Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1902 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. f ' ": Gold Nuggets Worth $50,000 Left with Stranger—Probable Murder in Vacant House —Coal Pool Formed—Boys Play Batcher with Horrible Result. „ Residents of Summitville have a $50,000 gold nugget mystery to discuss as the result of the disappearance of a strange visitor from the Klondike who stopped there for an hour several days ago. The man entered Henry Cory’s store when he first arrived in town, bought a cigar, began talking to Cory and soon was on friendly terms with him. The stranger said he had just returned from the Klondike, where, he had succeeded much better than the ordinary explorer in that region. Most of his wealth was in the bunk, but he had brought with him a fruit jar lull of uuggets as a curiosity. The Klondiker showed the jar, but did not attempt to his gold. Instead he said he was going into the country for a few days and he asked Cory to keep the jar until lie returned. The next day Cory carried the fruit jar to the Summitville bank, asking that it be placed in the vault for safe keeping, as he desired to escape the responsibility of guarding it. And there the nuggets, which look as though they might be worth $50,000, remain. Mystery in Marion. Marion police are working on what is believed to be a deep murder mystery. Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Weadock reported that they were awakened on a recent night by voices hi an empty house adjoining their dwelling, and then heard a body fall to the floor. Footsteps were then heard leaving the house. Weadock noticed blood on the sidewalk in front of the unoccupied house the next morning and suspected that a murder had been committed. When the house was entered a large pool of bwod “was found in one room. The walls and doors leading from the room were spattered with blood. A trail of blood led from the house to the street and was followed for nearly two miles. It ended at the bank of the Mis‘STssiuewa river. Indiana Coal Pool Is Formed. The bituminous coal operators of the field in Indiana north of the national road, and having an output of one-third the bituminous coal produced in the State, have perfected a pooling arrangement for the sale of the product, about 2,000,000 tons annually. It is believed this particular pool will be followed by others covering the southern field of the State. The selling agency is to be the Crescent Mining Company of Chicago, of which W. S. Bogle is the largest owner. Mr! Bogle has mining interests in the northern Indiana field and is understood to be acquiring interests In the southern field. Nearly Kills His Brother. Two brothers named Smith, living near Beatty’s Corners, played butcher. The older brother prevailed upon his younger brother to play the part of the victim. The younger boy was placed with his head resting against the boards on the side of a shed. The other youth then picked up an ax and dealt the hoard a terrific blow which rendered the younger hoy unconscious. Complications . have since developed and there is little hope for his recovery. The brother who essayed the role of butcher is nearly crazed with grief. 1 state News in Brief. [—Elkhart voted in favor of mun’u ii> il water works. Tipton gets SIO,OOO of Carnegie’s “swag” for a library. G. P. Chase, Logansport, charged with forgery, was acquitted. John Costello, aged 73 yeqrs, of Wabash, was kicked to death by a colt. Mrs. M. B. Slinkard of Bicknell died suddenly from the effects of a powder. Noblesville granted a 50-years’ franchise to the Union Traction Company. The residence of C. Petttr. near Boston, burned. Loss $2,005--3surauce sl,* 200. A new building is under way at the Eastern Indiana hospitul for the insane, Richmond. John Joslyn. 67, formerly of Terre Haute, was killed by a train at Crawfordsville, Ore. Little son of Mervin Wasson, Lafoutaine burned- to death while playing around a bonfire. Tom Worth, plasterer, Williamsport, while drunk, fell in mud and water and smothered to death. Liberty Kompf, a well-to-do citizen, quarreled with his wife at Washington, and site shot him through the head, death being almost instuntaucous. Mrs. Kcmpf gave herself up. Twenty-five girls have caused the Canton glass factory, Marion, to shut down. They want $5 a week instead of $3.50. Throe hundred employes arc out of work by the girls’ action. Court says Samuel P_ Ruble, Vim, cenn es, must pay J. M. Bunting SI,OOO for slander. He alleged that Bunting had forged his name to a note. Evidence showed that Ruble signed the note himseif. Mrs. Frances Shafer, 73 Klwood, heard a burglar at her window. She secured a revolver and blazed away through the window at him. He wasn’t hit, but made long tracks in getting away. She was alone. - • George Shepherd of Red Key shot his wife and then shot himself. No one saw the shooting. It is thonght the result will be futal in both case*. Shepherd, who is 35 years of age, is said to have abused his wife. She left him four years ago, but recently returned to him. She is 21 years of age. Richmond’s eighty cases of smallpox cost that city $2,500, an average of over S3O to the case. Mathias Gtindiek, G 2, was killed by n Lake Shore trgin at Otis, He lived ut Michigan CHty. Mrs. Norn Slinkard, wife of a Bickdell merchant, swallowed too many headache powders, and is dead. Carnegie library in El wood will ba erected at the southwest corner of N. A. and Sixteenth streets. Dr. L. 8. Keene, 80, of Laporte, died at Deland, Fla., where be and his wife were spending the winter.