Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1902 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY ’ TOLD. A Engineer’s Nerve Prolongs Two Live* —Mnncie Women Burn to Death—A Young Woman Found Dying—Fir* Loss at Shelbyville—Fatal QuarreL Mrs. Joseph Bagunir and her 6-year-old child were fatally injured while driv-. ing aerdss the Monon Railroad track five miles west of Flora, by beinft struck by a fast train. The horse jvas killed outright and the buggy was wrecked. When the engine struck the vehicle the occupants in somO inexplicable way were thrown upon the pilot, and with the assistance of the engineer, who walked out on the running board and climbed down to the pilot, the mother and child held on until the train reached Delphi, a distance of about a mile. But for the coolness of the engineer they would have fallen off and been ground to pieces. When removed from the engine they were unconscious. Aged Woman Burned to Death. Mrs. Nancy Taylor, aged oG. was bnrajed to death in Muncie while a girl and two women were attempting to respond to her screams, heard in the other half of the house. Mrs. William Warfel. her daughter Eflic, aged 13, and Mrs. C. A. Harter, went to the rescue, but found the door bolted. They could see the woman enveloped in flames through the window. While the two women were looking for an ax, with which Mrs. Harter burst open the door, Effie Warfel forced open a front door and ran to the woman* and was wrapping her blazing form in bed quilts wheu the women got in. A moment later Mrs. Taylor toppled over on the floor with her entire body charred, and died soon afterward. It is thought to be a case of suicide. Juror Held for a Robbery. I. G. Sheperd was arrested on the steps of the court house at Evansville, where he had just been dismissed as a juror in a case against the city. He confessed to "breaking into a grocery store and robbing it of S2O. Sheperd for a number of years has been prominent in politics and two years ago was applicant for the office of revenue collector. It is believed he is of unsound mind. Sheperd is 52 years old and has a large family. Found Unconscious and Dying. Lying unconscious in a pool of blood, which had come from an ugly hole in her forehead, and with a 32-caliber revolver on the floor by her side, Miss Lorette Devore of Peru was found by her father, Henry Devore, who stumbled over her prostrate form as he entered his home. It is presumed that the woman, who is 28 years of age, attempted suicide, but no reason is assigned for the aeL

Fire in Shelbyville. Fire in the Exchange block at Shelbyville damaged Dunn & Sayler, book dealers, about $6,500, and Miss Sadis Rhoades, photographer, $1,200. J. H. Aker’s dry goods stock was damaged SB,000 or SIO,OOO by water and smoke. The total loss is practically covered with insurance. Quarrel Ends in Murder. Frank M. Tilley shot and mortally wounded Mack Clark at Ashboro. Clark leased some land from Tilley on which he sunk a coal shaft. Trouble arose over the lease a few days ago and it is claimed that Clark drew a revolver on Tilley and the latter resented. Tilley is a prominent ritw-en nf AshboroState News In Brief. A runaway horse ran into Earl Bray, 7, at Washington, and crushed his skuiT. The Crawfordsville wire and nail mill, recently destroyed by fire, will be rebuilt. Viola Bridgeford, 19, pretty, tried to kill herself at Richmond, but failed. She was jealous. The leading fur buyer of Spencer says the value of Owen County’s fur products for this seasofi w : l' be not less than $12,000. ■ A wolf is said tc be living high on sheep in the vicinity of Scotland. Farmers will have a drive in an effort to capture it. Miss Minnie B. Ellis is superintendent of the Kentland public schools. It is said she is the only iady superintendent of a high school in the State. Orcar Deal, Owensville, used an oil lantern as a foot warmer. It exploded and bis buggy was completely destroyed. He escaped serious injury. At LaPorte following a quarrel with his family Gust Radtke saturated his clothing with kerosene and set fire to himself. Members of the household extinguished—the fames, but Radtke will die. Dr. John D. Green of Manilla, who brought suit against the estate of his father-in-law, C. E. Trees, a person of unsound mind, for SB,OOO for professional services, has compromised the case for $3,500. Otto Wright called on his farm tenant, Eli Passlinger, near Terre Haute, and demanded washing machine. A quarrel followed and Wright shot his tenant twice, both wounds being serious. Wright’s mother was with him. Henry Ilelmig, a one-legged man, was shot and killed by Charles Netherly, a saloonkeeper, at the Union railway station in Peru. Helmig was under the influence of liquor and creating a disturbance. The saloonkeeper claims he acted in self-defense.

In a fit of passion 7-y ear-old Claud* Fickle plunged the blade of his pocket knife into the back of his 10-year-old schoolmate, Ernest Blackledge, in the Fickle district school iu Clinton County. The knife blade jienetrated the youthful victim's lung cavity and the boy is in a critical, condition. Drunk and erased with Jealousy, Charles Pittser, a young soldier recently returned from the Philippines after an honorable discharge, shot and killed his bride of three months at Muncie. Mrs. Pittser was barely 18 years old. The young woman bad been followed by her husband from Daleville to her sister's house. The couple were joking when the husband chided the wife. She approach* ed and playfully kissed him. The caress seemed to madden Pittser. He quickly took a revolver from his pocket and shot the girl five times. She fell at hia feet, dead. e • |