Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1901 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENfs OF THE PAST WEEK. Attempted Kidnapins at Vincennes — Street Car Collides with Freight Car —Gypsies Clean Ont Dundee—Jail Delivery Prevented at Marion. Vincennes was again visited by a kidnapper and his attempt bore little fruit. The victim was Mabel, the "13-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Paynter. She was lying on a bed in a room when a man entered, picked her up and started for the door. She screamed, attracting the attention of her parents in the next room. They reached the door just as the man went out of the gate and the father leaped after him. Seeing escape with the child was out of the question, the thief dropped her, jumped into a buggy and drove rapidly away. 1- ■ To-rrn Terrorized by Gypses. Dundee was terrorized the other day by a band of gypsies. The nomads became drunk, and, after cleaning out the two saloons of the town, they rode up and down the main street in wild-west fashion, punctuating their whoops with shots in the air from revolvers. There being no police protection they were allowed to continue their revels unchecked, while residents feared to put their heads out of doors. After frightening women and children the gypsies returned to their camp on the outskirts of town and left the place. * J One Killed an 1 Six Injured. ■ An interurban street car, well loaded with passengers, crashed into a box car which was being backed on a Vandalia branch track across Main street, in Brazil. Brakeman Mort Hunt, of the Vandalia crew, was caught in the collision and instantly killed. Patrick Coolihan, watchman at the crossing, was bruised and all the passengers on the car were thrown across the seats. The conductor says the air brakes refused to work and* he could not stop the car. Prevent Big Jail Delivery. A wholesale jail delivery at Marion was prevented by Sheriff Bradford and his deputies. Bars had been cut from the cell leading to the main corridor and one bar had been sawed from a window by which the prisoners could have escaped in a short time. Forty prisoners are confined in the jail, charged with murder, arson, grand larceny and other crimes. The officers surprised the inmates while they were making ready to escape. Finds Long-Lost Brother. Mrs. Martha A. Martindill, of Cincinnati, advertised in a Chicago paper for information of her brother, William Yarnell, from whom she had been separated for forty-four years. The published notice came to the attention of James Yarnell in La Porte. He traced the relationship, being a grandson of William Yarnell, with the result that brother and sister will be reunited within a few days. Within Our Borders. Mrs. Clark Stoneking, Terre Haute, has asked the police to find her daughter, who went to St. Louis recently with Fred Lewis. Robert Brown, 73, who says he was a personal friend of Abraham Lincoln, was given shelter in the Jeffersonville jail recently. Two hundred bushels of oats belonging to John Garrett, near Hartford City, were burned from a spark from a thrashing machine. Frank White, 23, was fatally kickjed in the head by a vicious horse while stooping behind the animal to recover a fctrap which fie dropped. The body of Miss Nora Fiers, who committed suicide by drowning in White River at Decker, was recovered. The parents of the young woman live at Oblong, 111. Near Lafayette four hundred ton's of hay, owned by H. B. Cochrane, ex-Coun-ty Commissioner, and thirty tons belonging to Jacob May were consumed by flying sparks. " . . The South Bend Board of Education has secured the consent of the City Council to erect a $75,000 high school building and also a ward school. building to cost $5,000. The attempt of 2,000 South Bend bicycle riders to secure a repeal of the bicycle lighting ordinance, which has worked up so much contention, was defeated in the Council. Owing to the dry weather it is probable that none of the canning factories in the vicinity of Scottsburg will open. With the tomato crop almost a failure, the factories would find it unprofitable to operate their plants. The death of Prof. James M. Woffington, for several years manager of the Magic City Business College, of Muncie, occurred under mysterious circumstances. There are some who believe his death, was the result of poison taken with suicidal intent. Petrified logs of a peculiar form have been unearthed on Mdrgan’s Hill near Logansport and the discovery indicates that they belonged to a primitive forest or were flooded to the place ages ago. All the logs are entirely foreign to the variety of trees indigenous to this section of the country and some lopk very much like northern cedar. Developments in the Key forgery cases at Andrews show that the American trust and savings association, Chicago, holds a large amount of forged collateral paper.' A mob named Jamison, repre4he company, called on the signer of every note, and found that evehy one was a forgery. Mrs. Key has retained attorneys. She will claim individual property and the statutory S6OO allowance. The grocery house of John L. Sullivan at Kokomo closed its doors. Assets S2OO. liabilities $3,000. Mrs. Laura Blair, of Connersville, ha« filed suit for SIO,OOO damages. She was injured, recently while driving through the street, the horse striking a rope and throwing her from the vehicle. Her husband has also brought suit for $5,000 damages against the city. Texas capital is being invested in the Indiana oil field. M. M. Bright, of Beaumont, is said to he at the head of a new company, which will operate near Richmond.