Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1900 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

-’• - .- - * ai r * ; - 5 ‘ * Th( INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY*’ TOLD. - . •• ; r. ' • • Killed by Hie Father-ia-taw-Firet Ballet Through Her Own Heart—De•erted Wife Arreeted for Attempted |j Murder—House la Blown Up. At Cantridge John Kessinger was killed by his father-in-law, Harris H. Rose. Keesinger was abusing bis wife and her mother, Mrs. Rose, at whose house they were, when Mr. Rose interfered. Kessinger, with a knife in his hand, started for Rose, who secured a shotgun and fired one charge into Kessinger’s body Mr. Rose is a t|oiet, law-abiding citizen. Keasinger was a desperate man and bad threatened to kill the whole family, had knocked both his wife and mother-in-law down, and broken his wife’s thumb. He had driven his wife away from home, and she had fled to her parents’ for protection. Kessingef followed her and lost his life. Tries to Kill Her Hnsband. f Edna Stewart, 17 years of age, attempted to shoot her hnsband, E. C. Stewart, at the Campbell House in Marion. Stewart ih-esrted his 'wife recently in Muneie after a year of married life. He went to Marion and secured a position in the Canton glass factory. Mrs. Stewart located her husband at a boarding bouse. She called him from the house and requested him to live with her, and on his refusal tried to-shoot him. Stew- - art caught his wife and held her until a policeman arrived and she was 'placed ia • jail. Accused Girl Knds Life. Bertha Wills of Linden, 17 years old, committed suicide by shooting herself w-ith a rifle. She was employed as a domestic and was accused by her employer of stealing loaf sugar and taking it to bed with her to eat. The girl went to her home, locked herself in her bedroom, pulled off her shoes and stockings, rested a loaded rifle on the bed and palled the trigger with her toes. She was shot through the heart and instantly died. Attempts to Kill Hla Family. a, Michael Pulley, a prominent w*ho lives six miles northwest of Marivu, has been arrested. The residence of Pulley’s wife in Elwood was wrecked by dynamite and the wife suspected her hns* * band of attempting to kill her. She not!- s fied the Elwood police. When placed in jail Pulley acknowledged having attempted to kill his wife, stepdaughter and son-in-law.

State News in Brief. Dr. David F. Rogers of near Monon, died in the Klondike. Frank Wilson,’ Alum cave, was killed in battle in the Philippines. Clark Cole, Andrews, Wabash brakeman, was killed at Roanoke. The average corn yield in Monroe Conn* ty will be forty bushels to the Sere. Nellie Thompson, f 6, Hartford City, has disappeared. Foul play feared. Charles Barnes, Rising Sun, was killed by falling through au elevator shaft.--l|§g George Paul, 86, a prominent farmer and stock raiser, died near Waverly. The DeHorify & Co. buggy and implement establishment, Elwood, was badly damaged by fire. George Clements, Indianapolis, secured the contract to reconstruct St. Andrew’s Catholic Church, Richmond. , Amy Troop, 16, and Ada Eadwards, 18, Marion, have disappeared. Thought to have joined a theatrical company. 1 Bottle of carbolic acid, marked “good for rheumatism,” was left on the doorstep of Mrs. Katharine White, Logan*-’ port. Prof. George W. Michael is projecting a school of languages which he will establish on the old college campus at Logansport. In Terre Haute Dorlie Brown, a 15-year-old girl, died from injury caused byii being hit on the neck with a return ball' during street fair week. Charles Delph, Daleville, had trouble , at Middletown over politics with Jame*r' Kelly, Middletown. Delph shot at Kei- i ly, but struck William Moneyhun, who may die. William Mitchell, colored, Shelbyville, charged with attempting to kill William Orebnugh. white. Orebaugh was struck on the head with a stone tied in a handkerchief. *«!■ A natural gas explosion occurred at tlufl home of Elmer E. Murphy, 2008 W<jfl Michigan street. HaughvMle. The b(«pi was wrecked and Mrs. Murphy badly j burned. A William Wittridge, lowa, and Miss Anna Vandcraugb. CgPI 1 umbus, Ohio, were seriously injured py a natural gas explosion in the .Marion normal college. Mrs. Natilda Doniine. Laporte, wants a divorce so that her husband may remarry his first wife. Flic says he again loves 3 wife No. 1, and she does not ■ to stand in the way of his happiness, The mangle steam chest at Campbells' laundry at Logansport blew up, throw-J ! ing pieces of broken iron and steel among j j the twenty employed. Miss May War- j , ner was scalded and injured by flyingde* ‘ bris. Bartley Wilhelm, Eaton, of the Glas* Flat toners’ Association, shot Hector De- j Greve, an L. A. 300 flattener, at Hartford ; City. Wilhelm is the father of Loots j Wilhelm, the Eaton blower, shot last J week. Two years ago a public highway was i constructed through a tamarack grove | near Rochester. The other day it began to sink, and now about sixty feet of the 4 roadbed has disappeared, its place beinf | taken by water. The water is filled with f a kind of, fish never before seen iq that part of the country. Nora Beit, the Lebanon girl whp di*-’$ appeared, was found with her aunt.HickiSry nuts are scarce this seakon.’l .Many trees have come down sos Attorneys *re trying to locate William | Lowe, one .of the fonr heirs to a SSO,- , 000 estate near Dillsboro. Luke Gregory, 77. a Howard pioneer, is dead. He lived on a farm -■ uear ltussiaville for fifty-t wo years. * Guy I/caebman shot and seriously in- * jured licon Perkins, at I>nnvillp. 1$ i.+ -j said ‘Perkins had assaulted Leaehman. They met again, the quarrel was renew* j «d and the shooting took placa,