Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 148, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 January 1904 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST " WEEK., John Terrell I* Denied New TrialPalmer University at Muncie Closed by Trnstees—Careless Boy Kills Cousin with Shotgun.

Judge John Smith, who presided in the Terrell trial, has notified the attorneys that he will overrule the motion for a

new trial.-. Terrell will remain in Bluffton until February, and in his cell across the street will see the crowd going to the opening of his new theater, the Terrell Grand. TeiTell was convicted ,of the murder of his son-in-law, L. Melvin Wolf, last July. There is much sympathy for the defendant. Wolf

married Terrell's daughter, treated her inhumanly and then refused to live with her. He, however, continued his persecutions of the young woman until one day the father, frenzied over the treatment of. his daughter, snatched a shotgun and fired a load into Wolf’s thigh. The younger man, although desperately wounded, drove to a physician's office in his buggy and was placed on the operating table for the amputation of hjs leg. But Terrell was not satisfied. He followed to the physician’s office, broke down the door and poured both barrels into the form on the operating table, killing Wolf instantly.

Trustees Close Big School. At a meeting of the board of trustees of I’almer University of Muncie it was decided to close the school'for the present, although the fund of SIOO,OOO neces. sary to secure the SIOO,OOO of Francis S. Falmer of New York has been raised. This action was taken because litigation over the will of the deceased millionaire in the New York courts will prevent the university drawing interest on the endowment and fund pledged, which money is necessary for the support of the school. No date for reopening is mentioned. Careless Boy Kills Girl. Miss Grace Hammond, the 17-year-old daughter of Thomas Hammond, was accidentally shot and instantly - killed at Noblesville by lief cousin, Littleton Harvey of Indianapolis, who has been visiting the family during the holidays. They went out from the residence with an oldfashioned gun. They had been absent from the house but a few inomentfTwhen a rabbit ran around the couple. Harvey fired as he whirled, around, striking Miss' Hammond squarely in the breast.

Cheney’s Million* Many. Information from New York is to the effect that the estate of the late James Cheney of Fort Wayne was worth from $10,000,000 to $14,000,000, instead of $2,000,000 or $3,000,000, as at first estimated. The records show that in July, during the panic of 1893, he cleared nearly $3,000,009. '<

All Over the Stat** Fire destroyed Tillman & Oleson's livery stable, cremating fourteen horses and burning two adjoining residences in Porter. The loss will reach $14,000, with no insurance. A Pan’ Handle switch engine crashed into a Toledo, St. Louis and Western passenger train at Kokomo. Five persons were injured and ttVo coaches wrecked. None of the injured will die. Edward Stanhope, colored, was murdered as he sat in his home in Indianapolis by his stepson, Harry Chapman, who later surrendered at the police station and said his stepfather had insulted his mother. The quarries of Perry Matthews and the Buskirk Stoue Company near Bedford were sold to the Cleveland Stone Company for $600,000. George Worthington of the Cleveland Stone Company was elected president and Charles Walters of Chicago general manager. The Indiana State Teachers' Association held its annual election in Indianapolis. W. L. Bryan, head of the State University, was elected president; W. C. Brandenburg, chairman of the executive committee; J. B. Pearcy, secretary and treasurer, and Miss Kate Woods, recording secretary. District vice presidents were also named.

Palmer University in Muncie wjll not be abandoned. At ,the final meeting of the board of trustees for the purpose of winding up business preparatory to giving up the school, $10,500 of the $25,000 necessary to complete the endowment fund of $200,000 was subscribed by wealthy Muncie citizens, and the remainder was guaranteed. President J. L. Brodrick of Elkhart notified Receiver Bosworth that he was ready to turn over all his property, valued at about $26,000, for the benefit of bank depositors. He will not Claim S6OO legal exemption, nor will anything be reserved in Mrs. Brodrick’s name, she joining him in executing the deeds. A week before Cashier Collins took similar action, turning over $12,000 in property. Recommendations for future legislation and silence ns to the individual responsibility for the Purdue wreck were the characteristics of the Indianapolis grand "jury’s report. The blame for the wreck was on an alleged lack of system and lack of cooperation in the railway company and to an imperfect system of train handling. The report says noggood would come from the prosecution of any person connected'With the railroad. It is recommended that a law be passed providing that a baggage car shall be placed between the engine nnd the first passenger conch, and that a dereliction of duty may. lead to a charge of manslaughter. A S6OO diamond 'broOch lost by Mrs. Dave Ryder in Terre Haute was returned by Miss Fern Howell of Paris, 111., who found it nt the Grand Opera House door and held it until advertised for. Ryder pressed SIOO reward on her. 'Mrs. John Anderson of Michigan City, despondent because of illness, set fire to her clothing with suicidal intent, and ran screaming from the house enveloped In flames. Her husband, awakened by hsr cries, pursued her, but did not succeed in extinguishing the flames until Ills wife had been frightfully burned. The physicians offer no hope for her recovery.

JOHN W. TERRELL