Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1904 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PART WEEK. Anarchiat Forced to Flee for LifeReform School for Boy Who Killed His Playmate—Dream Kills ManBank Wrecker Freed. Deville Pi Ballard, at the Marion Soldiers’ Home, gave voice to anarchistic sentiments and was forced to rim for his life, pursued by angry soldiers, several of whom were old companions of McKinley. *T hope every Mc?4nley monument will be struck by lightning, ’ shouted Ballard; "I would like to see monuments to the Chicago anarchists raised everywhere where there is a McKinley monum’ent. 1 would rather contribute for the families of the Chicago anarchists than to a memorial for McKinley.” Balia rd was chased to the office of the adjutant, where lie pleaded for protection. He was Z giyen his dis charge and a file of guards, but outside the gate was compelled to flee for his life. Bullard was a member of the Twen-ty-third lowa Infantry. Sentence Child for Murder. Court in Indianapolis, Marshall Harrington, 14 years old, was sentenced to the Indiana reform school on his conviction of, the murder of his boy playmate, Albert Nicholas. Sympathy for the unfortunate boy, which all along had been general, disappeared. in the light of the evidence introduced by the State, and when, after a two hours' consideration of the evidence, the jury came in with a verdict of manslaughter, tiiere was expressed by many a feeling of positive relief. Young Harrington deliberately murdered his playmate with a Flobert ritle I >ee. 1. — Death Attributed to Dream. The death of Jacob Harlan, 50 years old, a well known resident of Union City, is attributed to a dream. Harlan retired in perfect health, bnt :».voke shaking as with the ague. He told his wife that he had just dreamed- that he was in a runaway, and that his father had tried to stop the team but was run over. As he told the story ills terror seemed to grow, and his wife tried to soothe him. .While she was still speaking her husband gave a gasp or two and in a few minutes expired. Medical examination showed that the immediate cause of death was heart failure. ” Big FourG ivcslSlo,ooo. A gift of $15,000 toward the construction of a $100,(MM) gymnasium at Purdue’ University in memory of the seventeen students-and football playess killed in the Purdue special wreck at Indianapolis on Oct. 31, 1903. is assured in a telegram from M. E. Ingalls, president of the Big Four Railroad Company, on which road the disaster occurred. Bank Wrecker Set Free. Great indignation prevails at Andrews and Huntington over the discovery that James M. Key, the wrecker of the Commercial Bank at Andrews, has been paroled. Key was convicted two years ago of looting the institution and Sentenced to from two to fourteen years in the penitentiary.

State Items of Interest, William Fisher, of Evansville, who travels for a Chicago house, was bitten on the lips by a large rat while asleep at Hawesville, Ky. His lips are badly swollen and blood poisoning is threatened. The Indiana Trust Company, as receiver for the American Indemnity and Assurance Compsiny of Enst Chicago, has reported the sale of the bonds owned by the company ami listed at $75,000 for $lO. A serious fire broke out in the Colonial Building, a four-story flat structure, in Marton. Men, women and children became panic-stricken. The occupants of the building were carried down ladders nnd it is thought all escaped. Herbert Lawhorn, colored, of Washington, while driving a team of mules, struck a stump which pitched him forward, his feet catching him in a hole in the wagon bed and holding him until one of the mules kicked out his brains. Death was instantaneous. John Ke|>as, of Hammond, Ind., lost his wife and fortune. It is claimed that she eloped witli George Nick, a boarder at Kepas* house, taking with her S2,(MM) in gold that was hidden there.yThe New York police have been notified to arrest the couple, who are on their way to Hungary. Samuel Michaels, the 70-yearold man accused of dynamiting the farm home of Aaron Shock, near Kokomo, through spite and failure to win the favor of Miss Edna Mabel Burns, 16 years old, was bound over by Justice Moreland for trial. John Bowen was also held as an accessory. Mrs. Bertha Briggs, living on a farm just south of Elwood. claims the record of industry in that community. Besides taking cure of twelve thildren, during the year 1903, she sold 593 pounds of blitter and 563 dozen eggs, and $131.95 worth of buttermilk. Tlfe total amount of the sales of her produce tor the year was $421.95. I'or several weeks a-country neighborhood four miles north of Hagerstown has been so thoroughly infested by petty thieves that it is -.«aid no-family in a circuit of several square miles has escaped loss. The •thieves take anything they enn carry from poultry to farm implements. A small church of the United Brethren denomination stands in the vicinity. Lately the sisters of the church have purchased a new carpet nnd new window shades and furnished the church in tine style. The nileves broke into the church hjmT toofc we carpet and the ah n des. Leroy Harris, aged 16. arrested nt Mnriou confessed to fourteen recent robIteries, including the theft of diamonds from Porter J. White, an actor, and four liotsev. “The only real solution of the antitoxin trust is the plan of having all antitoxin used hi Indiana made by and under the complete control of the State.’* said Dr. J. N. Hnrly. secretary of the State Board of Health. “Such a plant would diet the State s2ts>,(MMi. The plants must l>e located in the country ami conducted with the greatest care iu-tu salutation and cleanliness.” \