Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1902 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Workmen Find Rare Fossil —Negro Rescued from Mob by Officer*—Feet Train in Ditch—Man Wrestles with a Ball—Drowned While Swimming. An unusually perfect fossil of a member of the falcon family was discovered in one of the huge blocks of stone awaiting being set in the walls of the new Masonic Temple at Crawfordsville. The outlines of the fossil are remarkably distinct. The figure is two feet high and the details of the eye sockets, feet and the sweep of the long tail feathers are extremely clear. The block of stone will not be used in building now, but will be preserved with care and eventually will find its way into some musevm. Scientists say this fossil is extremely rare. Negro Saved from Lynchers. John Haynes, a negro from Wabash, shot and mortally wonnded Clarence Gillespie, white, an employe in the Pern steel casting works. Ilaynes, after the shooting, made an attempt to escape, but was eaptured by a crowd of steel workers who were with Gillespie. While officers were hastening to the scene the steel workers were preparing to lynch the negro. and Haynes would have been hanged had not the officers arrived when they did. Man Wrestles with Ball. A South American strong man, with no rope or weapon, wrestling with a boll was the chief attraction for 12,000 persons at the Terre Haute fair grounds at the exhibitions provided under the auspices of the Order of Railway Conductors. In the first bout the 3-year-old Hereford threw the man and stepped on him, but inflicted only slight injury. In the fiext battle after much effort the man threw the bull. Motion Fast Train Ditched. The Monon fast train No. 5, Chicago to Louisville, jumped the track as it was coming into the station at Crawfordsville. The engine and two cars were derailed, the engine turning over on its side just before it reached the platform, which was crowded. Engineer Crawford and Fireman Frank went over with the engine, but escaped with slight injuries. A misplaced switch was the cause.

Boys Drowned in a Creek. George and Leon, Bons of James Ludington, a well-known farmer near Val-. paraiso, were drowned in Sievers creek, while wading with several companions. The boys, who were 8 and 10 years eld •respectively, stepped into a deep hole in the creek and sank before their frightened playmates could aid them. Swimmer Killed by Lightning. During a severe electrical storm Arthur Jordan, aged 24, and two companions went swimming in a deep hgle in the Tippecanoe river near Warsaw. Jordan was drowned. He was a good swimmer, and it is the belief that he was struck by lightning while in the water. He resided at liion. State Neva in Brie& Millions of locusts in Kosciusko County. Charles Byroads, Lebanon, indicted for murdering Joe Herrick. Homer Fuller, 26, Muneie, committed suicide with iaudanum. Thomas Mason, aged 14, son of a farmer near Crawfordsville, was drowned while swimming. Latest returns show that Goodland has been selected as the new county seat of Jasper County by nine votes. Ethel Williams, 21, Terre Haute, killed herself with poison because Charles Taxis said he didn’t want to see hep again. The quarantine order issued against Indiana on account of smallpox was suspended until July 3 by the Kentucky State Board of Health. Harry A. Rosengarten, a merchant policeman, was found dead with a ballet hole above his right temple in Indianapolis. Both suicide and murder theories are advanced.

Marshall T. Harrold s Arthur Stevens and Gerne Trowbridge, three young men of Sweetser, have been arrested, charged With being implicated in the murder of James Lacy and the shooting of Jacob Gottschall on a public road between Marion and Roseburg. Harrold and Stevens acknowledged havtng been in” the party at the time, but said Gerne Trowbridge did the shooting. The men interested in establishing the National Technical Institute have been in Indiqnapolis. They are Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman of New York, chancellor of the Winona Agricultural and Technical Institute; W. M. Smith, a commission merchant of New York, and Thomas Kane of Chicago, pfeaident of the Winona assembly. The men have promised to endow the National Institute and locate it there if Indianapolis will furnish the site. Sufficient subscriptions have been made to pay running expenses for five years and for many scholarships. As the result of a long standing family quarrel and feud between the families of John Bailey and Oliver Cameron, both living at Falmouth, Bailey and Cameron are both dead, each killed by the hand of the other. Bailey returned from work and went directly to ,the house of Cameron. He beflfved his wife was within and asked entrance. This he was denied and without further words he shot Cameron. Cameron staggered into the house and, seizing a shotgun, returned the fire from the door. Both men fell and died almost instantly. Cameron leaves a widow and four children and Bailey a widow and seven children. Horace Hadley, 19-year-old son of Mrs. Lou Hadley of Monrovia, committed suicide with poison. He had chatted and joked with friends a few minutes before. William Fodrea was acquitted of the murder of John El Seay by the verdict of the Jury returned at Noblesville. Fire at Chandler destroyed the Methodist Episcopal Church, the parsonage and a grocery store, and for a time threatened the entire town. While acting ns peacemaker in a quarrel at West Baden, Edward Palmer, a saloonkeeper, was mortally wounded by Charles Walker, a barber from Mitchell. Big Four Railroad machinists at Indianapolis will continue at work under present conditions until July 15, when the company will reply to their demands-