Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 90, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1903 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTB OF THE PAST - .* 7 WEEK. ■ Passengers Mast Look Oat for CarsFormer Belle Begs on Streets —Peculiar Accident Causes Fatal Injury to Boy-Sells Coal Land. It has been held by the Appellate Court at Indianapolis that when a passenger gets off a street car and, crossing behind it without taking any precaution to learn whether n car is coming from the other direction, is struck and injured he cannot recover damages although the car which struck him may have been running at excessive speed or may have been otherwise negligently managed. This decision was announced in reversing a judgment in favor of Louise Tenner, who was struck by a car in Massa* chusetts avenue just after.alighting from another car. Judge Roby dissented, insisting that she was entitled to damages. Peabody. Bella Coal Lands. A coal deal involving several hundred 'thousand dollars was completed at Brazil when S. F. Peabody of Chicago disposed of his interests in the coal fields there to John T. Connery, manager of the Youghiogheny and Lehigh Coal Company; William P. Baker, George F. Gets of Chicago and Harry Sherburne of Brazil. Besides hundreds of acres of coal lands in that vicinity the purchase includes Mr. Peabody’s interest in the Miami Coal Company, the Brazil Mining Company, the Ehrmandale store and many tenements. The main office will be located in Brazil. Kitten, Ona, and Dead Boy. While cleaning a rifle which he supposed was not loaded, Oliver Falla, 18 years old,- of Huntortown, placed the Btock on the ground, cocked the gun, and was about to look into the muzzle when a playful kitten jumped up and caught the trigger, discharging the gun and seftding a bullet into the left side of hie abdomen. When a physician wai called he found the lad Buffering from peritonitis and made a hurried run to the hospital with the boy in his automobile. An operation was performed, but Falls cannot recover. Belle Becomes a Beggar. Addie Lacey, once the village belle of Montpelier and now the wife of Dr. Joseph D. Lacey, formerly a prominent physician of Marion, is said to be a physical wreck and begging on the streets of Hartford City for money that she may purchase cocaine to satisfy an uncontrollable craving. No one would recognize in the haggard womaa the once beautiful girl. A few years ago Sirs. Lacey was regarded as one of the most beautiful women in that region. Dr. Lacey and his wife have lived apart for several years. Smash Church Organ with Ax. As the result of a factional fight over an organ in the church at Mount Pleasant, the church was entered on a recent night and the organ smashed with an ax. This Is the second time this has been done, the other raid on the church being the previous week. The organ was then repaired and used. Arrests are threatened. Brief State Happening*. John Litzenberger, 90 years of age and 'Peru’s oldest inhabitant, is dead. Frank Shubert, aged 40 years, of Chicago, fell from a train at Chesterton and was killed. John and Felix Day, aged 11 and 8 years, and Louis S. Ritenour, aged 10, drowned in the harbor at Michigan City. W. W. Wilkinson of Cyntbiana purchased a Polard-China hog for SB,BOO. It is one year old and weighs 650 pounds. Edward S. Ewing, a farmer boy, living near Valparaiso, has received the appointment to a consulship in the Philippines. Joshua Burris, a farmer, west of Franklin, had a black mare and a rubber tired phaeton stolen from the hitch rack in Franklin. Jessie Perkins, aged 50 years, was instantly killed and his son, aged 20 years, fatally hurt by a premature shot iu a mine at Brazil. Councilman C. F. Culbertson of Evansville is under arrest, charged with bribery in connection with the Cumberland Telephone Company’s franchise. Harold Zeller, 10 years old, stooped to pet a strange dog at Union City, when the animal sank its teeth through both the child’s lips, inflicting a terrible wound. Charles Danielson of Woodvilie was killed while placing poison in a tree to destroy beer* He fell and broke his neck. He was 33 years old and a wealthy farmer. Mrs. Fred Gooding notified the Evansville police she had been deserted by her husband,, whom she married at Chicago a month ago. Goodifig wai a Dubuque, lowa, hotel clerk. There has been a final cleaning up of the negro ghonl cases that hare been on the Criminal Court docket in Indianapolis for about eight months. Eight of the men under indictment .for participating in the grave-robbing scandal were released on their own recognizance. The mea who were set free were Walter Daniels, A 1 Hunt, John McEudry, Walter Williams. Garfield Buckner, William McElroy, all charged with taking and concealing a body for the purpose of dissection, and George Mason, charged with disturbing a grave. With the exception of McEndry and Mason, all *f the men weoe negroes. While the cases against the men have not been dismissed it is not likely that they will ever be brought to trial, as the evidence against them is not strong enough to secure conviction, being simply the uncorroborated confession of Rufus Cantrell. The indictments against r the doctors who were implicated in the ghoul scandals still stand. There is considerable anxiety in Peru over the safety of John Anderson, a Wabash Railroad brakeman, who mysteriously disappeared. He was called to Columbus, Ohio, where his mother was dying. He went by way of Toledo and a" trace of him haa been lost. *> * Wabash fast express 13 was ditched at Stuneville. The engine was wrecked, two cars are on their aides and the other cars were thrown from the tracks. Fireman A. Richardson of Delray, Mich., was caught under the engine and bia ■kali was fractured. Seven passengers were Injured, but none fatally.