Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1903 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Three Held in Chicago for South Bend Murder —Murder in Warsaw f a'oon —An Octogenarian Arranges for His Comfort—Explosion Kills Kngineer. - Three 1 men accused of the murder of John M. Koonsman, an aged grocer at South Bend, were captured in Chicago. Two of them, according to the police, have confessed complicity in the crime. Joseph E. Mallory, George Rankin and George Sherman are the prisoners. The murder with which they are charged was committed on Dec. 13 last during an attempt to rob the Koonsman store. The victim fell with two bullet wouuds iu his body and died almost instantly. I The police say that Rankin, who is colored, and Sherman, who is 19 years old, admitted their part in the murder.

Made an Ante-Nuptial Bargain. Joseph Markel, 80, said to be worth SIOO,OOO, married Miss May Davie, ageo 25, at Marion. Markel was a widower and has four children. He did not wish to marry a woman who wanted him only for his estate, and to insure himself good treatment, made a contract with the young woman, setting forth that she is not to get any of his estate at death, but is to receive $5,000 a year as long as she takes good care of ''him and keeps him alive. Killed with Beer Bottles. Perry Schmitt, aged 18, son of a farmer six rniles south of Warsaw, was killed in a saloon kept by Joseph Denker, the result of a fight started by Wash Gillier and four of his sons. The weapons used were beer and wine bottles. The Golliers are in jail. Perry was standing in the saloon when a fight was started, and he was beaten to death. This is the first murder in Warsaw in twenty-two years.

Assaulted by Workmen. J. G. Reading, superintendent of the Terre Haute plant of the American Car and Foundry Company, who recently came from Chicago, was asaulted and seriously injured by a number of workmen. A riot call was sent in .and a wagon load of policemen were hurried to the scene, but order was restored before they arrived. John Hoppengarner, the leader in the assault, is under arrest! Boiler Explosion Kills Engineer. The explosion of a defective boiler in the east end of Thorntown killed William Masters, an engineer. Four persons were hurt. They were Bert Roberts, 15 yeers old, -who worked about the place; _Alonzo Butner, one of the proprietors; James Hopp, an employe, and Reilly Lyster. The building was wrecked.

State Items of Interest. Jacob Jacobison, aged 45 years, formerly of Chicago, was struck by a train at Kouts and instantly killed. Henry Williams of Brazil, aged 24 years, who was run down by a Wabash train near East Chicago, is dead. Florence Hager, a baby a year old, choked to death in Elkhart on a piece of bread given her by her brother, aged 4 years." -

Gov. Durbin nt the conclusion of the Indiana coal inquiry declared there was no evidence of collusion to force up the price of coal. Ollie and Tode Henderson, 19 nud 16-, daughters of a widow living in Greenfield, attempted suicide with carbolic acid. They will recover. South Bend, Mishawaka, Elkhart and Goshen setreet car service was stopped by strike of conductors and motormen to force recognition of union. A man of the name of Shafer shot five times and killed Richard Smith at Vevay, and when lodged in jail cut his clothing into strings and hanged himself. Joseph Greenovish and Peter Yopticih inson, two Chicago boys, were sentenced to the Indiana reformatory for an indeterminate term for stealing a horse and buggy at Valparaiso. At a meeting of the stockholders of the Southern Indiana Railroad at Bedford the officers were authorized to extend the road from Elnora to Evansville, a distance of about seventy-five miles. Masked robbers blew open the safe in the Tucker hardware store at Cromwell, securing about S2OO in cash. No clew, but it is supposed to be the work of experts, as the shfe was a large one. Preston S. Hussey has been re-elected president of the National State Bank in Terre Haute for Uje thirty-eighth consecutive term of one year, making a record, it is believed, for the United States. Crawford Fairbanks, the millionaire brewer of Terre Haute, has tendered the city $50,000 for a library on condition that it be named after his mother, Emetine Fairbanks. The cost may run to $75,000. The offer will be accepted. The Stratton carriage manufactory in Muncie was forced to suspend operations owing to mumps making serious inroads in the ranks of the enfployes. All the foremen and superintendents, besides many workman, have fallen victims to the malady.

Mrs, Charlotte Huston, who has been in the Hudnut family of Terre Haute eighty six years, died at Indianapolis. After receiving her freedom before the war she refused to leave the family, and has reared most of the children. She was sent to Indianapolis several months ago for treatment The tipple at the Harris Lankford mine, three miles west of Terre Haute, was burned and James Weaner was killed. Four other miners were almost suffocated. The mine has but one entrauce, and fire destroyed the hoisting machinery. The twenty men working Itelow were hoisted to the surface by ropes, but not until all had been partly overcome by smoko. X An investigation by the coroner revealed that Allen Blankenship, a watchman, found dead in the Melrose flooring mill in Evansville, was murdered. His skull and nose were fractured. Pin of the money he was known to have ha:} with him ia missing Miss Mary Hick*, a former society leader of Indianapolis and a niece of E. H. Ncbeker, former United States Treasurer under Harrison, has filed a sensatioual divorce against her husband, Hannibal Yount, a well-known Corington attorney, to whom sha was married only four months ago _