Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 128, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1903 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTB OF THE PAST WEEK. Serious Coal Sbortase I* Feared —- Wolves Troublesome Near Nashville —Son Sacrifices $20,000 to Cause of -Killed by an Engine. Manufacturers and coal dealers in all the large cities of the State are very apprehensive over the coal situation, as, although the winter is not yet here, a coal famine is imminent in all the cities of the gas belt. There is an abundance of coal at the mines, nnd in many instances long lines of loaded cars are merely awaiting engines to move them. Some of the factories in Indianapolis have been obtaining steam coal only from day to day. It is estimated that a thousand cars of coal consigned to factories and deajers'ln that city are on sidetracks between there and the Linton fields. \ Son Calmly Sacrifices $20,000. The will of Edward Seidel, whose estate invoices at $225,000, was filed in Fort Wayne for probate. It puts all the property in the name of the youngest son, Otto, his father’s favorite, as trustee. The father gave Otto a deed to property worth $25,000, which was in an envelope with the will. In the presence of all the heirs Otto for the first time read the deed, but, fearing it would be a basis of family trouble, he tore it up, saying he would share equally with the rest. The act cost him just $20,000. Troubled by Wolves. James Helms, a farmer, eight miles from Nashville, reports that wolves are causing much trouble to .farmers iu his vicinity, and that frequently the animals can be beard howling. Recently they attacked sheep on his farm, killing two, and so widespread is the fear because of their depredations that children, whose paths lie close to the woods frequented by the animals, are accompanied to school by mule relatives to prevent attack. Young Girl Meets Tragic Death. While on her way to Sunday .school, Miss Emma Habermnn, 22, was’ Struck by a Michigan Central freight train in Michigan City and injured to such an extent that death resulted in fifteen minutes. A number of witnesses saw the accident. The girl has only a brother in Laporte, her other relatives living in the far East and unable to attend the girl’s funeral, Seeks Death on Girl’s Grave. George R. Moore was found poisoned and unconscious, lying across the grave of bis sweetheart, Lizzie tage Hill cemetery, Brazil. No hope of his recovery is entertained. The girl died eight months ago, since when Moore has worried himself into partial insanity! Postmaster an Embezzler. D. -L. Zimmerman, former postmaster at Lynnville, was arrested the other night for alleged embezzlement of SOOO. He was taken to Evansville and pleaded guilty and bis bond was fixed at $1,500. State Items of Interest. Nick Yolsab, who is in jail at Newport awaiting trial for housebreaking, is worth $40,000, and is also heir to a large estate in Germany. The little child of Payne Jordan, residing at Newburg, accidentally pulled a cup of coffee off the tahje and was so badly scalded that she died in a few hours.

Affirming a decision of the federal court of Indiana, the United States Circuit)! £ourt of Appeals has declared Frederick S. Chase of Lafayette to be the legal guardian of the person End property of his son, Moses Fowler‘Chase, said to be worth nearly $1,500,000. Undkr the decision the aunt of young Chase, Mrs. Ophelia Duhme of Cincinnati, failed again to secure control of the young man and his estate. When President Butler and members of the faculty of Butler College in Indianapolis occupied their usual seats nt the chapel service the other morning and started to rise Tifter the services they found thdt their trousers were glued fast chairs. There was a pulling and tugging and a final backing out of the hall, and a few moments later all the members appeared in other trousers. Someone had smeared the chair bottoms with liquid glue of a superior tenacity. Joseph Snelling, a farmer in Calvin township, has had Harvey Matthews arrested on a charge of stealing buried treasure amounting to S7OO. Snelling, after noting the collapse of five or six banks in the northern part of the State within the past year, became alarmed and withdrew his money from a bank to bury it in his front yard. On Saturday the tity can and its contents were found to have been dug up before the owner felt need of drawing upon bis buried reserve fund. There is a veritable reign of terror at the town of Montgomery, and many of the business men are preparing to leave the place for permanent residence in larger towns. Ode year .ago Harry Brown, a merchant of Montgomery) received a letter saying thnt unless $2,000 was placed in a designated pldte by a certain time the town would be bumejL. No attention wa» paid to the letter, and shortly after the. expiration of the time a fire destroyed several business bouses and residences, the incendiary pouring coal oil on the houses and evidently starting the fires at the same time. Two weeks ago another letter' was received by citizens demanding $2,000, and again threatening to burn the town, nearly all of which had l>oen rebuilt. Again fire was set in the business section and in many places on the outskirts, and great loss resulted. Preparations were making to rebuild, bat another letter has been received demanding $2,000 and threatening to bum the town again if it is not left in the place designated.

The Press newspaper and three other business places iu Bunker Hill were destroyed by fire. The loss is about $lO, 4 000. Insurance $4,000. There was no fire protection. F. M. Wolf, who lives near Ridgevllle and has been dumb for more than two years, Is novf able to carry on a conversation as a result of chewing tobacco for several hours. Wesley Burris, a negro,’.was convicted before Spccinl Judge A. C. Hawkins at Evansville for taking part in the riot in that city last July. The penalty la (from two to fourteen years in the State prison.