Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1903 — INDIANA INCIDENTS [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE '*BT WEEK. Posse Captures Mutilated Man Sup* posed to Be Robber—Girl Attempts to Imitate Snake Bater —I'ixht on Putting Up Poles in Klkhart Streets. Lying in a ditch by the Midland Railroad tracks at Jolietville a man giving the name of George Marvin was found with his right arm blown off at the socket. He is supposed to be a safe robber from Chicago, arid, it ( is thought,, met with the accident by dropping a bottle of nitssoglycerin with which he intended to blow open the strong box in a store at JoKetville. Citizens of the town heard an explosion about 3:30 o’clock in the morning, and in the rear of the only stdre in the village a man’s arm was found. A trail of blood was followed past the Midland depot and /down the tracks about a quarter of a mile. At the approach of the posse a man was seen to spring from the ditch where the wounded robber lay and run toward a strip of woods. The injured man refused to tell how the accident befell him, but admitted his name was Marvin, and said he was from Chicago. His companion, he said, was George Hunt. The village marshal, after rinding the arm, ftok charge of the injured man.

Kokomo Trio Heirs to $150,000. Mrs. Bertha Ellis, a young widow working as a "waitress in a restaurant at Kokomo, has, with her two brothers, Clem and Rufus Landrum, also of that place, fallen death seventeen years ago of their greatgrandfather, C. C. Mobery of Anderson, Tenn. The heirs had never before heard of a great-grandfather. They are children of the late Thomas Landrum and will receive $150,000, mostly in Tennessee real estate. The discovery of the heirs was the result of lifteen years’ search. Tries to Eat Live Snakes. Alice Fairchild, aged 12 years, of Logansport, tried to eat a dozen live snakes in emulation of a circus performer and is in a precarious condition as a result of numerous snake bites inflicted by the snakes, which objected to being eaten alive. Alice was taken by her parents to see a snake eater who appeared in Lor gansport at a carnival. Thursday her brother caught a dozen small snakes and the girl tried to eat them. She was found in convulsions, with the snakes wriggling about her body. She will recover. Forbidden to Fell Poles. After the city council had ordered the street commissioner and police force to iear^down-the- poies-of-tfatr Elkhart Eiertric Company on Crawfoud hart, because put there without permission and agalTrst the residents’ wishes, the company secured a restraining order against the city. A bitter fight is expected, as the poles in question have been erected for the purpose of bearing the power wires from the $1,000,000 dam being built ten miles west. Bella a Hog for $15,700. At a sale in Macy 198 ho'gs were sold. The highest price was $15,700 for Ideal Sunrise, sold to a stock company of ten men by Mine Lukens of Disco. Sunrise took the first prize at the Chicago world’s fair in 1893. It was- a record breaker for Poland China sales.

Btate Items of Interest, A firebug is> loose in Terre Haute. Creditors of the Merchants’ and Manufacturers’ Coal Company of Brazil filed application for the appointment of a receiver. John W. Bradford, farmer near Columbus, While., feeding his stock, was seized 'with a violent coughing spojl and died within an hour. William Bruner of Ohio Falls was struck by a west-bound mail train on the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern Railroad at (jfHSrgia and instantly killed. Missie 165, the imported shorthorn cow that won second prize at the international stock show at Chicago last year, died at the Burnbrae farm, near Delphi. E. W. Bowen was her owner. Six-year-old Harold Walters of Elkhart got hold of a dark half filled with gunpowder, poured some of the contents on the walk and touched a match to it. He may lose the sight of both eyes. John McNairy, a Terre Haute street Cgr motormnn, discovered his wife with Elmer Field, a railway brakeman,' and shot both of them. Field’s wounds are fatal, but the woman probably will recover.

At Shelbyville the jury in the case of John Maston Ruddeii, for causing the wreck of a Big Four passenger train May 29, returned a verdict of guilty and he was sentenced for an indeterminate period of from two to fourteen years. After a meeting of creditors of the DeKalb & McClellan bank of Waterloo, at which the late manager of the bank, former Mayor Garwood, had been warned not to leave the county until affaira had been settled up, the latter at once left the city. Daniel A. Gillespie, a Logansport councilman, was arrested on a grand jury indictment charging bribery in connection with the recent interurban franchise war. Councilman Boyer also was arrested charged with breaking a quorum of the council. Vice-President Boyles of the United Mine Worker* revoked the charters of three local unions at Linton. There is mnch excitement and a riot was narrowly averted following President Boyles’ announcement. Three hundred and fifty men, or all the employes of the Island Coal Company’s mine No. 2, went on ■trike because the superintendent discharged a man for loading “dirty coal,” which is a violation of the agreement. 1716 matter will be arbitrated. James Andrews, a negro, was found guilty of the murder of Doc Lung, a Chinese latindryraan, in Indianapolis on May 4, 1902, and was sentenced to the penitentiary for life. Lung was killed with a Chinese meat cleaver. Dr. Edward Stanton, a character Of Kokomo for sixty yeara, died, aged 80 year*. Year* ago Stanton lost hia practice and fortune, and it affected his mind. Since then be had imagined himself an ox, and grass and hay wa* hia principal diet. He walked on all fount in the pasture of the county farm, grasing constantly with the cattle, bones and sheep.