Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1901 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Forced to Bell to the Trust—Queer Way of Deserting a Bride —Farmer Ends His Life-Bees Rout Mourners at a Burial. C. J. Hurrle, owner and manager of the Hurrle Glass Company, an independent twelve-pot window-glass concern at HartfoAl City, which for more than eight years has been a thorn in the side of the several window-glass combines in existence during that period, has at lust been compelled to quit the business. All the combines and the two labor unions concentrated their forces and it is alleged that through his inability to secure a set of workmen for next year he was forced to sell. The plant was sold to James Clelland for $15,000. The factory was operated until the last of June in opposition to the labor unions to which the workmen belonged.

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In deep mourning, Mrs. Minnie Callahan, of Evansville, a bride of six months, went to Wheeling, W. Va., in response to a telegram announcing the death of her husband. She made all arrangements for, a burial place at Evansville, hut when she came to get the remains she found no corpse. The police investigated and ascertained that Callahan himself, for some purpose unknown, sent the message. He has completely disappeared. The woman Is almost heart-broken. Callahan left home a short time ago to work at Washington, Pa. Remorse Leads to Suicide. George Shaw, 32 years old, a farmer near Dublin, committed suicide by shooting himself. Shaw recently had a fight with William Heck, his friend, in which the latter was almost killed. Shaw has since been considerably worried as to the outcome of the affair and the other night he heard Heck was about to die. He went home at a very late hour and retired, but arose later and accomplished the deed. He told his wife he could not stand the suspense any longer and that he would be the first to die. Bees Cause Panic at Funeral Bees broke up a funeral at Salem graveyard. With Undertaker Dimmitt, of Kokomo, in charge, a child was being buried. As the body was being lowered thousands of bees attacked the mourners at the graveside. The attendants fled panic-stricken, anad it was not until after dark that the sexton could return and fill the grave. Mysterious Case at Muncie. William Roberts, a respected Muncie colored man, was called to his door about dusk on a recent night by a gang of five colored men, one of whom struck him with a hatchet or ax, fracturing his skull and fatally wounding him. He never regained consciousness. The gang fled, leaving Roberts weltering in his blood iu his own doorway. seek a Farmer’s Riches. When Ira Smith, a rich Terre Haute farmer, was instantly killed by lightning in his cornfield a few days ago he had not disclosed to his family the hiding place of from $12,000 to $15,000 which he was known to have in cash. The members of his family have been searching for it over the farm night and day since. He had $1,300 in cash on his person at the time he was killed. * f State News In Brief. Nick Stroble, prominent farmer near Batesville, shot himself for no known cause. Mrs. John Hartwell, 54, Columbus, was run down and killed by a Panhandle freight train. The Seth Ratcliffe at Russiaville was destroyed by dynamite. Ratcliffe was the chief witness in a Russiaville saloon fight. D. W. Wood, law firm of Wood & Ellis, Anderson, was killed by a Big Four train. He visited a elient, and took a short cut across the Big Four yard's back to his office. Rev. D. J. McMullen, who has been at the head of the cohgregation of St. Mary’s Catholic Church, at Richmond, for the past thirty years, resigned on account of failing health.

Oliver Willard Pierce, Indianapolis, was re-elected president of tAe Indiana j Music Teachers’ Association and ap- j pointed a committee of five on the elevation of church music.Charles Buchanan, a 15-year-old Rusie, in Albion, broke his arm. a few days ago, delivering It curved ball. The ami cracked like a pistol. The wrench on Ihe arm in curving the ball broke it. Mrs. Charles Prahl, of Chicago, aged 20 years, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Shelden. of Goshen, wns found unconscious as the result of nn overdose of morphine administered with snicidal ( intent. Her recovery is doubtful. J. L. Weems, Vincennes attorney, nnd Mrs. Kate Slaughter, Los Angeles, are to be married. They were lovers twentyfive years ago at Hanover, Ind., but a rival won Kate Blythe from Weems and he also married another. Their respective spouses have died and they huve re- ' newed the love of their youth. John Moore, of Philomath, lost a fine Jersey cow in n rather peculiar manner. For some reason the cow seemed to crave drink, and finally died. Moore was de- | termined to know what the tow died from, so he cut her open. When he did ao a big black snake six feet in length ( crawled from the stomach. He killed it with a club. The snuke was probably taken into the cow’s stomach several years ago and has since lived tq grow to Its full size. The cow had given Its usual quantity of milk until recently, when she became sick. A Big Four locomotive fired wheat fields belonging to Emanuel Itensberger and William Shoup, two miles south of Goshen, and thirty acres of grain wore destroyed. Benjamin W. Briggs and Miss Clara M. Miller, daughter of Mel Miller, well ■ known J., M. A I. conductor at Madison, eloped and were married in Jeffersonville- i Mrs. Edwin T. Brow, Evans* ills,! drowned herself in Pigeon creek. About! fifty suicides hgve been committed in this creek. The body of Nora Kifer, mur-1 dered by Joseph Kleth, wss found in it.*