Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1903 — RECORD OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK.

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERBELY TOLD. Dearborn County Farmers Destroy Toll Gates—Poacher Killed by Private Watchman—Union Men Black- 1 listed by Shelbyville Employers. One- hundred and fifty determined farmers, armed with guns, pistols and axes, raided seven toll gates in Dearborn County, cutting away the poles and nearly demolishing three of the toll houses. No resistance was offered by tka toll gate keepers and all of them promised not to attempt to collect any more’tolls. The destruction of the toll gates is the result of a refusal by the county commissioners to buy the roads at the expense of the county and throw them open to the public. They now belong to private corporations, some of which have refused to sell. No attempt at disguise-vyas made by members of the mob, but it is not probable that any of them will be prosecuted, though many were recognized. Shot Dead by a Sheriff. At 4 o’clock the other morning John Hager of Ford and Division streets, South Bend, was killed by Alfred Smith, a deputy sheriff of St. Joseph County. Hager, accompanied by John Dreckes, C. Putz and S. Lespodjoun, was fishing at St. Mary’s lake, Notre Dame. The officer requested the men to leave the place, which is private property under his care. They refused to do so and when he insisted they turned upon him. Smith’s club was taken from him and Hager made a fierce attack, -breaking the club over Smith’s wooden arm. After repeated attempts to ward them off and to preserve his own life, Smith shot Hager, killing him instantly. Union Men Are Blacklisted. The numerous strikes which have retarded building and manufacturing since April 1 at Shelbyville culminated in all the union men in that city being placed on the blacklist, and no union man will hereafter be employed. All the master builders and ..factory owners have set theirTacea against the unions, and some of the largest manufacturers have closed the doors of their plants till other labor call ’be secured. The immediate cause of this action was a third strike at the furniture factory of the Foster company, and threatened sympathetic strikes of union men employed in other industries. Evansville Man Shoots Himself. David Nisbet, at one time one of the most prominent business men of Evansville, committed suicide by shooting himself. He returned that day from St* Louis, where he had been on a visit to friends. He was the son of D. A. Nisbet and- inherited a large estate. At one time he was the vice-president of the Louisville and Evansville Mail Line Company and the president of the Mackey-Nisbet Dry Goods Company. He was a brother-in-law of Captain G. J. Grammer, traffic manager of the Lake Shore Railroad. He was 50 years old and single. Brief State Happenings Richmond is to have a milk trust. Miss Mary W. Ray, 53, owner of the Shelbyville Democrat, is dead. The new Brown street bridge at Lafayette is open to public travel. The Goetz pressed brick company is ready for business at New Albany. John W. Bradford, a pioneer of Columbus, died of heart disease in a fit of coughing. “She left home without saying goodby,” is an Anderson man’s reason for asking a divorce. Twenty thousand cases daily is the average number of berries shipped from Michigan City to Chicago. Ben Knots, 6, of Hammond, while jumping with his playmates, fell and broke his arm in two places. The Washington grand jury has been instructed to indict all ministers who have failed to make legal returns of marriages. George Duyer, a farmer residing near Alton, was shot and killed by masked robbers after he had given them all his money. • Benjamin James, aged 28, was struck by the fast mail train on the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern near Shoals and instantly killed.

Darius Buroker and his grandson, Russell Colbert, were both killed by a switch engine on the Pennsylvania Railroad, six miles west of Marion. They stepped from the main track as a freight train passed and were struck by a switch engine. Melvin Boone, colored, on trial the second time for the murder, Dec. 13, of John M. Kooneman, a grocer, whom, with two other men, he was seeking to rob, was given a life sentence at South Bend. He received the sentence with a laugh. The Indiana Union Traction Company has just been organized by Philadelphia and Indiana capitalists with a capital of $5,000,000 and a similar bond issue. Of the latter $1,000,000 will be issued at once. This amount is said to have been underwritten. The new company will take over the Union Traction Company of Indiana under a lease guaranteeing a rental on a graduated scale. -The leased company is controlled by Philadelphia capital. H. P. Patterson of Aurora, a veteran of the Civil War, while on a visit to Gettysburg recently succeeded in locating a large bowlder behind which he songht shelter during the furious attack of the Confederate troops. Although the rock weighed between six and eight tons, Mr. Patterson purchased it from the Culp estate and had it shipped to his home, where he intends to use it as a monument to mark his graye after his death. Alvine Brown, wife of Albert H. Brown of Indianapolis, who is well known in the sporting world, was granted a decree of absolute divorce and $lO,000 alimony. The defendant’s property iscalued at SIOO,OOO. Brown owns the Casino at French Lick Springs. Bamuel Davidson, a saloonkeeper at Metcalf, shot Ed Van Sickle, a pugilist, fonr times while the latter was pounding Benjamin Davidson, the saloonkeeper's brother, with a brick on a street in that town. Van Sickle i* said to be dying. Davidson went to Paris and gave an 9800 bond.