Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1902 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. ) \V Farmer Slays Wife for Talking About Him—Girl Whips a New Richmond Man—Train Gets Safely Off a Collapsing Bridge. *>hn Sterrenburg, aged 52 years, formerly of Chicago, shot and kilted his wife in Marion, and when found hidden in a com field three hours later turned a revolver against bis own head and inflicted a serious wound. The officers'had some difficulty in preventing a lynching, us liie mob was restless at the time of the murderer’s capture. When Sterrenburg reached the jail and had been revived with stimulants he was told that he had killed his wife. To this he replied that he was glad, as it had been his intention to do so. He said he had intended so cut out his wife’s tongue and had taken a sharp butcher knife to bed with him for that purpose, but she was restless and did not sleep and he was not given the opportunity. He said she had talked scandalously about him and lectured him and this was the reason he had killed her. The woman was shot three times in the back and ran nearly half a mite; to a neighbor's, where she died an hour After the shooting. The husband died later of hemorrhage of the brain. Presence of Mind Saves 500 Lives. Nearly five hundred passengers who were aboard a train on tiie Wabash road narrowly escaped a wreck and death near Clark station. A short distance out of Clark thes Wabash crosses the Grand Calumet raver over a huge trestlework bridge. Some repairs had been made c-n the structure only recently, and it was considered perfectly safe, track walkers having just patroled the bridge before the Wabash limited left Clark station. As -the train, haring aboard nearly 500 souls, reached the middle of the structure that spanned the Calumet the engineer Heard the cracking of timbers as the middle span of the bridge sank beneath his engine. He opened the throttle to the farthest limit, and the train fairly leaped from the swaying trestlework. Postmaster Whipped by Girl. Miss Virginia Dewey, the 18-year-old daughter of a prominent New Richmond physician, entered the postofflee at that village and, white J. W. Holland, the postmaster, had his hack turned, drew a big whip and administered a terrible whipping. Holland did not attempt to escape or retaliate. When Miss Dewey finished she walked out of the office to a justice’s office and paid her fine. The whipping was determined on by the girl as the only way to avenge insults which Holland is alleged to have offered to Miss Dewey and three others in New Richmond. Holland is married and is a leading politician. Note for Missions Valid. ' A note for SI,OOO payable to Mrs. Mary Woodworth, an evangelist of the Church of God, for the furtherance of religious work in La Porte, was held to be valid by the Appellate Court. Mrs. Mary J. Vinson had executed the note and the payment was contested by the administrator of Mrs. Vinson’s estate on the ground that the note was not given for a legitimate debt. The ruling is a precedent. Trainer Attacked by a Lion. Dick Dekenzo was attacked by Nero, the big lion with a wild animal show, at the close of an exhibition at Terre Haute. The lion inflicted frightful gashes on Dekenzo’s back, hands and legs. Only the prompt action of attendants saved the trainer’s life. The spectators were stampeded, and a number were bruised in the wild rush for the exit. Brief Btate Happenings. Edward Stinkard, a boy, was killed at the Hoosier quarry, Bedford, by a falling stone. A workman had his leg broken ut the same time. „ The safe in the office of the Charles Hamer Lumber Company at Green town was wrecked by burglars. No money was secured, but a package of notes valued at $750 was taken. Vandaiia passenger train No. 8, east bound, and passenger train No. 21, west bound, collided at Reelsville, completely demolishing both engines. Two were killed and a number hurt. While temporarily insane over religion, Mrs. John C. Ice of Bruceville arose from her bed, said the Lord had commanded her to kill herself, set fire to her -light dress and burned to death. Royal Hero, the champion bull of 1800, owned by W. T. Miller & Sons of Winchester, became so disabled from paialysis that it had to be killed. The Millers had refused $5,000 for the animal. The home of Isaac Shipley, five miles west of Nashville, was totally destroy."! by fire. Shipley nnd his wife were awakened by fire falling on their bed, und they barely escaped from the house. The body of Mrs. James T. Kelly (Ida Carter), leading woman of the King PingPong theatrical company, who was drowned in the Ohio river, has been found twenty-five miles from Jeffersonville. Jacob Jones was fatally scalded while cleaning a boiler at the American rolling mill at Muncie. He had crawled inside when another workman, not knowing he waa in the boiler, turned on the steam. Burglars robbed the hardware atorc of J. E. Daria in Salem of S2OO worth of stock,- including guns, revolvers and cutlery. They took clothing nnd shoes to the value of SSO from the general store of Hervet & Clark. The Republic Iron and Steel Company’s mill in East Chicago has been reopened, President Schaffer of tha Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers having ordered the striking puddlers to return to work. The strikers ot»eyed the order of their chief. William Layman of Chesterton, in attempting to shoot a dog shot his wife, inflicting fatal wounds. The Indiana Association of Baptlats, in session at Muncie, re-elected Rev. T. J. Villen of Indianapolis president At Fountain. William O’lMen shot at his wife, and David Murray, who attempted to protect her. waa fatally wounded by one of the bullets. I Mrs. William Hharits and three daughten of Union City were injured hi a runaway, Mn. Sharila dangerously. The hone ran against a tree and waa Instantly HUM.