Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1903 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PABT WEEK. -rs Bankruptcy Proceeding* Vgaiaat Owner* of Bank—Costly Fire at Sulphur Spring*—Preacher'* Invention May Bring Him $1,000,000. Creditors of the Dekalb Bank of Waterloo have filed suit against Elizabeth McClellan, former Mayor Don A. Garwood, Charles' McClellan, Isaac Hague and Giles T. Abbey to throw them into bankruptcy. The first four are owners of the McClellan Bank, of which the Dekalb Bank is a branch. Mr. Abbey is cashier of the Dekalb Bank. Creditors have employed attorneys to push the charge of attempt to defraud creditors out of $125,000. The Auburn bank had $61,000 deposited and the Waterloo bank $60,000 deposits with $127,000 overdrafts in the hands of the McClellan family. Backet Brigade Check* Fire. Fire nearly wiped out the town of Sulphur Springs, a number of stores being damaged. A bucket line, In which nearly every man, woman and child in the town assisted, saved the rest of the business center. The damage was as follows: Thompson’s business black, $2,000; Thompson’s general store and stock, $6,000; Isaac Cory’s residence, $2,400; Cory’s business block, $900; Charles Fately, stock of merchandise, $2,000; Fately’g millinery stock, $400; Masonic Lodge paraphernalia, $700; E. M. Berry, general stock, SIOO. Invention Worth $1,000,000. Rev. James Stafford, pastor of the Cumberland Presbyterain Church at Hazleton, several months ago perfected a stopper to make bottles non-refillable, and secured letters patent on his device. It is said that a distiller of Lexington, Ky., has offered him $1,000,000 for his invention, conditioned that it is a success'. It is said the stopper is a very simple device, and that it Sjfles all that is claimed, making the bottle non-refillable. Two Youth* Were Killed. The bodies of Emmet Gwin, 18 years old, and Albert Green, 19, both of Cochrane, were found alongside the B. & O. Southwestern Railway at Aurora. It is supposed that they were accidentally killed by a passing freight train. Mother and Daughter Die From Burns. Mrs. Alfred Long and daughter Fanny, aged 3 years, died at Frankfort from burns received by a lamp setting fire to the bed clothing. Clarence, 3 years old, was seriously burned. Btate Items of Interest. Clinton Lane of Atlanta was killed, near Columbus, by a log rolling on him. Milton Shirk, multimillionaire banker and brother of Elbert Shirk of Chicago, was stricken with paralysis at Peru. The State convention of Modern Woodmen defeated the proposed increase in insurance rates as it applies to Indiana. Ground was broken at French Lick for a two-story building to cost $5,000 for a new State bank to be capitalized at $30,000. Gfiorge W. Beck, a prominent Valparaiso resident, filed suit for divorce from Mary Beck. Beck is 85 and bis wife 75. Cruel treatment is charged. Henry T. Kuhlmeyer, Adams Express agent at Vincennes, was arrested, charged with embezzlement. He is alleged to have taken $2,122. lie has a Wife and five children. Rev. Dr. Charles E. Bacon of Indianapolis received notification from Rev. E. H. Hughes of Malden, Mass., that the latter had accepted the presidency of De Pauw University. While on their way to church at Weisbach chapel, three miles east of Shoals, Ora Melvin and Edward Ritchison, farmer boys, quarreled and Ritchison fatally cut Melvin with a knife. One of the best known hotels in the West during the early canal days, known as the Lagro House at Lagro, is now without a tenant, and may be torn away. It is the first time it has been untenanted in fifty years. The bodies of two young men were found in the Cochran yards of the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern Railroad by the section hands. They were identified as Albert Green, 19, son of Engineer James Green, and Emmett Gwynn, 20.

A warrant lias been issued against KHward 8. Bingham of Montgomery for attempting to blackmail George B. Brown and the citizens of Montgomery, in writing them threatening letters, saying that unless the citizens and Brown placed $2,500 in a given place the author would destroy the town With fire and dynamite. Mr. Bingham is a prominent young man and clerks in a store owned by his mother. The Appellate Court of Indiana has decided that cooking opions is bad for the neighborhood, thus Affirming a decision by the lower court. Campbell Bros., merchants, brought suit for an injunction against James Shoyer of New Castle and an order was isrued by the Circuit Court forbidding the cooking of the onions, and from this Shoyer appealed. The question was then carried to the Appellate Court. William Patterson, a member of one of the prominent and wealthy families of Muncie, and a brother iu-law of George F. McCulloch, president of the Union Traction Company, was shot and fatally wounded on a recent night. The tragedy is shrouded in mystery. One story is that Patterson was shot about 3 o'clock in his own home. Qne bullet passed through his stomach and the other tli rough the groin. Still another story is that he was shot while on the street at an early hour. Xhe most generally accepted report is that the shots were fired while be was in his owu room, but by whom is not kuown. J. C. Mount of Connersville, has purchased the interest of the Immel estate iu the old Wabash and Erie canal bed for SB,OOO. The purchase includes all between Lagro and Logamport. Joseph Maher, brakeman on the Evansville and Terre Haute Railway, was jostled off the caboose at Paxton and thrown under the wheels, beheading him. Ho was a man of family. Hod Maxwell, aged 26, of Kouta, has mysteriously disappeared. The other day it was discovered that bis wife had eloped with a man named Marrine. It la believed that Maxwell has met fool play.