Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1901 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Love Leads Almost to Starvation— Kills Himself Rather than Appear Against His Sons —Old Lady Dies of Fright—Frankfort Man Leaves Home. A peculiar case of love, pride and poverty has developed in Marion. Ernest O. Hartman and Miss Tena Wilson were married in Dunkirk last July. They were of wealthy parents, the father of Miss Wilson "being A. X. Wilson of Dunkirk, who is the owner of the city gas plant. of means in the town and had allowed the boy to grow to manhood in idleness, Mr. Wilson objected to the marriage. Haltman was very proud and refused aid of the parents. He secured a position in the freight depot of the Pennsylvania Railroad, but was discharged after one week. The couple lived for nearly a week without anything to eat and were too proud to beg or to notify their parents of their cundilion. Then hunger finally overcame the pride of Mrs. Hartman and She notified her father, who went to her and found her in an exhausted and dangerous condition. He took his daughter home with him, hut his son-in-law has disappeared. Remorse Leads to Suicide. William Fiscus, an aged, wealthy and well-known farmer, residing six miles north of Anderson, died of self-inflicted wounds, the result of despondency over having his own "son arrested. During the father became angry at a trivial offense committed by his boys, and caused botlu to be arrested. The trial was set for a certain, afternoon. At an early hour that morning Mrs. Fiscus awoke to find the bed saturated with blood, her husband unconscious from loss of blood, a gaping wound in his throat. He revived sufficiently to say he had attempted to end his life with a razor, which was found in the bed. Lay Woman’s Death to Fright. Mrs. Josephine Lindsey of Lafontaine is said to have died from fright. The other night at 9 o’clock she was at the home of her son, J. W. Lindsey, a merchant. The pnly other person in the house was a little grandson. Some person attempted to enter the house, and when the glass of a window crashed the old lady expired. Avery Gardner, aged 10, vwts thought to be the burglar, and a m<K» went to his home to punish him. He proved an alibi, which probably saved his life. Rich Farmer Spurns Home James Salmon, a wealthy Frankfort farmer and live stock dealer, has disappeared from home. It developed that he quietly disposed of his personal property and deposited in bank the proceeds from the sale to the credit of his children and then left for some unknown point in the West. His wife is left in possession of a large farm. His friends are at a loss tor an explanation for his strange actions. Lamp Bursts, Causing Death. The explosion of a lamp caused a panic during an auction at the house of Frank Rogers in the town of Diamond. In the rush for doors and windows a dozen or more persons were crushed and trampled upon. Mrs. C. G. Catterson and her 4-year-old daughter probably will die.

Within Our Borders. Princeton has twenty-ftven secret orders. Bridge near Kokomo fired by a spark from an engine. The gas wells supplying Noblesville are about played out. William Patterson of Muneie killed himself, with poison. Kokomo has ten strongly organized trade unions, it is said. . W. F. Harvey of Kokomo has struck a rich copper claim in Oklahoma. Muneie has annexed a large part of Congerville, a southern suburb. North Vernon is to have four new three-story business buildings this summer. Muneie Council has resolved to start a fund to buy the present water plant or birtf&jt new one. William Jones, charged with killing James Herron, at Muneie, waived examination and was held to the grand jury. A tramp was discovered making off with the 0-year-old son of James Hinthorne of Rushville., Boy recovered, tramp fled. Mrs. Willis Bray of Anderson recently adjudged insane, was spirited away by her relations before the sheriff could get her in custody. While testing a revolver, Peter Williams, an aged colored preacher at Indianapolis, accidentally shot and killed his 13-year-old daughter. Fire at Goshen destroyed the warehouse and contents of the Nash, Knox and Hubbell Company, manufacturers of fine tables. The loss is $40,000, with SIB,OOO insurance. An oil well struck on the Sohn farm, near Marion is throwing out eighty barrels an hour. Experts say it will have a steady output of 250 barrels a day. This is the lurgest well ever developed in the Indiana field. Oliver McMaokin was killed in a quarrel with his father-in-law, Thompson Smith, at Now Albany.. Spiith, who is under arrest, says death was caused by the discharge of a shotguu which fell from the hands of Mrs. Smith. Because he arrested Charley Phillips, a boy, for throwing a stone into a passenger ear on the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad, Thomas Stringer’s saloon was burned by a mol) at Lyford. He wits badly beaten and there were threats of lynching. William It. Maddy, aged 03 years, formerly a well-to-do grocer of Muhcie, committed suicide by shooting himself. John Howerton, white, of Marion, Ky., is dead at Evansville from injuries received in a fight with James Lashley, colored. Marshall Hewitt, who murdered James Anderson, a barber, at South Bond, last spring, has been located at Houston, Texas. The Laporte and Michigan City Railway Company is after a franchise for u electric light, heat and power'plant at Michigan City.