Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1904 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY told. Old Soldier Pose., ns ?eifaitl Brotbsw and Draws Two Pensions—Drunkenness on the Increase Banker’s ton Attacked by Robber*. Joseph (*. Berry is an applicant for admission to the Marion branch of the National Soldiers* Home, and is lieing care-l for in the Marion hospital. Berry’s history, since the war, has been a strange one. He was formerly a member of tho Marion branch, but was admitted a* Theodore 11. Berry of Company F, One hundred and Twenty-third Ohio infantry, and under this name he secured a pension in the home fund. In his own name, Joseph C. Berry, Company 11, One hundred and Forty-fourth Ohio, he applied for and was grantigj a pension. When this pension was due* Joseph, as Theodore, would get a leave of absence from the home, so to some town and, as Joseph C. Berry, would cash the voucher for a pension. The United States authorities finally placed Berry under suspicion, and an investigation was made. It showed that Theodore H. Berry had died AUg. 25115U7, and that his brother Joseph had been living a dual life, being Theodore in the home and Joseph outside. He was arrested by the United States authorities for defrauding the government. He was found guilty nnd was sentenced to one year in the penitentiary, the pension in his name being stopped until the amount which he had collected in his brother's name had been paid back to the government.

Bibulous State Is Indiana. Drunkenness in Indiana was greater in 1903 than in 1902, according to reports of county sheriffs made to the board of State charities. The total number of intoxicated persons harbored in the jails in 1903 was 12,394, and in 1902 11,866. Of the total number admitted in 1903 11.804 were whites and 590 were colored. There were 32 boys and 7 girls under the age of 16 years, 9,564 men and 501 women from 17 to 50 years, 1,891 men and 16 women were more than 50 years old. -»Of the remaining 383 the age is unknown. The sheriff of Wabash County reports that one man admitted on account of drunkenness was 104 years old.

Left Helplees toy Robbers. George Whistler, son of the late John Whistler, many years vice president of the First National Bank of Wabash, was found the other morning in a stupefied condition in the burn of A. ML Rodibaugh with his hands tightly tied behind his back and his legs bound with ropes. Whistler says that as he was going homo the previous night he was attacked unknown men, who robbed him of all his money, struck him on the head, tied him and threw him in the bam, where he lay exposed to the cold all night. His groans attracted the attention of passers-by who wept to his rescue. Newspaper Man Grows Rich. Cyrus 11. McCartney, a newspaper man of Laporte County, who disappeared several years ago and was supposed to have been murdered, was heard from recently by a telegram from him at Dawson, Alaska. He says be is well and rich. The last information about him was that his clothing and papers had been found in a forest near Ashland, Ore., but the police failed to discover any further evidence of murder. Elkhart Hankers Arrested. Justus L. Broderick and Wilson L. .. Collins, president and cashier of the defunct Indiana National Bank of Elkhart, and Walter Brown, a director, were arrested by United States Marshal Pettit as a result of the action of the federal grand jury at Indianapolis. Broderick and Collins were already under $5,000 bonds.

All Over the States The shoe store awnwl by Mosiman & James, of Elwood, was destroyed by fire. The loss on the stock amounted to $4,000, covered by insurance. The damage to the building is slight. Gov. Durbin has refused to extend the sixty days’ parole granted to Rev. Willin tn E. Hinshaw to enable him to visit his sick mother, and the convict returned to prison to continue his life sentence for wife murder. What is believed to be the smallest child ever bom in northern Indiana came into the world at Roanoke when Mrs. Roy Irwin, the wife of a farmer, gave birth to an infant that weighed only a pound and a half. Fire destroyed the car bams of the Indianapolis Traction and Terminal Company at McLean place in that city. Twenty-six of the company's best cars were destroyed. The loss is estimated at SIOO,OOO. Two colored lireineu were slightly injured. Fire destroyed the Knight block in the. center of the business district of Brazil. Ind., and did $50,000 damage. The water mains burst and help was asked from Terre Haute. Hundreds of citizens formed a bucket brigade and, notwithstanding the intense cold, fought the fire. While Frank Alexander was driving through an alley In Anderson, his horss was killed by electricity. The driver left his wagon to hold the horse to its feet and he was severely shocked when he stepped into a pool of water. The water had been charged by a wire that went into the ground.

While several boys were watching the enginemen clean out the tire box of a freight engine In a cloud of steam prevented them from seeing the approach of a passenger train, and Lee Stanley, 7 years old. was struck and killed. His brother was also t-trnck and knocked under the freight train, but escaped fatal injury. The Charles S. Knight brick block at Brazil was destroyed by fire at a loss of MO,OOO. The First Methodist Cbnirch at Marton was damaged by fire gtI.OUO. The fire"* originated Brom the furnace. The Grand Trunk station and eating house at Valparaiso were destroyed by fire. Three firemen were slightly hurt. Michigan City went "dry” Sunday, owing to the police enforcing the Nicholson law. The propstetors of fourteen fl saloons were arrester during the day and fined the next morning by Mayor Bifid-