Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1902 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECOiID OF EVENTB OF THE PABT WEEK. Myetery in Woman’s l>eath —Relative of William Henry Harrison Is Hestitnte—Pastor Will Receive Vast Fortune—Asks Pay for Boats Destroyed. Family and friends have been shocked by the sudden and mysterious death of Miss Ida Hayes, aged 24, daughter of Theodore Hayes, a farmer residing near Dublin. Miss Hayes left her home several days ago and was supposed by her parents to have returned to Delaware, Ohio, to resume her studies at college. Her remains arrived at Dublin one moruing from Indianapolis, where she Had died. The father said ire had strong suspicions that his daughter had met her death from the effects of malpractice, and he will make a thorough investigation. Driven to Seek Charity. Homeless and destitute, Mrs. Mary Rousseau Thixtou, sistef of the late Gen. Lovell H. Rousseau, called at the home of Rev. Charles E. Asbury, pastor of the Wail Street Met hodist Ohurcfa in~J sonville, seeking aid. Mrs. Thixton is now 82 years old and very feeble. She comes from an aristocratic family, being a grandniece of William Henry Harrison and in former days she was well to do. Pastor Heir to Millions. Rev. J. T. Russell of LaPorte has fallen heir to real estate valued at ?5,-” 000,000, which represents about half the estate of Henry K. Sheldon, who died recently in the East. The will also gives the residue of the estate to Mr. and Mrs. Russell upon the death of Mr. Sheldon’s widow. Mr. Russell has filled a number of pastorates in the East and West and is widely known in the Episcopal Church. Asks Congress to Pay Civil War Claim. •John Tierce of Marion has filed a claim with Congressman Steele for §37,300 for the burning of Pierce’s boats on the Kentucky river by Union soldiers during the Civil War. By special act Congress is to be asked to allow the claim. Pierce was a loyal Union man. He says he was rendered bankrupt by the burning, which was ordered by the government. Won the Number 13 and Died. John Habbig, an Evansville candy maker, aged 45, fell dead the other day. A few minutes before he died he played a slot machine and got the number 33. He leaves a wife £nd three children in Chicago, from which city he came. Within Our Borders. Oil has been found at Elwood. Strike of glass workers, Montpelier, is off. (Train killed Bert King, a teamster, at dClintou. Hartford City flint glass factory has resumed. Hartford City will have free mail delivery May 1. L. E. & W. will build a belt line at Hartford City. Ninth district Pythinus held a big ineet-7 ing at Frankfort. Porter Douglas, 101, Frankfort, celebrated his birthday. Hugh A. Adams, Wabash, has invented a votijig machine. Roscoe Lang, 6, LaPorte, is dead from drinking snow water. Helen. Gould has given §3,500 for ±h& Y. M. C. A. Hall, Peru, Hartford City Council passed a hotwater heating franchise. Christian churches of district 6 will raept in Muncie April 2-4. Company has been organized at Vincennes to drill for oil or gas. Knights Templar will hold a conclave at South Bend April lt> and 17. A. C. Aging has been elected president of Post G, T, P. A., Terre Haute, Brakeman Edward Carroll was killed by | Big Four train, Terre Hatlte. Evansville milkmen have organized for the advancement of their interests. Charles Byrum, 17, Flora, was thrown from a horse and perhaps fntnlly injured. Terre Haute people are anxious for thestreet car strike to be brought to an end. Arcadia brick works will be enlarged so 75,000 bricks can be turned out in a day. John Northcott, 38, merchant, Abington, burst a blood vessel and bled to death. . ■' Mr. and Mrs. I.ewfs Gebhart. Millville, celebrated their fifty-first wedding anniversary. Mrs. Lee Dinwiddle, 45, wife of a Fowler banker, cut hor throat. She was a nervous invalid. ‘ George Nutter, 10, Bluffton, was seriously burned by the explosion of a handful of gunpowder. Bennett Gregory, 23, of English, was killed near Princeton. Ilis head was crushed by a beam on a dredgebont. Skilled workmen of the National Window and Beut Glass Company, Montpelier, struck. Want a guaranty of so much a day. Old Baptist cemetery, Hartford City, has been declared a nuisance. Bodies of the dead will be removed to another burial ground. Farmer George Otterman. four miles east of Ladoga, was robbed of §4OO. The burglars then stole Charles Zimmerman's horse, drove to Ladoga and turned the horse loose. “Babe” Wilkins of Rtishville shot dead Michael Foley, aged 45, of Newcastle, at a card table in a saloon at Cambridge City. One man accused the other of cheating, when they clinched, and in the scuffle the revolver was discharged on Foley'a breast. The victim waa a salooukeeper. Officers clcctcUMF the Indiana photographers: President, W. L. Dalhy, Richmond: vice-president, E. B. Shores, Vincennes; secretary, Benj. Lnrrimer, Marion. Atlanta citizens offer the American Tinplate Company §25,000 If the company will resume work at the Idle plant in that town and keep it running for fire years. Burglars robbed six Mnrioii homes in ono night. Those visited were Maj. Hichert, Dr. A. R. Powell, Z. H. Sanders, John Wilson, G. M. Yonug and Charles Coffin.