Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 73, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1904 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Poor Outlook for Wheat Crop—Arrests Follow Clay City Bank Robbery—Racing Filly Jumps to Death Man Convicted of Arson by Sweetheart. The wheat crop in Indiana will be more of a failure than was indicated by the reports from the township assessor, according to State Statistician Johnson. The first reports showed that the crop to be harvested this year would not be more than 55 or 60 pdr cent of the normal crop. At the present time, however, Mr. Johnson is discouraged and says that the wheat crop will not average more than 40 per cent. He is getting a general complaint from the farmers, of the State. The late' spring, with the cold weather and the dry soil, has retarded the planting of oats and the oats that have been planted have not hud the proper conditions to develop. Mr. Johnson believes that even more farmers than at first supposed will plant corn this year and that the largest corn crop in the history of the .State will be harvested, with good weather conditions.

Strange Death of a Filly. Mary Halo, a valuable 2-year-old filly belonging to M. B. Locke of Columbus, jumped from the top of the amphitheater in Crump’s park, where she was being pastured, and was instantly killed. The colt climbed the steps to the top of the structure, and when several persons tried to coax her down she became frightened and jumped to the ground,-a distance of twenty feet, breaking her neck. Mary Halo was sired by Ariel. She was entered in $42,000 worth of stakes during the coming season. Arrests Follow Bank Robbery. It is believed the mystery of the recent robbery of the Farmers’ and Merchants’ Bank in Clay City was solved by the arrest at, James Owens, a saloonkeeper, and the arrest of George Ellie and Jerry Walton at Coal Mont. All were taken to Brazil for a preliminary hearing. The plot was disclosed by papers found, with Walton. Two other arrests will follow soon. Some of the parties implicated have served terms in the Jeffersonville prison for bank robbery. Crushed by Load of Stone. Captain. B. F. Clemans, who until Jan. 1 was auditor of Wabash County and who prior to that time 4iad been joint Senator from Wabash and Kosciusko County, was killed on his farm near Laketon by a runaway. He was hauling a load of stone when the horses became frightened and ran, overturning the loaded wagon, beneath which Captain Clemans fell. trends Sweetheart to Prison. „ Samuel Michaels, the Burlington man charged with wrecking the farm residence of -Aaron Shock with dynamite because of his infatuation for Miss Eula Burns, a pretty domestic in the Shock home, was found guilty of arson by a Kokomo jury and given twenty-one years in prison. Miss Burns was the chief witness for Hie State. Boy Plots to Get Reward. Otis Peeters, 13 years old, is under arrest on a charge of having attempted to wreck a Pennsylvania train near Monticello. The boy says he was without money and that lie placed railroad ties on the track and then informed the station agent at Monticello, thinking that he would receive a reward. - • —. Z All Over the State. Princeton will have a nitroglycerine factory. Many localities report farmers busy sowing oats. Rockport is to have concrete curbs along Main street. A new State bank will probably be established at Elkhart. Hartford City is to have a concrete building block factory. Wheatland, by a majority of 12, decided not to incorporate. The Anti-Saloon League will carry on a campaign in Vigo County. High school graduates over the State are preparing their orations. Charles Downjiam will build a twostory business block on Madison street, Anderson.

A solid Taylor delegation will probably be sent from Union County to the Itepnblican State convention. Mrs. Albert Graham, Connersville, picked up a gasoline stove which was ablaze and threw it into the yard. Llewellen Albright, 60, died at his home at Hope. He had been a maker of yarriages there for thirty-five years. John M. Wallace, formerly superintendent of the Bartholomew County schools, died at his home in Columbtft. Farmers are hustling to get their spring work done. There lias been so much rairf that most of them are behind in their work.

Victor Oberting, a wealthy brewer of Lawrenceburg, has sent his son on a tenyear journey around tlie world on an allowance of $5 per day. At the celebration of the golden wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Scott of White County 130 relatives and friends took dinner with them. A loss of S7.<XX) wns suffered in a fire on the farm of J. W. McMillian, near Lafayette. It was caused by a spark from a passing Monon engine.

Ambrose Aspy holds the record in Bartholomew County for regular attendance at school. During tlie past five year* be has been neither absent nor tardy. John Bolog of*Whiting, wbo was shot by Andy Mehaly. died at the home of his sweetheart, Sophie Nadjy. Mehaly shot Bolog and killed himself because of the girl’s fickleness. A negro who was being pursued by a posse near Evansville, believing him to lie the one who assaulted and robbed Mrs. Marla Brandis and her daughter, jumped into Bsrr creek and was drowned. He was afterward identified as the robber. .

Koonse, 80 years old, went to the poor house at Wabash as a result of a robbery of which he was the victim a week before. He was staying temporarily at the home of Scott Iteno, and a little sack In which was *4OO, the price of a small piece of land on which he had long lived, was stole* as he slept.