Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1900 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THR PAST WEEK. Almost Suffocated in a Beer Vault— Marion Girl Found" in an Ohio Convent— Diamonda Discovered in is Paper Mill—Children Barn to Death. Sonuey McWilliams, the oldest hotel porter iu Muncie, who has amassed a snug sum from many years’ service at the Kirby hotel, had a close call for his life the other night. He entered the beer cooler under the barroom in the hotel. The dOor was mysteriously slatterned shut. It locked from the outside, and there seemed no possible means of escape from suffocation. McWilliams knelt and began a prayer when the thought struck him that if the beer was shut off an investigation might bring relief. With a mallet he pounded flat the lead pipes connecting the beer counter with the kegs, and shortly the door was opened. McWilliams was nearly dead when found."

Disappeared Into a Convent. Miss Kittie O’Brien, a girl 17 years of age, disappeared from Marion Feb. 13, and no trace of her could be found by the officers. The friends of the girl have been searching for her and sent a detective to Columbus, Ohio, where he found her in a convent. Mrs. Lizzie O’Brien, the giri’s stepmother, was arrested on the charge of kidnaping and her son was also arrested at Crawfordsville on the same charge. It is the supposition that a love affair is the cause of the kidnaping. Found Many Stones in Tin Box. Dock Boine, a machine tender at the Hartford City paper mill, found in a bale of old papers which had been shipped from England a small tin box which contained thirty-one large brilliant stones, believed to be genuine diamonds. The box was wrapped in parchment, on the inside of which appeared the address: '•‘‘London office Paper Trade Journal, 440 Cannon street, London, England.” The stones are of various sizes and are believed to be worth a fabulous sum.

Two Children Burn to Death. Two children of William York, a farmers living six miles west of Mitchell, were burned to death while playing in a field of broom sedge. A farm hand was told to burn the sedge and after setting fire to one side discovered the children and warned them to run. In their flight one dropped her doll and both went back to get it. The fire overtook them and they were terribly burned, both dying a few hours later.

New Church at Vincennes, Ind. The magnificent new stone church in Vincennes, just completed by the Methodists, was dedicated with imposing ser--1 Vices by Bishop McCabe, assisted by Bishop Moore, editor of the Advocate. The church complete cost $425,000, every cent of which is paid. Thirty-one new members were received on the same day Within Onr Borders. Kokomo Congregationalists may start a college. > Hendricks County wheat prospects are discouraging. 1 Jonesboro may get a new flint workers’ glass factory. Vacant houses scarcer than hen’s teeth in North Salem. First Christian Church, Muncie, will build a new structure. Another monster oil well has been struck at Hartford City. Dublin possesses 57 widows, 27 old bachelors and 50 old maids. John Redinger and wife, Seymour, celebrated their golden wedding. South Bend is suffering from petty thieves. Thought to be boys. | The new Hubbard chipped glass factory has started at Hartford City. Harry Blackwell, Bunker Hill, sold 40 chickens, averaging 11 pounds, for $49. James R. Rouk, Boone County farmer, was killed by the tree which he felled. John Bailey, oldest engineer on the Fort Wayne branch of the Lake Shore, fell from his engine and was killed. Little Perry Chileotc, Butler, put a toy pistol iu the fire to melt off some lead. Little finger and side of hand ampuI tated. I Laporte County Commissioners have 1 ordered a special election, May 8, on the proposition to spend $75,000 for gravel roads

Ilov. A. D. Buck, Noblesvillc, presiding elder of the Holiness Church, was showered with ripe eggs and other missiles at Hobbs. Peter Wolfe, a Warrick County farmer, found dead by the roadside near Evansville, was killed in a runaway. His neck was broken. j Wm. Meinert, Evansville brick maker, drowLed himself in a pond. He told friends several days before that he wanted to die by drowning. | A receiver has been appointed for William Buschmaun & Co., an old grocery firm of Indianapolis. The liabilities arc $42,000; assets about the same. | The Midland steel works at Muncie has been transferred to the sheet iron trust. The sale price was about $1,000,000. Work in the mill has been resumed. ) The boiler in the grist and saw mill of Jacob Kiefer at Selvin exploded and Roscoe Day, the engineer, was fatally scalded. Parks Bradley, W. W. Stewart and Joel Taylor received severe injuries. | The St. Joseph and Elkhart Power Company has begun preparations at South Bend for the constrnction of a dam in the St. Joseph river above South Bend. The power generated will be used, 4,000 horse power of electricity to be conveyed to and sold in South Beud for manufacturing purposes. Coroner has decided that John Darnell Goshen, died from tuberculosis, exploding tte poison theory. “Ike Davis, laborer in a North Marion window glass factory, is dead from morphine. His sweetheart would not marry him.

Robert Kiefer’s grist mill, npar Selvin, wns wrecked by a boiler explosion and damaged SB,OOO. Engineer Robert Day was badly scalded. The receipts or the Anderson postofflee for the year ending March 81 will fail $5,000 <hort o! the sum required to make it a firts-elass oiflee.