Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1901 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE " PAST WEEK. “Insanity Trust” Is Censured—Scott County Chickens Have Gold in Their Crops—Scorcher’s Fatal Fall—Young Woman Disappears from Peru. The State Board of Charities filed a report with the Governor on the result of its investigation of the insane hospitals. The report says no sane persons are confined and have not been within the last eighteen months, “unless it be in the case of John Ross, or Morse, or James Haywood, who probably recovered after he was found insane and before he was received at the hospital, a period of fiftythree days.” The board says the blame rests on the persons who conducted the inquests and suggests that it is the duty of the officers to recover that part of the $15,000 in fees wrongfully taken from the county treasury. The report says such a conspiracy as shown by the Attorney General’s report renders the members liable to severe prosecution. The board suggests that nn entirely new insanity law be enacted by the next Legislature, providing that all 'commitments be made by a Circuit or Superior judge. Gold Found in r cott County. Gold has been discovered in Scott County. A short time ago Mrs. H. W. Brandt of Seottsburg found a nugget in the crop of a chicken. She took the nugget to an expert, who analyzed it ami found it contained a large per cent of gold. Another discovery has been made in the same manner on the same farm. The people in that community have the gold fever and will begin prospecting at once. The find was made on the farm of Prosecuting Attorney S. B. Wells. Messenger Boy’s Mishap. Harry Mills, an American district messenger boy, was thrown from his wheel at Muncie and fatally injured. He was found unconscious in a pool of blood and when he partly regained consciousness he became delirious, imagining that a footpad is pursuing him. The boy was riding down a steep hill at terrific speed. His wheel struck a gutter at the foot of the hill, breaking the forks and throwing young Mills on his head. Pern Girl May Be Dead. Miss Nora Dinsmore, aged 23 years, disappeared from her home in Peru. When last seen she was in a dry goods store. Suicide is feared. A letter was received from her dated at Toledo, Ohio, by Ernest Thomas, her friend. In it she said: “I leave for the great unknoust. Good-by to you all, who have smiled on me, and get all from life you can.” Find Dead Body in Canal. Albert Patterson, aged 35, was found dead in the canal by the Indianapolis police. He lived at Manistee, Mich., and was traveling for an advertising firm. A telegram arrived at the Circle Park Hotel signed by Mrs. Patterson at Manistee asking if Patterson was still there. The suicide theory is accepted. Within Onr Borders. Logansport carnival has been declared off. Waynetown narrowly escaped being wiped out by fire. Several barns -burned. Anti-saloon fight is on at Newtonville, Which has had no saloon for many years. Typhoid fever has broken out in the Immaculate Conception convent at Oldenburg. James B. Hayes, a farm hand, aged 35 years, drowned himself in the White river near Hazleton. Lena and Anna Zunhammer fell from a raft while fishing in the Ohio river at Evansville and were drowned. Charles Spillman, Evansville, E. & T. H. brakeman, is missing. He had a large sum of money and foul play is feared. Asa Fadely was killed and David Richards fatally injured by the explosion of a thrashing machine engine near Anderson. While filling a cigar lighter with gasoline, Robert Tibbuts, Union City, spilled the stuff on himself and was badly burned. John Miller, aged 37, of Brookville ended his life by slashing his wrists and throat With a razor. Miller could not let whisky alone. - - " Rev. E. G. Walk, pastor of the Harrison Street Christian Church, Kokomo, has resigned and asked for a charge in the United Brethren Church. Louis Becker, aged 24 years,, was found dead at La Porte. He attended a dance the previous night and Coroner Jowell says he danced himself to death. Samuel E. Cochran has filed a petition for a receiver for the Leslie Lumber Company of Michigan City, which, he alleges, cleared SII,OOO in one year, but declared no dividends. A jury at Muncie found Walter Driscoll, 16 years old, guilty of voluntary manslaughter and sentenced him to the State reformatory for killing Minnie McCall Stephens of Benton Harbor, Mich., last July. Mrs. Mary Keeney of Marshall County was attacked by a crazed hog and fatally injured. The “porker” threw her to the ground an<l literally tore large pieces of flesh from her body. The wounds were gouged to the bone. Six robbers who beat and shot Benjamin Dotterer, a farmer, six miles northeast of Kokomo, have not been found. Dotterer, who was shot through the chest, is dead. His money was saved almost miraculously. After the thugs had clubbed him. to the floor Dotterer managed to take a roll of $6<X) froih his clothing and throw it up a stairway without the men seeing the act. They got but $lO and n watch, afterwards returning the latter. Henry L. Harbin, 79, English, is dead from injuries received at the hands of his grandson, Lewis Morgan. The young man will be tried for murder. J. W. Groves, u poor Muncie carpenter, received a letter from a brother in Wyoming that he has been made heir to a fortune of $5,000 by Irhabod Lucas, a rich uncle, who died in New York recently. Fred Powell, a young married man, reached home in Elkhart a couple of nights ago and found hia furniture ail gone except a picture of himself, which waa “turned toward the wall.” Mrs. Powell left no other measage.