Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1901 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDTNTB TERSELY TOLD. Death Term iaa tea a Visit—Someone In Flora Has Queer Idea of Fnn—Two Farmers Killed by Limited TrainLightning Strikes Fonr Men. Mrs. James Conn the other day stepped from the train in London, where she contemplated making a visit to her sister, Mrs. John Vernon. The sisters twenty-five years ago were separated and have not seen each other since. Recently Mrs. Conn, who lives in Missouri, learned the whereabouts of her long lost sister and at once started for Indiana to meet her. Mrs. Conn was much exeted over the glad tidings, and, filled with the joy of meeting her sister, she rushed into her home and surprised her. In ten minutes after she reached her sister’s home she died. Explodes Dynamite for a Joke. Unknown miscreants exploded a large amount of dynamite in front of the residence of Augustus Doty, a Flora farmer, at midnight the other night. The residence was badly damaged and Mrs. Doty is dangerously ill as a result of the shock. It is explained that the dynamite was exploded for a joke, but there is great indignation over the affair and a reward has been offered for the perpetrators. Killed by Lake Shore Train. Lee Hines and Isaac Tryon were struck by the west-bound train while driving across the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern track®, four miles west of Waterloo, and instantly killed. The carriage was splintered, but the horse escaped unhurt. Both men were prominent farmers. ___

■ —... . Severe Dosage by Storm. A severe storm passed over Duboise and Pike Counties. St. Mary’s Catholic Church at Huntingburg was struck by lightninghand destroyed. It was valued at SSO,OCX). At Velpin ten buildings were unroofed and one store. The storm did great damage to crops and fences. t Fonr Killed by Lightning. Frank Bridgewater, Anderson Webster, John Wiggle and Samuel Stewart, all farmers, were killed by a bolt of lightning while assisting in the work on the farm of J. C. Albert, near .Lodi. Within Our Borders. Martinsville wants a hot water heating plant. Crothersville is agitating the formation of a commercial club. A party of Albion fishermen landed 817 fish last week, in Long Lake. A new electric line ,is projected between Richmond and Celina, Ohio. Morristown citizens are trying to organize an independent gas company* Ex-County Treasurer Breeding’s house, at Edinburg, was robbed of S2O. Bartholomew County is now busy taking care of the biggest cherry crop in her history. Milk sickness has made its appearance at Wallace, and one man, named McElwee, has died.

Ex-Postmaster W. L, Boyce, Mount Vernon, who was short $592.70, has paid the shortage to his bondsmen. Charles Simon, Churubusco, raised strawberries so large that' it only took eight or nine to make a quart. Orlando Flory, Pinchon, bar an eyeless calf. The freak cannot learn to suck, but takes milk from a pail. J. F. Parker, L. & N. bridge carpenter, fell 200 feet from a bridge, near Evansville, and was fatally injured. Frank Summers, Ligonier, was bitten on the arm by a spider. The member became so swollen it had to be lanced. Rosa Mandler, South Bend, saved S2OO with which to buy a home. She hid it in a stove. A fire was lighted and her money destroyed. Walter Kelly, 20 years old, a farmhand on the farm of H. M. Metsker, near Burlington, wsa kicked by a horse and instantly killed. Harry C. Wilson, who struck Richard Sherwin a fatal blow on the head, May 20, at Bristol, has been found guilty of manslaughter at Goshen. Frank Adylotte, 20, Sullivan, Ind., has been appointed assistant instructor in English at the State University. He is the youngest professor in the State. John S. McKinney and Roscoe Burnett, Arcadia, business men, fought 6b an L. E. & W. train, and Burnett stabbed McKinney five times in the neck. James Whitcomb Riley, fishing at Morristown, landed a five-pound bass. The poet’s brvther and a party from Greenfield, who were along, caught only small fish. 1

Shelbyville has gone completely daffy over the discovery of the mineral water and several stock companies to drill for It are being talked. One has already formed. Several Lagrange County farmers have been swindled out of amounts ranging from $250 upward by a man from Peoria, who sells them a method for making butter with county agency rights attached. Alexander S. Bryan, Greencastle, father of Pearl Bryan, for whose murder Scott Jackson and Alonzo Walling were hanged, is dead. He brooded over his daughter’s tragedy, though he spoke seldom about it. Cancer was the immediate cause of his death. Mrs. W. J. Morrison, of Elkhart, aged 42, who recently became insane on hypnotism after attending several public demonstrations, died at Logansport l>efore she reached the insane hospital. Her hallucination was that her busband desired to hynotize her, and she would not let him her. Harry Howell, 9, Lafayette, while trying to dislodge a bird's nest from the eaves of a house fell and died In five minutes. The Wabash and Kochester Kailway Company, to build a trolley line between Wabash and Rochester, has organized, and will ask stibwi lies, from the townships through which the road passes. Brown County farmers still continue to search for gold «*irh determined spirit, and In some sections they are so confident that their ground contains the yellow treasure that they will not part with U for anything like a reasonable price.