Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1903 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. - y.. . v -*ff • ■'i- y ■ I ll .. Plan to Merge Coal Mines of the State —Kikhart Girl Inherits n Large Estate—A New Railroad from Chicago —Gas Injunction Falls. Wm Indiana coal operators are working os an immense merging scheme. The idea is to bring all the controjjing coal producing interests o( Indiana into one company. Absolute ownership is the plan to be followed. The coal mining interests of* the State are worth over $35,000,000. Those properties lying along the railroad lines are to be taken in. A committee composed of A. M. Ogle of Indianapolis, J. Smith Talley of Terre Haute and George Seifert, who has large mines in Sullivan County, is making the moves and taking options on properties. Sdme of the largest coal mining interests in the State by options. It is said that the deal, if it goes through, will be far more extensive than simply ownership of mines. The company contemplates, it is understood, equipping itself with its own c6al cars, and to provide enough to prevent the present frequent shut-down of the mines because of lack of cars on which to load the coal.

Girl Made Rich by Will. Miss Martha Axe, a well-known yonng woman, who makes her home with her widowed mother in Elkhart, has been officially informed that her uncle, Allen T. Axe, who died at Basin, Mont., on Jan. 9, willed her one-third of his estate, which consists of cash and fivetwelfths of the famous Ada mine, embracing a twenty-acre tract, twelve miles from Basin. Within two years, though not vigorously worked, the mine has netted about $56,000. Hr. Axe left Valparaiso over forty years ago, and assisted in laying out Balt Lake City, and as a prospector walked all, over the sites of Helena and Butte before a single house had been erected. New Road From Chicago. The Chicago, Terre Haute and Southern Railway Company has been incorporated with a capital stock of $200,000, to construct a railroad from Chicago into Lake County, thence in a southerly direction through .the counties Of Lake, Newton, Benton, Warren; Fountain, Vermilion, Parke and Vigo to Suliivan County. The length of the road will be about 200 miles. WiHiam B. Cloye* of Chicago holds 1,986 shares of stock.

Effort to Stop Gas Falla. Judge Carter in the Supreme Court at Indianapolis granted an injunction to the . Indiana Natural Gas and Oil Company

against Harry E. Drew and others . to prevent their interference with the company’s pipe lines. The case grew oat of an attempt of northern Indiana citizens to atop the company piping gas to Chicago. The case came from Madison County.

Dry Goods’ Association. Indiana Dry . Goods Association has organized and elected the following officers: President, G. H. Robertson, South Bend; vice-president, M. H. Short, North Manchester; secretary, F. B. Goldthrait, Marion; treasurer, Marion Ives, Delphi. The object of the association is to combine purchases, and buy foreign goods direct from the importers. Lives Half a Life in Year. Physicians attending Charles F. Schultz, city treasurer, who died in La Porte at the age of 47 years, declare that he died of old age, having lived half a lifetime in less than a year. The case has attracted much attention from medical men. Memorial to Hendricks. President Fisher of Hanover College, at Madison, has received from Mrs. Eliza C. Hendricks, widow of former Vice-President Thomas A. Hendricks, a gift of $25,000 for the erection of a library in memory of her husband. All Over the State. The city of Winchester has bought a 12-room house and two acres of land to be used as a detention hospital. W. L. Finch has forced the Arrow Nail Company at Anderson into a receivership. He says it owes him $2,000.

South Bend Samuel Quick has deserted his wife nnd’uine children and run away with a Mrs. C'litrk, who has two children. .. ; Elkhart factory, employes, sympathisers of the stalling. (inptormen and conductors, stoned a car, breaking all tbo windows and forcing the non-union crew to take refage ip a house. Fire in the plant of the American Tin Plate Company in Anderson damaged the boilers and machinery to the amount of $40,000. It required the combined aid of the fire equipment and 125 workmen to put out the flames, ltebuilding will be begun at once. Five hundred meu are thrown out of employment. George W., Woodruff, who for many years has been a puzzle to the medical profession, is dead at his home in Frankfort. Although in fairly good health he would go for many days witiiout sleep. At one time he did net sleep for seventyfive day* and nights, although during that time many noted physicians became interested in his case and gave him treatment. It was a common thing for him to go a mouth without sleep. Grand Trunk passenger train No. 8 ran into the rear end of a south-bound Big Four passenger train at Granger. The rear coach on the Big Four passenger train was lifted from the track and shoved through the bsy window of the Granger station. The Big Four train had stopped at the station, in approaching, the Grand Truuk engineer failed to see the other train in thufc to stop his engine. Three men were injured. Joseph Bozart. (>B. of Culver, waa found dead in a hog pen with his face almost all eaten off by hogs. He id supposed to have dropped dead wiuiw feeding the animals. . Ff® While en route to a funeral, Benjamin, Gillen and Thomas Crisman were run down and killed by a Vandalia train at a crossing at Darlington. Peter McCrea, a deaf mnte, 58 years of age and the owner of $25,000 agd 100 acres of land, wo* assaulted at JShelbyville by Jeff Richardson with a spade and his skull fractured. McCrea cannot live. Richardson is in jail.