Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1901 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Small Gains in Number of School Children—Queer Family Mix-Up—A Petty Feud Ends in Murder —Serious Affray on a Train—Other News of the State. .¶ The total school enumeration of the State, according to the report of the State superintendent of public instruction, is 757,526, an increase of 1,198 oyer the enumeration of last year. Of this gain an increase of 651 is reported from Grant County. Fifty counties in the State show a loss in the number of pupils enumerated. They are Allen, Bartholomew, Benton, Brown, Carroll, Cass, Clay, Clinton, Dearborn, Decatur, De Kalb, Elkhart, Fayette, Gibson, Hamilton, Henry, Huntingtun, Jasper, Jay, Jefferson, Jennings, Johnson, Knox, La Grange, Marshall, Martin, Monroe, Newton, Noble, Ohio, Orange, Owen, Parke, Pulaski, Putnam, Randolph, Ripley, Rush, Scott, Shelby, Spencer, Steuben, Switzerland, Tipton, Union, Warrick, Wayne, Wells, White and Whitley. The greatest gain is shown to be the gas region, few counties in the gas belt showing a decrease, and those that do only showing a small one. The total number of white children is 742,306; last year it was 740,928, an increase of 1,378. The total number of colored children is 15,220; last year 15,076, an increase of 144. The total number of male school children, white and colored, 391,798; last year it wsa [was] 390,787, an increase of 1,011.

Brothers Exchange Wives. .¶ William and John Church, brothers, lived in Indianapolis. The two young men courted and married young women who were friends. The young woman who married William became infatuated with William’s brother, John, before the wedding, and the young woman who married John was in love with William. This fact developed after the weddings of the two brothers, but they lived, with their respective wives for a number of years, and children were born to both households. Separations followed, and the brothers secured divorces from their wives. They then married their flrst loves, the wives took the children, and their uncles became their stepfathers. William Church went to Marion and embarked in business, and John went to Peru. Recently Mrs. William Church left her husband, and home in Marion, took her children and went to Peru. It is now asserted that she has gone back to her first husband, who is her brother-in-law, and has taken his own children, who had become his niece and nephew, and also her children, born to her second husband. The double marriage has badly complicated the relationship of the two families, Murder Ends Petty Feud. .¶ A murder, growing out of a quarrel over a petty incident, occurred in Rushville. George Rotherford, 50 years .old, connected with one of the county's oldest families, is dead and Jesse Hilling, 25 years old, a drayman, is in jail, charged with the killing. Rotherford took offense at a joking remark of a boy and struck him. Hilling sided with the boy and was soon involved in a fight with Rotherford. The men were separated, but Hilling returned in a few minutes with a revolver. Rotherford seized a dray pin and attacked him regardless of the revolver. Hilling fired four shots, one of which passed close to Rotherford’s heart, causing death. Hilling will plead self-defense. Stabbed by a Physician. .¶ J. W. Allen of Terre Haute remonstrated with Dr. Cassius Wright of Paris, Ill., on a Vandalia train against the use of vile language in the ladies' coach. Wright at once attacked Allen with a knife, stabbing him seriously in the shoulder and chest before the other passengers could come to the injured man's relief. Dr. Wright then ran to the car platform and jumped from the moving train. '

State News in Briet. Terre Haute gets the next Maceabee convention. Ridgeville will have a public library, to be supported by a stock company. Indiana music teachers have paid sl,0)0 for performers at their meeting at Terre Haute, June 25. Six-weeks-old baby found lying in the weeds near Seymour. Wrapped in flannel skirt and nearly frozen. Philip Itosenberger, 68, English, is dead. He escaped from Anderscnville prison during the Civil War. One-half of the corn planted near Elwood and a large part of the tomatoes destroyed by cut-worms, farmers say. Jesse Perkins, 66, Lebanon, hardware and implement “runner” many years, is dead. Leaves a widow and five children. Charles Wassen, Richmond, a student in the New York art school, has been awarded the Edmund Stevenson prize of SI,OOO. Frank Smith, 27, Winchester, struck Perry Willis, 76, with a club, wounding him fatally, it is thought. A line fence was the score. Cor.vdon M. Rich, prominent in eonnec- ' ion. with the Neely and Rathbone Cuban postal frauds, denies that he turned State’s evidence. ' William Smith, nlias Thomas Johnson, a Jeffersonville prisoner for from one to three years for larceny, hanged himself, using a bandage on his leg. Ten-yeur-ohl son of Henry Jamison, Kcntinud, saved the life of his older sister by carrying her 300 yards to a pond of water. Her clothing caught tire. American Car and Foundry Company. Jeffersonville, ha 5,2.000 box cars to build and a large number of passenger coaches. Will build an Immense passenger shop at once. William Brown, a brick mason, aged 53 and prominent in secret society circles, committed suicide at Evansville by taking an overdose of morphine. He left a note to his oldest, daughter in which he expressed fear that,the trusts would eventually crush the poor people. Samuel and John Pipes, inmates of the Boone Uounty orphans’ home, have fallen heir to $3,000 each and n farm in West Virginia, upon which are a number of valuable gas and oil wells. Samuel Pipes is aged 14 and hi* brother 10. The money and property wua left by their grandfather. r »