Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 135, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1903 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERBELY TOLD. Suicide Wants Band Music at His Funeral -- Systematic Robbery of Railroad by Employes—Hoover Hanged at Michigan City—A. Day’s Mishaps.

“Men often make mistakes, but who has made a greater mistake than I?” wrote Dr. J. M. Willis, one of the most "prominent '.physicians of Alamo, before he took his position before a mirror and blew out his brains in the office building he had just had erected. The suicide caused a sensation. Tacked to the folding bed in his room was a large piece Of paper, on which were written some startling requests, which will be carried out. “I want my body cremated at St. Louis,” wrote the suicide. “The act which I am about to carry out is not the thought of a moment, but has been in contemplation for some time. I want a first-class band of national reputation employed to be present and furnish music for the exercises at my funeral, the Indianapolis military or Ringgold band at Terre Haute. I would not want any Crawfordsville band employed except as a last resort, because they are never under good organization and their music is not entertaining.”

Rob Railroad for Year*. The police of Indianapolis have uncovered one of the most sensational cases of -systematic robbery of a railroad Company that has come to light within recent years. More than forty employes of the Big Four company have apparently been engaged in the nefarious business Which has extended over a period of seven years. Goods, so far accounted for, amount to over $15,000, and new discoveries are being made every day. The thieves are freight conductors and other employes connected with the freight department. Mr. Kleemnn, claim adjuster, of Cleveland, Ohio, came to Indianapolis to confer with the detectives. He found evidence for the arrest of railroad men in different cities between Indianapolis and Bellefontaine, Ohio, one in Pittsburg and one in Philadelphia. Mr. Kieeman said most of the stolen goods were sold m small towns along the line of the rail-, road.

Day Crowded with Mishap^. In Marion Friday was marked by accidents in which thirteen people were injured. Five were injured, four probably fatally, when the dwelling of G. B. Hight was wrecked by a natural gas explosion. The other mishaps were; Forrest Shetley, arm torn off in a fodder shredder; William Lemons, probably fatally injured by a falling log; Clyde Rush, a pupil in the public school, accidentally stabbed by a fellow pupil; Lola Carver, struck by a street car and seriously injured; Amel Cramer, seriously injured by fall; .Fred Rose, John Phillips and Elmer Ross, injured in the oil field.

Hoover Meets Death Penalty. \V ltli expressions of sorrow on his lips for the murder of Frank Sutton, his father-in-law, Edward Hoover of Indianapolis marehed unflinchingly to the gallows at the. State prison in Michigan City, and paid the penalty of his crime. Just before the execution, in a talk with the chaplain, Hoover said he had just realized the enormity of his crime, and was very sorry he had killed Sutton, who had always treated him right. Hoover’s wife left him because of his quarrelsome disposition, and in a fight with Sutton over this fact the latter was shot and killed.

Colored Roy Shoots Child. Michael Ingraham, an 11-year-old colored boy, living near Lawrenceburg, when ordered from the home of John Childers, deliberately fired a load of buckshot through the head of Mila Childers, 5 years of age. The boy escaped to the woods, but was persuaded to surrender. When asked why he had killed the child he said he wanted to kill some one and it might as well be Mila as anybody else.

State Items of Interest. Harry Ward died from burns received in the Montpelier fire. School rooms in Wabash are provided with n tin cup for each pupil. Fielding McKowan, 91, has brought suit f<n divorce from his wife, 89, in Marion. Labor troubles have started in Muncie over the organization of a blacksmiths’ uuion. Harvey Ralya, a Prominent inventor aa.l manufacturer of Anderson, has become violently insane. Kokomo is having such a boom that laborers cannot be found to do the work that contractors have on hand. * A brother-in-law of Edward Hoover is circulating a petition to have Gov. Durbin commute the prisoner’s sentence. John Hayden was sentenced by Judge Cobb at Vincennes to from ope to twen-ty-one years in State's prison for arson. The- City Council of Marion lias passed an ordinance regulating the speed of automobiles in the city. The limit is five miles per hour. In Goshen the saloon fight is so bitterly waged Hint whitecap notices have been sent to Rev. Alexander McLaughlin, who is managing the remonstrance fight.

Keymeur is to hold n special election ne.it month to decide whether or not a 2 per cent subsidy will be given the Indiana Central electric railroad company. Burns & Hobson, grocers, assigned to C, W. Rose in Martinsville at the close of business. Assets are $2,500, liabilities about $1,500. The assignment is a result of tiie shortage of Burns as city treasurer, which'shortage will be about $2,000. IJ is* partner was one of liis bondsmen. ~ 1 - 1 *—- ' 1 In attempting with a hammer to open the safe in the Big Four elevator at Warsaw, which had been previously- visited by cracksmen who were frightened away after inserting a charge of nitroglycerin. Elmer Kinsey and Delph Moore were Re¥erejyTiiJure<rTVy aliei ploSlon. George Tbeaman of Chicago, alias George Bender, arrested at Bremen for forgery, has confessed that his partner, Joseph Bonder of Hammond, sent him forged checks with bogus letters of instructions, by the use of which he cashed the checks. Among the names gsed waa that of Studebaker Brothers. -