Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1902 — BECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

BECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERBELY TOLD. ' '' Fierce Flglrt with Maniac—Gang of Counterfeiters Broken Up—lnjured by Explosion of Brick Oven—Farmer'a House on Track Holds Up Train. • Patrolman Lendrum of Marion had a fight with a madman that nearly resulted in the officer losing his fife. Henry Jordun, a powerful man, became deranged, drove his family from home, and frightpeed the neighbors so badly that they deserted their home* and ran for safety. Jordan then ran down the street with nothing on bat a shirt, climbed a tree and entered a house at the second-story window and drove outprthe occupants. He then broke up dlde furniture in the house and collected's number of weapons with which to defend himself. Lendrum' entered the house and grappled with the madman, but was thrown on a red-hot stove and then through a window. He returned to the Attack, and was met by the giant, who had an ax and attempted to sever the head of the officer from his body. Lendrum felled Jordan with three stunning blows, but.he arose and clinched the officer again, and had him on the floor, with the ax drawn over his head, when a second officer rushed in and prevented a murder. Bogus Coin Makers Go to JaiL A gang of counterfeiters that has been operating for months in Lake Village has been broken up by tbe arrest of two men, Sorensen and Merrill, and the confiscation of their outfit. The prisoners were taken to Indianapolis. Officers are also on the track of the ringleader. The many spurious quarters and 50-cent pieces in circulation in eastern Illinois and Chicago have been traced to these men. Lake Village is near Bogus Island, a famous resort for counterfeiters In the early ’sos. Oven Cylinder Blows Out. Two workmen were fatally injured la an explosion at the Olemacher sand brick works in Michigan City. An iron oven cylinder fifty feet long, used for drying the brick after pressing it, exploded, tearing the building to pieces. Louis Uroit had his right leg blown off and otherwise mangled. August Schulz was caught in the wreckage after being blown fifty feet. Twenty workmen had left the Tldnity of the dryer a few minutes before it exploded. The cause of the accident is not known.. Train Held Up by • House. The fast express, No. 6, on the Monon, from Louisville to Chicago, jras held up half an hour at Water Valley by a house on the track. A farmer was moving his residence and got it fast on the crossing. There is no telegraph station at Water. Valley, but fortunately there is a long stretch of straight track at that place and the engineman saw the house In time to stop. The passengers got out and assisted the carmen in getting the obstruction out of the way.

Drowns While Trying; to Bare Child. O. M. Tichenor, postmaster at Princeton during the Harrison administration and adjutant of the One Hundred and Sixty-first Indiana regiment In the Span-Ish-American war, was drowned while trying to rescue little Helen Carruthers, who had fallen into deep water from a boat. Killed in Boiler Explosion. The boiler of a sawmill at Mahalasville exploded with terrific force. The mill was wrecked. John Piercefield, the engineer, was instantly killed. John Wilcox, owner of the mill, was seriously injured. Ed Townsend sustained a broken collarbone. iUte News in Brief. Tax ferrets will examine the books of Delaware County. J. Z. Steck’s grocery burned at Montpelier, Loss $4,000, fully insured. Emma, the 2-year-old daughter of Alexander Charley of Oaktown, died from eating strychnine tablets, thinking they were candy. Jacob Rlnager, GO years old, took a large quantity of laudanum at Marlon and died. He leaves a widow and several children. C. C. Brown, charged with the murder of James Groves last November at Arcadia, was found guilty of murder in the first degree and the punishment fixed at imprisonment for life.

The Seymour steam furniture factory was ruined by a fire of unknown origin. For a time the entire southeastern portion of the city was threatened. The loss is estimated at $25,000. James Carby, while dynamiting fish near Terre Haute, held the dynamite too long. The explosion broke his arm, driving the bone through his stomach and bowels, causing fatal Injuries. Edward Hyatte, connected with tha Bostock-Farrer Carnival Company at Ev* ansville, was bitten by a large black diamond rattlesnake and will die. The company had just received a fresh supply of snakes from Texas. The New brothers’ chair factory, at Greenfield, which occupied a one-story frame building, 200x200 feet, was totally destroyed by fire. The factory owners place their loss at $5,000. They carried only SI,OOO insurance. Henry Smith, charged with stealing a span of mules from Henry Ratts of Ashland township, and who was caught with the mules, near Bed ford, pleaded guilty, and was given an indeterminate sentence of one to fourteen years. At the wedding of Julius Kellermelr of Indianapolis and Miss Bertha Kahl at the home of the bride, twelve miles west of Kokomo, some unknown person fired a revolver through the window. The ballet struck the bride, Injuring tor face. It Is thought a rejected suitor fired the shot. George Barr McCutCheon, author of “Graustark,” had a narrow escape from death. While he was cleaning the desk; formerly used by him as city editor of the Lafayette Courier, ah old pistol was accidentally discharged, the bullet grazing hia body. Mrs. Florence McGrath of RossiavtUe was thrashed 214 times in about two years, according to her testimony on the witness stand. She kept a record of the boatings for use in divorce action. She jtept piling up evidence until she thought the grounds sufficiently strong, then she applied for a decree. She got it