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

Among Our Neighbors.

J. C. Long, aged 22, of Muncie, was killed in the wreck of a gravel train near Milton. The Elwood carpenters’ strike, which lasted six weeks, is over, the men getting their demands. The passage of an automobile through Princeton nearly caused an entire suspension of business recently. Nelson Tovenette, a wealthy peppermint grower, who lives near Osceola, was struck by a train and instantly killed. Ed Lenfesty, a railroad man, committed suicide at Muncie by shooting himself through the head because his wife had left him. Mrs. Harriet Goodwin, of Greensburg, was overcome by heat while crossing a barbed wire fence. As she fell her hair was entangled in the barbs of the fence und held her until she succumbed. Angelina McCaria, 11 years old, who was injured in the Wabash Railway at Peru, a few days ago and whose mother and sister were killed at the time, died, making the total deaths fifteen. Miss Catherine Rich, Terre Haute, who was released from the asylum some time ago, was made insane again by the heat and tried to kill her 80-year-old mother. She i>eat the old, lady terribly. In Muncie, Walter Driscoll was indicted for murder in the first degree at a special session of the grand jury, and the boy was soon afterward brought into the Circuit Court. He pleaded not guilty of murdering Minnie McCoy. Reports from all parts of Indiana have placed the estimated wheat crop this year at 30,000,000 bushels. Some sections have been somewhat damaged by fly, but in others, where the fly has hitherto prevailed, it has almost entirely disappeared. While the acreage is short, the quality and yield have been gopd. W’hile oiling the mncifcnory in a furniture factory at Evansville, William Meyer, 27 years old, was caught in the machinery, whirled around a revolving pulley and mangle*). One arm was torn off and his back broken. He died an hour later. Alice, the 6-year-old daughter of Edward Cothrell, of Wallen, disappeared from home several days ago, and parties have been scouring the woods in search of her. The other afternoon her body was found in a cistern on tbe premises of a neighbor. It is not known whether death was accidental or not.