Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1902 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. State Has Done Weil Thrqugh 1901— Elkhart Girl Accused of Witchcraft —Soldier Goes to Porto Rico on WildGoose Chase—Hartford City Fire. The annual reports covering tfie various departments of the Indiana State government show a prosperous condition of affairs. During 1901 the State debt was reduced $817,000 and the debt promises to be wiped out by 1007. The cost of running the State was $7,129,483. The balance left over for the new year was $642,299, an increase of $228,647 over 1900. Of the receipts the State tax produced $1,251,267. The total assessed valuation of the State is $1,360,445,139, and the number of acres subjected’’ to taxation was 22,375.046. The assessed valuation of lands and improvements thereon aggregates $50,754,275; of town lots and improvements, $325,227,903; personal property, $332,857,739; telephones and telegraphs, $7,336,102; railroad properties and holdings, $153,669,120. The current tax on this property produced $21,825,127, and $2,904,261 was added by collection of delinquents. The thirteen charitable and penal institutions of the State were the greatest item of expense, the former using up $1,110,070. The value of Indiana crops amounted to $250,000,000. Despite short corn, wheat and oat crops the year was a record breaker in agricultural prosperity, as shown by the bank deposits, which increased largely. Remarkable increases are reported in all of Indiana’s lines of industry. Based on the reliable figures of the census report, the capital of Indiana manufacturing concerns has increasedTS per cent over 1890. and is now $231,481,528, and there has been an increase of 67 per cent in the value of production, which, in 1901 was $378,238,100. Soldier Duped by Fiancee. James Hicks of Irvington, a regular in the army when it camped In Porto-Rico, met in San Juan a fascinating Australian woman 21 years old,-who was doing missionary Work. He loved the young missionary and they became engaged. Afterward Hicks sent Her money to come here and to buy her trousseau. She replied that she preferred being married in San Juan. Dec. 4 Hicks sailed, and when he arrived there found that hjs fiancee was engaged to two or three others, from all of whom, he says, she had collected nearly $2,000. She said to Hicks that she was “sorry,” and Hicks took the next boat for “the States.” Girl Accused of Witchcraft. Bessie Currier, a pretty miss of 13, has been forced by Mrs.; William Currier of Elkhart, with whom she and her mother, Mrs. Mary Currier, lived, to leave home because of certain mysterious happenings which have alarmed the household and have been attributed to some occult power possessed by the girl. Plates, it is said, have been caused to float through the air, water pails to upset and bedsteads. to-came..apart. —The_mQthsr _ dftvs not regard the girl with supernatural awe, but thinks the phenomena the result of trickery on her part, though the child maintains that she is not responsible for the manifestations. Holds Foe on a Hot Stove. John Valasky, a crazed miner of Rosedale, made a desperate attempt to kill Henry Johnson, another miner, in a Crawfordsville saloon. Johnson and several others were playing cards when Va-* lasky came in suddenly and, seizing Johnson by the throat, raised him up bodily and held him over a red-hot stove jvith oue hand while he kept the rest at bay with a revolver. Johnson was badly burned. He was finally released after the maniac was kuocked senseless by the bartender, who stole up behind him and struck him with a poker.

Big Fire at Hartford City. - At 5 o’clock on a recent morning fire broke out in the dry goods and clothing store of E. I. Winters in Hartford City. The flames had gained great headway when the discovery was mode, and they could not be brought under control until heavy damage had been done. The stock was almost totally destroyed, and the building was laid in ruins. The loss is $50,000, and the insurance $30,000. There was nobody in the store at the time, and it is not known how the fire was started. It is supposed to have been due to irregular gas pressure, however. Within Our Borders. Glen Tarkington, Kokomo, lost an arm in” a corn shredder. May die. Charles Follow®ll, 35, a deaf mute, was killed by a train, Vincennes. • Fifteen horses were burned to death in a tire of a livery stable at Pennville. Bert Inzer, employed in the Jeffersonville car shops, fell under a car and was killed. Shelby Collins, a slate roofer, fell from a building in Hartford City and was perhaps fatally injpred. His home is in Marion. Henry Selig, who shot and killed Frederick Scudder, who was prowfling iu his dairy at Madison, was indicted for manslaughter. Mrs. Thomas B. Buskirk of Paoli, tripped and fell on the board sidewalk at Orleans, breaking an arm and sustaining other injuries. Clifford D. Vooris has been appointed receiver for the hardware firm of Gould, Oliver & Martin at Crawfordsville. Liabilities SIB,OOO, assets SIO,OOO. The residence of Henry Overmeyer at Yorktown was burned. Overmeyer, who is an invalid, was overcome by smoke and was rescued with difficulty. . The endowment rank of the K. of P. order is searching for Mrs. Mary Buckner of Princeton. Her late husband's insurance, SI,OOO, is waiting for her. Mrs. Ellen Hevelfa, Anderson, fell into a well and was rescued by her son and neighbors. A Richmond joung man hugged his girl so tightly that he broke one of her ribs. He cautioned the doctor to keep the fact from th® public, 'but the doctor thought It was such a good joke he told bis Wife. The news then spread. John Lagrange, who is employed in a hoop factory, Franklin, had a narrow escafe.from death. His coat tail caught in n shaft and his life was being squeezed out, when another employe stopped tha machinery and pulled him out »

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