Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 142, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1903 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST r WEEK. — t -.r ■ - Youth's Painful 1-xpc-riciice with a ; CockieWri— Bad Marksmanship Joke on Gov, Durbin Ke.lforJ Men. Are Couvictcd^-Ksplosion Near Kokomo. v- ; ..,«** ! Oron George, the lu-year-old son of John (ireorjJesOf Connersville, lias passed through a dangerous experience. While hunting and walking rapidly through a thicket of weeds, cockleburrs were sfet afloat, and one of them was drawn into his mouth and lodged in his \yiudpip4. He could not dislodge the burr, and fled back to the city, and applied to local physicians far relief. They, were unsuccessful in dislodging the obstruction, which cahsed violent coughing and hemorrhage, with intense suffering. The boy-was removed to the, Septon sanitarium at RushvlUe to undergo an operation, but scarcely had he crossed the threshold of that institution before he was seized with a violent fit of coughing, during which the burr was dislodged and ejected. It is full one inch in length, and nearly three-quarters of an inch thick, and is covered with the usual spines, seasoned hard, and as shayp as needles. Apprehension is still felt as to juries are very serious.

Shoots Horse for Quail. Gor. Durbin, who is now hunting in Coffee County, Ga.. displayed his marksmanship by shooting a horse when lie aimed at one of a covey of Georgia quail. The Governor, in company with Joe Brewer, a local sportsman, had fine shooting all day nntilTiis bad shot caused the steed they were driving to run away. He nhd Brewer had to. walk several miles through the swamps back to camp, which they did not reach until 10 o’clock at night. Guilty of Intent to Kill. The jury in the case of the State against Duncan. Patton and Bruce in Bedford, for assault with intent to kill Frank Dorsey last September found the mien guilty after being out twenty hours. They were giVcn a fine and jail sentence. Charles Cain, 18 years old, was killed by Dqrsey during the fight between the men. -j«v Explosion Shakes Kokomo. Two hundred and fifty pounds of dynamite at the quarries of the Kokomo, Marion and Western Traction Company exploded. Though one mile away, every building in Kokomo was shaken and many windows shattered. A dozen persons were slightly injured by flying glass. Short When He Resigned. An auditing committee reported to the Martinsville City Council that ex-Treas-urer Thomas F. Bruns was short $3,120' when he, resigned a few weeks a gor William and John Downey, A. G. Hobson, H. J. Hinson, ,1. E. Robinson and F. T Kingletou -ure liis bondsmen. State Items of Interest, DM Redwitz of Terre Haute took a trephine to relieve a headache and died from the effects. •> “t. While hunting Rex Weaver, the 16-year-old son of a farmer living Roanoke*-was instantly killed by the accidental discharge of his shotgun. One of the leading Booneville hotel* was quarantined on account of smallpox. There are many cases in town. The vac dilution'of 1,000 school pupils has been determined upon by the authorities. The body of Robert Kondtlinler. an In diana representative of the Sherwin Williams Paint Company nnd son of Rev. Dr. J. A. Rondthaler of Chicago, was found north of Indianapolis, where he evidently had killed himself. A sensation was caused in Lafayette by the sudden death of Mrs. Elias Burkhardt at the German Lutheran Church. While in the midst of a hymn Mrs. Burkliardt staggered into the and dropped dead into her husband's arms. The Gold Creek Mining Company, composed of Indianapolis and Martinsville capitalists, has been formed to mine gold in Brown and Morgan counties. The State geologists say the ore lands will produce from 35 to 80' ceuls a square yard.

The saloon of Thomas Utt at Bieknell Was demolished with stones at the hands of Mrs. Thoinns Dnnt. wife of a coal miner. She said she is determined to stop drunkenness in her home and will smash every saloon that sells her relatives liquor. • Mrs. Fannie Thompson, widow of former Mayor Otis Thompsoh of Elkhart, a prominent society woman, has taken a position as saleswoman in a department store, following the assignment of the Acme Cycle Company, of which she was secretary and malinger. The assignment was due to a collapse of the Indiana National B*nk. The 2-year-old child of Robert Steward, living four miles northwest' of Salem. fell in the fire at the house and died in a short time from its burns. The mother was away from the house at the time aud the child was in the care of two brothers, the oldest being 5) years. Aftet the child was pulled out of the fire, it ran to the yard with its clothing on fire, nnd.its mother was burned about the hands and arms in puting out the tlaines. A dispatch, from Washington says the Indiana mortgage exemption law is valid. The Supreme Court has dismissed the suit to test the constitutionality of tlie law. The court held that it had no jurisdiction. This leaves the decision of the Indiana Supreme Court sustaining the law In full force. The original suit hi the Marion County, Indiana, Court was brought by Martha J. Lewis on the relation of the Stnte. Harry B. Smith, county auditor, appealed the case to the Supreme Court of the United Btntes. Samuel Shade, a contractor, dropped (load In a buffet at Hammond, while calling for a drink of whisky. The verdict of the coroner's inquest was cerebral hemorrhage. Harry lvellar, claiming Chicago as his home, uns tried in Bradford for burglary and sentenced to Michigan City penitentiary, for two to ten years. It is believed his real name id Harry * Kiser. While chopping down tree* Henry Tliltie of Dyer waa killed by being pinned beneath a trunk. He bled to death before help could reach him. Thiele waa one of Lake Cohnty’a oldest settlers.

Those ever bright perennial blossoms in the field of literature, the patent medioine almanuoa, are now in full bloom for the year 1904, and may be freely gathered for the asking,, at the drag stores. In looking them over to find what the doming year will have to offer in the way o phenomena, we find, for one thing, that it is leap year; being the firs' for eight years. In the matter of eolipees the year will come as near amounting io nothing as an*' we oan remember,-at least for residents of this part of the world There will be no eolip-es of the mxm at all, during the year There will be two eolipses of the sun. hut neither will be visible to people of this continent. There will be an annular eclipse of the •on, March 16th, visible to parte of Asia and Africa; and a tota eclipse on Sept. 9th. visible to a large portion of the I’aoifio Ocean.

The marvelous industrial development of the United States during the past deoade contains no reoord that oan compare with the growth of oar great iron and stee industry. The whole fascinating stary of the evolntion from very small beginning of the wonderfn aggregation of cooking ovens, blast fnrnaoos, and r Jling mills, w’ i b render the valley of the. Monongshela the very center of the world’s iron and steel industries, has never been told. Io a special number devoted to Iron and Steel exclusively, the Scientific American presents an authoritative aocount of how we have, out-distanced all

other countries in the production of iron aod steel. How wonderful that development has been, is shown by the mere faot that in 1810 there were produced in the United States but 53.908 tons of pig iron, and that in 1902 the total output of pig iron passed far beyond that of our nearest oompet ; - tor, Great Britain, reaching the huge total of 17,821,307 tuns. How this vast output of p<g iron is converted into armor plate, gun steel, structural shapes, tabes, rails, and steel and wire, besides a host of other things, it is thiespeoial number’s purpose to tell.