Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1901 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY • -V TOLD. Bloat Active Prosecutor Gets Cofivict Out of Prison—Closely Contested Race Brings Abont Law Suit—Kentucky Man Shoots Wife—Boy Shot in Play. Thirty-five years ago John H. Terhdne, a wealthy citizen of Anderson, aided in the capture, trial and conviction of James McCullough on the charge of murder. McCullough was given a life sentence. The other day Terhune took to the Michigan City prison a pardon for the aged convict. Terhune became convinced aa the result of developments that McCullough was innocent and his zealous work to prove him guiltless was continued till executive clemency was exercised. McCullough is now 70 years of age. Fhoota Wife for Taking Children. Percy Nathan of Henderson, Ky., murdered his wife at Evansville by shooting her. Some time ago the woman came to Evansville with two of her children because of domestic differences, while two others remained with their father. The children finally decided to join their mother, and this angered Nathan so that he arrived-from Henderson the other morning, and, visiting his wife, shot her to death. He then surrendered to the police.

Horse Race Results in SIO,OOO Snit. Suit for SIO,OOO damages has been filed by James Carver, a jockey, against John Bronnenberg, a horseman, for injuries sustained in a race at the Middletown fair. Bronnenberg’s sou rode his horse, nnd his father is alleged to have ordered him to “Win this heat if you have to kill somebody.” Carver says he was entitled to the pole, bul, young Bronnenberg crowded him, causing him to fall, sustaining injuries for life. Shot Posing as -VcKinley. Omer Peeiee, aged 10, was fatally shot at Winchester while posing as President McKinley at Buffalo for Emil Miller of the same age, who was playing the anarchist in the case. The lads were playmates and decided to go through the Buffalo tragedy. Miller secured his brother’s Flobert rifle for the-work. —The ball passed almost through the child’s stomach, inflicting fatal injuries. Criminal Is Captured. George Brown, the negro who attempted to kill his wife, her aunt, Mrs. William Roed, and subsequently cut his own throat and severed his windpipe, and who broke jail at Washington, was captured at Odin, 111.

State News in Drier. Elwood plants of the American Tin Plate Company have resumed work. Levi Miller, 70, near Kokomo, fell from a cider wagon and was dead when found. A Butler man has made himself popular by giving a party and cooking all the eatables himself. A big bean dinner at Nashville given by the Jackson Wood Post, G. A. R., drew 3,000 people. Fred Cook, Elwood machinist, was caught in shafting at the Pittsburg plate glass factory and killed. Warner Titus has sold the Lindell Hotel, the second largest in Kokomo, to R. A. Brown for $17,000. Robert Walsh, Evansville, was sentenced to three months for desecration of President McKinley’s pictures. A splendid monument will be erected next spring over the grave of ex-Gov. James A. Mount at Crawfordsville. JVank Beatty, Covington, raised a peach as big as an ordinary inuskmelon and weighing eleven ounces. He has 5,000 trees, of a man, supposed to be J. Mauderson of Chicago, was found on the Baltimore and Ohio tracks at Miller’s Station. Isaac Barekman, his wife, Lucy, and his daughter, Helen, were acquitted at Vincennes, Where they were charged with burning Barekman Chapel last March 1. The famous campaign horse, Dollie, owned by ex-Recorder Joseph E. Voile, Kokomo, is dead, aged 39. Dollie had marched in every political parade since 1809. Fifteen Big Four cars were derailed in a rear-end collision near Grecncastle. The two crews jumped and escaped, but some tramps in an empty box car had a narrow escape. A double-header extra freight on tha Wabash Railway met a local freight at a curve three miles north of Peru, resulting in three engines being badly wrecked and nine cars ditched.

The American Straw Board Company brought suit against the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railway Company for $150,000 for the loss of a mill at Terre Ilaufo in April, 1897, by fire alleged to have been due to the faulty condition of the locomotive’s spark arrester. Dr. Z. H. Stamets, Auburn, narrowly escaped lynching because he is alleged t' o have said that President McKinley was only suffering what he had been instrumental in causing others to suffer, and that Roosevelt: would probably meet the same fate. As it was he was badly beateb. Considerable excitement prevails in Bremen over the striking of a strong (low* of natural gas at a depth of 700 feet. I)i%ing had been in progress for ten days at the second experimental oil well located one-half mile south of the city in the fair grounds. The pressure of gas was so strong that drilling had to be suspended. Prices of real estate have rapidly advanced and arc still going up by bounds. Speculators arc already oil the ground, offering fabulous prices for leases on the surrounding ground. Samuel Brasbears shot himself through the head at Bieknoll. No cause is known. Two years ago his brother, Edward, also committed suicide. By order of the trustees of Earlhnrn College, fraternities and secret orders are shut out this year, as they are against the Friends’ teachings. Andrew KinUele, near Chesterton, reports that one of his horses was taken from his pasture and Us tongue cut and hacked in a terrible manner. The liorae returned home dripping with blood and suffering so horribly thut it bad to bn killed.