Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1903 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTB OF THE PABT WEEK. t Made Almost Penniless by Series of Trades—Sermon at Fnneral Displeases Mother—Accused of Blackmailing Plot—Big Coal Deal at Brazil. B. F. Zell, of Eugene, purchased the Collett farm lof 701 acres last May for $42,000. He shortly afterward sold it to Lorenzo Platt, of Chicago, taking in part payment the Alabama Hotel of that city for $25,000. ■ A few days ago a man offered to trade Zell 5,000 acres of farm land in eastern Tennessee for the hfitel. After the deal had been completed Zeli went South to look at his farm, but when he got there he was surprised to flßd it covered with the town of Huntsville and that his deed was worthless. The hotel, however,-4»ad in the meantime been sold again and the owner has a clear title, Zell has been made almost penniless. Drives Mother From Bier. During the funeral of Albert D. Selby at Richmond, his mother, Mrs. Mary Frame Selby, a well-khowu writer and thinker who believes there is no death, took offense at the remarks of the clergyman, Rev. Allan Jay, who referred to her sou as dead. She left the room and caused a scene. Not believing in secret orders, she would not attend the services held by the Knights of Pythias or accompany the remains to Waynesville, Ohio, for interment because a committee of Masons was in charge. Snsp?ct Tries to E®:l Life. Fred Hess, aged 24, son of a wealthy farmer of Whitley County, tried to escape arrest by shooting himself twice in the head before the otticers could wrest the weapon from him. He is suspected of sending a letter to t!ite Walter- Lewis Carriage Company, of Goshen, demanding $3,000 under throat of blowing up the factory. Hess is likely to recover, but -says he -will try again. He—is- -underbonds of sl,<*oo at Columbia City, and $2,000 at Fort Wayne to answer to similar charge?. Big Coal Deal Completed. The merchants and manufacturers in the Co-Operative Coal Company, most of the stockholders residing at Chicago, nnd the Andrews Coal Company disposed of their coal lands and mines in Clay County to the National Coal Company of Detroit, Midi.' The Andrews company was the oldest coal company in Clay County. I’. D. Andrews, now deceased, sank the first mine in the county on the ground where the First National Bank in Brazil now stands.

Mother IV ields Horsewhip. Mrs. Nellie Ashton 'treated a sensation on the street at Brantliville by horsewhipping William Carney upon the charge of insulting her daughter. Both families are wealthy and prominent and Carney was her prospective soa-in-law. The whin used- was a rawhide and the victim's face is badly cut. Plnng 8 Beneath a Train, George W. Gouser, of Kokomo, former Deputy Secretary of State, committed suicide in Indianapolis by plunging beneath a train of Big Four cars. He first slashed his throat with a razor. Worry over financial embarrassments caused the act. Brief State Happenings, Lafayette will have a labor day celebration Sept. 7. Mrs. Julius Lussig of Hammond was fatally burned in a lamp explosion. Newport wants some one to open a new addition of building lots, as there are more people who want lots than there are lots. William L. Wilson, Sr., a hardware merchant of Valparaiso, died, aged 88 years. He served four years as county treasurer. Henry Jones, 10 years old, was frightfully burned by an explosion of gasoline at Frankfort. His mother was burned about the arms. William Kedmon. aged 45, was shot and instantly killed by Alexander Humphrey at Terre Haute. They quarreled about a womau. Humphrey was arrested.

City Marshal John H. Williams of Indianapolis shot and killed William Feidbusch in a duel on the river. The marshal had a warrant, issued on the complaint of Felubusch's wife. Miss Maude Brown, a young woman of Washington, 38 years old, was appointed a rural mail carrier. She is probably the first \\;oinan in the State to be named as a mail carrier. Dr. John White will succeed Dr. Noyes as the head of the department of chemistry at Rose Polytechnic Institute, Terre llaute. I)r. Noyes goes to the new Department of Commerce at Washington. West Hammond is apparently at the mercy of .a murderous incendiary, who 'sets tires to buildings only Where women and children live. Six buildings have been burned during the last few weeks in a mysterious manner. William, the 18-year-o!d son of Attorney W. H. Pennington, assaulted his mother with an ax because she would not grant him permission to drive the family horse to a picnic. Mrs. Pennington is only slightly injured, but the son was arrested and put iu jail. By the completion of the Dayton aiyl Western traction line into Richmond Ifldianapolis and Dayton. Ohio, are joined by a continuous line which is one of the longest in the world. It not only links Ohio and Indiana, furnishing many important connections; but it will be one part of the trunk line that will eventually connect St. Louis and New York, with branches that will touch Cincinnati, Cleveland, Toledo, IX'troit aud other important points. Fire in the Rock Run mine iu Parke County caused the death of Carl Montgomery, a miner, and destroyed the wood work aud tipple. The fire started in a barrel of oil from a spark from the miner’s lamp. William L. Tettit, for thirty years assistant cashier of the First Rational Bank of Fort Wayue, shot Tiimself through the head and didMnrtantly. He had been a nervous wreck for two yearn —since the death of hia wife-—and had retired from the bank. Mr. Pettit wm 63 years old and was n major in thn Civil War-