Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1902 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. ■ . v.J- , > ■ ■ - ■ . - ’• - . Wins Heroine Cor Bride-Syrian Family Has Narrow Escape—Dead Bank Robber Identified—Five Paper Plants Merged—Fatal Gas .Explosions. A romance which had its beginning in an act of heroism on the part of a youfig woman barely past the agar for short dresses was disclosed the other day in the announcement that Miss Edna Keener of Logansport is married to* Johii Driver, a brakeman, whose life she saved. Miss Keener attracted much attention last summer because of her bravery in saving a Panhandle train from being wrecked. She discovered a burning trestle near her home, and, standing on the track waving her red sunbonnet, she signaled the approaching train and brought it to a standstill in time to avert disaster. Driver was one of the train’s crew... His engagement to Miss Keener resulted from the acquaintance thus begun. Jumped for Tbcir Lives. Mr. and Mrs. George Bashara and their child, all Syrians, came near losing their lives in the Cooley block fire at Hartford City. They were asleep in the building, and when . they awoke the flames surrounded them. Bashara made a desperate effort to save ?100 in money, which was in another room, but he had to give pt up and then jump from the second-story window. He had his wife, who was almost suffocated, throw the baby to him. He caught it, but it may die. Mrs. Bashara then .had to jump to save her life. She was scantily clad and stood in the snow in her bare feet. Summitville Mystery Solved. Sheriff Houston has been advised that the dead bank burglar at Summitville has been positively identified as Alfred Brown. His parents are dead. Bert Simpson, held at Anderson on suspicion of having been a pal of Brown, was identified by young Ainsworth Barrett, a young man who came from Hicksville, Ohio, to visit relatives. He recognized the name of Simpson and went to the jail, where he identified the prisoner. Large Paper Mills Merged. Five extensive paper mills and strawboard works of Delaware County will be merged into the gigantic corporation effected at Buffalo recently. The transfer will be made at once. Company oflicials have been informed that the corporation officials have accepted the plants. They are located at West Muncie, Albany, Eaton and Muncie. Numerous other similar industries in adjoining counties are also to be taken in. Fatal Explosions of Gas. Two probably fatal explosions of natural gas occurred in Muncie within a few minutes. At The Dickey spool factory Lewis Staggs was horribly burned. Staggs 'was blown twenty feet. He fell on Otto Richardson, another workman, who was also severely injured. Soon after this W. E. White, a grocer, and his clerk, .Claude Dunn, were dangerously wounded by a gas stove explosion in the store. State News in Brier. Farmer Will Hanner, aged 22. wax' struck by a train and killed at Wheeler. Night Watchman William Ray shot and killed a burglar at Summitville. The burglar’s pal, who was robbing a saloon, escaped. Zachariah Chapman was killed and several other workmen injured by a gas explosion in the.Kokomo plate glass factory. The pothouse was wrecked. The Indiana coal operators have issued a circular announcing that all orders received for coal will be booked subject to the price at time of shipment. James Ryan, a prominent and inoffensive business man of Richmond, was instantly killed in a saloon at Cambridge by James Scbook of New Lisbon. Richard Watkins was shot and instantly killed by his 19-year-old son, Theodore Watkins, at Brazil. The son says he fired the fatal shots to save his mother's life. Watkins came home slightly under the influence of liquor and objected to his wife attending an entertainment, lie M-ized a hatchet and startl'd after his wife, who ran to a liedroom where her son was cleaning a revolver. The husl»and followed and was in the act of striking his wife when the son fired two shots, one of which passed through bis father’s heart. John E. Seary, aged 27 years, 'second miller employed by the Noblesville Milling Company in Noblesville, was murdered the other day. He was resting on a stairway near a window when an unknown person bred a load of buck shot through the glass, the entire contents of the weapon entering Seay’s head. William Fodrea, aged 23, son of ex-County Recorder Rodrea, was arrested soon after the tragedy on the charge of having committed the crime, He strenuously protests his innocence. It is said both Seay and Fodrea were in love with the same girl. An elopement out of the ordinary took [dace frnm South Bend recently and ended in the marriage of George L. Caasaday, aged about 18, to Miss Carrie Horein, aged about 20. Because of the standing of the groom's parents, his father being vice-president of the South Bend Chilled Plow Company, one of the largest concerns of its kind in the world, the elopement caused a senaaliou. /’Young Cassaday, it is understood, began to make love to Miss Herein, who was a cbninliermaid, it is said, in a local'hotel, last summer. <J. Barr Cassaday, the father of the groom, is furious and he will take .legal steps to have the marriage annulled. The grandfather of the boy, James Cassaday. one of the richest men in the West, is, also furious and will make every effoYt to free his grandson. Big Four train killed n man at Ander* eon, who Is thought to be Fred Marker of Cincinnati. He was knocked from a bridge. A negro named Hensley was shot to death by a crowd of miners at Island City when he returned to the scene of a fight be had with a few of them earlier. Elsa Bennett, 21 years old, ahot and fatally wounded his stepfather, Edward Bishop, at their home in West Indiajß- ■ polls. The investigation by the police showed that the boy had shot in defense of bia mother, who bad been struck and