Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1902 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. • ’ xgjg Jonesboro Hiph School Burned by Incendiaries—Goshen Milliner Files Petition in Bankruptcy—Heir to Large Fortune Is Killed.

The Jonesboro High School buildipg was destroyed by fife at an early hour Saturday morning and it is the supposition that a number of boys, ranging in age from 12 to 16 years, who disliked to attend school, set the building on fire. The loss was $40,000. A few days ago James Merriman, a 12-year-old boy, ret tire to the structure, but the blaze was discovered before any damage was Jone. Merriman escaped and left the city. It is known that the fire was of incendiary origin and it is thought, although the officials have not yet secured the names, that those who committed the arson are companions of Merriman who were in sympathy with him in their dislike for schools. ' - Woman Goes Bankrupt. Rather unusual is the sight of a business woman entering the federal bankruptcy court. Chloe E. Domer of Goshen is perhaps the first woman to seek relief from creditors in the district of northern Indiana. She has filed a petition before Federal Referee Lambert. She is a milliner. Her liabilities are $7,693, while the assets are S3OO. Death Comes with Fortune. Engineer Cunningham of Terre Haute, who died the other day as the result of injuries received in a wreck on the Vandalia road, was one of twq heirs to $200,000. The other heir was his brother, a conductor. The two men had just come into possession of their inheritance and were soon to have quit railroading. -- . Treasurer's Shortage Made Good. John B. Rose, ex-treasurer of the city of Wabash, who left Sept. 1, short sll,000, and who returned voluntarily, was arrested by Sheriff Stewart. Rose and his relatives have practically made good the loss. State Items of Interest. Quarantine has been raised on last case of'smallpox at Burkett. Forest Young captured a large American eagle near Shelbyville. At Collins a horse kicked John Sisley and fractured his collar bone. Newton Carrell pleaded guilty to beating his wife at Columbus and paid $15.50 for the fun. Rev. F. W. Schmunk of Sparta, 111., accepted pastorate of Milroy Presbyterian Church. . ftfrl Rose, 28, well-known young man, formerly of College Corner, is dead at Connersville. In Hartford City burglars ransacked the store of Sam Ferrell and robbed the cash register.

Samuel S. Stratton, formerly of Richmond, now of Chicago, was run down in Chicago and killed. Center farmers have formed an organization for the. purpose of husking com and hulling clover. Olive Hill has been ordered discontinued by the Postoffice Department at Washington. Several successful gas wells have been drilled at Cadiz, showing that there is yet plenty of gas in Henry County. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Reese taken to the LgPorte County asylum. Mr. Roose is 95 years old and his wife is 107. Archibald Robertson, 49, drowned near Clinton. Attempted to cross a swollen stream and current took him under a barb wire fence. Mrs. Charles Tate and Mrs. Calmer engaged in a spirited pugilistic encounter on the street in Sullivan. Each claims decided victory. Daleville citizens circulated remonstrances and secured forty more names than necessary to defeat application for renewed license of the three saloonkeepers there. The final papers for the transfer of the candy manufacturing plants of Daggett & Co. and the Nicholls-Krull Company of Indianapolis to the National Candy Company have been signed. Mrs. Simon Small of Wheeler died from the effects of lightning. She eras standing at the window when the building was struck by’ lightning. She was knocked senseless and never recovered from the shock. Lawrence Stephens, 22, of Mitchell, went to the home of his uncle, Charles Stephens, to discuss an old trouble. A quarrel ensued in which both used revolvers with the result that young Stephens was shot in the head and perhaps fatally wounded. Jacob Williams of Salem, 44, probably the tallest man in the State, married Miss Ella Meadors of Washington County. Williams is seven feet six inches tall, and has refused several lucrative offers from museums and shows. His wife is short and stout. James Arthur, a night watchman, was seized by white cappers while making his rounds nt the Milmore mines near Sullivan, tied to a tree and severely whipped with hickory switches. The white cappers accused Arthur of abusing his wife. The charge is denied by friends of Arthur. James Merriman. 15 years of age, set a public school building on fire at Marion localise lie did not wish to attend school. The building contained over 400 pupils, but the tire drill practiced by the children prevented a panic and they escaped without injury. The fire was in a cloakroom, the contents of which were destroyed. Superintendent Adams captured the boy, who acknowledged having fired the building. Merriman was allowed to go home. When an officer went there to arrest him the boy had left the town. H. F. Watson, an old soldier, was struck by a mail pouch -thrown from a Pennsylvania train at Amboy, and bad his shoulder dislocated. A stick of dynamite wns found under a bridge near St. Paul. The fuse which was attached to the stick was partly burned. A few days ago an attempt was matb to blow up a hotel at St. Paul. The livery barn and undertaking establishment of J. L. Sella at Elwood was burned. Mr. Sella was overcome by smoke while trying to rescue a horse and is in a serious condition. The load 1* >B.OOO, insurance >3.000.