Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1902 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTB OF THE PAST WEEK. Whltecapa Active In Brown and Monroe Count lee—A Girl of IS Blopes with « Youth of 10-A Murderer Hanged at Michigan City. *77# Edna Colson and Elizabeth Rush wert beaten severely at Maple Heights, near Bloomington, by a gang of eelf-atyled “regulators,” who havft ‘ Wfaitecapped twenty-four persona In Brown and Monroe counties within the last year. The Governor and other State officers are taking steps to furnish protection and break the gang up. The Attorney General has written to a former victim of a whitecapping outrage in the county, who had appealed to him for protection, that If he was threatened again or heard of any other person being threatened to shoot and shoot to kill and he would defend the shooter from the charge of murder. Leave* School to Marry. Eulalia Anthony, a 15-year-old school girl, eloped with Carl Baxter, 19 years old, and they were married at Paris, 111. The girl is the daughter of George Anthony, a coal operator at Jessnp. The parents of both had been aware of the purpose of the young people to be married and when they were seen going west from Rosedale in n buggy telephone communication was established with several county seats In Indiana to prevent the issuing of a marriage license. The couple drove twenty-five miles to Paris and afterward took a train for Indianapolis. Woman Buea Gambler*. Mrs. J. 0. Hassler of Muncie has filed another batch of suits against local owners of gambling houses for the recovery of money alleged to have been lost by her husband. Mrs. Hassler, whose husband ls~prominent in railway circles, alleges that he has lost thousands of dollars in gambling. She threatened to bring leading business men into the case a* witnesses, claiming to have their names. The suits aggregate $5,000 and are against prominent saloon men. Negro Murderer Hanged. Louis Russell, who shot and killed Perry Stout near Princeton last April, expiated his crime upon the gallows of the State prison at Michigan City. The body was cut down nine minutes after the drop fell and prepared for shipment to Princeton to Russell’s widow, who is a white woman. Russell and his victim, whom he stabbed t a dance, were both colored. The prisoner expressed regret for the crime, but was not overwrought. Guilty of Giving Poison. Margin Collier, charged with the wholesale poisoning of his family, consisting of a wife and two babies, and also several boarders, was found guilty at Bedford. His only plea in court was insanity, although a Jury found him of sound mind a few days before. He was sentenced by Judge Alexander to an indeterminate sentence of from three to fourteen years in the penitentiary at Michigan City. Girl Is Fatally Burned. The 5-year-old daughter of MQton Carter of Pleasant township was fatally burned, her clothes taking fire from coal oil which she had put on wood to start the fire. The little girl, with her dress ablaze, ran screaming into the yard and was caught by her father, who extinguished the flames, j : * Candidate Kills Himself. Austin Travis, a school teacher and candidate for county surveyor on the Democratic ticket of Benton County, committed suicide by hanging himself in an icehouse at Otterbeiu. Brief State Happenings, Rev. E. O. Ellis bas headed a movement to raise a $20,000 monument for Fairmont Academy, Richmond. At Amboy pieces of bills amounting to S4OO were found on street and bankers pronounced them genuine. It is a mystery how they came there. Ebben L. Risk, 28 years old, of Cincinnati, committed suicide by swallowing carbolic acid in Riverside Park at Anderson, because Francett Girard, an actress of Indianapolis, refused to marry him. James Kennedy, a plasterer, whose home was in Cincinnati, was found dead on a scaffold only two feet wide on the second floor of the new Claypool hotel building in Indianapolis. He died of heart failure.—" Paul Domenito of Hebron met death in a peculiar manner. He was standing near the railroad track with a crowbar oq his shoulder. A passing locomotive struck one end of the bar with such force as to break his neck. In a fire at the home of Mrs. Anna Becker at Michigan City Leonard Becker, the 2-yeac-old child of Mrs. Becker, was burned to death. The mother, while trying to rescue the child, was horribly burned and may not recover. Fearing that her husband was hopelessly ill of fever, Mrs. Perry Rentfrow, aged 35 yeurs, of Muncie, left her home, husband and small children, going to the home of her parents, where she shot herself through the heart, death following immediately. *f.~. At the national office of the Federation of Window Glass companies in Muncie the federation sold to the American Window Glass Jobbers’ Association 400,000 boxes of glass for a consideration of sl,400,000. This is one of the largest window glass deals ever made. Mrs. Arthur Wrightman of South Bend has been in Plymouth in search of her little son, who was kidnaped. The boy was traced to Elkhart, where all clews were lost. Mrs. Wrightman tbluks that her husband, from whom she is separated, lias the boy and will take him to Urbana, Ohio, where he has relatives. Johh W. Street, who came to Evansville recently from Mt. Vernon, 111., was placed on trial on the charge of beating a board bill of $1.25. He testified that he was 98 years old, and the father of thirty-two children, all of whom are girls. Twelve of them, he said, are dead. Most of the others arc at home. He said he had a hard time supporting them. Justice Thoming, in whose court the case came up, dismissed him. Hudson Autler, his wife and five children of Vincennes were brought near to death ss a result of eating beans an