Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1902 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Sacrificed Her Life to Save Her Child —Couple Married in Dark HoneaElectric Hoads in Prospect—Utica Women Make Improvements. ’ j ' - 7 ' In order to save her 2-year-old child from a horrible death in their burning home, Mrs. Maude Cross of Marion rushed into the flames and rescued the little one at the cost of her own life. The fire was caused by a gas explosion which blew out two sides of the home and hurled Mrs. Cross into the yard. She was dazed, but thinkipg only of her child rushed back into the house, Where her escape was cut off by the flames. Having secured the babe she wrapped it in her clothing at the sacrifice of herself and remained in the burning building until rescued by her husband and a brother, who were both painfully but not dangerously burned. Mrs. Cross died. The child was burned but little. - Wedding Ceremony in Dark. A wedding was performed under strange conditions in a home in Irvington, a suburb of Indianapolis, the cdremony taking place in total darkness. The bridegroom was Arthur G. Cooper, a merchant, and the bride was Miss Bessie Greenwell, a student attending Butler College. The young people had learned that the college students proposed a series of pranks at the wedding, and to avoid this the time of the event was changed. A few intimate friends were invited and the minister was slipped into the house by a rear entrance. There was not a light in the entire house. Car Line for Michigan City. There is renewed interest in electric railway building in northwestern Indiana. A new city system is projected at Michigan City. The interurban line between Michigan City and Laporte is in course of construction out of both Michigan City and Laporte, and will be completed within a few months. The line now being built between South Bend and Benton Harbor is progressing rapidly, and it is claimed cars will be running this fall. This line will touch Niles and several other towns, and when completed will be one of the most important trolley lines in northwestern Indiana. Big Merger of Cycle Companies. The plants of the Sherman Cycle Company and the Manson Cycle Company of Chicago have been merged with the Great Western Manufacturing Company of Laporte and will be removed to the latter city. The Great Western Company was formed some years ago by the merging of the bicycle plants of the David Bradley and Adams & Westlake companies of Chicago and the Crown bicycle works of Laporte. In-magnitude the Great Western company is second in the country, being eclipsed only by the American Bicycle Company, now in the hands of receivers. Women Clean Up the Town. The women of Utica, growing weary of waiting for the men to make needed improvements, formed themselves into a committee under the leadership of Mrs. Leon Merrell and literally cleaned the town. The sidewalks had been washed away by heavy spring rains and the streets were lined with weeds. The women built over, a mile of sidewalk and then cut down the weeds.

All Over the State, In a wreck near Clinton on the Chicago and Eastern Illinois one man was killed. Mrs. Elizabeth Lawrence of Royerton, aged 99 years, died at the minute she predicted she would die. Dean R. L. Kelly of Earlham College, Richmond, has been elected acting president owing to the serious illnesi of President Mills. Burglars entered the home of William Everett, an old and crippled peanut vender at Muncie, and stole SIOB that he had saved to buy food and fuel during the coming winter. A bold attempt was made to rob the Exchange Bank at Middlebury, owned by J. S, Mather & Son, but the robbers were frightened away after shattering the outer door of the vault. Mrs. William Depew of Bloomington went away from home and left her 2-year-old child in -charge of its grandfather. The old man went to sleep and the child fell from the porch head first into a bucket of water. It was found dead by its mother about fifteen minutes afterward. •An anarchist of Turkish birth began a lecture on the streets of Warsaw and barely missed being lynched by a crowd of several thousand. The man made bold and treasonable assertions. The entire police force was called into service and with difficulty locked the fellow up for safe keeping. As result of the recent crusade against saloons, Rev. George W. Martin of Gaston was assaulted and badly beaten by Alva Rathe], whose father and brother conduct a saloon. The preacher was getting the better of Rathcl when the letter’s brother took a hand. Bystanders 'stopped the fight. The Baptist District Council has terminated a session at Martinsville In which charges were formally preferred against Rev. William J. Delaney, formerly pastor of the church there, now of Indianapolis. He was accused of having collected money towafd building a new church, now in process of construction, and appropriating it, with having sold books and collected for them and not delivering the books, and of falsifying the accounts of the church. Mr. Delaney wrote a letter to the council convened and confessed to all three charges. He begged pardon of all offended and asked for mercy. John 8. Williams, master mechanic, was instantly killed by the breaking of a traveler at the Norton Reed quarry at Bedford. James Pearl, engineer, was badly injured. ; Gus Peterson, a workman at x the Republic Iron and Steel Works, was instantly killed at East Chicago by .falling from a scaffolding while repairing a smokestack. Miss Daisy Strickler, daughter of ona of the wealthiest business men of Franklin, eloped from her home to Paris, IIL, where she was married to N. M. Lacey, an attorney of Macon, Mo.