Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1903 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Anti* Liquor War at Winatow—Kokomo Maids to Beak Happiness in North Dakota—Steel Workers to Take Trust Stock—Suicide of Merchant. : A reign of terror prevails in the town of Winslow ns a result of a contest between the temperance people and the saloon men. Houses have been blown up, citizens assaulted and beaten "fit day and night ip the streets, and one murder is attributed to the anti-liquor war. At present the town is patrolled by a large force of deputies appointed by the marshal. The residence of John McConnell whs wrecked by a charge of dynamite. A saloon' man who had been refused a license met McConnell in the street and assaulted him. Lawrence Goff, the town marshal, while attempting to make an arrest, was pounced upon and injured seriously. The drug store of F. J. Fenton was blown into the air and surrounding buildings were damaged. The more active of the temperance workers maintain a close guard around their homes during the day and night. Arthur White, a prominent league worker of Princeton, was assassinated while changing cars at Hazelton. lie was standing on the station platform when an unknown person shot him five times. T

Girls to Go Miles for Men. Forty-eight Kokomo and Howard County girls ore making preparations to start to Rugby, N. D., to become wives of men they have never seen. Several weeks ago J. R. Walters, formerly of Kokomo, now a resident of North Dakota, wrote a letter to a Kokomo paper stating that there were 500 bachelors near Rugby wanting wives. As a result Walters received nearly one hundred letters from young women of Kokomo offering to go there and marry their share of the lonely bachelors. The names of the women were given the Dakota men, and correspondence was opened, the young women being willing to take chances on securing good husbands with quarter sections of land. The girls are making preparations for the journey, and will go in a body if rates can, be secured. Steel Employes to Take Stock. Iron, steel and tinplate 'workers in the Indiana mills of the United States Steel Corporation, at their regent meetings reconsidered the profit-sharing plan of the steel corporation and will take some,of the $2,000,000 worth of preferred stock. Tinplate workers of Anderson have prepared their applications for stock. Subscriptions will be made by the men in mills in Anderson and at Muncie, Elwood, Gas City and Terre Haute. Of the 0,000 men in the steel corporation Indiana plants, about one-fourth will take corporation stock, being advised that it will not affect their positions or future wage schedules.

Injunction Against Strikers. Judge Anderson of the federal court lias granted a temporary restraining order against the striking employes of the Kockwood Manufacturing Company in Indianapolis, to be in effect until such time ns shall be set for n final hearing, For several months a strike has been on at the Itockwood plant, and the owner* charge that men who hare been willing to work have been intimidated and assaulted by strikers.

Indiana Merchant Ends Life. B. F. Cohee, a wealthy dry goods merchant, was found'hanging in his woodhouse at Frankfort. He had been a sufferer from nervous prostration for several weeks, but had apparently about recovered. When he left his bed he told Mrs. Cohee he was going to kindle the fires. Temporary insanity is the only explanation. Alleged Forger Brought Back. Thomas Dunn, Vincennes chief of police, returned from Bastrop, Texas, having in his charge John Selby, who is wanted for forgery. Selby's alleged forgeries on prominent people amount to nearly $15,000. All Over the State. William Holliday, a Civil War veteran at Brookville, was found dead in bed, fully dressed. Levi Huffman, a miller of Wheeler, was caught in a belt, drawn to the ceiling and fell to the floor, dying instantly. Mrs. Mary Forba Cobb of Kussiaville celebrated her one hundred and first birthday. Her father was a captain in Gen. Washington's army. State Senator I). L. Crumpacker of Laporte County will introduce a bill in the Legislature to establish whipping posts for the punishment of wife beaters and wife deserters.

Affidavits have been filed against William Tobin and George Cunningham, of the Muncie polo team, who engaged in a fist fight during a game a few dayo ago. They are charged with assault and battery. 1 In Elkhart the jun In the case of Dr. llnrry Gulmyer returned a verdict finding Gulniyer guilty ><f assault intent to kill. The penally Is gn indeterminate term of from two to fourteen years in State's prison. A motion for a new trial was mnde by the defense. Joseph Swoboda, an old tailor who died in Terre Haute, ivas tailor for the Sultan of Turkey a number of years, and escaped from Const?{ltinople at a time, thirty years ago, whig, the Sultan of Turkey waa condemning to death persons suspected of complicl.y in a political conspiracy. Walter Clsrk. 10, preached at tlm General baptist Church in Vincennes, to a large congregation. He made a big bit. Six weeks the Isjy caused excitement in bis neighborhood by declaring that he hnd l*e-r.i visited in the night by an angel which told him lie should begin preaching. He took np the study nnd made his (Mint in Vincennes. Everett Cooper, retiring prosecuting attorney nl Danville, has bought a large fruit farm in Vnllfomin, where he will move in a Ot°rt time. The Indiana State prosecutor has filed suit against the French Lick Hotel Company, asking that its charter be annulled on the ground that it has violated the State law against gambling. A broken awltch point was responsible for the derailment of the tank of engine No. 300, pulling the south-bounff Motion mall train from Chicago, at Indianapolis. It required three hours to replace the lank and baggage car.