Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1901 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Lad Takes SSOO and Becamps— Biff Fire Loss at Logansport—Tragedy, Ends Married Life of Forty-five Years —lmporting Glass Workers. W. H. Wood, keeper of a store at Deep River, secreted SSOO in a soap box under the counter and then went upstairs for dinner, leaving the place in charge of James Manly, 17 years old. When he returned from dinner Manly was gone, and so was the money. The grocer went to Chicago and reported the theft to the police. Detective Sergeant Buggie was sent out with him to search the levee district, as it was thought the boy had come to the city. The man from Indiana espied young Manly at Polk , and State streets. Buggie caught him after a short chase. He confessed the theft, and turned over $305 of the stolen money. Beats Aged Wife and Kill* Self. Frederick W. Hartman, an aged farmer living near Hobart, fatally wounded his wife, aged 50 years, by striking her several times on the head with a piece of iron. Leaving her for dead, he went into his bedroom- and committed suicide by shooting himself in the head. Mrs; Hartman’s skull is fractured. The couple had been married forty-five years and had raised a family of five children. Of late they had quarreled over money matters. Bad Bkz: at Logansnort. A fire in the printing establishment of Wilson Humphrey & Co. in Logansport caused a loss of $40,000, the blaze starting in the linotype room and gutting the building. Work for the Lewis Publishing Company of Chicago, Bowen & Co. of Logansport and the entire works of the American Bankers’ directory were destroyed. About 140 menf'are thrown out of employment temporarily. Insurance will probably cover half the loss. Two firemen were injured, but will recover. Bring Men from Belginm. The party of 240 Belgians who recently left Brussels bound for Muucie will work in the factories of the American Window Glass Company. It is said this means that the American company has planned a general importation of Belgians to man its factories, as there is a great shortage of American skilled workmen and the company’s plnnts have been many hundred workmen short for the last three years. Veterans Driven Out. Jerry Kuder, Peter Locke and James Spears, veterans of the Soldiers’ Home at Marion, who have been in the guardhouse of that institution since the night of the shooting of President McKinley for having expressed pleasure over the work of Czolgosz. and hopes that the President would die, have been sentenced by the board of managers of the home to be publicly degraded and dishonorably discharged from that institution.

Within Oar Borders. Martinsville is enjoying life under a $1.58 tax levy. O. B. Dickerson, 90, Owen County pio* neer, is dead at Spencer. A cousin of Admiral Dewey is in Longcliffe insane asylum, Logansport. Mrs. I. M. Hass’ residence, Evansville,, burned. Loss $7,000; origin unknown. Anderson is to have more public improvements than ever next year, tw r o to one. The Bell Telephone Company has a line from Columbus to North Vernon almost completed. Laborers are scarce in Elwood, and! are being imported for factories and pub* lie improvements. John Cripe was killed by a boiler explosion in a Montpelier limestone quarry, his body beiug torn to pieces. Alonso Smith Hanna of Laporte County killed himself w’hile in a fit of despondency, caused by the death of his wife. Rezirn Jamison, for hearly fifty years pilot on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, is dead at his home i:i Harrison County. The Cincinnati, Richmond and Muncie track has reached Jonesboro, seventy-five miles from Cottage Grove Ohio, the place of beginning. George Brown, the negro W'ho broke jail at Washington with his throat cut, has been recaptured. He tided to kill hia wife and uunt. The dead body of Samuel Connors, a young farmtr, was found in Haw creek at a lonely point near Crawfordsville, where he hud apparently been enticed and murdered Miss Sarah Williams of Muncie, 52 year sold, wealthy, Is just $3,400 poorer than she was when she became engaged *t> Charles Hawkins a few' weeks ago. Hawkins is 35 and popular with the sporting fraternity. He first secured S9OO in cash as a loan, saying he needed it in a business deal. Then he asked for $2,500 more, and Mrs. Williams mortgaged her sixty-acre farm, turning the cash over to him. On Sept. she started to buy a livery stable and never returned. The biggest telephone deal in the State in years was made at Frankfort w’hen about twenty co-operative companies representing towns and rural districts covering practically nil of western Indiana and eastern Illinois, controlling nearly 10,000 ’phones, consolidated under the name of the People’s Telephone Company. Six miles of trunk line will connect the systems with Frankfort, where connection is made with the wires of the new longdistance company of Indianapolis. The consolidation is regarded as a great victory of the independent linos over the Bell. George Kennedy, a veteran of the Civil War. dropped dead on a public road near his home, near Terre Haute, death being due to heart disease. At Lafayette there was a general fight after n rush between sophomores and freshmen of Purdue Uuiverslty, in which clubs wero used: Several were injured. A mass meeting held at the First Methodst Church at Vinceuues to form a law and order longue was well attended. It was called at the instigation of the Ministerial Association of the city for the purpose of stoppiug gambling, vice and lawlessness, which is alleged to exist _..