Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1902 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. “Kras” Cartridge Figure* In an Elkhart Romance—Chief of Police Driven Holy Ohoetitea from Evansville— Work of Ligiitning'a Deadly Bolte* The engagement of Miss Ruby Oliver of Elkhart' to Roy Dilley of Nebraska has been announced. Dilley was a soldier in the Philippines, and when his battalion went through Elkhart one day last Angust en route to Buffalo for discharge he threw from a car window a “Krag" cartridge wrapped in a bit of paper which bore his name and address and a request that the finder write to him. Miss Oliver chanced to pick it up, and in a spirit of schoolgirl adventure complied with the request. Correspondence developed that led to an exchange of photographs, and a few weeks ago Dilley came to Elkhart to press his suit for the young woman’s hand. Sect Ordered Ont. f Chief of Police Fred Henke has given notice to the Holy Ghostites at Evansville that they must not longer hold religious worship within the corporate limits of the city. Several weeks ago several eAfers of this negro faftii went there from the South and rented a building in Baptistown, a negro settlement •in the eastern part of the city. These worshipers take the Bible in its literal sense, and when sickness overtakes their members they refuse to call in a physician and the eiders anoint the patients with olive oli. Court Let* Ex-Wife Keep S4OO. A queer suit was decided at Kokomo by Judge De Haven. M. S. Goldberry sued his divorced wife to recover S4OO he had given her. Goldsberry claimed that whenever he came home intoxicated he gave bis wife all the money he had. As these occasions were frequent the gifts amounted to S4OO. Later Goldsberry regretted his generosity and sued to recover. Stunned by Lightning. During a severe electrical storm lightning struck a tree standing within a few feet of the Residence of John Turner, seven miles northeast of Nashville. Members of the family were sitting on the porch when the tree was struck, and all received shocks which rendered them unconscious for some time. Buried His Coin. Before death, Albert Rees, a farmer living near Redkey, buried considerable coin on his farm. Search has been made for it, and a bag was found containing $4. Drowned in Cistern. William, the 5-year-old son of Mrs. Mary Eve, fell into a cistern and was drowned, at the family home, four mile* porth of New Albany. Ftate News in Brief. z The Soft-soap Club of Muncie will slip through. , Two cases of smallpox have developed south of Princeton. John Pizer, a Vanderburgh County farmer, was perhaps fatally gored by a bull. Lash Bedwell, a farmer of Sullivan County, died while sitting at the dinner ’table. Samuel Bastel, aged 48, was killed by lightning at Vatpffrfiisd during a heavy storm. A bank has been established at Woodburn. The officers and stockholders are Mennonites. It is believed that copper ore has been found on the farm of Albert Holderman, near Elkhart. At Aurora three young men were drowned in the Ohio River by the capsizing of a sail boat. At Wabash lightning struck the home of Peter Brechner, wrecking the house auu shocking Brechner. The two distilleries at Terre Haute have been compelled to increase their output to meet the demand. While her mother was washing little lola Gardner, of Stanford, pulled a boiler from the stove, scalding her so severely that she died soon after.

Mrs. Lon Holmes, of Gas City, was killed at Decatur by attempting to jump from a fast moving Toledo, St. Louis and Western excursion train. .Nicholas Theodore, a Chicago photographer, drowned in Bass Lake, by the capsizing of a sailboat. Four persons who were with him were rescued. Thirty-two pigeons of the Mishawaka Homing Clubs flew from Winona, Miss., to Mishawaka, a distance of 000 miles, in thirty-two hours. They were in rain nearly all the time. Bartlett Martin, timekeeper for 800 men at the Terre Haute car works, was caught with a pocketful of pay envelopes for fictitious names on the pay roll. He admits that he baa stolen Ed Hornbeck, one of the guards at Greensboro, whose duty it is to keep back the smallpox refugees of Knightstown, accidentally shot himself in the leg, making a hole large enough to hide a rat. At Winslow, George Spradlin and Milford Hurt, young men, captured two young girls in an orchard taking fruit. They proceeded to whip the girls with switches. The young men were arrested. While searching for his cattle in the woods a few days ago Albert Lee, a Marshall County farmer, noticed a spot where the dirt was freshly dug up. On investigation he found a full set of counterfeiting tools, molds, and coins in dcnom’nations from a quarter up to one dollar. These coins have been circulated quite freely of late around Bremen. The outfit was turned over to the Sheriff. Secret service men are in the neighborhood investigating. Near Newburg, in Warrick County, Willianl Woods and Jacob Damm quarreled at a dance. Woods stabbed Damm with a knife. The assailant escaped. The fight was witnessed by fifty people. Friends of Rev. William E. Hinshaw, who continue to declare him innocent of the murder of his wife in Belleville in January of 1895, are hopeful of a turn in events that will clear him of the dark stain upon his life. Many are of the opinion that the mystery will be solved by the deathbed confession of the real murderer and that Mr. Hinshaw will regain, Ug freedom.