Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1902 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE ‘ PAST WEEK. Manufacturing Industries Show Large Increase—School Building Burns at ■ Atlanta—Scottsburg Business Block : Destroyed—Goodman Not Poisoned. J Indiana, according to the census bureau, shows an investment of $234,481,528 in mannfacturing industries, an increase of 78 per cent over 1800, and $378,238,100 in products, an increase of 67 per cent. Indiana has 18,015 manufacturing establishments, 155,956 wage 1 earners, getting an aggregate of $66,847,317 in wages. The miscellaneous expenses of these establishments aggregate $33,052,070 and cost of materials used | $214,061,610. Following are some of the | reports: Cities. Capital. Product*. Indianapolis $36,899,114 $68,696,364 g South Bend 18,156,638 14,236,331 Evansville 10,287,868 15,080,011 Port Wayne 9,203,613 12.523.222 Terre Kaute 8,838,107 27,784,619 Muncle 7,793.832 12,106,648 : Anderson 5.709,866 11,051.847 New Albany 2,990,512 4,178,490 Burned School Building. The Atlanta public school building was ! totally destroyed by fire. The origin of the fire is not positively known, but it is supposed to have caught from an overheated furnace. Coal was used as fuel, and thejanitor says that the fires were banked as usual and every precaution was taken. The building was the best of its kind in Jackson township and was built in 1898 at a cost of SIO,OOO. The loss to the patrons in the way of school books will be fully S7OO. Fire Loss at Scottsburg. At Scottsburg a fire was discovered in the large double frame building occupied by the Garrett Bros, and Alfred Cravens, general merchants, one side being used for groceries. The city is without fire protection, and the building was totally destroyed, but hundreds of men and boys assisted in removing the stock, and nearly all of It was saved. The establishment carried about SIB,OOO in stock, and was insured for $5,000, of which SI,OOO was ou the building. Analysis Shows No Poison. In the trial of Newell C. Rathbun, charged with causing the death of Chas. Goodman at the Falls City Hotel in Jeffersonville, Dr. L. B. Kostenbine of Louisville, who made the chemical analysis of Goodman’s stomach, testified that he found no poisiSn. He stated, however, that he believed Goodman’s death had been caused by either prussic add or chloroform. “Ugliest Man” Wins a Prize, Claude Edwards, voted the ugliest man at a party in Kokomo, threw the prise, a silver cup, in the face of Ross Perry, who was making the presentation speech. In the fight several pirls fainted and the party broke up in confusion. Edwards is under arrest. Blaze in Crawfordsville. G. W. Scraggs’ grocery In Crawfordsville was completely gutted by fire. He places his loss at. SIO,OOO. Baldwin’s music house and G. W. Steele's drug store were also badly damaged. Within Our Borders. Walter Byrd, Crawfordsville, was convicted of burglary and sentenced to the pen. Herbert Davidson, a farmer, was found ‘ frozen to death in a cornfield near Humboldt. Greenwood has a handsome new school building. It has twelve large rooms and cost $14,740. John B. Todd, Seymour, was fined S2O on a charge of trying to improperly influence a juror. Miss Pearl Itohrer, a Peru waitress, accidentally fell through a plate glass window and was badly injured. Col. George Studebaker of South Bend has been chosen to succeed bis father, Clem Studebaker, as a trustee of Depauw University. The 10-year-qld soin of Thomas Allen, residing ten miles west of Lafayette, was instantly killed by the accidental discharge of a rifle in the bauds of his brother. Richard Steele, a young married man, had both his legs cut off by a Toledo. St. Louis and Western train at Marion. He is a nephew of Congressman George W. Steele. At the Vandalia crossing in Logansport Frank Hardy and his daughter were caught in a buggy and killed. Hardy, who was a fanner, was bringing the girl to school. Mrs. Claudia Lusk, Franklin, has sued the Indianapolis, Greenwood and Franklin electric line for $2,000 damages, alleging she was injured while stepping from a car. Mcsdames • Powell and Whittaker, • Greentown, raided a “poked joint” in that town, the former finding her young son in the game. She trounced him and started him for borne. Fire destroyed the farm residence of William Peterson, near Logansport, Peterson and wife and three children barely... escaped with their lives. Barefooted and in their night clothes, they were compel!- * ed to walk through the snow a mile to the home of a neighbor. Mercury was below zero. All are badly frozen. The large two-story bouse of Monroe Seibert, five miles southwest of Ander- « son, was wrecked by a natural gas explosion. Mrs. Seibert and her 18-year-old son, Lorenzo, were the only persons.;! in the house at the time. Gas had chl-j lected on the second floor, aud when the - young man struck n match'an explosion followed. He was hurled 'into tbs yard aDd fatally burned. His mother was i only slightly injured. Fire followed the J explosion. The less is $3,000. Win. Blockley, Evansville, who is dy--J ing, was carried into court and given aTj divorce. Wife h*.d quit him. He hard -5 his life insurance policy transferred to a j friend. Hendricks & Webb, dry goods'dealers | at Franklin, have assigned. Their MneE-lj is estimated to be worth from to $15,000 and the liabilities, it will run close to $30,000. J. B. and O. H. Hamptfen.' of Richmond, claim to havs perfected an acetylene gas process that will revol«Uon!*s. the art of photography by maWn||t Visible to take pictures at ni«*|3