Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1901 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. ' Great Harbor to Be Built on Lake * Michigan by Frick Steel Interest*— Eliza Stol* Tragedy Recalled by Cincinnati Suicide—Slayer I* Sentenced. Carefully matured plans for the building of a great Indiana harbor on Lake Michigan, the erection of an immense steel mill, a belt railroad system and 'the foundation of a town to rival South Chicago, are now'to be carried into execution. The town will be called Indiana Harbor. H.‘ C. Frick, the Lake Michigan Land Company and the Calumet Land and Improvement Company are behind the project. Men are already at work leveling the sand dunes along the. East Chicago front of the lake. The Inland Steel Company and men financing Indiana Harbor have signed a contract giving the steel company a site. The land, company agrees t.o have completed by Aug. 2 a harbor deep enough to permit the largest ore-carrying vessels'to unload. The new town is to be located at the spot where the harbor of the Calumet canal would have been had last winter's Legislature passed a hill authorizing the building of that waterway. Indiana Harbor is now a part of East C/hicago. Suicide Recall* Old Tragedy. Another echo of the Eliza Stoltz tragedy, a murder and robbery, whieji at the time stirred all Indiana, came when Attorney Frederick G. Roelker of Cincinnati sent a bullet into his brain. Roelke was given the power of attorney for the German heirs of the Stoltz estate and until lately matters were supposed to be going well. Mrs. Stoltz left a cash estate of SIO,OOO and Roelker had drawn over 95,000 which the heirs never received. There was no knowledge of any complaint until the-clerk of the court of Jay Conpty received a letter from Consul Pollier of tfe imperial consulate at Cincinnati, calling his attention to the complaint of the German heirs. Other letters were received from the same source, which led the court officers and attorneys connected with the case to believe something was wrong. An investigation followed and Roelker killed himself.

Pays Husband Slew Comrade. The chief witness in the trial of Robert Clark for killing a stranger, known as “Jack the Jagger,” is Mrs. Clark, the wife of the prisoner. She testified that her husband, incensed because the “Jagger” tattooed au objectionable figure on the arm of his son, struck the stranger with a club and killed him. Clark is a saloonkeeper at Converse and the body was found near the saloon. Sentence Tenant’* Slayer. The jury in the-William Jones murder case at Muncie, who is changed with murdering his tenant, James Herrington, returned a verdict after being out twentyfive hours, finding him guilty of manslaughter and fixing au indeterminate sentence of from two to fourteen years. Jones is 63 years of age. State News in Brief. Newton T. Burke, excavating near Anlerson for gravel, uncovered an Indian graveyard. Muncie labor officials announce a resumption of all window glass factories, about Sept. -15. John R. Page, former Madison County treasurer, is projecting a new $200,600 bank for Anderson. Goshen papers are supporting the request of the Goshen and Northern Traction Company for a $20,000 subsidy with a will. The Morgan County grand jury has indicted W. H. Burkhart, for five years deputy treasurer, uceusing him of embezling. George Grimes, of Alamo, has not been out of his house in the daytime since he was jilted on the eve of his marriage, 35 years ago. Crawfordsville’s spring batch of paving and sewer work is stopped for three weeks because of a flaw in the gouhcil’s resolutions. A meeting held to raise money to keep the Rushville Furniture Company in Rushville, was a failure, and the factory will probably go. Ten-year-old George Bess of Knightstown plunged into the mill race and rescued the 8-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Bowman from drowning. Northern Indiana will make a strong fight for n few of the Republican State nominations this fall. The northern end claims it has seldom got its share of the spoils. - The will of Mrs. Fannie Carmody, formerly of Chicago, was presented in Evansville. She requests her husbnnd to build a home for old maids and widows who are unable to care for themselves. The husband of Mrs. Carmody is a large real estate owner. Rev. Philip Moore, an evangelist who has been drawing large crowds at his tent meetings in Anderson, and has succeeded in converting a number of people, has been placed in jail on a charge of assault and battery on his wife and 6-fear-old daughter. Randall Adams, a federal prisoner in the State prison nt Michigan City, who was convicted in 1892 for ihe 'murder of an officer in Indian territory and sentenced to a life term, lias been released, President McKinley having commuted the sentence. As the outcome of'the robbery of tho bank at Florn, two years,ago, when the bunk lost $15,000, John Lenon of that village has gone insane. He is the father of W. H. Lenon, the proprietor. He constantly imagines that robbers are trying to break into the bank. A west-bound passenger train on the Pennsylvania lines ran into an open switch in the Marion yards, on which a yard engine was standing. Both engines were demolished. Miss Bertha Stewart jumped from the buggy in n runaway at Anderson and was instantly killed by breaking her neck. Miss Lillie Rich and Mrs. Webb were also injured. Willium Winn of Mount Vernon, the slayer of Curry, was taken to Evnnsvilld and lodged in jail for gate keeping. A mob wns forming to storw the Mount Vernon fail.