Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1902 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY told. Fast Train Saved by Two Boys—Returned Soldier Marries Widow and Kills Himself—Reformed Burglar Returns to Rvil Ways. „ The west-bound flyer on the Toledo, St. Louis and Western Railroad would have been wrecked the other day but tor the presence of mind of two small boys. The boys were en route to school when they discovered a broken rail in the track near West Middleton. They knew that the fast train was about due and hastened up the track to signal the train of the danger. When they saw the'" approachjug traifi they removed their coats and waved them above their heads. The engineer saw the signals and the train was stopped but a few feet from the break. The rati was badly broken and but for the children the train would have been thrown down the embankment with its 200 passengers. In tfie excitement among the passengers and train crew the boys left without giving their names. The railroad company will reward them if they can be found. _ Reformed Man Backslides. Robert Waters, formerly a burglar with a long police record, but for twelve years a real estate dealer of Indianapolis, has disappeared, taking with him several thousand dollars belonging to property owners whom he represented as agent. For twelve years Waters has been living in Indianapolis, and a few of his associates and business acquaintances knew of his history. He was formerly known as “Old Man Burk,” udder which name he has a Bertillon record. He reformed while in the Indianapolis workhouse and later married a widow Of considerable means. Returned Soldier a Suicide. Walter McVey of Kokomo killed himself in the presence of his bride of but a few days. McVey was a member of Company F, Thirty-third regiment, and married Mrs. Hughes, a widow with four children, on his return from the Philippines. He exhibited a revolver to his wife, saying: “There are two loads in this revolver, one for each of us.” He snapped the weapon alternately at his wife and himself, the first load falling to his lot. The bullet entered the right eye. Death was instantaneous. No motive is known. Forgeries Cost Girl $27,000. Miss Tryon of Union Mills, it was learned, lost $27,000 as a result of the forgeries which wrecked the Nebraska bank, owned by the Gould brothers, former residents of Laporte County. It is estimated that the loss in'that county .by reason of the bank failure reaches SIOO,000, about one-half of the total. Think Wheat Crop Ruined. The mild weather has practically removed the snow from the wheat fields and Indiana farmers report the plant as coming out badly injured. With the ruined corn crop of last season they are very apprehensive and fear the wheat crop is the next to suffer. Ftate News in Brief. Wharton’s saloon, Morristown, was robbed of sls. Counterfeiters are said to be working at Craigsville. Two dwellings, n store and pool room, Fairhaven, burned. James Spencer, Ilollandsburg, was killed by a falling tree. Robert Palmes, Five Points, was seriously burned by natural gas. Farmer George Williams, Marion, fell dead in a field. Heart disease. Street car 13 killed “Fred,” mascot dog of the Elwood fire department. Wright’s grocery, New Castle, burned. Loss $3,000, insurance $2,500. Jerome Herff and Webb Bros, may build a new opera house in Peru. Ernest Davis, 21, Monument City, was perhaps fatally crushed by a log. Dr. J. A. Turner’s wife, Nashville, was seriously injured while coasting. Miss Daisy Smith, Elwood, will go to Manila, P. 1., to marry R. C. Glover. Bloomingdale canning factory was bought by M. W. Malott of Indianap*' l ■< Arthur Craig's grocery, Blaine Station, was destroyed by fire. The postoffice and S2OO. cash and stamps, were also destroyed. Kokomo will have n city market and public hall, the latter seating 3,000 persons. W. H. Smith, a blacksmith of Linwood, fell from a traction car and was fatally injured. G. W. Wilson, Evansville, old soldier, died of blood poisoning from running a splinter in his finger. Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt sent a box of handkerchiefs to the Ladies' Aid Society • of Grace M. E. Church, Peru. Superintendent of schools at Kokomo reported that 400 boys out of 1,300 in the city schools smoke cigarets. Rev. Lewis Homan, Muncie, is the new pastor of St. John’s German Evangelical , Church, Vincennes, succeeding the late , Rev. Henry Mehl. I House on Thomas Kirchen’s farm, west of !<cbanon. burned. It was occupied by James Martin and family. His two chilI <lren barely escaped with their fives. Some people of Terre Haute delight in hurling stones through street car windows since the strike. Police now say they'll pinch every person who hurls a stone. *•' Charles Allen, 10, Jeffersonville, swallowed a cockle burr while running through a field. It lodged in his windpipe, aud doctors cut it out. It’s said he will recover, Laporte County hunters killed three wolyes. . . Hagerstown's fair will be held the first week iu Atigput. Rush County will pay out $2,000 for an expert to examine county records. Chicago capitalists may build a big sanitarium at the Delphi mineral springs. Eight case* of typhoid fever in Cambridge City are thought to be from bad water. ‘ Elijah James’ house, south of Russiaville, burned. He carried his invalid wife from the burning building.