Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1902 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Coal Men Cannot Get Railroad Rebates —A Drinking Man Loses Right of Franchise—Child Badly Bitten and ■ Scratched by Strange Cat. The Indiana coal mining industry has been given a setback which will reduce the output one-half. Preliminary to making sales contracts the Indiana operators have been in the habit of reaching an understanding with the railroad companies for rebates on freight rates by which the long and short haul clause of the interstate commerce law was evaded, so that they might be able to compete with Illinois coal. Since the YVashington authorities began the effort to enforce the interstate law the railroad company refuse to arrange for rebates and the Indiana operators are unable to quote prices to Chicago, where 90 per cent of the output is sold. Disfranchises a Drunkard. Judge Tuthili, presiding judge in the Superior Sourt at La Porte, sentenced William Henke, to thirty days in the county jail, a fine of-SIOO and disfranchisement for three years. This is the first time in the history of the State that a citizen has been disfranchised because of drinking habits. Judge Tuthili took this drastic measure to reform him. When sober he is a good citizen. Savage Cat Bites a Child. Clifford, the 4-year-old-son Of Carl Tatem, head booker at the Kokomo plate glass works, attempted to pet a strange cat, when the animal flew at him like an enraged Hon and bit and scratched him nearly all over the body. The child is so badly lacerated that death is feared. The ferocious cat was run down and killed. Lafayette Elevators Burn. In Lafayette fire destroyed the grain elevators of the Samuel Born Company and Janies E. Thompson. Nearly 25,000 bushels of grain were consumed. The loss is $30,000. The insurance is Small.

Within Our Borders.' Sullivan will not incorporate as a city. Scottsburg will have a Commercial club. W. Watson. Converse, fell from a train and was killed. Ed High, miner, Fontanet, killed himself with poison. Dry goods store of H. C. Davis & Son, Kokomo, will quit. Sixty laborers on an Elwood sewer struck for $2 a day. Mrs. Mary Stafford, 80, CarmCl, dropped dead from heart trouble. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Axe, Harmony, celebrated their golden wedding. Mrs. Della Cummins, 38, Anderson, committed suicide with morphine. Henry Plumpt, near Evansville, who shot himself in the head, is dead. Garnet Smith killed Benjamin Markin, of Grant, with a rifle. Accident. G. W. Davis, of North Salem, is organizing a new bank at Edinburg. Bryan Doran, 80, Elwood, was found in a pond. Some think it suicide. Frank Pleak’s child, near Greensburg, is dead from eating bicycle cement. Lightning killed Peter Baumgardner, Portland, while he was in his barn. W. A. Bradford, Jr., formerly of Goshen, was killed in a mill in Arkansas. Strike at Nickey's hardwood plant, Princeton is off. Union scale was signed. Morley Riley, Thorntown, has sold fifty bushels of white seed corn to Uncle Sam. Lightning struck and burned James Deck’s barn near Wabash. Loss, $3,000. Gen. and Mrs. Lew Wallace, Crawfordsville, celebrated their golden wedding. The 3-year-old son of Paul Harrison, Rushville, was dangerously kicked by a horse. Mrs. Margaretha Uebehler, 78, Dubois County, burned to death while burning trash. Lightning tore 11. Thomas’ telephone from the wall, Scottsburg. Building was not fired. William Pittman, Staffordshire, died of lockjaw, the result of a horse mashing bis thumb. Miss Howard Root, a student of De Pauw, fell from a horse, breaking one of her legs. Charles Terry, charged with killing Tobe Baker, New Albany, was arrested in Louisville. Thomas Shepherd, Sullivan, fell down stairs and was fatally injured. His home is in Carlisle. A. George, a Syrian peddler of In- . dianapolis, shot himself in Marion while des[n>ndent because of his inability to sell goods. Edward Johnson, who left Greenfield some time ago, writes that he is teaching school in Kansas. It was thought he had been foully dealt with. Municipal elections were held In all Indiana cities Tuesday except Indianapolis, Evansville and Fort Wayne, which have special charters. Local rather tnan political questions have l»een at issue. Republican Mayors'were elected in Crawfordsville, Lebanon, New Albany, Wabash, Franklin Lafayette. Kokomo, Hammond, Madison and Huntington. Bloomington elected a Democratic Mayor for the first time in the history of the city; Goshen elected G. F. Aiderman,’ Democrat, Mayor. , Greencastle elected a Democratic Mayor for the first time in twenty-six years. Other cities electing Democratic Mayors are Frankfort, Tipton, Viueenncs, Lawveneebufg, Micla awaka, Vevay. Laporte, Valparaiso Terre Haute, Portland, Peru, South ______■ . . ‘ ' ■ ’’ll ’■ I VW • >'*«■ <ll IS V-<«ri Six-year-old daughter of John Mills, Marion, was fatally burned. Clothes caught from a grate. Darnel Wikel, 78, Portland, while in a buggy, was struck by a train and received perhaps fatal injuries. Eighty boys at the Hemingray glass factory. Muncie, struck, throwing fifty skilled laborers out of work. The lads want 10 cents more a day. When Mrs. George Wagner awoke iha other morning she discovered her band, lying by her side, was dead. Winner was a glass worker and his home w«. at Marion. • ■