Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1900 — INDIANA INCIDENTS [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS

___i— RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Illicit Attachment Causes a Suicide— Fatal Quarrel Over.a Young Woman —Female Hermit Dies Near Muncie — Killed by Fall from a Car. ? News reaches Eckcrt’y from Newton Stewart of the death by morphine. of Frederick James Barriot, a young attorney. A letter addressed to his mother tells of his love for another man's wife and his too keen sense of honor to accept the reciprocated passion and says that suicide was his only means of escape from dishonoring his name. Barriot had talked of quitting law for the ministry. l>ead with an Ax Beside Her. Mrs. Cadis Sutton, living a hermit a few miles from Muncie, though having an income of $6,000 from oil wells, was found dead with an ax on the bed beside her. She always feared robbers, but never kept sums of money in the house. Her husband has been dead twenty-two years. Since hi.-? death she has lived on the farm. Death, it is believed, was due to natural causes. Elopes with a Girl of 13. - Horry Brokaw, aged 45, and E-sie McAllisWr. of. Indianapolis, aged 13, eiopejf to Jeftersonville and were married. Ler--J tors were /ound here written to Brokaw from h justice of-thtr peace at Jeffersonville, telling him he would have.no trouble to get married there, as there were “plenty of fellows around who would swear the girl was of age." Gov. Mount is preparing to deal with the justice. Upholds the Barrett Law. The Indiana Supreme Court has affirm-’ ed the constitutionality of the, Barrett improvement law. The title of the case was Thomas B. Adams against the city of Shelbyville. The suit was to’enjoin the city from making a street improvement in front of Adams’ property. The Supreme Court, while upholding the law, reversed the decision of the lower court and granted Adams an injunction. Farmer Fires to Kill. Joseph Re<>se twice shot and mortally wounded S ,C. Campbell near Thorntoww. Soon afterward Reese wont to town and surrendered voluntarily. He says he acted in self-defense. Reese was taken to Lebanon and gave bond for his appearance. The trouble is said to have arisen over a slander involving a young woman. Both men are prominent farmers. ' 4. ’ Mail Clerk Falls from Car. As train No. 18 on the Panhandle'was passing.Hagerstown at tlie rate of sixty miles an hour Daniel W. Deardorff, a mail clerk, fell from the door of his car and was instantly killed. Deardorff was 45 years old and had been ten years in the service. He was one of the most careful men in the service and his death is the result of an accident. Within Our Borders. Temperance unions of Indiana will wage war on cigarettes. 'The scarcity of flint glass workers may compel Muncie factories to run during the summer. ’ ' T. Chickering, a Louisville printer, was run over at Charlestown and instantly killed, on the B. & O. track. William Coppock, glass wbtker at Hartford City, fell on a broken lamp chimney, cutting his throat. Serious. Arthur Redmond, 18. drove in front of a Grand Rapids ami Indiana passenger train at Ridgeville and was instantly killed. John H. Murphy and William Pogue, Indianapolis, are talking of putting in an independent telephone service at Logansport. Mr. and Mrs. Neil Spaulding were buried in the saute grave at Marion. They died within twenty-four hours of each other from pneumonia. Henry Fox, Farmersburg, has, after several years’ experimenting and spending a small fortune, perfected a machine which will make a fine grade of silk from the bulb of milkweed. Night Watchman C. W. Waite, Union City,_shot and killed Frederick Hardwick, a blacksmith, while the latter was resisting arrest. Waite snys Hardwick was coming at him with a knife. Burglar robbed Jim Bitner's general store at Sexton several weeks ago, and it has just been learned that he has lived in the attic over the store ever since, empty cans giving the snap away. Jeremiah Williams of Burlington, a breeder of fine horses, entered his barn on a recent morning to find five of the blooded animals missing. The animals were valued at several thousand dollars. While boiling soap, Mrs. A. M. Everman’s clothing caught fire at Burlington. She was fatally burned, while her 14-year-old daughter and her father. William Collins, received serious injuries trying to save her. Daniel Manifold, aged 22 years, shot himself through the heart near Burlington. He was jealous, had driven his wife away from home during the night, after whipping her. He placed his small sou on the bed and lay beside him when he.killed himself. Edward High, a young man at Fontanet, was brought to the Terre Haute jail on a commitment for jnurder issued by bis father. Justice of the Peace William High. Young High is charged with killing William Pawalski, a miner, while drunk. The preliminary hearing was before Justice High. Municipal ownership of the electric I light system of Peru at tjie end of ten years has been practically assured by the action of the city council in closing a contract with Messrs. Ulen and Parrott and the Indiana Trust Company of Indianapolis, by the terms of which the city will pay $75 apiece for eighty lights, or a total of $60,000 for the ten yean. Hancock County Sunday School Association chosQ E. W. Felt president. Rev. Dr. Denis O’Donaghue of Indianapolis has been made titular bishop of Pomaria. Harry Thomas, 22, committed suicide after returning from a suicide's funeral A in Muncie. Elsworth Livingston, 20, Frankfort, committed suicide by taking morphine. Disappointed in* love. The receipts of the Muncie postofflee are $450 per month more than enough to put it in the first class. <