Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 92, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1902 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST - WEEK. Woman Faats for Three Month*— Passengers Dahgerously Wounded in. Street- CarFight—Victory for Indiana Brokers—Girl Commits Suicide. After a fifty-three days’ fast Mrs. Wanda George of Muncie, who at 81 claims to be the oldest Spiritualist medium, although still alive, is reduced to a skeleton. When she started she was a hearty woman weighing 210 pounds. While living in Chicago five years ago she prophesied she would soon be stricken blind. Now she is the victim of a strange disease which has baffled the skill of all available specialists. She fasts not because she wants to, but because she is physically incapable of taking any food. Her daughter, Mrs. Ella Phipps of Chicago, is with her. Battle with Colored Thugs. When the interurban car on the Indianapolis and Greenwood Line reached Southport at 3:30 o’clock the other .afternoon three colored men got aboard and refused to pay therr fares. The conductor and motorman tried to eject them and a fight ensued. When the negroes were finally ejected John Foster of Greenwood was found lying in the center of the car dying from two bullet wounds in the head, and Frank Seiling was unconscious with a bullet in his head. The negroes were captured after a chase of a mile across the country. Indiana Brokers Are Victors. Judge John H. Baker of the United States District Court in Indianapolis refused to grant the injunction against Indiana brokers asked for by the Chicago Board of Trifle against the use of the board’s quotations. The defendants claimed the board was a huge gambling affair and had no rights. Judge Baker said if he granted It the injunction would injure the defendants’" business. The court declined to give an opinion as to whether the Chicago Board of Trade was a gambling scheme.

Think Boy Was Murdered.

The body of Frank Ganger, aged 16, and son of Emanuel Ganger, a prosperous farmer living near Goshen, was found floating in the race. His parents think he was murdered and thrown into thewater. The dead boy’s face was crushed in and the body was in the canal many hours. The. case is shrouded in mystery and the police and coroner are investigating. They are convinced he met with foul play. Girl Burns Herself to Death. Maud Fritz, daughter of Hiram Fritz of Kokomo, committed suicide by fire. She went to the woods, ostensibly to pick berries. In a secluded thicket she saturated her clothing with coal oil and ignited them. When found she was running through the woods screaming, with clothing all burned off. She died the next day. She w’as a member of Kokomo high school. One Jail Breaker Caught. Joseph Herbert, the murderer who escaped from jail at Washington with Bill Edson and others, is behind the bars again. He was captured by half a dozen young men at the home of a relative in the city. He was surprised and could make no resistance. Since being locked up he acts like a maniac. His trial probably w, : X not be resumed before the next term oi court.

Within Our Border*. In a wreck on the Broad Ripple and Indianapolis Electric road near Broad Ripple one man was killed and nine badly injured. Alma and Ada Kilgas, 10 and 8 years old, near 'Reynolds, were drowned by stepping into a washout while crossing a field covered with water. The Marion City Council passed a resolution declaring the Union- Traction Company’s franchise forfeited. Sult for $50,000 damages will be filed. Archer Wade, 23 years of age, shot and fatally wounded James Owens at Martinsville. It is alleged that Owens was jealous of Wade’s attentions to his wife. After having roamed the streets as an insane person, and doing many things of a disgraceful nature, Joseph Winters, a glass blower of Anderson, suddenly regained his reason. He was so mortified when told of his actions that he said he would kill himself, and he did so by deliberately stepping in front of a Pennsylvania train at Renner. Jack Winters of Jacksonville, 111., made a balloon ascension at Lafayette. His parachute did not come loose and he clung to the balloon until he struck the ground. He was not fatally hurt. An unsuccessful attempt was made to kidnap Ethel, the 10-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Paris of Vincennes. A man, whose description cannot be given, raised the window at the side of the child’s bed and lifted her out. She screamed and the would-be kidnaper dropped her and ran. There Is -no clew to his identity. Hiram Glissom, a wealthy farmer near Goshen, unmarried, aged about 50 years; was attacked by burglars, his home ransacked, and when be refused to state where his money was hidden he was gagged and bound and locked in a bedroom.: Glissom managed to crawl to the bedroom window and, although his hands were tied behind his back, he finally managed to open it and fell out. He was but scantily, clad and it was raining hearily at the time.. Hopping with tied feet,, Mr. Glissom finally reached the house o£ a neighbor a quarter of a mile distant,; who released Glissom and provided him with clothes. The robbers left no clew but. Baltimore and Ohio Railroad lanterns. I Mrs. Lydia Pullom, agent for the Monarch Book Company of Chicago, attempted suicide in a Muncie department store by taking chloroform and laudanum upon hearing that her husband was fatally injured in a railroad wreck at St. Louis.! There was a disastrous wreck on the Cincinnati, Richmond and Muncie Railroad at Isocost Grove. An excursion train carrying Lutherans to a picnic col-* tided with a freight train. August Kamp, Jr., a passenger on the excursion trains was caught and fatally crushed, dying In, twenty minutes. Several others wen injured.