Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1900 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Trouble In a County Institution mi Terre Uautc-Mamnoth Woman to Marry—Reunion of Benbow Family at Muncie—Tragedy in a Cemetery. In Terre Haute the twenty orphan children the county was boarding with a Mrs. McKenzie have been taken from her and placed in homes. Charges are now made of extreme cruelty of the children McKenzie. One of the charges is that Mrs. McKenzie lowered a child into a well as punishment; another that she made the children sleep on the floor to save washing the bed clothing. Mrs. McKenzie says that she threatened to lower children into the well aa a means of preventing them playing around the opening of the vfSi. She also says the children slept on comforts on the floor, but they did this of their own wish in the warm weather. Bride-to-Be Weighs 35a Miss Lucy Havens, an inmate of the county asylum at LaPorte, owes her success in winning a husband to her great weight. Miss Havens tips the scales at 350 pounds and is steadily growing heavier. Dr. O. J. Detter of Union City wishes to pluee her on exhibition as the heaviest woman in the State, if not in the world, and he has placed a proposition of marriage in the hands of the county board. He offers to execute a bond that the woman shall not again become n county charge. Benbow Family in Reunion. There were 156 of the 212 members of the Benhow family present at the annual reunion in Muncie, representing ail parts of the United States. A feature wa» a report from the committee looking np a $1,000,000 estate supposed to be due the descendants in Wales. The following officers were elected: President, Frank Benbow, Muncie; viee-president, Mrs. John Stober, Vining, Kan.; recording secretary, Minnie Benbow, Muncie; treasurer, H. Benbow, Muncie. %

Snicide on Wife's Grave. Versailles William vqn Loenitz, an aged, widower, went to Cliff Hill cemetery at Osgood, knelt down by his wife’s grave, swallowed poison and then blew his head off with a pistol. He had been fined for assaulting Seth Johnson. State New* In Brief. Utica has a ghost sensation. Human skeleton found in a Muncie gravel pit. Plainfield is now talking with the wide, wide world by ’phone. Eleven sheep on one farm near Laporte were killed by lightning. Oliver Thornburg, farmer near Dnb» lin, has purchased an automobile. James Christy, Shelbyville, narrowly escaped being gored to death by a bulk In the vicinity of Plymouth $6,000 worth of pickles were raised this season. John and Sarah Keep, Vincennes, celebrated their fifty-seventh wedding anniversary. -- „ Cornelius Dilley died at his home neas Sullivan. He taught school for fortyfive years. C. E. Green, Crawfordsvllle, found a pearl, which he thinks is worth S2OO, in Sugar ciw&. Mrs. Mary Rank, Allen County, 10f. iorh in England, remembers the battle of Waterloo. The corner stone for a Christian church was laid at Strop, the new cement town in La Grange County. Trof. A. B. Porter ami wife went from Qhicago to Richmond by automobile in three days and a half. Frank Ambrose, an Evansville bookkeeper, walked from a second-story window in his sleep, receiving fatal injuries. Mrs. Samuel Thomas, living near Dalevilie, found Charles Smith, colored, at her hen roost and filled him full of shot. A slate thrown into a tree to dislsdge a hat, struck the 3-year-old child of William Terry, near Kokomo, almost severing its head. Thieves entered the house of George Grahs, Union City. They broke a window with an ax, in full view, and secured SSO. After ten years’ effort Central TTntoa Telephone Company gets exchange in Laporte by buying out the local company and toil lines to several towns. Dr. J. W. Clokey, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, New Albany, owe of the most fashionable churches in the city, welcomes male shirt waists i» church. Messrs. Rogers and Kanpke have struck a flowing oil well near San Pierre. The oil was found at a depth of 135 feet 6 inches in oil rock, and the flow is strong and steadv. Edward Huffman, the 5-year-oid son of William Huffman of Brazil, fell over th* dashboard while riding with his mother and was trampled to death before he could be rescued. When Miss Carrie Pears of Mentone was about to rc%-o she discovered a large snake coiled in the middle of her bod. Before she conid summon assistance it escaped through an open window. Miss Etta Horner, 14 years old, of Radnor, is dead, the result of eating a pint of prepared mustard. The girl had a craving appetite for the preparation and ate it over the protest of her parents. John Locke, in jail at Anderson on th* charge of infanticide, asked a prisoner, who was released, to buy ten cents* worth of morphine for him to relieve pains. It is thought he meant to kill himself. The man became suspicions and did not buy the drug. Jesse Week, 10-year-old son of ft farmer near Urbasa, was killed by falling off a threshing machine crossing a ditch. Jean Chorder, a jockey, was fatally jjj hurt in the three-quarter-mile running race at the Converse fair by the falling of tiis horse. Miss Dadd. An attempt was recently made to crippit* the elect.'ie light system at Lebanon. Indianapolis detective worked two weeks on the case, but found no clue. The con* t.» bureau announce* that the population of Evansville is 59,007, as ugninst 50.750 iu 1890. This is an Increase of 9,251, or 16.20 per cent.