning the - flesh to the bone. He also threw live * coals around the room with his hand*. - After this he escaped from the house and ran six miles into the country, stopping only when thoroughly exhausted. Bog Guards Master’s Corpse. 2a Armed with a shotgun and accompanied by his dog, Richard Cain of Shelbyville went in search of game, that his family might have meat for supper, he being out of employment. The next ■ morning his dead body was found with his dog beside it. He had slipped, discharging the gun and the charge blew his head off. The dog had remained by the body throughout a blinding snowstorm, ? Two Offices Robbed. ~ The Pennsylvania suburban ticket of-, fices at Silver Grove and Howard Park were robbed the other night. ’A watch and pair of bracelets, belonging to the agent, Mrs. Lawrence Jackson, some tickets and $1.50 in money were secured at Howard Park and a quantity of confections, some tickets and small change ■ were secured at Silver Grove, where Matt McCammon is agent. Within Our Borders. ' Baseball practice has opened at De- ' Pauw. Cpra Lock, 15, Laporte, is mysterious- a ly missing. Fourth-class postmasters of district 5 ; have organized. Populists of Daviess County will put fig county ticket in the field. Elliottsville bank, robbed recently, has i bought a burglar-proof safe. Residence of Charles Johnson, near a Muncie, in ashes. Loss $4,000. ■ William Whittaker, 19, Versailles, wa» ? | instantly killed by a falling limb. Joseph Henderson, Greenfield, had a i finger bitten off by a vicious horse. ~.-a It is said that fruit jar manufacturers | in the gas belt are forming a trust. .3 The first colored children have been;| sent to the Madison County infirmary. ■ George McDowell, 81, Rising Sun, 9 stood before a mirror and shot himself | dead.

Power house of the United Oil and Gas Company, near Hartford City, is in ashes. Loss $2,000. There is nothing to rattle in the Crawfordsville cash box, and the city can’t build a sewer system. Anderson painters and paper hanger*; are forming a union and will adopt a scale before spring work begins, A dismissal was filed for entry in the divorce suit of Helene Studebaker Ulrich vs. Russell Ulrich at South Bend. Maj. James M. Hoskins, one of the leading Democratic politicians of Brazil, died of heart trouble, aged 09 years, Nelson Dickerson, tried at Jeffersonville for murdering “Toad” Richardson, at Cementville, last October, was sent up for life. The heirs of Andrew Binkard of Pern found $1,300 in coin buried on his farm. A SSO gold piece once owned by Frances Slocum was included in the lot. Mary Bcott committed suicide at Evansville by taking laudanum. She was 20 years old and was recently jilted by her lover, who married another girl. William Aggery, an old soldier of Newport, drew his pension, $72, and went to Clinton to have a good time. He started home drunk, and was knocked down and robbed of SSO, all he had left. The old man has a dangerous wound on the head. His assailant escaped. Miss Ellen Voder, the pretty 10-year-old daughter of Quincy Voder of Plainville, was arrested at Vincennes on the request of her father, who came for her. She came to meet her sweetheart, Chas. Roach of Ball. When she alighted from the train the chief of police took her into custody. A wedding feast was spread at the! home of Grant O’Neal, near Columbus* and the guests and minister had arrived] to witness the ceremony that wns to; unite Miss Ida Barrett and Ned Me-' Geary, when it was announced that the groom had disappeared. The young man left no explanation and his sudden dis-' appearance on the eve of his wedding 1« shrouded in mystery. There is a plan to build an electric line from Fort Wayne to Ligonier, to connect by branch lines with Mishawaka, Gosh-■ cu. South Bend and Elkhart. George Hoffman, Cincinnati, while hanging sash at the Oldenburg convent, ‘ lost his bulactce on a scaffold and jumped; to a board, but it broke. He fell to the ground, dying a few minutes latqf. . Dr. James IT. Smart, president of Purdue University, died at his home in Lafayette. He had been in ill health for several years, as u result of overwork in his ambitious zeal to further the best interests of Purdue.