Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1900 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Mistaken for a Panther—School Teacher’* Horrible Snicide—Hurt in Row Over Politics City Must Pay fojr Brick Paving- Kicked to Death. William 11. Green, a young man of Peru, was shot under peculiar circumstances in the woods tAVo miles south of there by a companion, who mistook him. for a panther. During a few weeks past !i full-grown panther has been seen lifferent parties, and always accompanied by two well-grown cubs. On recent aight Green, Avith tAventy other yonng men of Peru, armed,with guns and reenforced by forty-odd farmers 'of the neighborhood, attempted to effect its capture. Green was lying behind a log, and hearing a noise, raised himself to a stooping position, Avhen he was shot. Lebanon Loses a Bait. After Lebanon City put up a stubborn fight against receiving the brick pavement on Pearl street, charging inferior workmanship and material, in a long-draAvn-out trial at Frankfort, in which a number o X expert witnesses were introduced and the jury took a railroad trip of thirty miles to view the work, judgment was rendered against, the city. The costs in the ease have exceeded the assessments, Avith a threatening suit for damages. Cut to Pieces by His Guest. At Osgood Jefferson Davis Brayden and a man named Morgan got into a drunken toav over politics, and Brayden, ‘ who was at Morgan’s house, ‘ attacked Morgan with a knife. Morgan’s? wife rushed. to his assistance and her thumb was cut off by Brayden. Morgan's head and face viere badly eut and a long gash, two incut's deep Was inflicted in his side. Brayden after a fight with Marshal David Rick was arrested and taken to jail at Versailles. Commits Suicide by Fire. Mina Beadle, a school teacher at Tyror, committed suicide by pouring kerosene over her head and clothing and then setting fire to herself. She was instantly enveloped in flames, which burned her so severely before assistance arrived that she died iu great agony an hour after the deed was committed. Miss Beadle had made two previous attempts at self-de-struction. Kentuckian Is Kicked to Death. John H. Walker, who moved to Kokomo a_ short time since from Kentucky, Avas mysteriously murdered. He recognized his assailants, but died without telling their names. He was kicked to death. It is thought the men do not live in that vicinity. Masked Men Sandbag a Farmer. Charles Itieer, a Kokomo farmer, was assaulted and robbed. He started to town with S9OO wrapped in a handkerchief itr his pocket. As he was passing a wood tAvo masked men sandbagged him and secured the money.

Within Onr Borders. Greensburg national bank has been organized with $50,000 capital. It is the city’s third bank. Summittvitle will get one of the two bottle factories to be built by the American flint glass workers’ union. Mrs. Ed Helmich, 22, was found dead in bed at Evansville, with her baby in her arms. She was perfectly well the night before. • *v While sailing on Ilohtnspn's lake the boat in which Charles Leifer add several companions were was capsized and Leifer was drowned. Robert Grammer, Albany, has been appointed guardian of Edgar C. Justice, who admits he is a drunkard. Justice petitioned for the guardian himself. An elk’s horn, five feet Jong, was unearthed by ditchers near Monument City. Mrs. William Horton, near Somerset, tried to cut her throat. Motive unknown. Because Howard Lore received a letter from his mother in New Lexington, Ohio, demanding that he be a good boy he walked east of Muncie and threw himself in front of the Big Four express. He was literally ground to pieces. Dogs burrowed under the deer inclosure at Riverside Park, Indianapolis, and the other morning every deer owned by the city was found dead. The throat of each animal was badly gnawed and lacerated and there were indications of a stubborn tight. John Thrailkill was fatally hurt in a runaway at Kokomo; Thrailkill, a prominent Jackson township farmer, was returning from town when a runaway farm team ran into his buggy. The'wagon tongue entered his body, piercing the lungs. The State teachers adjourned at Evansville after choosing these new officers: President, Charles N. Peek, Princeton; vice-presidents, C. F. Mclntosh, Spencer, and Hamilton Powell, Rockport; secretary, Miss Lizzie Beal, Terre Haute; treasurer, W. D«- Dekerlin, Murtinsville. John Martin of Kentucky, a prisoner in the Jeffersonville State prison, was discovered with a revolver. Ife was placed iu solitary confinement, and this led to the discovery of a plot among the prisoners to make a break for liberty at the nortli gate by killing the guard. Martin admitted his part of the affair. » Mrs. Andrew Egnew of the Western House, Lagro, by a plucky act prevented a band of cracksmen from getting uearly $2,000 from the store of G. S. Fulton & Son. The robbers made two attempts to blow open the safe, in which were fuuds belonging to the postmaster, Fulton, and several depositors. At the second explosion Mrs. Egnew was aroused < and rang a bell violently. This frightened the robbers, who tied without picking up the money thrown out "upon the floor by the explosion. ’ «jl A. T. Ginley, Greenfield, threw an ' agent bodily out of his house the other H day. William Boyd, tried at Princeton for the murder of Simon Skora, was sentenced to life imprisonment. William Frame, who is charged with the ffiurder or Louis Gates at I.oogootee i six years ago, was arrested in Washing- ,a ton. Frame disappeared immediately after tiie murder. A few days ago he returned to Loogootee and was arrested. jj On the way to jail he knocked down the town marshal, but he was recaptured and placed iu the jail.