Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1901 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THK PAST WEEK. Shoots His Wife’s Attorney-Graathum Enjoined from Blocking Midland Line -College Graduate an Expert Thief— Burglars Wounded in Round Grove. Ellsworth E. Weir, a prominent attorney of Laporte, was shot and probably fatally wounded by Joseph W. Brill of Cleveland, Ohio, in the office of Dr. Geo. M. Dakin. Brill attempted to fire a second shot, but was prevented by Dr. Dakin. The wounded man was removed to his home, and Brill, who made no attempt to escape, was arrested by a deputy sheriff. Mrs. Brill, who is estranged from her husband, engaged Weir as her attorney, and in that capacity he visited her at Cleveland. Brill came to Laporte and at onee sent for Weir. He demanded that the attorney sign a confession that he had stolen Mrs. Brill’s affection* Weir refused, and Brill drew a revolver and shot him. Stops War on Railroad. Judge John H. Baker of the United States Court in Indianapolis, granted an order restraining a further blockade of the Midland Railroad on the Grantham farm, in Montgomery County, where the movement of trains had been hindered for about a week. The tracks of the road have been torn up on the Grantham farm by Sheriff Canine, who acted under a writ of ejectment. Then some hotheaded young men from Ladoga blew up two bridges along the line. Grantham and a number of his friends, armed with shotguns and rifles, went to the edges of his farm, where the road enters and leaves, and held back the men sent by the company to repair the track. Th® mails have been carried around the Grantham farm by wagon. College Man Turns Thief. Frank Edmonds, a fine-appearing young man of Tere Haute, and a college graduate of last June, was sent to the prison on a plea of guilty to larceny. He confessed to twelve thefts and put the victims in, the way of recovering their property. His scheme was to hire a team with which to drive into the country and then, driving to another town .forty or fifty miles away, he would sell the outfit. It is not known how many he robbed. He had a deposit in a Springheld, -111., bank for several hundred dollars. Some of the Illinois authorities came here and begged the officials to let the Illinois law get at him. Wounds Burglar at Work. Edward Dolfin of Round Grove* probably fatally wounded one of three burglars with whom he engaged single-handed, and himself received a shot in the left arm. Dolfin and his wife were chloroformed in their house while the burglars ransacked it. The burglars then went to his store near by. Dolfin recovering consciousness, procured shotguns, and finding the burglars at his store, opened fire, causing one to fall. Another fired at him, striking his arm The third carried the wounded burglar to his horse, and they rode away, leaving a trail of blood. Six Men Injured at a Fire. The Marion Pulp Company’s plant was damaged by fire to the amount of $2,000. Chief Butler, Harry Polling, Fred Bennett, Thomas Hamilton and Burr Hamilton of the fire department were badly injured by the explosion of a boiler, as was also William Nessler, manager of the mill. The Wise hoop factory also suffered a loss of $3,000 by fire. Stat® News in Brief. Epidemic of grip at Crawfordsville. Peru will have an independent telephone system. Dr. J. W. Botkin, 85, died at Muncie. He lived on the same farm all his life. Austin Widdens, Connersville, on his way home from the Philippines, died in San Francisco. James Lunday, a showman, was attack-, ed and almost killed by a large ostrich, near Anderson. Walter Hadley, near Danville, son of Judge Hadley of the Supreme Court, had bis arm crushed in a feed cutter. An attempt was made to blow up the Iroquois block, Marion, the finest in the city. Gas in basement was turned on. Ex-Secretary of the Navy Whitney has purchased a farm on the shore of Wawasee lake for a breeding purpose and win ter quarters for his race horses. A new trial will not be asked for William Pherson, convicted in Franklin of killing Milton Knapp. Pherson was sentenced to from two to twenty years. Clayton Hunter, aged 85, for many years treasurer of the Indiana yearly meeting of Friends and a prominent manufacturer, died suddenly at Richmond. Fishing on the great lakes was poor during the past fall, the catches being not more than one-half what they were in the preceding year. Michigan City fishermen fared better than those in Wisconsin. Rural mail carriers threaten to prosecute merchants who fill farmers’ mail boxes with advertising matter. They say they have to remove the “dodgers” before they can see whether there is any mail underneath. T. E. Phillips, Bloomington, has been granted a patent for the manufacture of paper by a secret process. He will utilise the canebrake cane, which grows wild over thousands of acres in the South and can be obtained for almost nothing. A 20-ton cast iron flywheel on a 600horse power engine in the carriage department of the big Studebaker factory at South Bend bonded. The engineer and his assistants were out of the room at the time. The accident caused damage amounting to at least $15,000. Mrs. David Fitzgerald, who died at Decatur, had lived in Adams County since 1827, and had never been more than six miles away from home. Mrs. Dan F. Snepp of Jackson ran a nail in her foot last September, the wound healing nicely. Recently it began to pain her and a piece of her stocking was taken out. Emory Franklin. Jennings County, has found his sister, from whom he Was separated ten years ago in Indianapolis. They were orphans and were sent to different Institutions. The sister is now ths wife of William Powell at Grammar.