Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1903 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. , '•'infill Callings of Members of Present Legle* latnre—Evansville Jurist end Brother Break Down When Accused—Will 1 . Jtoeck Windaw Gloss Factorjr. That lawyers make our laws is indicated in the composition of the preseat Legislature, which Is as followa: The House of Representatives stands as follows: Thirty-three lawyers, 24 farmer*/ 10 merchants, 2 physicians, 3 miners, 3 contractors, 2 millers, 2 * preachers, 2 bankers and one each of the following: Editor, cigarmaker, grain dealer, glass worker, teacher, civil engineer, machinist and author. In the-Senate there are 19 lawyers, 9 farmers, 4 bankers, 2 real estate dealers, 2 manufacturers, 2 editors, 3 physicians, 1 lodge organizer and 1 miner. There were 17 Republicans and l» Democrats who served in the last General Assembly re-elected. In the Senate only 2 were re-elected. Break Dowa Under Chargee. Judge- Louis O. Rasch of the Vanderburg Circuit Court and Edward H. Rasch,. his brother, are at their home In Evansville in a state of collapse. Judge .Rasch was charged with having accepted money from men he appointed in office, and when the facts were published he broke down and took to bls bed. His brother surrendered the office of County Recorder after having served eight years and collapsed while in his office. Physicians are at the bedside of the brothers and their friends are alarmed over their condition. ■ It is understood the Rasch matter is now in the bands of 6ov.’ Durbin. Workmen to Fight Trust. Workingmen in the gas belt held a meeting in Muncie and subscribed several thousand dollars toward a fund with-, which to erect a mammoth glass plant in Muncie to fight the window glass combine. Local capitalists will supply the remainder of the'capital and the workingmen xv-ill build and conduct the plant. Building operations will be started in the spring. Blinded by Gas. George Fisher and his 15-year-old daughter, May, of Decatur, have been stricken totally blind. They slept in a room with the gas burning. The gas came on strong during the night, and, it is supposed, the burnt gas fumes affected their eyes. Physicians are much puzzled over the case.' Whether the blindness , will be permanent cannot be told. Can Trust Buys Indianapolis Plant. The American Tin Can Company, the tin can, trust, has bought the Indianapo-' lis Tin Can Company’s large plant in that city, and the ptArtt may be closed. The tin can trust now controls all but three of the tin can companies in the country. It is controlled by Daniel G. Reid of Richmond, and the Leeds-Moore crowd of financiers.

Bridegroom Is JFatally Hurt. Wiljjgm Mooter was struck by a car bn the "Union ’traction line at Linwood antj so badly injured that he cannot recover. He is a wealthy farmer nine miles ntorth of Elwood and had gone to Anderson to gei a marriage license. He was to have been married the same evening. _• • —j .......A All Over the State. Electrical workers of Indianapolis have strnek for an increase in wages from 32% to 40 cents an hour. By the falling of a slate roof in the Seller-McClellahd & Cb’.'a mine at Brazil Charles Everett was crushed .to death. William McAlpin, aged 34 years, fell off the depot platform at Hebron and a passing Panhandle train crushed him to death. , .George A. (Charles, county treasurer, says that t/ie tax rate bn SIOO will be $3.60, the highest rate ever in Orange County. George Mayer of Mecca killed himselLThe news so shocked his mother that she died of hear{ failurg. and the funeral of both took place Monday. D. D. Price, for many years agent of the American Express Company at Kokomo, has been made the company’s agent at Grand Rapids, Mich. Kerlin Bnotherq’ large natural gas pumping station at Hartford City Was burned. The loss is $25,000. The patrons are without fuel and suffering. Cgrrie. W«chsmuth .of.. Evansville, 27, committed suicide by taking “rough on rule.” She was despondent because her mother Had forbidden her to receive the attentions if a young man. Golden Hadley was pinioned to the bottom of the Collins coal mine at Brazil, by a heavy fall of slate. He was frightfully mangled, but wat able to speak a few words to his rescuers before he died. " * Hampton West, nged 65 years, a farmer living (south of Noblesville, was arrested on the charge of stealing the bodies of Ralph Brecken and Walter Mansbip frotp the Bea ver ; cemetery, nine miles southeast of Noblesville. The 12,000 Indiana miners have gone back to the mines; the prolonged holiday being over and the supply of cars sufficient to give all (s’prk'fbr at least half the weqkr The operators believe the car supply will be better from this time on. The South Bend branch of the X. M. C. A. has formally accepted the generous gift of a hom<* k which th* Studebaker Brothers Manufacturing Company ly decided to make to the local association. John M. Studebaker will expend $200,000 in the erection of a fine modem Y. M. C. A. building with every up-to-date convenience to make it a model home for thfe association and a monument to the donors. The site is<yalued at $60,000, making the sum total of the gift over a quartek of a million. Notwithstanding the general discnsslon of the coal shortage In December the 'lndiana output in that month was 10 per cent larger than In December a year ago. Taylor Browning,' aged 18 years, shot twice at Mies Ernestine Arnold, who was passing on the other side of the street in Terre Haute, but missed her. Patrolman Went end orff called on him to surrender and he replied with a shot. Starting for closer range, a second shot hit thq policeman in the leg and then the officer Bred and struck Browning In the brahst. a filial wound being averted by the bullet laMing through a package of papers.