Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1904 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Panic in an Indianapolis HospitalChurch of Eccentric Sect Dynamited During Service Chicago Factories Locate in Hammond—Bequest Invalid. Flames in St. Vincent's hospital, Indianapolis, caused a panic, the death of an employe and the injury of a score of patients and nurses. Men and women who had just undergone surgical operations and" others who wore thought to be too ill or too badly crippled to leave their beds leaped out Of cots and ran downstairs or crowded to windows in the upper wards, intent on jumping to the ground. Some did jump out, only to receive severe injuries. In all the mad excitement, however, one feeble patient kept his senses. He pulled twenty-seven, persons—nurses and patients—away from windows and piloted them one by one through dense smoke to safety. When the danger was over he succumbed to the strain, but restoratives were applied and it is believed the hero of the occasion will survive. The fire, which started under the east stairway, caused a loss of SI,OOO before the firemen could extinguish it. There was some delay in the arrival of the firemen owing to the fact that when tiie flames started the entire department, with the engines from the Suburbs, was engaged in a terrific battle at the Occidental Hotel. The hotel had caught fire earlier in the morning and the flames threatened to destroy the whole retail district. They were confined to the hotel, however, causing a loss there of $75,000. Harriet Leahy, an old employe of St. Vincent's, was killed by jumping from a fourth-story window of the hospital. Enemies of Sect Dynamite Church. The Church of the Evening Lights at Blackburn was partially wrecked by dynamite the other night. The preacher was reading his text when a terrific explosion tore out the front of the church, upset the seats, turned over the stove and set fire to the building. Men. women and children rushed panic-stricken from the building and some of them fainted, but no one was injured. The fire was extinguished. A stick of dynamite with fuse had been placed under tiie church. Another stick was found a short distance ■away. No arrests have been made. Factory Boom in Hammond. A boom has been given to industrial conditions in Hammond by the location there of three Chicago manufacturing concerns. The Straube piano factory, the Tyble Brothers’ Satchel and Trunk Manufacturing Company and the Stearns Tailoring Company, manufacturers of' boys’ clothing, have decided to locate in the Indiana city. Bgquest to Children Invalid. It has been found that the will of Miss Sizemore of Paris, ' which made a 68quest of SI,OOO for Christmas presents for poor Terre Haute, children, is invalid because her father’s will stipulated only a life interest to sueh of his children who died without issue. State Items of Interest. Owensville is to drill for gas and oil. Waterloo expects a building boom this year. German measles epidemic in Jackson County. Orleans is agitating all night telephone servicq. Much wheat has been killed in Marshall County. W. C. T. *U. will wage war on Anderson spitters. J. B. Mullane has platted another addition to Sullivan. Sullivan public square has been given a thorough cleaning. Knights of Columbus have installed new council at Connersville. Prof. William Turner of Purdue University, Lafayette, has, smallpox. Superintendent McCullough of the Sullivan schools has resigned on account of ill health. Rain in southern Indiana during March, as measured at Princeton, aggregated 8.6 inches. Sharpsville is kicking mightily against the proposed establishment of a fertilizer factory there. Samuel C. Layton, 20. of Anderson, a college graduate, has enlisted as a common sailor in the navy. Cyclones wrecked several buildings at Hillsdale and Coatesville, and scared the people half out of their wits. Charles Uren, Logansport, 25, advertised for a housekeeper. Miss Anna Staley answered, and now they are married. Judge Marshall Hacker has begun a course lectures on divorce and itii remedies, prompted by the large number of divorces recently in Bartholomew County. Miss Bertha Montgomery, the Owensville teacher who became insane recently, following the shock caused by the superintendent of schools whipping every one of her pupils in one afternoon, died in an insane asylum. About five weeks ago, R. R. Shanks, nn old citizen of Washington County, suddenly lost his voice completely. lie could not utter a sound until a few days ngo, when his power of speech just ns suddenly returped. Minnie Danerher, a young artist who hnd been in Indianapolis for several weeks, was found dead in her room. Dr. D. A. Leathers, who had treated her about two weeks ago for an attack of stomach trouble, was called to her room to again treat her. She. was apparently not in a serious condition then. When her death was discovered she had been dead several, hours. A concern managed by J. IT. Youngmnu will manufacture chewing gum and flavoring extracts in Kokomo. Crystal window glass factory at Summitville is in full operation again and will ran through the summer. The body of D. W. French of Toledo was found lying between the Lake Short tracks east of Laporte. The theory of murder is advanced, but he may have been struck by a train and thrown to the aids of the track. His head had been eruahod In and a search of his clothing revealed nothing of value, though psperfl disclosed his identity.