Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1901 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Sleeps on Train and Loses a Bride— Shot Dead by an Enraged Mother— Fatal Battle in Kokomo— 'a Woman Driven Crazy by Acid Burns. Charles Arnold, of Rockport, has retained attorneys. to bring an action for $20,000 damages against the Clover Leaf Railroad Company. Arnold and Mrs. William Stillwell, a widow, were betrothed. two days were occupied by the groom in getting a license and in a vain attempt to reach the home of his intended bride. He told the Clover Leaf conductor that he wanted to gpt off the train at Melott and then lapsed into a sound sleep. He was carried miles beyond his destination. Meanwhile the angry bride canceled engagement by wire. Arnold holds |he railroad company responsible for his failure to secure a wife. Killed by Enraged Mother. William Gray, a contractor and builder, was shot and instantly killed by Mrs. Mark Frieze at the 'Red mills, ten miles northwest of Shelbyville. Mrs. Frieze, in company with her husband, drove .from Franklin, where she resides, to the place where Mr. Gray was working. She whipped out a revolver and fired, the ball taking effect in his right side and passing through his- heart. He struggled, stepped two Steps and fell, when she placed the revolver near his head and shot him through the neck. Gray had .been keeping company with Mrs. Frieze's daughter, but unexpectedly married another girl, which enraged Mrs. Frieze. She and her husband are in jail and refuse to talk about the crime.

Fatal Affray tn Kokomo. - Ex-Councilman Jerry McCool was shot by Edward Van Hart, a bartender, in Kokomo. Hart’s wife and McCool’s wife had quarreled. The men took it up in McCool’s yard, McCool striking Van Hart with a fence picket and Van Hart shooting McCool through the right lung. The latter Will die and Van Hart has surrendered. i , ■. ? V Jilted Lover’s Cruel Deed. Peter Tillbury, an ironworker, called at the hotne of Kate Phinney, in Muncie, and threw the contents of a small bottle filled with carbolic acid- into the face of Mrs. Mary Torrey, a guest, burning out the woman’s eyes and burning her neck, breast and arms frightfully. The man has pleaded with the woman to marry him for years. She is now a raving maniac. Excursion Beat Sinks in Lake. The steamer Ethel, on Webster Lake, twelve miles north of Washington, struck a sunken log at midnight, and in two minutes the boat sank from sight. Twen-ty-nine excursionists were rescued, some of them in an unconscious state. The boat sank in forty feet of water. State News in Brief. The Frankfort postofflee sold 498,000 stamps last year. Burglars exploded and mutilated the safe in the Angola steam laundry and got $5.51. Mrs. Jennie Minor, aged 44 years, committed suicide at Richmond by hanging herself. , The Lake Erie and Western Railroad has been compelled to advertise for men to work on construction trains. While crossing a field, George Humerick'house, a farmer of Wells County, was attacked bya mad bull and killed. William Watt, son of a prominent Benton County farmer, was killed at a • Panhandle crossing near Goodland. Alvin Qeyton waa drowned in the Eel River at Brazil while bathing. He was 22 years old and leaves a young wife. George Brown, a workman at Tippey’s sawmill, near Marion, was killed by a fall against the saw. His body was cut through. The Shoals gas, oil and prospecting company drilled into a strong vein of gas at 363 feet, about 100 feet of which was through solid limestone. Joseph and Edward Prather, brothers, were killed by lightning on a farm near Martinsville. They had taken shelter under a walnut tree during a heavy storm. Jacob M. Chillas, the owner of one of the leading dry goods houses of South Bend, filed a petition in bankruptcy, The liabilities are given as $34,963, assets $25,286. May Falter and Ella Stine of Mifflin quarreled over a lover and fought with knives and flatirons. Miss Falter was badly cut on the face and arm, but Miss Stine was probably fatally injured by a blow on the head with an iron. The Kokomo Steel Nail and Rod Company, organized with $1,500,000 capital, purchased an eighteen-acre site at Kokomo. In consideration of a bonus of $15,000 the company agreed to remain outside the trust for five years. It will employ 1,000 men. During a family quarrel at Reed’s station, Christopher Fritsch shot and instantly killed John Pfrcister. M illiani Fiddler, who participated in the genera) fight which preceded the killing, was badly injured by a hatchet in the hands of Pfreister’s wife. Pfreiater was about 45 years old. Fritsch was arrested. The building of the Lake Michigan harbor at Indiana harbor will begin at once. The project has been financed. The site will be that proposed for the mouth of the Calumet canal, had the legislature passed the bill authorizing this project. A site for the proposed town has been donated. About $200,000 will be spent constructing the harbor, and it is hoped to divert large shipments of grain and oil from Chicago. The harbor will accommodate vessels drawing twenty feet of water. George Snyder, aged 24, son of William Snyder, near Domestic, has then taken to the eastern Indiana insane asylum and is the ninth member of the family to become insane. A black tiger in a cage with Robin son's circus succeeded at Logansport in getting far enough through the bars of its cage to lay open to the bone the flesh on the top of the head and face of a 6-year-old son of John Rush, an indulgent father who held his boy to the upper window of the animal's cage that a better view might be obtained before the side boards were let down.