Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1904 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Shoot at Labor Nominee in Jefferson-ville-Drive Negroes from Evansville Carnival—Aquarium Jar Acts as Burning Glass-Maimed at Charivari. An attempt to assassinate D. M. Robins, candidate for Mayor of Jeffersonville on the Independent Labor ticket, was made at midnight at his home. Mr. Robins was seated at a table in tlie front room when two shots were fired in quick succession and two bullets went through the lace curtains at the side of the front window on a line with Mr. Robins’ body. The first shot tore a splinter from the back of the chair in which he was seated and the second struck a lamp chimney on the table, smashing it to pieces, then lodged in a Bible that Mr. Robins carried in the pocket of his waistcoat. The police were notified and found tracks leading from the alley to Mr. Robins’ window. The window was up about two inches from the bottom and it was through this space that the two shots were fired. A revolver was found in the alley from which two shots had been fired.

White* and Negroes Clash. A clash between white men and boys on one side and colored boys on the other took place late the other night on the “liftle market,” where a carnival was being held in Evansville’. The white boys organized into a mob and started to run all the negroes away. Some of the negroes were chased for blocks and warned to remain away from the grounds. The officers finally restored order. Race feeling has been high since the attack on Mrs. Brandis, which resulted in the chasing of a negro into a flood-swollen creek. Goldfish Jar Nearly Fatal. The rays of the sun, focused through a gold fish jar, set fire to the clothing of Mrs. Julia Filbert, who was sleeping in a chair near an open window in Elkhart, and the flames were extinguished only after she had been burned severely.

Dynamite Maims the Bride. Mrs. Hoover Turpin, a bride of two days, was seriously injured by the explosion of dynnmjte by a charivari party at her home near Fayette. Short State Items. Laporte has a 4-4 F. club. Connersville will improve its fire department. Summitville is spending $40,000 in street paving. Brookville Masons will, dedicate their new hall June L A $12,000 school building will be erected at H.untingburg. Red foxes are numerous within a few miles of Rising Sun. Lightning struck a bam, near Kokomo, Killing four steers and seven hogs. The Marion Malleable Iron Works at Marion were damaged by fire. Loss $12,000.

Three houses in Westside, Muncie, in a row known as the “dirty six,” were destroyed by fire. Two men who were scuffling in front of a Mt. Vernon store broke a large plate-glass window. Grandma Rothermel, 80, of Milton, pieced two quilts this winter, one having 2,684 blocks and the other 684. Fort Wayne clerks will organize educational clubs to study window dressing, show card writing and advertising. Fire destroyed the elevator of the Travls-Emmick Company of Toledo, at New Haven. Incendiarism is suspected. Jdim James, city marshal of Knightstown, has resigned. The only reason he gave was that he is tired and wants to quit. Judge John S. Lairy, Logansport, drank about half a pint of gasoline, mistaking a jug of gasoline for one of artesian water.

Safe blowers secured $2,000 at the Clemens store at Greenwood and robbed the postoffiee and another store of small sums. Don C. Shawnan of Anderson may die from blood poisoning as the result of accidentally running a rusty carpet tack into his thumb. Mrs. Elizabeth Osgood of Brooke is visiting her brother, John Hatton of Alexandria. They had not seen each other for forty years. Homer McConnell, a farmer of Sullivan, was burned in a cabin near his home. It is supposed robbers shot him and cremated the body. While preparing a meal Mrs.- I’rank Heferly of Goodland was burned to death and her baby fatally injured by the woman pouring oil in a hot stove. Sparks from a passing passenger train started a fire which destroyed several buildings on the McMullen farm, north of Lafavette, causing a loss of over $lO,(XX).

The Indiana Supreme Court held that the provision of the Nicholson law that a saloon must front on a street or highway is not complied witji by fronting it on an alley, even if the alley is named a “street” by a City Council. J. H. Henderson nnd son, Ova. of Union township, are the heaviest father and son in Johnson County, their combined weight being 511 pounds. Mr. Henderson weighs 310 pounds, and his son, who is but 13 years old, weighs 201 pounds. William Duffy of Marion and his three sons, the youngest 0 years old, have sailed from New York for Ireland. Duffy came from Queenstown, Ireland, fourteen years ago. He married an American girl. His wife died about a month ago, and Duffy is taking his three small children back to his birthplace, where his mother still lives. John Derwart of Norristown, Pa., with Gentry Brothers' show, was thrown under the feet of a six-horse team and trampled into unconsciousness in -Shelbyville. In Elkhart fire destroyed two large barns, the property of Frank Wickwire and Dr. Work, respectively, and also seriously damaged two other barns nnd burned two horses. The bodies of two unknown men were found along a railroad track, near Weisburg. It is thought they may have beel murdered and the bodies placed upon the track to throw off suspicion.