Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1901 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Nurses the Man She Shot—A Burning Tent Causes Panic at Bull van Street Fair—Freight Wreck at Burdick— Toughs Mob Negroes. Maddened by insane jealousy, Frances B. Fry, a yo'ung woman wtyfi recently came to La Porte, from Chicago, shot an 1 seriously wounded J. Fry, a, saloonkeeper. The shooting took plane at Fry's country home. It is alleged that Fry had paid marked attention to the woman and she had insisted that their marriage take place. Fry refused to consent to an alliance and the other night, when’she found him in company witlr another woman, she fired a gullet- into his head. The woman is a nurse at his bedside at the Holy Family Hospital. Fatal Fire at p. Street Fair. A show tent belonging to a New York vaudeville company burned to .the ground at Sullivan, where a street 1 fair is in progress. A performance was going ou and the tent was .packed with women and children, who rushed oveKoue another in trying to get out. Several small children were trampled during the panic. Lillie May, aged 16, an actress, inhaled the flames to her fatal injury. She was badly burned abput the face and arms. A man was also badly burned trying to save some of the belongings! Beriotis!y Hurt in Wreck. Seventeen cars of a west-bound Lake Shore freight train were piled up in a wreck at Burdick. The air brakes failed to operate and the train was cut into two sections, which collided with terrific force, p nm 'i\mnvty.w‘ mawab I age. J. C. Teeter, of Garrett, received serious injuries. He was taking a car of cattle to Chicago and was pinioned in one of the wrecked cars, The other cars were loaded with merchandise and the loss to the company may reach $20,000. Negroes Mobbed by Rough*. The riotous gang known as the Bungaloos, which has defied the Indianapolis police authorities for several years, occasionally running amuck and usually singling out negroes for attack, gathered iu force the other night at Fairview Park, five miles from the city, and compelled every negro to flee for his life. There were a number of assaults, and one negro named Harris, who refused to leave when ordered, was knocked down with a boulder and his anti was broken. Find Oil at Hartford City. The biggest oil gusher yet found in that field was struck in wildcat territory on a small tract of land just east of the corporation line at Hartford City. The well is owned by Pierce & Thomas, and after being drilled fifty feet into the Trenton rock flowed over the casing. There is no salt water and very little gas in the well. The new strike opens a vast scope of new territory and there is a wild scram- , ble for leases in the vicinity of the well. State News in Brief. Richard Darling, a Pennsylvania brakeman, fell between cars at Donaldson, and was cut to pieces. His home was in Chicago. Leroy K. Stimmel, aged 16, Shot himself at Richmond and died soon after. It is not known whether the shooting was accidental. Miss Anna Ivohr, 19 years of age, a society girl of Mt. Olive, committed suicide by taking carbolic acid, because she imagined her sweetheart, Albert Butts, was becoming cold toward her. The Margaret Smith Home for Aged Women at Richland has received from William B. Leeds, of New York, a gift of $25,000 in the name of his mother, Mrs. Hannah Leeds, who resides at Richland. The farm residence of Laurin Humbarger, in Thorn Creek Township, was struck by lightning and Mrs. Humbarger a fid her 14-year-old daughter were seriously injured. The house was badiy wrecked. Mrs. Lucy Washington, a colored woman 112 years old, who recently fell down k stairway in the county infirmary at Kokomo, and sustained serious injuries, is rapidly recovering and expects to live twenty-five years yet. Ora Jennings, wjio was umpiring a game of basebull nt Farmersburg, was struck over the head with a ball bat by Marcellus Forbes, one of the players, who was incensed by one of the decisions. Jennings’ skull is fractured, and he cannot recover. # Washington Collom, a merchant at Mill Creek, engaged in a fight at 3 o'clock in the motning with a robber whom’he found in his store. The two men fought a duel in the dark with their revolvers, four shots being exchanged. Then they grappled and begun beating each other with the butt of their revolvers until both were bathed in blood and their heads and faces were a mass of wouads. The robber became weak from loss of blood and Collpm finally felled'his antagonist. The robber refuses to give his name. It is believed Charles Campbell, of Lafayette, a soldier in the Spanish-Ameri-can war, was murdered in service, instead of dying a natural death, as relations have supposed. His regiment went to Savannah, on to Culin. His •body was sent to his brother’s home, in’ Albion, with a certificate of death from spinal meningitis, and the casket was not allowed to be opeued. Some of hi* friends raised his shroud, however, and found a gunshot wound, nud they recently told his father. The young man had hinted at trouble wjth an officer, and the war department will be asked to investigate. J. E. Black was caught in‘shafting and killed at the American Iron Company’s works, Muneie. About 600 glass workers will go West this 1 fall to man two new green bottle factories started near Sun Fritncisco by Isaac Humphrey. Joseph Berger, Goshen, has sued Miss Mary E. Hearer, an heiress, for SIO,OOO, for slander, alleging thnt she accused him of swindling her father. State Geologist Blatchley warns Indiana farmers to check the growth of the Texas thistle, a sample of which has been found In Hendridks Countv.