Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 137, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1903 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTB OF THE PAST WEEK. ' Misting Man Reappear* and Threatens to Kill Family—Berne Editor iu Peril from Mob— Burglars try to Cut Off Yonng Woman’s Fingers. Rollin H. Salisbury, civil engineer, who mysteriously disappeared from La Porte July 3 last, vacating a lucrative office and leaving his wife and two children, reappeared there the other night as suddenly and unexpectedly as he left. People were mystified at his disappearance, but,from remarks previously mads It is supposed Salisbury fied with his work. In September ths city was startled to. learn that Salisbury’s wife had brought divorce proceedings, alleging cruelty, that her husband had threatened her- life, that he declared h« no longer loved her or his children, and had said he was in love with a St. Lonia woman. Judge Richter granted the divorce. The other night, shortly before midnight, Salisbury appeared at his former wife’s house and forced nn entrance. When he learned from her that she no longer was his wife he appeared to be insane, and is said to have attempted to secure a butcher knife to kill his family and himself, but wps prevented. He then visited the attorney, M. R. Sutherland, Mrs. Salisbury’s lawyer, and threatened hia life. The nolice took him to the station, but he escaped, and again forced an entrance to his wife’s house at 4 o’clock in the morning, but the police arrested him the second time. He claims to have been in Nevada. The belief is he has gone insane over learning that bis wife had obtained a divorce.

Kditor Hobrer in Peril. Two assaults were made the other evening on Editor Fred Rohrer, Of the Berne Witness, with an attempt to mob him. The attackß were made by Louis Spruuger and Abe Boegly, who, with about ninety others from Berne, had been called before the grand jury of the Adams Circuit Court, to testify to the unlawful selling of liquor in the three local saloons. Owing to cases against saloons now pending in the coifrt, the saloons were to have been closed Nov. 7, but they have been kept open in spite of this. As a consequence, one hundred names of those who have entered the saloons since that date were sent to the grand Jury now in session, in which work Mr. Roller has been chiefly instrumental. The town is in an uproar on account of the occurrence, and, as further mob violence was fear«k Sheriff Butler was called from Decatur to take Mr. Rohrer to the county seat for safe custody. He was kept from the mob by being locked in the postofflee until the sheriff arrived. ■DI, Cruel Act of Burglars. Burglars attempted to cut off the fingers of Miss Edith Shippey of Marion in an attempt to secure several diamond rings which the young woman wore. Miss Shippey was aroused about 3 o’clock by two men who were bending over the bedside, Oge of them seized her hand, npou which were the jewels, and with a long knife attempted to cut off the fingers on which were the gems. In the meantime the second burglar sought to stifle the girl’s outcries by pressing his hand over her mouth. Miss Shippey struggled with the desperation of terror and her screams aroused the household. Hearing the coming of a member of the family the burglars fled. At daylight three men were arrested in a resort near the railway yards, to which vicinity the bloodhounds led the officers.

All Over the Btate J. W. Lamar, who claimed to be the last surviving schoolmate of Abraham Lincoln, died at Buffaloville, aged 85. Joseph Knight, postmaster at Thayer, while watching a stump puller work, fell iuto the machine aud broke both arms and both legs. James Talbert of Sheibyville, husband of Mrs. Hattie Talbert, who was convicted and sentenced for the murder of Eva Cochran's baby, was sentenced to .prison for robbing George W. Patterson ©r*73. } ' f x The town of New ! Carlisle was looted. Several stores being broken into and over SI,OOO worth of clothing and gents’ furnishings were secured, and loaded into a wagon, with which the thieves made good their escape. The A. C. Staley Manufacturing Company has bought the Indiana Paper Company of South Bend, paying Paul K. Rieliter of Chicago $50,000. It is said to be the intention of the company to manufacture women’s undergarments in connection with its present manufacture of men’s underwear.

As Lafayette Elder, a Democratic politician and farmer of Perry County, was on his way home, near Leapold, several shots were fired at him from ambush. One of the shots struck him in the abdomen and he fell from his horse unconscious. He is in a critical couditiou and death is expected. Elder has been receiving letters threatening his life. Charges of irregularities and the reckless expenditure of SIO,OOO, for nearly SO,OOO of which there is said to have been no adequate return, are features of the report of the committee of business and professional men appointed by Mayor Knotts of Hnmmond some time ago to investigate expenditures by the board of education. The report covers the time from December, 1901, to last spring. It alleges collusion between members of the board, allowing the differenecs between the market prices and the price pAld for maps, charts and school furniture. It is charged that contracts for supplies were let without bids and cost the taxpayers from 50 to 800 per cent more than their market value at the time they were Itouglit. The Matter will be presented to the grand jury. Miss Anna Endicott, aged 20, at Darlington, committed suicide by taking cnrbolW? acid. It is said she was disappointed In lore. Charles Carnnell. aged 37, was killed Instantly near Yankeetown by falling from a pecan tree. Hia neck waa broken and bis skull fractured. / It is stated in Elkhart that the amount of caah found in the vault of the Indiana National Bank waa only about $2,000. It la known that four deposits aggregating $2,360 were mada a short tins before tha bank closed aud after payment check waa refused.