Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1900 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. State 'Wins Railroad Tax Case—Vicissitudes of a Young Farmer’s Love Af-fair-Shoots His Beloved’s Son—Hidden Treasure Revealed by Dying Man. Judge Carter in the Superior Court at Indiauapolis handed down his opinion in the suit by the State of Indiana to recover nearly $3,000,000 from the V andalia Railroad. He holds that the State is entitled to recover $745,154.05 instead of nearly four times that sum, which jvaa demanded. This action was based on the provisions of a special charter granted to the railroad company which built the Vandalia road from Terre Haute to Indianapolis. The charter provided that any excess of profits earned by the company, after repaying the stockholders all that they had invested with 10 per cent interest and a dividend of 15 per cent per annum and setting aside a sufficient reserve fund, should be paid over to the State. The company operated under this charter about fourteen years. Ends Life with a Bullet. An attempt at suicide, a wedding and a second and successful effort at suicide is the record ©f--Frank- Daniels, a-.young.-farmer south of Peru, in a few months * time. He fell in love with a young woman of his neighborhood. He was too young to get a- license and his uncle refused consent. He became desperate and sought relief by poison. His relatives saved him, with a physician’s aid. and "then, relenting, got- him a --marriage license. The wedding took place at once and all has been well seemingly, but the suicidal mania returned and he ended all with a bullet.

Woman Forger at Muncie. A stylishly dressed womans, giving tire name of Mrs. Jaanes McCormack, attempted to- cash a forged check for Si,QO0 t at all of the Mumeie banks and escaped while-the check was- being investigated, llrs. McCormack told a plausible story of selling real estate to W. B. Cooley, president of the National. Bank at 1J artford City, and showed a letter and check bearing what was alleged to be Cooley’s signature. The check was questioned at the Merchants’ National Bank. Love-Lorn Girl Kills Life, Because Arthur Williams married another woman Lillie Viper, committed suicide at Lebanon by taking morphine. Shortly after the poison was taken her family discovered her condition and summoned medical assistance. Before her death Miss Viper requested that Williams’ photograph bo pinned on her breast and a ring, which she said was an engagement gage, be placed on the third finger of her left hand. Shoots Son of Woman He Loved. John L. Williams of Salem, ex-auditor of Washington County, shot and fatally, wounded Marion Mayfield. Mayfield: had; objected to Williams paying attention - to his mother, Mrs. William Mayfidl-d, and,, finding him on the Mayfield premises, ordered him away, when Williams shot him ir. the abdomen. The wounded man was 2lb years of age and lived with his- wife and mother. Williams is 60 years of nge. Dylnw Man Reveals Hoard. When physicians told him that he had not long to live Adam Ivnupp, a wealthy resident of New Albany, told Stephen Day, a friend, to tear away a board from the mantelpiece and he would find B“..<riK> in bills secreted there. Then Knapp stated he had about SIO,OOO in goid buried in a big kettle in the cellar. In bureau drawers SSOO in currency was found. The total sum was $13,485.

State News in Brief. Della Scott, 3. Peru, scalded to death. Postoffice at Wadena was robbed of S2OO. Hat full of counterfeit dollars found near Slielbyville. Michael Snyder, 85. Shelby County poineer, is dead. Richard Moorman, S 3, Wayne County pioneer, is dead. An independent citizens’ party has been organized in Pulaski ( ounty. John Scherer. 18. Howard County, was trampled to death by a horse. Robert Hempke. 1.8. Anderson, was accidentally shot by his brother William. Union Traction Company. Marion, has reduced the rate on two lines to one cent. Beautiful residence of D. A. Hank, Logansport. was besmeared with tar paint. Leslie Higgins, Redkey. was crushed to death by the flywheel in a gas pumping station. John Schwallier, Jeffersonville restaurant keeper, has a “daddy dollar, 'j 100 years old. Sarah Combs, Wilkinson, died from blood poisoning ns the result of a small scratch on her hand. Reunion of the Ninth Indiana at Llwood. Judge D. W. Comstock, Indianapolis. was elected president. A runaway horse belonging to William Schman, Covington, jumped off a hill into a tree top and had to be lifted out with a derrick. Jury in the ease of William A. Fuller, charged with killing James M. Torrence, Jennings County, disagreed. Second disagreement. The 2-year-old son of John Ellis, Greencastle,, breathes through a silver tube. He And the croup and the tube was inserted in his windpipe to prevent his chbking to death. While searching i*. the wreck on the Evansville and Terre Haute Railroad the charred remains of n man were found and identified as the body of Robert B. Jerusalem, a merchant of Vincennes. Mrs. Car dine Hass, near Albion, celebrated her ninety-ninth birthday. The differences between the engineers and the American Tin Plate Company in the mills at Anderson nnd Elwood have been settled. Mrs. Ratxe, a former Indianapolis woman nnd lately a resident of Chicago, killed herself by swallowing*four ounces of carbolic acid. She was 76 years old. A new factory which will cost not Ichs than $1,000,000 to build nnd equip will be established in South Bend by the Singer Manufacturing Company, makers of the celebrated sewing machines.