Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1904 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA. INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Boys Try to Hold Up Train Near Franklin — Seven Badly Injured in Trolley Crash—Mine Shutdown Ex-. pected April 1. Three boys, who are about 16 yearn of age, attempted to hold up a passenger train near Franklin. The train waa moving slowly at the time. One of the number, who commanded the engineer to stop, fired through the cab window, narrowly missing the engineer. Another bullet shattered a glass in the smoking car window. George Logan and Arthur Johnson, both colored, and 13 years old, were arrested, charged with the shooting. A warrant has nlso been issued for James Campbell, colored, aged 12, but the police were unable to find the boy. Johnson was subsequently released because of insufficient evidence. Will Strike April 1. The officers of the Indiana district of the United Mine Workers arc now convinced that there will be a strike April 1. They had believed that, the operators would be willing to sign the old contract by the time the interstate joint conference reassembled, but there is information that the operators really want a suspension. D. J. Terhune, an operator of the Linton field, says: “My opinion is that there will not lie any coal mined in Indiana in April. I think there will be rt general cleaning up of the mines during the month, but by Mav everything will be going ail right again.” Courthouse Building Scorched. The old court house building in Brazil narrowly escaped destruction by fire. As County Auditor Smith was closing hi# office for the day he discovered the wainscoting on fire, and investigation showed -the presence of fire under the floor and in the basement. The county officials and clerks rallied with water and the flames were soon extinguished. Had the trouble broken out half on hour later the entire building, including the county records, would have been consumed. Car Crash Injures Seven. A collision on the northern division of the Indiana Union Traction Company’s system near Tipton between a special work train carrying twenty-eight laborftrs and a limited interurban car, comfortably filled with passengers, resulted In serious injuries to seven, persons, several of whom may die. The wreck is attributed to the faulty headlight on ths work train, which was being remedied when the limited crashed into the forward end. Both cars were demolished.

Stampeded Highwaymen. Lnn Lewis, Dr. George Ames and Harry Kerht, drivi itr on the Utica pike early in the mornitij,, .©turning from a birthday party, were stopped by three highwaymen, one of whom seized the horse, while the others called upon the occupants to stand and deliver. Lewis sprang from the vehicle, whip in hand, using the butt end with vigor. He wgs joined by his companions, and after a sharp battle tlie highwaymen were put to flight. Fire at Evansville. Messrs. Bement & Seitz, cold storage and commission men, in Evansville, suffered loss in the partial destruction of their plant. It is the first serious fire since tlie breaking of the water works plaut, and the engines loaned by St Louis and Cincinnati were of great service. Tho loss on the building is (8,000, with (15,000 on stock, consisting largely of clover and timothy seed. Brief State Happening^ Twenty more mills at the plant of the American Tinplate Company iu El wood have been put to work. Trustee Wilkinson, under orders of court, offered for sale the plant of the Wnbnsli bridge and iron works, but there were no bidders.

Fred Frelss, aged 37, a young Evansville business man, choked to death while seated at the dinner table. His death was caused by bronchitis. George B. Sherer and Arthur K. Whitelaw, members of the Hammond school board impeached on a charge of misusing school funds, have resigned. Albert Hartman, a Bunman farmer, who accidentally killed himself While climbing a fence with a shotgun in his hand, left 12 children, the oldest of whom is 17. A freight wreck occurred at Bicknell on the Indianapolis ami Vincennes Railroad, and Hiram Bush, a brakeman, whose home was at Indianapolis, was killed and Conductor Taylor and a man named Browiinll of Indianapolis were badly hurt. Miss Fay Dunham, aged 20, committed suicide at her home In Plymouth by taking strychnine, death resulting in fifteen minutes. No definite cause is assigned for her deed. Site waa a pretty girl, fond of society, and it would seeui that self-destruction was far from her thoughts. 1 John Dabler, said to have once been an aristocratic Englishman with a mysterious history, was found frozen to death in a lint near Iloss. When discovered the dead man clutched a Masonic emblem iu kjs hand. Dabler was 80 years of age and had lived as a hermit for years. The hut is not far from Hammond. To the people of that section Dabler had been a mystery through two generations. Isl 1800 lie purchased a lot in Oakhill cemetery. It was at that time that be retired to his but near Ross, declaring that he was going there to die. Two yeara ago Ilabler’s hotiaekeeper set fire to hie hut opd ran away with (10,000 of her employer’s money because he had refused to nntrry her. Since that time the hermit had shown signs of increased feebleness. The Main Street Christian Church at Kokomo was destroyed by fire. Lose (3$ ,000. A colored family, which will soon more to Wolcott, will be the ouly colored family in that part of White tyTwo Siringtown (Brazil) families lived together, the wives dividing the work. One of the women began to slug in church choirs; the other said site was not do lag her share of the work: they quarfelor; one had the other arrested on the charge of provoke: 'squire's court —Ann •r f 10.