Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1901 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. New Law Increases Compensation of Teachers—Little Boy the Victim of Strange Malady—Student Crazed by Unrequited Love—Kills His Prisoner.' School authorities in the State are amazed at the possibilities of increased cost of teaching in the common schools under the operation of the law passed last winter fixing the basis of pay for teachers. Now is the time when the school authorities employ teachers for the next school year, and in doing so the discovery is made that there will be thousands of dollars of increase in the salary totals. The new minimum pay is figured at two and one-half times the percentage of the teacher in the examination on which the teacher’s license was issued. For instance, if a teacher made 100 per cent the pay would be $2.50 a day. Twenty lays a month are counted, and that would make the salary SSO, and ten months in the year, SSOO. Few of the new teachers receive above S3OO. Of course not many have 100 per cent to their credit, but with 90 per cent there is an advance of $l5O. Members Drop from Body. Raynand’s disease, of which only two cases have ever been reported to the American physicians, is'slowly consuming 3-year-old Garnet Jpnes of Winchester. The malady is described by Dr. Milligan of Winchester. The spinal cord becomes first affected and causes a contraction of the arteries. It cuts off the supply of blood to the extremities of the body. The parts diseased finally shrivel and die, dropping from the body. The boy patient had sedmingly excellent health from the time he was born until recently, when the disease suddenly came upon him. It appeared in the form of common hives, the .eruptions breaking out on the fingers and toes. Then the eruptions ceased and the fingers became colored, first white, then red, and finally ended by assuming a dark blue and later becoming dead, until they dropped from the child's hands. His Love Drives Student Insane. John Shephard,, a student at the Indiana Normal School and a member of a prominent family at Danville, 111., has been driven insane by being jilted by a young woman student. The attentions of Shephard for a time were to all ances reciprocated. He was found roam® ing the streets of Laporte, crying aloud for the young woman. Escaped Prisoner Recaptured. John Davis, who escaped from jail at Winchester by knocking senseless the wife of Sheriff Overman when she was serving his supper, was captured in Muncie. He had been held for trial on the charge- of shooting an officer at Blountsville who attempted to arrest him for burglary.

Officer K Ils a Prisoner. In a desperate battle with a deputy sheriff George Reeves was shot to death near Huntingburg while being taken from Jeffersonville reformatory to Jasper, where he and his brother John were to be placed on trial for a murder committed nearly twenty years ago. Within Our Borders. At Mentone natural gas was struck the other day. Richmond fire losses last year, $35,613. Building permits, $175,540. Noblesville bottling works started. Down all winter. No gas. Robert Dqaly, 19 years old, was killed by an electric car at Marion. Fire in Merchants' Distillery at Terre Haute caused a loss of $20,000. The Thompson planing mill, Oakland City, burned. Loss SI,OOO, small insurance. Mrs. Martha Peck, Kokomo, tried seven times to commit suicide. Poison, choking and hanging. Will go to asylum. Congressman A. L. Brick has decided to recommend C. D. Sherwin as the next postmaster at Goshen, to succeed M. A. Cornell. Mr. and Mrs. Reuben T. Webb, Lafayette, celebrated their sixty-sixth wedding anniversary. The*’ have ninety-five descendants. A woman swindler worked Middletown females for SIOO. Sold ’em rose bush sprouts of a fine variety. They never sprouted. Elections for minor officers are held in 300 incorporated towns in Indiana. Local questions rather than partisan politics decided results. Hickman Rich and wife were instantly killed by a north-boun 1 train at Sullivan. They were returning home in a wagon and endeavored to cross the tracks. Charles Bannata, living near Mount Summit, was,.standing in the back yard when a crow alighted on the fence. Bannata secured his shotgun, intending to kill the bird. The shot instead of hitting the crow hit Mrs. Bahnata, who was standing near, and inflicted a fatal wound. La Porte will entertain May 21 and 22 the largest delegate body in its history. The Knights of the Maccabees and the Ladies of the Maccabees will meet there in the largest State convention yet held, and preparation is being made for the entertainment of over 1,000 delegates and visitors. Within the past two months three* business men of Elwood have suddenly disappeared, leaving no message to their families, and as yet none of them has been heard from. The last to be added to the list of missing js John Ballard, who was formerly engaged in the furniture business in Elwood. National Car Coupler Company, Converse, started up with orders for several months. One hundred and fifteen men. Little child of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Welch, near Hartford City, which fell on the point of a pencil, died in great agony. Mrs. Simon Yancey, Fortville, swallowed morphine instead of headache powder and nearly died. Wife of ex-Scnator Yancey. Peter Fogg of Attica, while laboring under the delusion that his enemies were seeking to hang him, cut his throat at Michigan City.