Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 118, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1903 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERBELY TOLD. Newcastle Liquor Coses to Be Dropped —Man, Lets Horae Choose Wife for Hint Kokomo Votes for Open Saloons —Wedded In Tower. - _ : - ■ ■ *. ' The temperance! crusade in Newcastle two years ago, which created suoh ext citement for-a' soon be a thing of the past. The 145 indictnjerrts returned against local saloons, on information furnished detectives, will be dismissed at the October term of th£ Circuit Court. When, these eases firkt came up, the detectives failed t» appear, and the cases have since bCP n carried from terin to term. Sheriff Christopher lias had, subpoenas Tor thp detectives, to bring them here to testify, but after a diligent search, lasting over a year, has been unable to locate them. The smallest number of indictments against one man was six and the largest seventeen. Saloon men say that in several neighboring counties the detectives made false affidavits, and that should they appear to testify against local saloon men the State Liquor League would prosecute them for making false affidavits. j-

Let Horse Select His Wife. Mrs. Ralph E. Brown o{ Hendricks County, in her suit for divorce, charges that her husband let a horse select his wife. She and Mr. Brown were married in August last and separated in December. She says Mr. Brown was paying attention to a woman in Indianapolis and she herself lived in Clayton. On the day fixed for the wedding Brown got into his buggy, undecided whether to marry her or the Indianapolis girl. He dropped the reins over the dashboard and left the decision to the horse, which turned off at the Clayton road, thus deciding the defendant in his choice of a wife. Open Saloons Is the Vote. After a seven months’ crusade against Kokomo saloonkeepers under the Nicholson blanket law, the temperance people were defeated in the vote Friday and the town is wet again. The crusades closed twenty saloons, all of which will open again. In every ward the remonstrants were in the minority in the count. : , A*ed Relative of Brjran Dies. Mary Gano Bryng.CoWfe stvpqpnwd* Lbt. William Jennings Bryan, died in Kokomo, aged 101 yeaf*. She was a Daughter of the Revolution and a widow of the war of 1812 and the Mexican war. She was bom in Frankfort, Ky., Jan. 11, 1802. All her children died of old age years ago.

Fast Freight Kills Three. Three persons, Mrs. Will Billman, her daughter, Mrs. Ollie Peters, arid Miss Blanche Gill, were killed at Felton's Crossing, four miles east of Ligonier, while walking on the Lake Shore tracks. They were struck by fast freight train No. 63, west bound. Have Wedding in a Tower. Charles N. Thompson and Bessie Wilson, visitors to the Terre Haute fair,decided to be married and as suddenly consented to go to the court house tower for the ceremony, ro that they were pronounced husband and Wife 175 feet above ground. Brief State Happening*. Hazelnuts are plentiful this year. Martinsville has a new canning factory. Bloomington has a new broom sac tooh. Rushville has several new oil companies. Peach canning factories over the State are getting busy. Darlington has let a contract for a system of street lights. Peter Surprise of Laporte County is dead, aged 104 years. Bad weather made the Delaware County fair lose money. A woman was fired on from a Lake Shore train at Laporte. Mrs. R. W. Davis lost a satchel and diamonds worth SI,OOO at Shelbyville. Robert Kirkpatrick of Wheeling sold 235 hogs in Flora for something over $3,000. A carnival in Logansport cleared more than $3,000 for the local people who gave it. ‘ Lightning struck a school house in Warren County, and it burned to the ground. John Cowder of Logansport has a peach tree bearing at least 150 peaches nine inches in diameter. Reports of trustees show that Earlham College, at Richmond, is in better financial shape than ever before. “Uucle” Sammy Beighlor of Howard County has on exhibition at Kokomo a radish weighing 9% pounds. Decatur County farmers are aroused over increased taxation and will make some effort to have it reduced. A fine St. Bernard dog, owned by Father Bogemaun of Bloomington and valued at $175, has boeu abducted. Joe Runner of Worthington tried to drive Fletcher Owen into bhe ground with a sledge hammer. Owen will recover. While Lewis Robson, an Alien County farmer, was sharpening a plow, a piece of the point tore his eye from his head. Vincennes is enjoying an unprecedented boom, and contracts for homes sre being let in lots of ten to vsrious contractors. Rev. Martin Luther of Valparaiso has resigned the pastorate of the Presbyterian Church there and will go into ness. India Shutterly, 15, ran away from her home in Michigan to see the world. She was arrested in South Bend for vagrancy. At Shoals Clay Wagoner, the 12-yenr-old eon of George M. Wagoner, was kicked In the stomach by a horse and lived but a few minutes. A .tank holding 30,000 barrels of mkto petroleum belonging to the Manhattan Oil Company was struck by lightning a* Montpelier and the oil set afire. A cannon was brought from Lima, Ohio, and a Urge tele -was shot into the Unk to let 1 out oiL Tbe loss is $35,000.