Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1903 — RECODOF OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECO DOF OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Bnprame Court Decide* Against lx* preas Com panic*-Saved from Suicide *»y Fi*h Hook-Bank Failure at Mi*. toa-Maa Kill* Self end Wife. The Indiana Supreme Court has op* held the law of 1901 which requires express companies to interchange business with one another without discrimination, thereby upholding the position of the express company on the Southern Indiana Railroad. The court holds that the act, which was intended to prevent unfair discriminations by one express' company or combination of express companies acting as common carriers against any consigner or other responsible company engaged in the same business, does not violate the constitutional provision forbidding the passage of local or special laws for the punishment of crimes or misdemeanors. There is a penalty danse in the act, but the court says the penalty la recoverable by a civil action and not by a criminal proceeding. The law is held to-have been enacted in compliance with legitimate exercise of the police powers of the Legislature. Flab Hook Favu a Woman. Mrs. Florence Evans of Frankfort, who obtained notoriety a year ago by kidnaping her own child, attempted suicide because of a quarrel with her sweetheart. Shp was saved by a fish hook. She had been divorced from her husband and after the quarrel with her lover went to a deep hole in Prairie creek, a mile from the city, where she disrobed and sprang into the water. Joseph Ostler and a young woman companion, who were near, heard the splash. Ostler cannot swim, but he cast his fish line at Mrs. Evans, the hook catching in her hair. She was unconscious and he dragged her to the bank, where she was resuscitated.

Prepares Grave | Kills Two. Angered because his wife, from whom he had been separated for two yeara, refused to retitrn to him, and having prepared his grave and donned burial clothes, Adolph Wdth committed murder and suicide in South Bend. He shot his wife and himself. The former lived long enough to crawl over a fence and give the alarm. Seekers after the murderer found Wuth’s body in the back yard at the residence where Mrs. Wuth had been living and where she also received a fatal wound.

Buffer in a Bank Crash.

Much excitement exists at Milton over the failure of the Citizens’ Bank of that place. The bank made an assignment and the liabilities will reach $22,000, and S2OO placed in the bank for safekeeping by William Bragg and several safe deposits were missing and certificates of deposit substituted. T. E. Kessler, an official of the bank and also of the Richmond Traction Company, has disappeared. The loss falls on the farmers of the vicinity and the citizens of Milton.

Tries Snlclde After Ball. Because of jealousy William Miley, a farmer at lona, attempted suicide by {.hooting himself. Three doctors worked all the afternoon to save his life, bnt they declare he will probably die. Miley and his wife attended a dance at the home of Charles Gibbs the previous night and it is said Mrs. Miley paid considerable attention to two other men, which caused Miley much anxiety.

Wholesale Infant Murder. Another new born infant was found ini ihe river at Indianapolis. The child had been murdered and its body thrown into the water. The coroner claims that an organized gang of persons in the city are disposing of infants newly born. All Over the Btata Fire at Richmond destroyed the dry goods store of J. M. Jones & Co. Loss, $50,000. Kern, Beeler Sc Co.'s department store at Decatur burned. Loss about $88,000; insurance SOO,OOO. The warehouse of the Standard Oil Company at Indianapolis was burned, causing a loss of $25,000. A highway near Logansport, which has been in use for twenty years, bat not of record, is about to be closed. In a freight wreck on the Monon ten miles west of Lafayette, three tramps were killed and six cars were smashed. There was a run on the First National Bank at Martinsville, caused by an innocent depositor who came from the country to the bank after closing liours to make a deposit. Seeing the placard “closed” banging against the glass inside the thought occurred to bim that the bank had suspended and the report gained headway that could not be stopped. As a result there was a run of an hour and a half. A number of the heaviest depositors among the business men were present during the run and made targe deposits. This soon assured the shaky depositors. William Herrell. an ex-convict, successfully stood off for thirty-six hours the marshals of two villages, the police of Peru and Legansport, three Panhandle detectives, and a posse of fifty farmers. After spending the entire day in pursuit of Herrell the posse abandoned the pursuit. Early Monday morning Herrell went to the Lake Erie station at Bunker'Hill, where he shot at parsengers in the waiting room. Then he went to a saloon, shot the mirrors to piece*, and chased the bartender out. Leaving there, he shot the windows out of passing passenger trains. Later he encountered John Shively, who was a witness against him in a trial for ninrder. He told Shively to prepare for death. Shively leaped a barb wire and fled under a shower of bullets. Vowing to slay any officers sent after him, Herrell then took to the woods. „ Charles Garrison, conductor on the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railway, wan thrown from his caboose and instantly killed near Brasil. Jealousy will cause the young "Women clerks of logansport to remain out of the Clerks’ Union. Some of the members have wives who refuse to allow tbeir husbands to be shut up iu a hall with those of the opposite sex. Elday Clifford, who operates the old Killbuck mill at Anderyon, has promised •very couple he joins in marriage a sack of flour with which to begin hoUMkec(£ lag.