Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1901 — IN DIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

IN DIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Sad* Life on Sweetheart’s DoorstepTailor Deaerta Bride at Altar—Lon* Sentence for Marlon Man Who Killed Hl* Friend—Anon la Charged. John Neely, a prosperous young farra,er living south of North Vernon, shot himself on his sweetheart’s doorstep because she refused to marry him as early as he wished. He had called on his affianced bride and asked her to marry him July 4. She declined, saying the wedding should be in the fall. He left the house, but soon returned and shot himself on her doorstep. Miss Brinton heard the shot and when she found it was her lover dying she attempted to shoot herself, but was disarmed by friends. She accuses herself of having caused his death. Charge* Brother with Arson. Christian Grafft of Jefferson Township was arrested charged with arson. On Dec. 28 the mill of Grafft Brothers & Krieg, at Echo, was destroyed. A few weeks after the fire Carl Grafft, the brother, openly charged Christian with the offense. It is alleged the motive for setting fy-e to the mill was to get Oven with his brother, who had, in the division of their father’s estate, secured a larger share than did Christian. Christian denies his gnilt.

Skipped Before the Wedding. Charles Barth, who conducted a tailoring establishment in Marion and was president of the local branch of the National Tailors’ Union, was to have been married the other day to Miss Etta Chambers. All the preparations for the wedding had been made and their home furnished. Barth left after selling all of his household goods, borrowing about $l5O from his friends and securing $25 and a gold watch valued at S3O from Miss Chambers. Sentenced for Killing a Friend. The jury in the Ifred Miller murder case returned a verdict at Marion, giving Miller a sentence of from two to twentyone years in the penitentiary. Miller and William Stibbs were friends and lived in Fairmount. On the evening of April 30 they quarreled and agreed to go to the fair grounds and settle the dispute. Miller shot Stibbs, and, as no one witnessed the affair, his plea of self-defense was partially established.

Within Onr Borders. Kokomo City Council has voted gas meters down. George W. Farrar, old and honored resident of Kokomo, is dead. William Brown, Evansville, killed himself with morphine. 11l health. Mr. and Mrs. James Coyle of Crawfordsville celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of their marriage. Rev. William Weekly of Dayton, Ohio, laid the corner stone of the pew United Brethren church at Peru. Levi Cox, Sullivan, who killed his brother-in-law, John Arnett, has been found guilty of manshyighter. John Reeves, convicted in Jasper County of the murder of William Cox and George Garditker, has been taken to Michigan City. Jarvis J. 6ain, Martinsville, has left for the east to enter West Point. He received the appointment through Congressman Faris. Miss Alice Zent, operator on the Wabash at Roanoke for thirty years, has resigned. Her father was the first agent of the road at that pltw. Thomas J. Obenchain Manufacturing Company was found dead in a bathtub in a New Albany barber shop. Apoplexy. Mrs. Elizabeth S. L. Thompson, Muncie, has been notified that she is heir to about |IOO,OOO worth of the famous Corey estate in Devonshire, England. Josie Emerson committed suicide at Terre Haute because she was told by a woman that she was wayward and had to go home to her parents in Danville, «»• Lightning struck the residence of Township Trustee Thomas Milner, at Sheibyville, killing his 13-year-old son Charles. Other members of the family were badly shocked. A box of supposed roses, presented to. Orestus Phillips, a young attorney, after he had delivered an oration at Vincennes University, was found to contain bunches of lettuce. The faculty is investigating. H. B. Thomas, a farmer of Randolph County, died the other morning, and Tom Johnson has tied. Thomas and Johnson quarreled over a line fence, and Johnson is said to have fatally beaten Thomas with a club. Mrs. Elizabeth Clark has been heavily fine<j f°t cruelty to a cow at Muncie. She is alleged to have twice chased the cow over a field nntil it sank into a fence corner exhausted. Then Mrs. Clark beat the animal with a club. Fire destroyed $40,000 in dry goods, shoes and clothing at Kokomo, the losers being S. and J. Schnewind, the Kokomo Dry Goods Company, Will Brown, boots and shoes; T. 8. Strickland, clothing, and Dr. Wilson, owner of the building. Marion Stewart, a convict recently released from the penitentiary, tried to elope with Angie Gabbleman, 14 years old, at his home in Osgood. The girl’s brother found it out, and with Marshal Brown gave chase. They overtook the couple, and fourteen shots were exchanged between the parties. '.Stewart escaped in a dense wood, and while the other men were trying to capture him the girl whipped up her horse and escaped. The empty buggy was found, but the girl eluded her pursuers.

The Bloomington Commercial Club will sink an artesian well and, if proper mineral water U found, will put up a sanitarinm and establish a health resort. A raid on several residents of Thorncreek Township produced a number of fish nets, spears and seines. One seine was secured in Jefferson Township. Sarah Durham, Terre Haute, testified that her signatures to notes for S3OO, given eight years ago, were forged. Hes son, Crandall Durham, under his legal right, declined to testify, though his .mother declared he bad negotiated the notes. _ _