Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1900 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK* Killed and Dragged In Mnd—Eccentric Men Die Unknown to Neighbor* —Contract Let - for Long Klectric Ldnea-W. C. T. uj Will Petition. Irvin Dye was murderetLat Marion, the body being found in the war of Manehan & Sou’s store, where it’ had been placed by his slayers after dragging the body through the mud from rear of the Black Prince saloon. TBC officers learned that Dye and Albert Gallon were in colnpany with two youug wSjneu at Gabon’s home early in the evenifig, and that they were joined by Thomas j%awkins, and the party walked dowiß-the street to the central part of the erfy. Dye, Hawkins and Gallon were seen later in the Black Prince saloon. The 1 officers are working on the theory that the murder resulted from jealousy over a love affair. Chicago Men to BnilJ Road. I The Central Traction Company awarded the contract for the construction of the electric line between Indianapolis and Kokomo. The road passes through Neblesville and Tipton and will furnish rapid transit service to such other small towns en route as Broad Ripple, Westfield, Cieero, Arcadia and Atlanta, paralleling the JLake Erie and Western part of the way. At Tipton a branch is proposed east to Elwood, while the main line will continue directly north to “Kokomo. The entire length of line as finally surveyed and agreed upon is sixty-five miles. The construction work was let to a Chicago firm and it is understood the consideration is between $1,000,000 and $1,500,000. Two Men Found Poisoned. The bodies of the two erratic Holland brothers of Peru, Jerry and Pat, aged 02 and 56 respectively, were found in their house, the men evidently having been dead from eight to ten days. Pat was found upstairs face upward and Jerry downstairs in a position almost similar, near the kitchen stove, where natural gas was brightly burning. Food for supper lay untouched on the table. Hurried examinations by physicians show no marks of violence, but the belief is general ■ that the men had been drugged while drinking and had died in a few minutes after reaching home. No reason can be assigned for suicide, as both were noted for jollity of nature. W. C. T. U. Wants Pnre Goods. The organizations of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union in this State will present a memorial to the national convention to be held in Washington, D, 0., to create a new department to ear force and maintain the purity of liquors and that Congress be petitioned to pass a law that only pure whiskies be sold at saloons instead of adulterated liquor. Colored Student as University Orator. Willis Q. Tyler, colored, won the primary oratorical ; versify, and will represent the university ; in the State oratorical contest to be held at Indianapolis. His subject was “The Middle West.” State News in BrieC Forest fires near New Albany. Six barns already burned. Goldsmith postoffice was robbed of S3OO in cash and stamps while the postmistress was filling a lamp. ■ • August H. Schroeder, Evansville, is dead as the result of an acetylene gas explosion. He was experimenting. Peru man who found a purse containing S2OO and valuable papers' would not accept a SSO reward and requested that , his name he not mentioned. The Pendleton Gazette says a Hancock County man bet his wife against a farm, and lost. he woman objected, and the man who von wants the bet declared off, but the other fellow insists on paying. Little May McPherson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel McPherson, Muneie, is dead from diphtheria. She is the last of four children who have yielded to the malady in six weeks. The parents are almost crazed. An unknown man attempted to assassinate Dr. Peter Drayer, a prominent citizen of Hartford City. Dr. Drayer was passing through an alley when a man tired two shots at him at close range, but failed to wound him. Jerome D. Knapp, a prominent real estate dealer of Indianapolis, committed suicide at his home by taking strychnine. Mr. Knapp was an active church worker. Tt is supposed his mind became affected i through religious excitement. I Miss Grace Hunt and Mrs. Lillion j Rickrich have staked off claims on the . Lynville gold field recently discovered in | Warrick County and are preparing to ’ work the same. Hundreds of claims are i being staked off and people are flocking to the’place. Disappointed in love, Bennett Selwood left his home in Shelby County, in 1859. lie learned a few days ago through a newspaper item that his sister had died, and he was the sole heir to her valuable property.- He has returned and claimed the property. Mrs. Burton Wisener, near Union City, had apparently recovered from diphtheria. She told her husband, need sit up with he# no longer. Just as she spoke, she threw np her arms and exclaimed, “Oh, Burt, lam dying.” Before h® reached her she expired. Addison Fields and Clara Dake, who were married recently at Shelbyvilie without the consent of her grandfather, Benjamin Dake, the girl afterward being locked in the Dake home and her husband driven from tbe premises, have been forgiven by the grandparent, who presented the young folks with a check for $2,500. Furnace rooms of the Macßeth lamp flue factory. Elwood, were flooded by the stopping up of a big ditch. Work had to atop until the water was pumped out. Mrs. Margaret Johnson, near Chesterton, started into a pusture to milk a Jersey cow, when idle was; attacked by the animal, receiving injuries which proved fatal. * t Fire at the illuminating gas plant of the Richmond Light, Heat and Tower Company caused SIO,OOO damage <o ma'■hinery and rendered the plant u&fess temporarily. An explosion caused the fir®- '