Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1902 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Girl’s Body Found in Wabash Biver— ’* An Insane Operator Almost Causes Wrecks—Wronged Husband Shot by Politician—Farmer KI led by a Cow The body of Carrie Stengeimer, who had been missing for a week, was found by her father in the Wabash river, seven miles from Lafayette. Her forehead was crushed aril a man’s hat was found 300 feet up the stream. The place where the body was discovered is a short distance below a questionable summer resort. The girl was seen with a young man the evening of her disappearance from the home where she was employed as a domestic. A notejvhich was found indicated, the girl intended to commit suicide, but her father says it is not her handwriting. Dispatcher Goes Insane. Frank Orrell, operator at the Vandalia depot at Knightsville, became violently insane. He nearly caused a collision beTween the eastr'apd - West~bbund passenger trains and two'fast freights. He ran up the main street of Knightsville, shouting that the depot had been robbed and brandishing a revolver. The engineer of a freight thought the operator was insane when he handed him an order, as it was not readable, The engineer made quick time to Brazil and reported Orrell’s condition. Operators were soon put to work and stopped all trains till orders could be straightened out. Shoots Outraged Husband. Firman G. Smith of Toledo 1s in jail in Huntington for shooting Coy Lassiter of Whitly County, who probably will die. Smith wqs discovered in the company of Lassiter’s wife by Lassiter and his neighbors and a bloody encounter followed, in which guns and clubs were used. Smith is a politician and was a.member of the Indiana Legislature in 1898. Shot by a Jealous Husband. Ryan Klatt, a‘prominent merchant of Kouts, shot at his wife three times, one ball striking her in the head. Emma Porton, a domestic, who came to her assistance, was shot in the face. Jealousy is blamed for the rash deed. Cow Kills a Farmer. Levi Schillinger, aged 60, a well-known Elkhart farmer, was found dead at the roadside. He had been leading a fractious cow and it is supposed that sho jerked him to the ground with the fatal result. state News in Brief. Strike at Pioneer hat works, Wabash, is off. Noblesville ministers want cigar stores slosed on Sunday. B. C. Best, Oaklandoif, lost three fingers in a sawmill. Mrs. Rachel Brankle’s house, Windfall, burned. Loss SI,OOO. Anderson gets the Democratic Congressional convention, June 18. Mrs. Anna Michelson, 86, Scottsburg, committed suicide by hanging. Marion City Council Is considering sprinkling her streets with oil. The Borne and Thompson elevators, Lafayette, burned. Loss $45,000. Thieves stole much valuable machinery from the Sharpsville canning factory. Noble Cosby, 50, Madison, shot himself through the head with a revolver. J. H. Garvutt fell from a pole in Anderson, receiving perhaps fatal injuries. Broken axle caused fifteen Big Four / freight cars to go into the ditch at Muncie. Columbus Bolin, an old soldier. New Albany, fell from a window and was killed. The plant of the Enterprise Stove Company at Vincennes was damaged $200,000 by fire. The insurance is $75,000. Feaster & Davis, Shelbyville, were awarded the contract for building the Carnegie library in that city, at $15,895. James Weidenbeek of Elkhart, a traveling engineer on the "Three l’s,” was struck in the arm by a 22-caliber bullet tired by a boy as the train passed Momence, 111. His injury is not dangerous. Clarence, son of Nathan Bates, aged 5, returning from Sunday school in Madison, attempted to cross the track in front of a street car. The wheels caught the boy and crushed him to death instantly. Images of a woman, of the face of an Indian squaw, of two doves, of beasts and reptiles and passages of scripture in ancient language manifested themselves on the caleimined walls and wiling of the cabin of Israel Brown, a colored artisan of Vincennes. Hundreds of people of all classes were attracted to the place to see the phenomena. Brown is intensely religious uud a deacon in the African Methodist Church. He avers the signs are direct answer t<T his prayers that God manifests himself to the world that all might believe in Christianity. Intense excitement lias been caused in the eastern part of Laporte County by repeated attempts made to kill Perry Runnels, son of a wealthy farmer. Two weeks ago while Runnels was driving home he was pursued by men who filled hia buggy full of bullet boles. A man named Reddington wns mistaken for Runnels one night by a party of men and he snys he would have been killed if he hud not proved that he was not the man wanted. Runnels is a recent conrert of the holiness faith and is a religious sealot. People in the neighborhood believe a conspiracy exists for the taking of the young man’s life. Katie Allen, the beautiful 18-year-old daughter of one of the leading citizens of Knightstown, took strychnine and died within an hour. Pierce Carr, 17, accidentally shot and killed his companion, Oscar Myrick, Northfield. Marion Wright and her son, aged 17 living near Folsomville. were killed bj lightning. They were in a wagon returning from the field. The police of Indiana cities and towns hare been asked to look for Fred Warner. an umbrella pnddler, whose home is in Elkhart. Warner’s friends are seeking him In an effort to put him iu poa*N»sion of a fortune estimated nt $75,000 which has l>een left him by relatives at Greenville. Mich.