Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1902 — INDIANA INCIDENTS [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Driven Crazy by White Cape—Methodist Minister and Grown Son Disappear—Juvenile Members of Thieving Gang Under Arrest at FrankfortHenry Deming, who w-as so mercilessly beaten by white caps in Monroe Co'tmty a few weeks ago, is a raving maniac as ■ result of his cruel punishment. Ever since the night of the whipping he has been morose and taciturn, and when he talked at all it was on the subject of his treatment and the disgrace that had been placed upon him. While in Bloomington the other day he suddenly began shrieking and moaning and calling upon the citizens to protect him from his enemies. He was restrained with difficulty and finally placed in jail. He imagines that the white Caps are trying to get him and pleads piteously for protection against them. Pastor and Son Disappear. The congregation of the Glendale Methodist Church is greatly worried because of the mysterious disappearance of the pastor, the Rev. W. P. Barnhill, and his son Wilfred. The latter was married to Miss Ethel Conley last February. The wife of the minister-deciares she knows not what has become of Mr. Barnhill or his son, but says her husband has worried a great deal of late because of indebtedness which he was unable to meet. Mr. Barnhill came to Washington from Sullivan three years ago. Previous to that he was pastor of the First Methodist Church in Evansville.

Led a Gang of Burglars. John Sines, aged 14, was placed in jail at Franklin, charged with burglary. The youth has been, it is said, the leader of a gang of boy burglars, whose ages range from 9 to 14 years, and who have committed numerous robberies in that city. Two of his younger brothers are also tinder arrest and have confessed to burglary. Sheriff Balks a Lynching. In order to protect his prisoner from violence at the hands of a mob Sheriff Schilling of Peru took John Haynes, colored, to'the State prison at Michigan City during the night, and thereby headed off a possible lynching. Haynes killed Clarence Gillespie of Glasgow, Pa., who had come to Peru to work in the steel plant. Within Our Borden. Militia company at Salem. Train killed T. J. Thomas, Opedee. Several plumbers, Fort Wayne, struck. Thomas Clark, tailor, Crawfordsville, assigned. Frank Shanks, 24, Anderson, killed by a train. Murderer of Young Lacey, Marion, still at large. Tony Richmer, 28, near Elizabeth, killed by lightning.— Hazel Ferris, 2, Fort Wayne, played with matches. Dead. W allace Steele, 7, Monon, played with a lamp and burned to death. • Central Traction Company will build ?30,000 power house at Tipton. Miss Hulda Culp, Goshen, swallowed carbolic. May die. No reason.

Fred Brown, 14, Paoli, accidentally shot by a companion, is dead. Robert Hayes, Lafayette, was seriously injured “in binder machinery. Horace Hadley, 19, Monrovia, took carbolic acid. No reason is known. Sam Austin, 14, hit Fred Coates, 17, Alexandria, with a brick. Serious. Miss Mattie Mehne, 20, Jasper, despondent in love, took poison. Dead. Little san of Mrs. B. Vaughn, Shelbyville, fell into boiling water. Dead. C. H. Worden is the new president of Fort Wayne’s First National Bank. Ex-City Treasurer Pabel, Goshen, charged with embezzlement, acquitted. Ralph Johnson, Fairbanks, tried to hang himself. Relatives cut him down. Joseph A. Whitsell, Greenfield, accidentally shot himself in the head. Will recover. Mrs. Cora Harmon, Elwood, tried to commit suicide by the red precipitate route. Doctor sawed her. A Big Four freight train was wrecked between Perth and Carbon, killing two men and injuring two others. The four were stealing a ride. While placing pins on the railway tracks at Evansville to be run over by trains, Olga Ruth, aged 10, was killed by an engine on the Louisville and Nashville road. Dr. Swain has announced a gift of $30,000 to Indiana university to erect a building for men and women on the campus. The donor stipulates that an equal amount must be raised before Jan. 1, 1903. Dr. Joseph Swain, president of the Indiana University, has resigned to accept the presidency of Swarthmore University, near Philadelphia. This is a Quaker institution. The new president of Indiana will be Dr. William Cowe Bryan, the vice-president. Great excitement was caused by the report that a mob was on its way to tho Vincennes jail to lynch William Edison, in custody on a charge of attacking 3-year-old Irma Pfohl June 1. The police were notified and to Increase the excitement some one .turned In an alarm of fire. This was done, it is believed, to draw a large crowd to the streets to swell the mob on its way to the jail. Half an hour after the first alarm a second one was turned in, but the police were on the lookout and prevented violence. The mob finally was dispersed and no attempt was made to enter the JailIn Evansville John Geiser, aged about 50, after a family quarrel, tried to hang himself. Charles Doctors, 16 years old, was accidentally shot and killed by Ernest Oockcrman at Kirkland, while they were playing soldier. Mrs. William Moore, wife of the mail carrier between Decker and Red Clond, while making the trip between the two points for her husband, who wan sick, was assaulted by a strange white man. Rhe succeeded in escaping from him, not, however, until he had torn from her most «f her clothing. * *