Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1903 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PABlf WEEK. Mob Hold* Sway at Charlottesville— Aeronaut Ascend* in Burning Bal. loon and Land* Safely—Train Collide* with Street Car at Terre Haute. ’ ——- —i n nsTiinimiarr- . „ i.mmu ih »■,»' ■«>■-"Yfijjiny!*] The village of Charlq/teaville was in the hands of a mob the other night, and the sheriff of Hancock County with sev-enty-five armed deputies had been on the scene all afternoon. The purpose of the mob and the posse was to prevent the running of its cars by the Indianapolis and Eastern Traction Company. Recently a quarantine was established by Hancock County against Knightstown on account of smallpox there. The traction company stopped running its cars until the other day. When an effort was made to resume the people of Charlottesville stopped the second car, arrested the motorman and conductor and sidetracked the car. Hang* to Burning Balloon. With his balloon in flames above him Aeronaut Calloway clung desperately to the ropes at Burr Oak, waiting pluckily bn the hazard that the balloon would go Mjj& enough before collapsing to enable him to cut loose his parachute with a chance of its checking his fall before he reached the earth. The balloon shot up nearly 2,000 feet and then Calloway dropped, landing with the parachute in safety, almost at the spot whence he started. The fire occurred through the carelessness of a man who held the rope, Calloway discovered the flames at the moment of starting and cried: “Let her go. I think I can reach a safe height before she falls.” Train Dashes Into Loaded Street Car. As a result of a west-bound Vandalia train crashing into a North Thirteenth street car at Terre Haute, three persons were probably fatally injured and six others seriously hurt. The accident was due to the watchman at the railroad crossing giving the car a signal to go ahead and raising the gates after a string of freight cars was cut at the crossing to give the street car the right of way. He did not notice the passenger train. The conductor of the street car, who went ahead of the car, saw the passenger train approaching, but too late to avoid the collision. Huge Drainage Ditch Done. The Cook ditch, the greatest waterway ever constructed In Indiana, was completed a few days ago, the dredge entering the Kankakee river at the terminal point at Grand Junction. The construction of this waterway was begun several years ago and its successful consummation has reclaimed several hundred thousand acres of what promises to be the best crop yielding land in the great Kankakee region.

Brief State Happening*. At an ice cream party in Kokomo eight persons were poisoned by the cream. Miss Bernice Murden died. Newcastle has a building boom, seven business blocks and 300 residences having been contracted for. Modern Woodmen will hold a big reunion at Mount Vernon Aug. 28, and 15,000 visitors arc expected. The 14-months-old daughter of Isaac Gardner, Bloomington, was fatally acalded by upsetting-a wash boiler, Robert Irvin, 76, was drowned in Little Blue river, in two feet of water, in the rear of his home at Henderson. Adam Fuller, a farmer, living four and a half miles from Nappanee, committed suicide by hanging. No motive known. Patrons of the Muncie Gas Company say that if defeated in their suits for damages? they will appeal to the highest court. The Muncie Electric Light Company has begun work on its steam heating system for the city. Twelve-inch mains will be laid. Charles Pigg, son of a farmer east of Sullivan, tried to kill himself with arsenic. Mind affected as the result of v a sunstroke. ’ At Peru Charles Lippold was held up and robbed of several pounds of beefsteak. Supposed to have been done by a hungry tramp. The plan to remove the monument of Gen. Meredith from his farm, nea* Cambridge City, to Richmond’s chief park* has been abandoned.

George W. Brann, aged 28, an abstractor of titles, of Rushville, accidentally killed himself with a rifle while cn a camping expedition. The 161st Indiana infantry regiment, which saw service in Cuba, will hold a reunion at Richmond next fall. Gen. Leo Sas been 'been invited. A Vincennes man claims to have discovered the. cause of the destructive apple rot, so damaging in that part of the State, and how to prevent it. A bolt of lightning struck the home of J. A. Jones in Kokomo. Mrs. Jones, who was standing in an open door, was stunned and one side was paralyzed. Albert Milton, a Kokomo pugilist, was shot and killed. His stepdaughter, Myrtle Smith, was arrested and charged with the homicide. She admits the shooting, but pleads self-defense. Col. James B. Maynard, former editor of the Indianapolis Sentinel, and for many years one oS the most prominent newspaper men in Indiana, died at his home in Indianapolis, aged 83 years. A petition in circulation at Chesterfield will soon be forwarded to the general officials of the Big Four Railway. It includes a vigorous protest over the closing of the railway office at that point and asks the officials to re-establish the agency. By abolishing the station at this point, the town is also left without a telegraph or express office. Jacob Day, living on Fulton street, Chicago, was found dead in his room at 32 South Capitol avenue, Indianapolis. He had been employed on the Claypool Hotel. Death is supposed to have been caused by heart disease. As the result of a conference over a breach of promise case Prof. Calvin Ewing of La Porte agreed to marry Misa Lily Mattis of Chicago. The next morning he changed his mind and the case was compromised by the payment of S2OO to the plaintiff, who returned to Chicago. Ewing then secured a license to marry; Mrs. Tillie Erdman.