Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1903 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST ... WEEK. Missing Student Located at At!antic. Persona—Man Commit* Suicide on a Railroad—Woman Jumps Into a Well. Norman Hohrer, son of ex-Trustee Itohrer of Clinton township, who mysteriously disappeared Feb. 2, 1992, while attending the Detroit Medical College, has been located at Atlantic, lowa. His brother received a letter front him. He says he has written home often, but no letters were ever received. His mother had been nearly prostrated, as he tv as supposed to bo dead. An exhaustive search had been made for him. Rohrer says ill health caused him to leave Detroit and that lie contracted to go on the road for a ranch, and has visited ten Western States. He says his health la now improved and he expects to return to Detroit and to complete his medical course. Cnts His Throat on a Train. On a Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern train Jacob Rapp of Louisville rushed into a closet as the train was nearing Vincennes and cut his throat with a razor. The train crew found him weltering in his blood. Doctors were called, but they say Rapp had only a small chance for his life.

~ Jumps Into Well with Babe. Mrs. Rolla Gibson, wife of Alexander near Jasonville, threw herself and her baby, a few months old, into a stock well on the farm of her father, Henry Letsinger, and both were drowned. A few weeks ago she made an attempt at suicide by hanging. She left a husband and two children. Three Killed by a Train. Emma and John Cliska, aged 10 and 1? years, while going to school on a recent morning at Otis, were struck by a last Lake Shore train and killed instantly. Michael Michaels, a merchant of Porter, was struck and instantly killed by the same train a few moments later. Attempts Suicide from Grief. Frank Allen attempted suicide by taking strychnine in an oyster stew at Newcastle. Despondency over the death of his mother is the supposed cause.

Brief State Happenings, Wallace Lake, aged (55 years, a farmer near Hillsdale, committed suicide by shooting. Judge Louis Rascli, who was requested to resign by the Bar Association of Evansville, has declined to do so. Neff & Nixon, proprietors of a Newcastle business college, have closed its doors and left for parts unknown. Henry T. Kirk of Middle township has succeeded Henry I. Eaton ns superintendent of the Hendricks county farm. Miss Myrtle East, aged 25 years, and Charles Harris, aged 30, were killed by a Panhandle train at a crossing at Fraukton. Joseph Bozask, a smallpox patient, and fourteen others who were exposed by him, have been quarantined at Michigan City. The shortage of coal and the lack of ears to carry fuel that has been ordered threaten to cause a shutdown of Muncie factories; ——

v The general store of C. J. Kerua at Valparaiso was nearly destroyed by fire. Loss on stock and bifilding SIB,OOO, insured for $12,500. Alonzo Riggs, aged 40 years, was shot and killed by his stepson, John Pratt, at Marion. Pratt claims he found Riggs, beating his mother. Prof. Norton E. Kemp of Yerkes Observatory, Chicago, lias been chosen professor of physics of Wabash College, to succeed Prof. John L. Campbell. W. G. Lynch, 22 years old, a Big Four brakeman, living in Lafayette, was killed at Lebanon. He was riding on tjie engine pilot and in jumping off fell beneatli the wheels.

Because of the severe illness of Helen Orantiey, the star, “The Girl and the Judge” company disbanded at Anderson. Miss Grantley will go to Florida as soon as she is able to travel. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Taylor lias selected as a site for the federal building at Anderson the property a,t the northeast corner of Eleventh and Jackson streets, at a price of $20,000. Miss I.eora Anderson, aged 1!) years, of Poland, and a student at the Normal school in Terre Haute, dropped dead in the school gymnasium, while engaged in her exercises. It is supposed she injured herself internally. The joint Republican caucus of the House and Senate met. the other night for the purpose of nominating a United States Senator. The only name presented was that of Senator Charles W. Fairbanks, and lie was nominated by acclamation.

Charles Wantland was shot and fatally wounded by Fred Harden at a mining camp south of Clinton. Wantland accused Harden of making remarks about Mrs. Wantland, and during the fight which ensued Harden drew a revolver and fired two shots, which took effect in Wantland’s abdomen.

Edward Irish, a Wabash engiuenian. in charge of the Continental limited, made his ran the other day with frozen hands and feet. His train ups seven hours late. At Lafayette he was compelled to crawl under the locomotive to make temporary repairs. When he had finished his hands and feet were frozen, but he completed his run to Danville, lit., making up thirty minutes of the lost time. His hands and feet were swollen to twice their normal size. He is now in the hospital at Peru and amputation of all the frozen members may be necessary. Mrs. Samuel Overshiner, 77, near Windfall, is suing her childreu to have a deed set aside, on the ground of fraud. Her husband, Martin Overshiner, on his death, left 300 seres of land and some

cash to Mrs. Overshiner and eight children. It was decided that the mother should have the homestead, including forty acres of land. Bhe claims that the children defrauded her by giving her a deed to (and that did not belong to the estate. She says that she signed another deed and found that she had tara-. ed back her land to the children and that she had nothing.