Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1904 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Muncie Telephone Girl Meets Sudden Death Lightning Strikes Farmhouse and Kills Inmates Several Hurt in Street Car Collision. The sudden and mysterious death of Artie Monks, a pretty telephone operator, 17 years of age, startled Muncie the other day. Solomon Lee, the girl’s sweetheart, who was with her a short time before her brief illness, is being held in jail on suspicion of poisoning her. Lee is a conductor on the Interurban street car line at Indianapolis. He came to Muncie and met Miss Monks at the Central Union telephone exchange. She started to go to the home of her grandparents in Lee’s company. The pair arrived at the home in a short time, it is alleged, after a quarrel. The girl, after entering the house, became suddenly ill. Physicians were called, but their work was without avail. They claim that indications of poison were apparent, but were puzzled as to the cause of death. This caused the calling of Acting Coroner Green, who, suspecting the girl’s sweetheart, informed the police. x : Lightning Kills Two, Injures Four. Lightning struck the home of John Gentry near Tennyson. Two werS killed and four were.injured. The dead are: John Gentry, Jr., 14; Opal Gentry, 10. The Injured: John Gentry, Sr.; Maud Gentry, 6; Ottie Gentry, 7; infant Gentry, 1. The family, with the exception of Mrs. Gentry, was seated in the house. Mrs. Gentry had gone to stable to look after the cows when the storm came up. Lightning struck the front part of the house, tearing it partly down and setting it on fire. Mr. Gentry and Maud Gentry are so badly burned that their death is expected." The other two children are also in a serious condition. Shot at Hat Costs Dearly. In Shelbyville the jury returned a verdict of guilty in the case of the State against Albert N. Peake, charged with shooting at Constable Robert McOolly at Waldron on July 28, and he will be sentenced for from two to fourteen years to Michigan City prison. Peake was a saloonkeeper at Waldron and resisted arrest for selling liquor without a license, and in doing so fired two shots, one passing through the officer's hat. . Company Cannot Make Gas. Judge F. E. Baker of the United States Circuit Court in Indianapolis decided that the property of the Consumers’ Gas Trust Company belonged to the certificate holders aud that the company had no right to manufacture artificial gas. The property will be sold. It is valued at $3,000,000 and was organized early in the natural gas period with money subscribed by citizens to pipe and sell gas at Street Cars Collide) Eight Hurt. Two electric street cars, one of which was returning from Riverside park, carrying sixty-one passengers, collided in Indianapolis, resulting in the injury of eight persons, one of whom, Walter Dunn, will probably die. The accident occurred at a loop.-where the outgoing car crosses the track of the returning car.

All Over the State. Elwain Kidd, 16 years old, was drowned while swimming in the Patoka river near Princeton. Leo Colvin attempted to extract a bullet cartridr . tfjfgyo’ -.. , * w ife. home Rev. William G. Seaman of Salem, Mass., has been engaged for the chair of philosophy at Depauw University, Greencastle. Richmond Byers, 4 years old, has been missing for several days at the mining town of Seelyville. Posses of miners are searching for him. The contract for the construction of the new federal building at Richmond has been let to William J. Speare of Toledo, Ohio, a| $58,350. William Andres and Mrs. Lillie Stone, a runaway couple from Floyds Knobs, were arrested at a Bedford hotel, where they had registered as man and wife. They were taken before Mayor Smith and assessed fines and cosW amounting to $33.50 each, in default of which they are in jail. Mrs. Lee Harken of Bethel was perhaps fatally wounded by the accidental discharge of a rifle in the hands of her husband, who was ghooting sparrows in the yard, while his wife was watching him. "Hnrken was in the act of reloading when the accidental discharge resulted.

Four suits for damages aggregating in demand SOO,OOO were transferred to the Fulton Circuit Court the other day, all of the actions being against the Wabash-Logansport Traction Company. The "plaintiffs are Joseph A. Fisher, by his next friend, Silas T. Fisher; Mrs. Fannie P. Fisher, Mrs. Emma C. Medary and Lucy Medary, by her next friend, Peter Medary, and the actions all grow out of the same accident. The contention is that a car was running at a high rate of speed, the motorman was careless and a collision with a carriage in which the plaintiffs were riding resulted. "Miss Lucy Medary was dragged a long distance, her skull was crushed and she had several bones broken, She is disfigured for life aud wr.nts $20,000. Mrs. Emma Medary was wrenched, cut and bruised and says she is permanently injured and asks for SIO,OOO. Mrs. Fannie Fisher’s face was bally mashed, a number of bones being broken, and she thinks the company should pay S2OOOO, while Joseph Fisher .had a leg broken nnd was cut and bruised and will take SIO,OOO and call it square. George F. Parkhurst of Evanston. 111., and Jessie L. Furness were married at Furnessville. Rev. Dr. Parkhurst of Evanston officiated and 250 guests from Chicago, Evanston, Michigan City, Valparaiso, La Porte, South Bend and otuer places were present Cyrus E., McGrady, president, of ths Seymour National Bank, was sentenced by Judge Anderson of the federal court In Indianapolis to six years in the United States prison at Leavenworth, Kan. Alfred C. Parker, president of the First National Bank of Bedford, was sentenced to years the Prison.