Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1902 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

\> ■ i ■■■ ■■■ •” - RECORD OP EVENTB OF TH£ji PAST WEflt'' Engineer Leaps to Escape an Imag*-' inary Wreck—Man Goes to State's Prison for Friend’s Crime— Boy, la Fatally Stabbed by Companion. Danger which existed only in a mind overwrought by dwelling on recent railroad wrecks brought probably fatal injuries to J. E. Sible, an old engineer of the Wabash Railroad. Sible was at ths throttle of the big locomotive of the limited train that was traveling at a rate of forty miles an hour when the lights of Attica appeared. The track was clear and the signal lights of the switch showed an unobstructed path. Suddenly the old engineer gave a start and shouted to his fireman, Bert Frick: “Jump for your life, Bert, the switch is turned and we’ll crash into ” The sentence was not finished, for in an instant Sible had applied the safety brake, reversed the lever and jumped to escape the specter his nerves had conjured up. The fireman^followed, but was not injured. The train came to n stop and Sible, who was badly crushed, was taken to a hospital in Peru. Goes to Jail for a Friend. Albert Gilmore, until recently a prominent postmaster in southern Indiana and a member of a leading family, will be received at the Michigan City prison in a few days to serve an indeterminate sentence for horse stealing. Gilmore made no defense. He feigned guilty in order to save the real criminal, who was his friend. Influence brought to bear on Gilmore could not shake him in his decision, to go to prison to save a man who had once befriended him. 1 The court, in view of the plea of guilty, passed sentence, but with the development" oic the facts which will clearly prove Gilmore’s innocence Gov. Durbin will be asked to pardon' him. Lovesick Girl Kills Herself. Charles Pittser, who recently shot hi* young bride to death in Mancie, U responsible for another tragedy. Miss Edna Cook rented a room in the Commercial Hotel and shot herself through the heart. The suicide left a note saying that she could not endure life without Pittser. She had vainly tried to see him at the jail. Pittser stated that he was not in love with her, cared nothing for her and did not wish to see her. Just a month before Pittser tried to shoot Miss Cook at a dance in Yorktown.

Schoolboy Stab* Ilia Mate. The publip school at CamiM-i’ as tha scene of a tragedy enacted by one of tha pupils, who became enraged at bis playmate and inflicted a wound with a pocket knife that will prove fatal. Claude Tin* kle, aged 13, became angry over the result of a game of ball and stabbed Charles Blackburn, aged 15, in the back, the blade penetrating the fle& to a depth of four inches. The wound is fatal. Within Our Borders, Finlay Gray, a tourist, formerly of Quincy, shot and killed himself at Miaoia, Fla. Michigan City’s total fire loss the past year was $91,933. The department answered 44 calls. At Peru Charles Nenthcrly was held to the Circuit Court without bonds for shooting Henry Helmig. Arthur Mcßeth, the Kokomo violinist, has found the $1,290 violin recently stolen, from him. It once belonged to Ole Bulk Frank Pitman has been appointed receiver of the Lawrence County Agricultural Society. The property will be sold. Albert Dolbow, aged 16, the son of City Marshal Dolbow of Carbondale, accidentally shot and killed Carl Stump, aged 17. The postofflee safe at Shirley was blown open with dynamite aud S4OO in money and stamps taken. There, is no clue to the burglars. William S. Marsh, aged 80 years, tho oldest Odd Fellow in the world, died at his home near Acton from a complication of grip and pneumonia. For want of evidence thirty suits brought against oil men in Grant Couuty, for alleged stream pollution, were dismissed in the Circuit Court at Marion. The strike among the passenger shop employes at the plant of the American Car and Foundry Company in Jeffersonville Is spreading. About COO men are now idle. Kirklin township was the scene of a bloody tragedy. Clem A. Pruitt, a young fanner, was shot to death by William Pittsner, also a young farmer. The killing took place at Pittsner’a home, one mile north of Kirklin. Pittsner was arrested. An unknown man about 05 yeurs of age was killed by a Toledo, St. Louis and Western freight train while walking on the track near the depot at Marion. The letters “J. M.” were tattooed on his right arm. In his pockets were found a number of small flics and other tools. The Inst independent rolling mill in eastern Indiana, located in Muucie. has gone into the trust. John 11. Pulmer of Chicago sold the plant to the United State* Steel Corporation for $250,000 cash. Mr. I'almer recently expended several thousand dollars in improving the plant, of which Us was tbs owner and operator. William Hnssey, aged 58, a widely known Noblesville politician and wealthy farmer, la dying from a peculiar affliction,. He put hia feet uosr the oven of a lug stove and doxed away. He allowed hia feet to remain ill the oven until the flesh cooked and dropped off, exposing the sinews and bones of bia feet, befors discovering it. It is believed he became paralysed, losing all feeliug in his lower ilrahi. Tho ludiana Republican State Central ■ Commit tee elected James I*. Goodrich of Winchester chairman and George Rolf of Corydon secretary, bnt the attempt to elect a secretary resulted in a dead- , lock and an adjournment was taken tilt .Jan. 50. In a flash of rage Roscos Meredith, aged 33, of Finday. Ohio, employed In the oil field, near Y’anbured, picked up a hatchet and swung it over hia head. The blade flew off end struck a nearly. ; empty nitroglycerin can. Meradlth was Mown to pieces, one arm being found 1 In a tree top a hundred feet away. ~ 'J