Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1901 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Farmer for Four Tears Has Been Unable to Eat—Banker Key Threatened Bnicide Boys Are Held for Robbing the Mail. Thomas Arbuckle, aged 24, of Scott County, has not eaten a particle of food in four years, but still maintains a hold on life by taking liquid food through an artificial opening in his side. This manner of procedure is caused by his cardiac orifice being completely closed. Seven years ago Arbuckle had a severe attack of typhoid fever. When he recovered it was found his cardiac orifice was closed and an operation was performed. The side of his stomach was fastened securely to the wall of his abdomen. An opening was then made through the abdomen, through which he takes his food. Arbuckle has fairly good health and accomplishes the work of the average man each day on the farm. Held for Mobbing the Mail. George Moore and Ulysses Snyder, accused of robbing the mail at Greencastle, were bound over to the United States grand jury by Commissioner Higgins at Terre Haute, on their pleas of guilty. Snyder says he stole the mail pouch at the Monon depot and’gave Moore some of the contents. He also gave Moore checks and drafts amounting "to several thousand dollars. These have been recovered, and properly forwarded. The ooys got only 50 cents in cash and a dollar’s worth of stamps. Moore was out of the State Reform School on parole, but will npw be turned over to the United State authorities. Plight of Banker Key. When Banker J. M. Key, Andrews, was arrested for alleged forgeries, he reached to his pocket and drew a revolver. When 'overpowered he said. ‘‘There is one of two things for me to do, and that is either to go to Michigan City or commit suicide.” When placed in jail he begged for a knife, and asked that his family be not informed of his plight. He was arrested at the instance of O. M. Packard, vice president of the Capital National Bank, Indianapolis, with which he had deposited several thousand dollars’ worth of bad notes.

Boy Attacked by a Carp. The son of Spencer Benadum, Muncie. was fishing in Buck Creek, and a large carp pulled him into the stream. He became entangled in his line. The fish started down stream, returned and attacked the boy. A huge gash was cut in his body by the fish. It was captured by a farm hand, after it had almost drowned the youngster. State News in Brief. The drought is unusually severe in Howard County. Rochester is soon to have a complete new sewer system. Mrs. Gibson Jackson, Madison, tried to drown herself in a cistern. Gravel caved in and killed Frank Bartholomew, GO, at Noblesville. At Vincennes fifty chickens burned yith a barn and contents. Loss, SSOO. Fire destroyed 150 shocks of wheat on the farm of Jacob Deßoy, near Tipton. Frank Purcell, Washington, charged with kicking his wife to death, is in jail. The drought has dried up pastures and the butter famine is general over the State. John N. Wolfington, Frunklin, was made seriously ill from taking headache powders. Marion liverymen have formed a trust and advanced the price of boarding horses $2 on the month. Andrew Carnegie has given an additional $5,000 to the Washington library, making $20,000 in all. George Meakin, aged 35 years, was instantly killed by a Vandalia freight train near his home at Turner. A discarded cigar stub fired the dry grass on Edward Thompson’s farm, six miles north of Elkhart, and $2,500 worth of damage was done. Henry Dold’s big dog sprang playfully upon his little daughter, at Sellersburg, knocking her down. A blood vessel was ruptured and she died. James Willinms, Greencastle,'lias returned from the Oklahoma laud lottery drawing, and says most of the claims after the first thousand are not worth the entry fee. Mr. and Mrs. Silas Stinson are firm believers in Dowieism. Stinson is a well-to-do farmer, four miles north of Colfax. He and his wife have sold their farm, and, after a public sale of their household and other effects, will move to Dowie’s city of Zion. Edward Blakely, who died at Scottsburg a few days ago, was one of the largest men in the State, his weight being 345 pounds. A coffin had to made for him, and it would not go into the country church, where the funeral was appointed. The services were held under a tree. Twelve men lowered the coffin into the grave. State Statistician Johnson said, from observations he had made, that he believed the corn crop in Indiana was practically beyond redemption. “Rain,” said he, “will be of little benefit now. Ruin and an unusually late fall might help conditions, but even then the benefit will be small. The corn stalks have begun to harden, and the stalk is weedy. Even with good ruins from now on the ears of corn will not develop. In some small localities there will be good corn." He sees nothing to justify a belief that there will be more than one-fourth of an average crop. ,

The. Governor’s office finds in investigating the advertisement for the “Long Beach turf house,” that the pictures were sent to many officials, ministers and bankers. At Terre Haute, John Sanders, 71, and Mrs. Emma Warren. 09, were married by Justice Brown. Both had been twice married before this, and they were boy and girl friends. The general offices of the Tinplate Workers’ International Protective Association of America, which hare always been in El wood, will be moved Sept 1 to Wheeling, W. Va.