Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1904 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERBELY TOLD. Farmer's Itody Blown to Piece* —Bi* Parcel of Land Transferred Mow* Fowler Chase Recovering His Reason —Officer Forget* to Qualify. Willard Rowe, a prominent farmer livihg near Montinorenei, was blown to atoms by an explosion of blasting powder. An undertaker from Lafayette was sent for to take charge of the body, hut enough of the unfortunate man could not he found to make it worth while to hold a funeral. Mr. Rowe was blasting stumps in a field near his home. Suddenly a frightful explosion was heard and when people nrrived at the scene not a vestige of the man’s body could be found. A Jew tattered fragments of cloth were the mute indications of the fate of the farmer. „ ___

Millionaire Chase Recovering Reason It is reported that Moses FowleChase, the young millionaire who is an. inmate of a sanitarium, is recovering. When he was first put in the hospital attendants said his mind was almost a complete blank. It Is said now the attending physicians believe he will recover. If ho should recover lawyers declare the recent order appointing liis father legal guardian might he dissolved, thereby setting aside the long and costly litigation over his estate. Forget* to Qualify! Job Lost. Because be forgot the date of the meeting of the village board of West Hammond and did not appear to qualify ns treasurer of the board, Adam Stachovitz lias lost the place. The board waited for several hours for the new treasurer to appear, and then the members decided that Stachovitz did not want the office. Accordingly they appointed Martin Finneran. the former treasurer, who was defeated in the election to succeed himself. Nelson Morris Sells Land. The largest single sale of land ever made in northern Indiana has just been placed on record in Jasper County. Nelson Morris, tho Chicago packer, has sold his 23,000-acre ranch in that county to the Northern Indiana Land Company at Ligonier. Only the mortgages have been placed on record, but they fill eight pages of index and will fill eighty pages of record. The mortgages for deferred payments aggregate $224,924. Woreh- r>ers Chloroformed. While th liristian Holiness people were in the Jst of an enthusiastic revival meeting at their tabernacle in Wabash, an unknown pers<SP*»ikished a big bottle of chloroform over the congregation. Numerous persons were so overcome they had to be dragged to the doors before they revived. State Item* of Interest. Robert Ilosencranz, a well-known Shelbyville stock breeder and horseman, was kicked by a mule and died instantly. A gas explosion which demolished the house of James McDaniel, living south of Marion, fatally injured Mrs. McDaniel and her two children.

Overcome by shame because his son voted the Republican ticket in the city election in Tipton, John Weaver, a lifelong Democrat, took poison and died. Joseph Townsend died witiiin sight of his home in Evansville, which he was trying to reach from the poorhonse, in order to die in tlie presence of his wife. Walter Kahn and Charles Gale rnet on the street in Madison and exchanged revolver shots. Neither was hit, but one of the ' bullets struck Miss Lulu Harris, the bullet glancing from a corset steel. Both young men were arrested. Believing their year-old child was dead. Mr. nnd Mrs. Emil Peterson of Elkhart cnlled an undertaker. When the latter arrived two hours later lie discovered a faint sign of life and the babe wgs resuscitated.

Patrolman Hanford Burke of Indianapolis was shot five times in a running street fight with a burglar whom he caught climbing from a window. He will probably die. Tlie burglar was shot twice by the policeman, but escaped. Karyl Weiukowski, a convict in the State penitentiary at Michigan City, has confessed that lie killed a royal game warden named Sommerfield in Prussia, for which he says Conrad Fits, a schoolmaster, was convicted and is serving a teim in a German prison. Because two nephews of Elias Kelly threw apple cores into Frank Harrison’s yard at Terre Haute, a fight ensued in which Elias Kelly, aged 03, was probably fatally shot, his son, Robert Kelly, aged 30, seriously^wounded, and three other men badly wetinded. P.roken in health through worry over the failure of an investigating committee, of which he was a member, to solve the mystery of the murder of Miss Sarah Schafer, the Bedford school teacher, Olin Bundy, ail attorney of Bedford, died in a private sanitarium in Indianapolis.

Robbers entered the office of the Marion Boiler and Machine works at the noon hour while the office help was at lunch. The outer door of a large aaf« had been left open. The inner door was broken with a sledge aud SIOO and a gold watch valued at SCO were stolen. Municipal elections were held throughout Iddiana Tuesday. In fifteen of for-ty-seven cities the Democrats elected tha Mayor and the majority of the municipal officers. The Republicans won in twenty-eight cities, making a clean sweep in five. Warsaw elected its first Democratic Mayor by a small margin, and Connorsville, which has been Republican for fifteen years, elected a Democratic Mayor. The elections iu two cities were equally divided. Henry Quick, who was scut to Jatl in Peru for horse stealing, succeeded iu hanging himself within uu hour after ha was landed in a cell. The Evansville police are investigating the story of Edgar Jenkins, 11 year* old, who says his father, Cicero Jenkins, a carpenter, chained him to the floor for weeks at a time. An electric light wire in the residence of Henry Frommes in Terre Haute net’ fire to fl closet in wbi :h hung Frommes* shooting outfit. The Are exploded a number of cartridges, awaking the family, who put out the fir'