Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1904 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Driven from Homes by Flood—Shoot at South Head Alan Tlirough WindowMinister Puts Up House for Himself —Fatal Freight Wreck. Heavy rains increased the flood danger in the southwestern part of Indiana. Vincennes, Mount Carmel, New Harmony, ■ Grnyville, Princeton. Evansville, Westport and all of Lawrence County, Illinois, suffered from the high water. Westport was completely abandoned. Hundreds of refugees were living in school houses and barns. Live stock was quartered in hay lofts and railroad traffic was at a standstill. It is believed that Mary Fessler was drowned near Vincennes. The Belgrade levee broke in another place. The great fill at Hazleton, which was constructed at a cost of s(>oo,000, was swept away. At Mount Carmel the Wabash reached the highest stage since 1875. j. Then Wabash river was eight miles wide west of Princeton. One hundred and sixty people were rescued and are camped in the-fair grounds. Forty thousand acres of wheat will be lost in southwestern Indiana. Try to Kill Sleeping Man. William Horn narrowly escaped death by assassination in South Bend. Two men shot at him through a window of his house. One shot passed through the mattress and one through the bed clothing over him. Horn was awakened by the first shot and, aided by the light of the moon, recognized one of the men. Horn says the motive for the shooting lies in a divorce suit which has been filed by his wife, who has abandoned him. Horn told City Judge Feldman that Mrs. Horn had several friends among the young men of Madison township and was seeking a divorce that she might marry one of them. Pastor Builds His Own House* Rev. George Layton, pastor of the Baptist Church at Waldron, has been trying unsuccessfully for several years to get his people to build a parsonage. He got permission at last to erect a dwelling on the church lot, and has undertaken the work with his own hands. He has laid the foundation, and has now begun to put up the frame work. He spends two hours each morning on his Sunday sermons, and then puts in the remainder of the day in carpenter work. He says he intends to do all the work on the house himself, and expects to have it completed by July. Killed in a Freight Wreck.« , * East-bound freight train No. 74 and West-bound freight No. 75 collided on the Vandalia five miles west of Brazil, killing W. P. Lumberlan, fireman on the west-bound freight, and severely injuring Paul Noller, engineer. Two tramps, Richard Simonds and Frank Hickey, both of Cincinnati, were buried in the ruins. The engine and ten cars of tho west-bound train and the engine and three cars of the east-bound freight were completely ruined. Killed by a Traction Car. Anderson Gore, aged 70, was struck and instantly killed in Shelbyville by the Indianapolis and Cincinnati traction car. The road is out of repair by reason of the flood and the car was running backward. The old man had signaled a stop and the motorman could not see him. All Over the State. Porter reports that the demand for houses is very great. A company will be formed to bore for oil in and about Elizabethtown. Mulberry is to have a new selysAi house, which will cost about $20,000. At a Poland-China hog sale, at Laketon, prices ranged from $lO to SIOO. Some rural districts report that wheat has been looking betffer for tho past few days. Many Indiana towns report that there aren’t enough houses to supply the demand. George Conlin, while hunting near Mount Vernon, was accidentally killed by his horse. Mitchell is to have a new rubber-tire hearse which will be the handsomest funeral car in that section. Farmers who refused to sell their wheat at tho high prices which recently prevailed now wish they hadn't held on to it. The wife of Moody Rose of Sorento and 11. H. Cruthis, alias Aline, were arrested on a charge of elopement. Cruthis Is also wanted for violation of the saloon laws. Francis Cook, 7, son of John E. Cook, died from the effects of injuries inflicted by schoolmates at St. Joseph's parochial school in Princeton. He was playfully bumped against a post, dragged about and otherwise “initiated” by the boys of his own age. His spine was injured, causing brain fever and death. Willis H. Wilson, until recently a resident of La Porte, has been arrested in Boston, Mass., charged with the murder of his mother and his step-father, Frank A. Brown and his wife, former residents of La Porte. Brown was alleged to have shot and killed his wife in a fit of jealousy and then to hare turned the weapon on himself, inflicting a fatal wound. The police found that the flesh around the bullet hole on the left sido of Brown's head was not powder scorched, which indicated that the revolver had been held far from the head. It was also shown to have been impossible for nay person except a left-handed man to have inflicted n wound on the left side of his own head. Brown, it' has been proved, was not left-linudod. The theory Is that Wilson committed the deed in a moment of frenzy, having previously made threats. Simon Williams of Boonville, at one lime a policeman in Evansville, was murdered by his brother-in-law, George Reed, At Owensboro, Ky. The body of Mrs. Bessie MrLntiglilin has been found in a ditch in the northern part of Indianapolis. She had been missing for two days. Mrs. McLaughlin had been visiting her mother and was slightly demented. Several days ago ahe wu found wandering along White river with her baby, trying to get it to wade in the (iooded channel. Her husband is said to be a well-to-do business man of Tqronto, Canada. „ f '