Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1903 — RECORD OF THE WEEk [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEk

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Running a Store as Christ Would Do It—Jealous Wife Shoots Husband and Another Woman—Farmer’s Fensa-, Brifritari—Fleetrit Coad Planned A. F. Norton is running a grocery store in Converse, fie says, “as Christ would run it.” The stock invoiced recently for nearly $12,000. He bortght it at a bankrupt sale for less than $7,000 and got- fid of all the tobacco, cigars, pipes, muff, etc., as he said he was opposed to their use. He pays his clerks every day and refuses to deliver goods by messengers or wagons. He allows no arguments and-espe-cially no in his store, and the young fellows are not allowed to flirt with the girls. He has five stores in the county, aH run on the same plan. “Honesty is the best policy,” is his motto, and he is a member of the church and teacher m the Sunday school. He claims that his business has increased largely since he adopted the present plan. Woman Drops Oul of Sight. - Great anxiety prevails at La Port* over the whereabouts and probable fate of Mrs. Sarah Wilkinson Martin, who was recently granted a divorce from Isaac W. Martin. A few days after the decree had been made a matter of record a well-dressed man, alleged by Mrs. Martin to be a relative, appeared upon the scene. His advent was followed in a few days by the execution of deeds to him covering all of her realty interests, which were extensive and valuable. Mrs. Martin said her relative would invest her fdftune in mining stock which would make her immensely wealthy, and she left the city ostensibly for Mexico. This was three months since which time every effort to find some trace of her has proved futile. Jealous Wife Uses a Gun, In Marion Airs.-Henry Fleming armdfl herself with a shotgun and followed her husband to the home of Mrs. Robert Jones, of whom she was jealous. She fired through the window and the shot took effect in the face and shoulders of the couple. She fired a second time and sent shot and broken glass into th?ir backs. Mrs. Fleming demolished riearty everything in the house by using the grin as a club. She returned home, wheye she was later joined by her husband, who threatened to shoot her, kicked her and left her helpless. Her condition is serious aud the police are hunting for Fleming. Mrs. Jones is painfully but not seriously injured. , ; „ . . > Kills Himself with ■ Tree.' Coroner Hetherington at. Logansport rendered a verdict that Martin Myers, a well-to-do farmer, had committed suicide. The evidence showed that in cutting down a tree Myers had arranged it so that it would fall across a stump. Then he knelt in prayer, with his head across'the stump, aud waited until a guCt of wind, brought down the tree, crushing his skull to a pulp. His body was taken to Logansport to be prepared for burial, and a brother was to take charge of it. The brother has disappeared. • f

Plana'au Electric Road. The Hobart and Western Electric Company of Chicago is buying a right of way between La P.orte and South Bend for an electric road which will form a part of a system between New York and Chicago. Judge Calos M. Stone, P. J. Masterson, B. Hanna and G. H. Hanna of Cleveland are also taking options on a right of way for a line between South Bend and Michigan City, which will be part of another system between Cleveland and Chicago. Senator Hanna is interested in this project. City May Sue for Citizens. The Supreme Court has rendered an important decision in respect to the powers of cities to enforce contracts with corporations, and held that a city government; represented by its officers, may sue on behalf of the citizens as a whole. The case came up from the Delaware Circuit Court and was an action against the ' Mun?Te Natural Gas Company for violating the terms of its charter. Sentenced for Many Frauds. 1 In Vincennes John Selby, an'insurance agent, wasrwentenced to fourteen years in the Michigan City penitentiary. Selby forged notes on and others to the extent of $50,000. He escaped to Missouri nnd then to Texas, where ho was apprehended recently. All Over the State. In a dispute over the possession of his child Benjamin Anderson shot Bert Lane of Noblesville, with whom the child was living. Anderson is in jail and will be charged with murder in the first degree. Three of the fix wolves that escaped from a theatrical company at Brazil are still at large. Ira Jones was attacked by one of the animals'and severely bit-’ ten. lie fought the ainmal off with a' knife. • • --.■■■■

Ixxigootee suffered the most,extensive fire iu its history the other day. It started in a three-story brick building' owned and occupied by the M. J. Carn a-' han Company, dealer* in agricultural implements, and caused a loss of $109,000, about •onfirtbixd insured. , - —»- Rear Admiral Henry C. Taylor, who commanded the battleship Indiana in the Spanish-American war. has been presented with a testimonial sword by the people of the State through the General Assembly. The, cost SI,OOO, and, tis a work of art.- The presentation wns in the main floor of the cnpitol nt Indianapolis, where Gov. Durbin, tho State officers, members of the Legislature and other invited guests assembled. Admiral George Brown presided. James Whitcomb Riley recited’his poem “Old Glory.” Gov. Durbin presented the sword and Admiral Taylor responded. Game Warden James Hamilton has been instructed to go to the marUMM of. the Kankakee river to look aftef duck hunters. Hamilton says he will see that the game laws of the State are enforced. Suit has been begun nt Shelbyville by Winfield 8- Thompson ngninat Sylvester Tinsley and David G. Tinsley for $lO,900 damages for injuries received from having his wagon overturned upon him, breaking an arm and internally Injuring him. The complaint alleged that the defendants unlawfully obstructed the highway by throwing rails there while building a fence.