Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1904 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THS PAST WEEK. Mystery In Crime Near GreensboroGiri Caught with Stolen Horse —Child Injured by Giant Firecracker—Murderer Hanged in Michigan City. Her babe found lifeless near by and the-mother left for dead in an abandoned well are the results of an attack on Mrs. W. M. Starbuck at her home near Greensboro. Mr. Starbuck returned home at 10:30 at night, and hearing faint screams searched a, strip of woodland near the house and found his wife and the body of the baby. A posse with bloodhounds began scouring the country. The bloodhounds struck a trail at tho old well in which the bodies were found. They followed the trail to a hitching post, about two miles east. Farmers say that late the previous afternoon they saw three men get out of a wagon at this, post and hitch their horse. Suspicion points to a person or persons, but sufficient evidence was not at hand to warrant an arrest. Use Motor Cycle in Chase. Hattie Chapman, an 18-year-old girl of Goshen, was overtaken by a policeman on a motor cycle after a chase of eight miles and arrested for horse stealing. She said after she and Fred Kinsel of South Bend had drank until intoxicated they went riding. Later he got out of the carriage and told her to drive home, which, she says, she started to do. South Bend police telephoned to Elkhart to look out for her. She was taken to South Bend for trial. Injures Child and Is Sued. Mrs. Mary Griffith filed a damage suit in the Circuit Court in Brazil for $5,000 against Walter S. Bogle, Jr., son of the wealthy coal operator of Chicago, for injuries sustained by her 7-year-old daughter, Laura Bellinger, as a result of Bogie’s throwing a giant firecracker in an interurban car at Terre Haute. The firecracker exploded near the child’s face, frightfuly burning it, and from the effects of the injuries she may lose the sight of her left eye. Smiles as He Goes to Die. Jerry Duggins, who murdered Mrs. W’illiam Ramsey and her two small children at their home in Terre Haute on the night of Feb. 12, was hanged in the Michigan City prison. Duggins smiled as he walked to the scaffold. He was pronounced dead in three minutes.

Arsenic Kills Children. Stella, aged 12, and Charles, aged 1, grandchildren of Henry Fulk, died near - Boonville from eating arsenic spread on bread, which had been placed in a cupboard to kill rats. Hubbard, aged 10, is seriously ill from the same cause. State Items of Interest. q Portland Kampbell, a prominent farmer, aged 30, committed suicide at Boonville. Cy Northcutt, 54 years pld, was smothered to death in a gravel pit cavein near Lafayette. George Nestlehut, a machinist at Vincennes, had a finger smashed. Blood poisoning followed and he died. Rosco Hains, son of Cameron Hains, a farmer, was killed by a Lake Shore train at a road crossing near Butler. Harry Stacey, 8 years old, and James Allen, 10 years old, of Vincennes, were seriously burned while handling firecrackers and powder. Frank Cross, catcher for the Evansville Central League team, eloped with Miss Sadie Holtman to Princeton, where they were married. James Gentry, aged 16 w was fatally injured at Booneville while firing a loaded anvil. It burst and blew the side of his face off. He cannot recover. Rev. Elwood O. Ellis, one of the bestknown ministers of the Friends’ Church in the middle West, has been missing from his home in Richmond for several days. Mrs. Alfred Borman of Chicago was fined sls at Laporte for assaulting Mrs. Ernest Borinan, her husband’s mother, in an effort to forcibly kidnap her 10-year-old son. Elder Ladoga of the Crawfordsville Christian Church has demanded the expulsion of seventeen divorced and remarried persons, saying they have violated the biblical law.

Mrs. Charles Bartell of Elkhart, who was supposed to be dead, revived after relatives had been notified to attend the funeral. She was conscious of all that was going on during the whole time. John C. Trohler of Hammond was caught on the Nickel Plate bridge near the State line. Before he could extricate himself a Chicago limited struck him. He died on' the operating table at the hospital. Robert Barnett, a prosperous farmer of Cass County, bought condition powders for his fine driving horse, and a box of rat poison for the vermin about his corn crib. By mistake he fed the rat poison to the horse, which died before a veterinary cound arrive. Tho Indiana starch works were destroyed by fire in Hammond. Loss $12,000, covered by insurance In eight different companies. Fifty people were employed in the plant, which was owned by C. M. and fc. W. Steele, formerly of Cincinnati. The plant will be rebuilt at once. A rigid investigation .has been begun into the recent deaths of Mrs. Henry Boyck and Paul Schults of La Porte. It is alleged that physicians were not called in either case, that resort was had to Edward Prepke. a Dowlelte, and that death in each case resulted after the most intense suffering and while the victims prayed for relief. John and William Jeskes, farmer boys residing near La Porte, were handling a shotgun when it was accidentally discharged, the contents of both barrels entering the former’s side, inflicting a fatal wound. , r The notorious Tyler brothers, wanted in many Indiana and Illinois towns for horse stealing, broke jail in Kokomo and escaped. Horace Morgan and Lewis Alexander also escaped. The Tilers are desperadoes, armed to the teeth, and it is thought will never be taken alive. Morgan and Alexander were recaptured, but the Tyler* fought their way to liberty,