Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1901 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Woman Sacrifices Her Life for Her Children—Gov. Dnrbtn Goes Throng;li Train Wreck—Girl's Dream Was Pro-phetic-Bookkeeper Hang) Himself. Martha Russell, aged 40, died at Anderson from starvation. The woman was assisted by the township for more than two years, and six months ago was threatened with being separated from her four small children and s&t to the poor farm if she called for assistance again. She never called, and nothing was heard from her until the other night, when the county doctor was called. She was removed to the hospital, but was beyond all medical aid. A post-mortem examination was made and it was revealed that starvation was the cause of her death. The children are all in good condition. One of the little ones said that their mother would work all jlay and then spend the money for something to eat, which she would give to them and go without herself. Governor la Train Wreck. The fast Mouon train for Chicago was wrecked at Cedar Lake, and a number of passengers had a narrow escape. The train wak under fair headway when a rail spread and one of the rear sleepers left the track and turned over. Gov. Durbin and W. H. Hart, Auditor of State, were in the rear sleeper, which-ca-reened and finally settled down partially on one side. Mr. Hart was slightly bruised about the shoulders, but Gov. Durbin was uninjured. The passengers were transferred to the other cars and after a delay of forty minutes the train went on to Chicago. Insures Because of Dream. John Ellaberger, a brakeman on the Vandalia Railroad, who was to have been married to Miss Palmateer of Terre Haute soon, called on his sweetheart and found her in despondent spirits. She told him that she had dreamed that she saw him killed in a wreck with a freight train. Partly to soothe her and also partly from superstitious fears, Ellaberger went downtown that night and took out insurance policies for $2,200 in the name of his betrothed. The next night, while out on his run, he was killed by runaway cars.

Goes Singinjr to His Death. Joseph Straughan, bookkeeper for the Park County Coal Mining Company at Rosedale, went singing from his office, which he had just opened, to a woodshed near by, speaking pleasantly to a passing friend, and immediately hanged himself to a rafter. Straughan was 23 years of age and had been employed by the mining company for some years in different capacities. He had worried lately over the amount of work he had to do. He leaves a widow and child.

Fatal Collision on Vandalia. Two men were instantly killed and two probably fatally injured in a collision on the Michigan division of the Vandalia at Judson. The accident was due to a collision between an extra freight nnd a runaway cut of cars from another freight train. The runaway cars had traveled ten miles down grade at a terrific rate of speed when they crashed into the extra freight at Judson. The cars of the runaway were piled in the ditch, and the engine of the extra freight was demolished. Corn Shredder*# Harvest. There has been a remarkable series of accidents during the past few days in the Poplar Grove neighborhood. Four well-to-do farmers, ex-Representative Luther McDowell, John Bid;, William Burnes aud John Hendricks, have each had their fingers torn from their right hand while engaged in shredding corn fodder. State News in Brief. The President has appointed John R. Bonnell of Crawfordsville collector of internal revenue for the Seventh Indiana district. A message from Switzerland says Miss Jane Reed, noted violinist of Kokomo, was seriously injured while traveling in the Alps. Myron Beard, a cigarct smoker, aged 18 years, committed suicide in Terre Hauto just after leaving his sweetheart at her home after a ride she had taken with him in his buggy. The 2-year-old child of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Woods of Muncie upset a tub of boiling water from a chair. The child is snid to be fatally scalded. Housewives of Spencer avenue, the aristocratic thoroughfare of Marion, will try to solve the servant girl problem by organizing a community club. While operating a buzz saw in n mill near Laporte, Frank Wagner, aged lfi, fell on the saw, which cut his head in two diagonally. He died Instantly. Capt. Joseph Martin, leader of the Salvation army in Lafayette, dropped dead from heart disease in the pulpit of the Adventist chapel while singing a hymn. Myrtle Young of Wheatland is mysteriously missing. She left, saying she was going to visit a sister at Winslow, but instead she went to St. Louis. She had considerable money and it is feared she has been lured away and met with foul play. George Morgan and Charles Steadman were probably fatally burned by an explosion at the Zeller mine at Cloverland. The men had lighted the fuse to a charge of powder and were walking down the entry when the gas exploded, hurling the men against the well with such force as to render them unconscious. They were fearfully burned about the head and face before being rescued. As Mrs. Jacob Kinzcr, 50, stepped from a buggy at Carmel she fell. The horse become frightened and stepped on her breast, inflicting fatal injuries. The Guymnn House property, the oldest hotel in Greenfield, with a frontage of eighty feet on Main street, has been purchased for SIO,OOO by Horace Beckner. One year ago John Yolk of Batesville dropped two $lO silver certificates while plowing In his field, and they were covered by dirt. While working in the same field a few days ago he uncovered the bills, badly injured because of their twelve months’ bariah