Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1902 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Bank Clerk Dies In Defense of TrustCoal Combination Does Not Materialise®—Young Lady Kills Herself—Fonr Paper Plants Bought. During a heroic battle in defense of the cash of the Weatville State Bank We»ley Reynolds was shot through the heart shortly before daylight Sunday morning by a member of a gdng of robbers. Previous to receiving his death wound ho had been shot through the head and again through the neck. Although one of the ballets causing these wounds shattered his chin, one tearing a big hole throngh to the base of the brain, while the other passed clear through his body, the faithful bank clerk fought on until he had emptied two revolvers in a vain effort to kill one or more of his four assailants. His bravery prevented the looting of the bank. The robbers, one believed to be badly wounded, fled from the scene of death. The citizens have offered a reward of SI,OOO for the arrest of the murderers. Reynolds was only 16 years old. Aside from being a trusted clerk he acted in the capacity of watchman, sleeping in the bank at night, with three revolvers within reach. Indiana Coal Trust Off. Indiana coal operators now" admit that, although the operations on the bituminous mines of the State ran until Jan. 1, the consolidated company will not be formed. When the leading operators went to New York recently to complete the deni with the Moore Brothers and the “Rock Island crowd,” who were to finance the enterprise, the scare was on in financial circles and the failure to form the company then was announced as due to the fact that the men who were to have done the financing were too much absorbed protecting other Interests* It now has become known that had there been no scare the scheme would not have gone through for two reasons: First, the operators were asking too much for their property; second, the operators were objecting to the plan by which they were to accept CO per cent in stock which the promoters were to water to the total of $25,000,000 and of which the promoters were to have what was held to be too large a proportion.

Lovers’ Quarrel la Fatal. “Dress me in black and place Will’s photograph in my left hand when you bury me,” said Hattie Larkin, the pretty 18-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Larkin of Marion, after she had taken twenty grains of morphine. Miss Larkin and William Gallapo, a young business man, were lovers, but quarreled because Miss Larkin went to a social function with another young man. Miss Larkin called at Gallapo’a place of business and told him she would like to talk to him, but he refused. She went home and took the paison. Doctors worked with her for severs] hours, but she died. Buys Four Paper Plants. Four big industries in Delaware County have gone under the control of the United Boxboard and Paper trust and mortgages aggregating $1,500,000 were filed. The officials of the plants say they will be operated steadily. The merged plants are West “M uncle Strawboard works, Paragon Paper mills at Eaton, Ah bany Strawboard works at Albany and Consumers’ Paper Company at Muncie. Find Evidence of Murder. Edward Buisking was found dead near Gem. A post-mortem revealed a fracture at the base of the skull and a cut on the left side of the chin. In company with four young men from Indianapolis, Buisking had been out hunting. His gun lay empty three feet from his body. Murder is suspected and an investigation is being made. Robbed of Gems Daring Reception. Thieves entered the sleeping apartment of Miss Deetta Carry of Homewood and carried away her jewel box containing valuable diamond solitaires and several other gems. The robbery was committed during a reception given to a party of young people at the house. The police have searched in vain for a clew.

Brief State Happening* Valparaiso is in the lead for the 1903 meeting of the State Y. M. C. A. In Richmond a fine new business block is to be erected by J. M. Westcott Emil Erickson, aged 19 years, of Chicago, was killed by a train at Crissman. The Supreme Court has enjoined Ijlast Chicago from paying water renta, on the ground that the transfer of the water works was void. At Elston Mrs. John Grant narrowly escaped death from being trampled on by a cow. Mrs. Grant was severely injured before she was rescued. Two men, supposed to be E. W. Pollock and Marion Pierson of Bridgeport, were found dead in their room at the Arlington Hotel in Indianapolis. Death was caused by escaping gas. The gas jets were turned on and the gas waa escaping when the men were discovered. Gov. Durbin has appointed Patrick O’Brien of South Bend a member of the board of managers of the State prison at Michigan City to succeed E. H. Nebeker. Charles Major of Shelby was appointed a member of the board of trustees of Purdue University to sucetod William H. O’Brien. James O. Parker, now president of the Ohio Valley Trust Company, Evansville, who was counsel for Rev. William B. Hinshaw, now serving life sentence for wife murder seven years ago, claims to have proof that the prisoner la Innocent. He has been working privately on the case ever since and has traced a small cameo ring worn by. Mrs. Hinshaw at the time she was murdered to ’Kid” Whitney, a well-known criminal. Norral Wright, aged 40, formerly of the depot force for the Pennsylvania company in Chicago, fell under a freight train east of Fort Wayne and his akoll was crushJß. The Grove Oity Oil and Gas Company of Chicago has purchased of Bluffton oil men leases on 550 acres in Chester township for SOO,OOO. The property has thirty producing wells. • Through the death of hie sister, Mrs. Elisa McGwire of Galveston, Texas, James Creason, aged 84, an inmate of the Kokomo poor house, has fallen heir to a fortune of $50,000