Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1904 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. A Blackmailer Caught and Confesses! Attorney Found in Used-up Condition—Child Burns in F arm house.

Prank Glore baa pleaded guilty in ICendallvtTle ‘to an attempt at blackmailing tlie Flint Waiting Manufacturing Company. tlie larg-st windmill factory in the world." In an anonymous letter Written tlie manage - be threatened to dynamite the factory if $2,000 was not left in a hollow stump iu n certain field. Tlie ■package .vas sent one nigbt, with a Pinkerton detective in waiting. Glore, when Trapped, attempted to hide tlie package and then protested his innocence. Glore tvas kept in tlie sweatbox until lie made a full confession, including; some similar attempts on prominent Kendallville business men. Find Victim of Robber. Perry A., Collins. Republican candidate for prosecuting attorney for tlie twelfth judicial circuit, was found on tlie streets of Vincennes in an unconscious condition and was taken to the hospital iu a dying condition. He was evidently held up and sandbagged, as lie lias several cuts on the head where lie had been hit. Two years ago lie was visiting his brother-in-law near ’ the coal mines when a stick of dynamite was throwu into tlie house, tearing tlie building to pieces. Collins sustained injuries from which he never fully recovered.

Child Burned with House. Edward Harris, a farmer living sixteen miles south of Shoals, and his wife went to tlie barn, leaving their 1-year-old son in tlie house. A few minutes later the residence was discovered <>u fire and the child was burned to a crisp. The house and contents tvere a total loss. Robbers in Unsuccessful Raid. Cracksmen attacked the safe of the Flat Rock Banking; Company. Hairy Nading, the president, on entering tlie bank, found that the doors of the safe had been blown off with dynamite, but no funds were missing. The time locks of the safety vaults had saved them. Christmas Money in Will. Tlie will of Miss Cynthelia Sizemore of Paris. 111., filed in Terre Haute, gives SI,OOO for Christmas presents for poor children, the bequest being to the Paris Methodist Church, to be invested, and the interest used each Christmas for presents. 1 Short State Items. Grip is fast dying out. The fruit is not all frozen. Coal City has a measles epidemic. Lawrence County is to have more turnpikes. Oat sowing is On and a large acreage will be put in. Miss Lizzie McCarty of Marion enjoys the distinction of having been married seven times in nine years. Frank Murphy and wife of Armstrong ate a large quantity of polk root, which was thought to be horseradish, and both died.

AfW, Jones, 04, of Mitchell, who died a few days ago, is survived by his wife and eleven children. Two wives preceded him to the grave. Miners of the Linton district in a mass meeting refused to return to work until an agreement with the operators is reached and a scale signed. Leo O. Cox. little son of Richard Cox of G teen field, ate n quantity of concentrated lye and his mouth and throat were badly burned. Not enough was taken to cause death.

Mabel Howard, a Washington society member, was accidentally shot by her fiance, John Fougerousse. Fougerousse thought a revolver unloaded and was playing with it when the weapon was discharged. > A body was found in Wildcat river ai Kokomo that was later identified as Arthur Jackson, a popular Kokomo man, who disappeared mysteriously three weeks ago. Cuts and bruises indicafe foul play. Because they disturbed religious services at the Methodist Church in Walesl»oro, affidavits have been filed against John Zuckschwerdt, William Ping, Frank Carmichael, Edward Zueksehwerdt, Charles Simmons and Arthur Crowe. The young men caught a number of sparrows and while the minister was praying turned them loose in the church. The pranks of the boys broke up the meeting.

As'.the result of an attempt to assassinate William Horn, a fanner of St. Joseph County, Charles Anthony, a neighbor of Horn, is under arrest on a charge of attempted murder. The ar rest of Anthony caused « sensation aim developed the story that it was on Ills account that Mrs. Horn is plaintiff in a suit for divorce, which was recently tiled, ltecause Horn saw that Anthony was winning his wife’s affections lie ordered him from lu» home. “Button, button, who’s got the button V’ Anderson claims it, Richmond thinks it has it, while Rising Sun is positive it is wearing it. Anderson inaugurated a scheme to boom tiie town by the sale of buttons at « dollar each. The buttons bore the inscription. “Anderson, 40,000,” which means that Anderson wants to grow till she reaches that size. The buttons, which qre manufactured at a nominal cost, wen* purchased by thousands, and the funds raised from this source will.be used in industrial development. Richmond caught step and will sell 5,000 buttons to start with, bearing the inscription, “I am for Richmond.” Rising Sun lias ah* launched a button boom, ami it is a full-fledged one. A sow belonging to a farmer uear Hartsvilie gave birth to a pig having four eyes, four nostrils, eight legs, two tails and two tongues. A hen in the chicken yard of Mrs. Thomas Fowler, at Columbus, captured a full grown rat and held it in her beak until it was killed by Mrs. Fowler. Terre Haute prohibitionists have nam* ed Strother Pierson, a former saloon* keeper, for Mayor. Strother was onct tried for killing a man who created a disturbance in his place on Sunday. He escaped conviction on a plea of aelf-d* tense.