Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1902 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. iv -; T '" ' German Grocer Murdered by Robbers in South Bend—Terre Haute Churches Open Campaign Against Saloons— Murder Case at Evansville Ends. The negroes who murdered John M. Konnsman in his grocery at South Bend while trying to hold up the place, were Seen running toward the railroad tracks and it is supposed they escaped on a special freight train which went west on the Indiana, Illinois and lowa road abqut that time. Konnsman was ohe of the best known German residents of- South Bend. He was getting ready to close his store when the negroes entered and with drawn revolvers tried to hold him up. He resisted, fighting the robbers with a broom so fiercely that he succeeded in forcing them to the entrance of the store. Then, foiled in their design, they turned on him and fired three shots, which lodged in his, neck, left lung and just over the heart. Konnsman fell tp the floor dead. Widow Adopts a Physician. Mrs. J. S. Slick, an Indiana woman, and the widow of Judge Slick, who was once on the bench of the Forty-first Indiana Circuit and later a member of the Wabash Circuit bar, has adopted Dr. Woodruff, a practicing osteopathist, who formerly resided at Huntington. Mrs. Slick is 50 years old and Dr. Woodruff is 35. Mrs. Slick went into court and asked for authority to adopt him. The two have gone to California. Judge Slick was afflicted with paralysis for ten years. He died at Wabash three years agp. Dr. Woodruff was one of his physicians. The two were very dose friends. Mrs. Slick has considerable property. -—■ Begin War Aga nst Saloons. Sunday was set by the Terre Haute Ministers' Association for special tern- ‘ perance services, and several speakers were sent to the city by the State AntiSaloon League, but some of the churches refrained from participating because they fear that what was announced as an educational movement only will develop into an aggressive movement by the church against the saloons. Some of the ministers_gave the newspapers an assurance that nothing more than an educational effort was contemplated, but the chairman of the temperance committee stated that the services were fS lie the first step in an effort to enforce the saloon law. Murder Trial Ends Suddenly. The State has entered a nolle prosequi ‘ at Evansville in the ease against Wilbur S. Sherwell, ex-policeman, charged with the killing of Fannie Butler, a mulatto woman, after his trial had been under way for a couple of hours. Sherwell was tried last October for the murder of Mrs. Georgia Bailey, blit was found to be not guilty. He is now nt liberty under $5,000 bonds. The State will draw a motion very soon to quash the third and last indictment against the prisoner. The arrest of Policeman Sherwell, with the evidence that immediately accumulated thereafter, was the most sensational on record in southern Indiana. Fhow« Deficit of 913,100. The investigation conducted -by Elias Scott, deputy treasurer of Wabash County, into the books and accounts of John B. Rose, former city treasurer, was completed the other night . The result es the examination confirms the accuracy of the figures of Expert Cridley, who made an investigation a month ago in behalf of the city and found a shortage of 913,100. Rose, who aided in the second investigation, says he can account for $7,500 of the Poisoned Cider Almost Fatal. Cider which contained embalming fluid nearly caused the death of John Childs, H. M. Flint and William Nett. The men were cutting wood north of Kendallville when Mr. Hartman, a farmer, gave them some cider taken from a barrel which was once used by an undertaker to hold embalming fluid. Flint’s condition is critical. All Over the State. Fort Wayne Elks have temporarily abandoned building project. South Bend police have been ordered to smash all the slot machines. Fire did SIO,OOO damage to the newspaper plant of the Daily Truth at Elkhart, owned by C. G. Conn. Robbers blew open the safe of tfie • postoflice at Vevay, securing $340 in stamps and money-order blanks. Pearl La Follette, aged 13, died in Indianapolis as the result of a dose of carbolic acid given to her By mistake for a gargle. * W. H. Hickman, for six years chancellor of Depauw University, Greencastle, will tender his resignation and re-* enter the Methodist ministry. Mart Burhans, a wealthy clubman, was 'Shot twice by footpads. He was . driving in a desolate part of Elkhart when attacked. He was ordered to halt and did not do so. The wounds are serious and may prove fata). Mrs. Adelaide F. Allen, daughter of United States Senator Charles W. Fairbanks, was granted a divorce from her husband. Dr. Horace D. Allen, Jr,, hx Judge McMaster in Indianapolis, for failure to support .her cruelty. After a session lusting a'week the grand jury returned 104 indictments at Shoals. All the men named are charged with selling their votes at the last election. The names of the indicted men are not made known, as no arrests have been made. As soon as the warrants arc served the men will be placed under bonds to appear at the February term of court. i Reports received from the East say the Indiana bituminous coal combine fe off. The Rock Island crowd of financiers had been considering the organization of the combine for some weeks. Twice the combine was almost completed, but flurries «n the stock market interfered. working'boldly in Crawfordsville. Mr* at the point of