Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1901 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVE NJ’S OF THE PAST WEEK. Marsh Fires Spread Ruin—Bobbers Secure SI,OOO from Morristown Postoffice—Game Warden Wounded bjr Farmers—Damage by Explosior* Marsh fires which have swept over hundreds of acres of land have been raging, for several days in the Kankakee region. Thousands of tons of hay and immense quantities of other grain have fallen prey to the flames and live stock has also been cremated. At one time every man available was pressed into service to fight the fire, which is now believed to be checked. No estimate can be made of the loss. Morristown Postoffice Is Robbed. At Morristown the postofflee safe was blown open with nitroglycerin, the robbers securing S7OO in notes of Postmaster Phillips and S3OO in postage. The explosion alarmed citizens, but the robbers escaped in a rig they had previonsiy stolen. Farmers Gun for Game Warden. Farmers near Logansport peppered Deputy Fish and Game Warden Wallace Smith and two assistants with shot, but no one was seriously injured. They returned the fire and injured a farmer's boy. The farmers fired from ambush. The warden captured their fish nets. Hurt by Eoiler Explosion. The boiler connection in the Howe factory at Peru exploded, scalding, A. B. Ulrich, engineer, and badly injuring Fireman Joseph Kile and W. H. Folger of the Cincinnati filtering plant. Freight Wreck at Georgetown. Ten cars were burned by the explosion of an oil tank due to the wrecking of a Southern Railway freight train at Georgetown. Brakeman Thomas Peterson was probably fatally injured. Within Our Borders. Richmond's booming. Hessian fly in Wayne County. Brazil printers formed a union. Evansville will get a shoe factory. The peat beds near Gaston are burning. Chesterton is trying to locate a creamery. McCordsville school bouse burned. Loss $9,000. Stilesville Baptist Church has been remodeled. Dana will have a new bank, the First National. Coal has been found just west of Ellettsville. Montgomery County fair is $720.66 to the good. Peru’s streets are being paved for the first time. A dozen business changes in Rushville in a week. Rev. D. Tillotson, Lebanon, will visit Jerusalem. There are 1,045 students in Purdue University. Wayne County infirmary will be lighted by electricity. Vincennes Christian Church will erect a $30,000 edifice. There are surface indications of oil near Connersville. Deserter Claude McDowell was captured in Anderson. Panhandle Railroad is building a new depot in Richmond. Fires have been started in window glass factories, Anderson. Salem Henkle, Columbia City, accidentally shot his head off. Barn of W. D. Wilson, California, burned. Loss $6,000. A new window glass factory is in construction, Fowlertown. The C., R. & M. Railroad will build a SIO,OOO depot at Peru. Canning factories advertise that they want to buy pumpkins. Nathan Parker, 75, Columbus, was seriously injured by a train. New steel bridge will be built across the Wabash at Lafayette. State Y. M. C. A. convention will meet in Richmond in November. City Attorney Shirley, Kokomo, has resigned. Too much other biz. Perry Perkins, well-known colored crook, was captured in Brazil. Boord family held a reunion at Covington, 135 relatives attending. Gosport is booming. Four new business blocks are being constructed. Home of Samuel Rhodes, a Covington farmer, burned. The loss is $4,500. Henry Beitzell. .90, died at Centerville, was perhaps Indiana’s oldest Mason. Dr. G. M. Freeman leads a company at Washington that will raise skunks. Elder A. *J. Frank of the Tabernacle Christian Church, Columbus, has resigned. Mrs. Clara Barnes, near Sullivan, was fatally burned by her clothes catching fire. Wooden bridge over the M abash, Lafayette, burned. It was built in 1847. Loss $5,000. Second Presbyterian Church, Lafayette, has taken a decided stand against street carnivals. Forrest Jones, Columbus, who threw carbolic acid in the face of his uncle, Henry W. Kaiser, is thought to be insane. ■ “ Amelia Couchman, Thorntown, sued Saloonist John Smith for $2,000, because her husband got drunk, fell from a buggy and broke his neck. Case has been compromised. She gets SSOO. Farmer John Cole, Bloomington, who was shot from ambush, says he knows his assailants. Henry Huddleston, Salem, was indicted for murder in first degree for killing James McKinney. Thomas Condra, Orange County, charged with the murder of his sweetheart, Della Gillman. was acquitted. Charles E. Butler, South Linton, was so badly hurt in a runaway accident that he had to have a leg amputated. Milton Jones, 5& Sedalia, who hns been nearly killed a doxen times in accidents, accidentally shot himself in the leg. ' “Jail