Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 66, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1904 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. . Murderer Thanks Judge Who Sentences Him—Woman Binds Ont Son for Six Years—Three Young Men Drown— Cigarettes Produce Convulsions. c Late the other night the jury in the trial of Jerry Duggips for the murder of Mrs. Sarah Ramsay and her two children, Burle and Marie, in Terre Haute, returned a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree against the prisoner. Judge Piety immediately sentenced Duggins to be hanged by the neck until dead before sunrise on the morning of July 8 at the Michigan City prison. ‘’All I have to say is that I thank you all,” was Duggins’ reply after the sentence had been pronounced. Binds Out Son to Service. A contract has been filed in the clerk’s and recorder’s offices, Logansport, by which Mrs. Millie "Bathhousebound out her son, Jesse F. Barnhouse, to Stephen S. Salsberry, a Cass County farmer, for a period of six years. The contract states that for a consideration of a horse and suit of clothes, or S2O in cash, when he becomes of age, Mrs. Barnhouse relinquishes all claim to the custody and supervision of her son and binds him out to Salsberry until April 1, 1910, in order that he may learn to farm. Three Fishermen Drowned. Andy Isgrigg, 19; Arthur Everhart, 18, and Edward Hirt, 21 years old, were drowned in the Ohio river at Jeffersonville, near the Big eddy. They, with Elmer Snider, -were fishing in a small skiff, and it was overturned by the current. Snider was the only one to reach shore. Convulsions Due to Cigarets. As a result of excessive cigaret smoking Clarence Smith, aged 2G, of Delphi, has been suffering from convulsions, and there are no hopes of his recovery.

State Items of Interest. Coal has been discovered about two miles south of Alamo. A paper remarks that there were 43 snows during the past winter. The Foxy Grandpa Oil Company is the name of a new one formed at Muncie. Mrs. Durilia Wiley, 82, Greenwood,* had one of her eyes removed the other day. Columbus, at a special election, decided to build a new $75,000 school bouse. William Cunningham and William, Bopp were killed’liy lightning near Vincennes. A Bruceville correspondent says he has heard reports that the peach crop is killed. IZI2 It is said that • nearly fifty families would move to Columbus if they could secure houses. In police court. Richmond, thiee boys, charged with breaking windows, were whipped by their parents. Brazil tribe of red men may erect a modern three-story building. The Masons, too, are thinking of building. Fire destroyed the laundry at the Southern Indiana hospital for the insane, Evansville. Loss $2,0(10, covered by insurance. The combination baggage and express Car and its contents on the Monon train was destroyed by fire from an exploded lamp near Bedford. While shooting at a target with a revolver, William Holer accidentally shot and killed his 13-year-old sister, at their home, near Burnett.

The pressure at the big gas well struck at Petersburg has increased from GOO to 800 pounds. The gas is with difficulty kept under control. Jerry Duggins has been convicted of the murder of Mrs. Benjamin Ramsey and her two children by a jury at Terre Haute, and condemned to be hanged July 8. Foster, G-year-old son of Sheriff Stout at Fort Wayne, has smallpox in the resident portion of thp jail. The entire sheriff’s force has been exposed and many of the prisoners. Dog taxes collected in Center township, Delaware County, during the past year, amounted to $1,894. Of this, $146.50 was paid out for sheep and hogs killed and maimed by dogs. A heavy piece of iron cornice fell from the top of the fourth floor of the Hubbard* block at Indianapolis ami killed Worth Wright of the real estate firm of J.'R. Wright & Co. Mrs. John Ray was slightly injured. One hundred non-union boilermakers have decided to stop work at the car shops at Princeton, where there have been labor troubles. It is said there have been frequent cases of intimidation by union workmbn. During an electrical storm west <*f Vincennes, William F. Cunningham and William Bopp and their team werj killed by lightning while going into a barn. Mr. Cunningham was one of Lawrence County’s wealthiest farmers. Gen. Thomas Morris, 90 yean old. died in Indianapolis nt the home of his daughter. Mrs. Chambers. Gen. AJorris was n veteran of the Civil War ni.d up to the time of his death was the oldest living graduate of West Point .Military school, having entered in 1834, u; the age of 20.

The Maksawbn Club, compose! of wealthy Chicagoans who own a hunting preserve in La|M>rte County, lias brought an injunction suit hi the federal court ngalnst Laporte County officials to prevent the sale of an $88,001) l>ond Usue for a drninnge canal in the southent part of Laporte County. Taylorsville, with 1,000 inhabitant/, is deserted, the houses standing In eight feet of water. Charitable organizations ere caring for the people. TwJve lives have been lost, and the total property loss in the State has Iteeii estimated at /Torn $8,000,000 to $10,000,000. I. N. Lagrange, Franklin. who recently purchased a new safe to replace one blown up by burglars a few weeks ago. has pasted the combination of the safe in a conspicuous place on the door, so that If the previous noffiurual callers should return, they will not lie compelled to resort to th* use of dynamic*