Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 108, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1904 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

r . - ■ R E CO R D O F. EVE N TSriD fi-T HE ■RASjT: WESK,.a7 Woman Finals Burglar in ,Hoq?e >Niite Him in Cellar t’onvict Cap-J After Florce'Batlie - Girf Picked v t!p by _ “s . *> - ■ jj ■ i . .When Mrs.* James Margin \j>f ter returtnied'from Cfiurch ou. ; a recent night she 'hetrfd ‘ a tioike' Ifi ' the • gitehftii ami sftr4- the I'ellur door raise'afcd a bnvgrf lar stick l feis- hfead »iitv- She Jumped, on the door ji nd, began sixigiyg the ‘“No, Never Along, Alone, No, Never Alpue.” : iks'*ffbe iia‘ng‘ : Hlie reached’'for■ a hatehety and ntdis,-- whiili Wefo Oil' a shelf, the door down anditheh’went foi; help. ■ The burglar jmnpedthrough a eaWan viindoW. Just -as' she goti out of the hpuse. aral vsraptd- • Capture Escaped Convict; J Patrick* CrdSkZ'S'vlib'was''one of Hie trio thft't escap«d- : fr-oUj'lhe'ofiicer» of the .Jeffersonvulo.v«efviw«toW' - leaping. through the train while being transferred from Je'ffersonvllle tb'’tlfA prihdnTfi' Michigan City In November,' T.M)2, ; has been'returned to .-prison.- and is now. attired in prison ga'rb.'’Croak-is a hardened criminal, having already served three prison terms. He was captured after a fierce battle near ' 'i'-.-.’ —- —: Cowcatcher Rescues Girl. Miss Desse .Busnprg had a perilotls ride on rof‘towcStcher of a fast tradi. She was out 'driving’•heter Wheeler When-a Nickel Plate.. train, struck tint carriage occupied by her and Misses Berflia and Goldie' Jbhhsoti. Tli’e' Beejc ' and Johnson gifts' wefce'prdbnMy "fifthßy -hurt, 5 hiU ,Miss Bushore escaped with odhjht being carried 1,090 feet on the 'Tiewciftelihr. The .lwtr»e>was killed aud the buggy wus dy-molidMld-i•! <!! ' . . . ,»i •- t !•■; rxsv.a.ti.ps '• Sweetheart Jail. , . , B. Thompson ainl.. C-, V- FfOj,b , ehafgej with horse sfeahHgj Oaifs, charged with grand lardfehy', And ’.To'shuA” Styer, eschpfed A sweetheart of Oaks is* ctihrged with hiving carried saws to cthe •prtsortcfs, who' sawed out a section »f window gsating, in. ;the second story, iA, -rope ■ was made of bed clothing and the outer wall was scaled. ... , . Ghohl'Ex'pires iWPrison. ’’’' " Hampton H. West, Aged GCFyeftrS, a confederate of Rufus Cantrell in the"no-‘ toriuusi.grave robberies at' Indianapolis, died in the State prison in Michigan City of tumor of the stomach. He was convicted-in June, 1.9(13, ■■ in Hamilton . county.,.of robbing graves- His body,was sent to Fisher's Switch for burial.

Two Killed by Liglitning. Orin Eniich and Onler Poor were killed and Arthur Conner, William White, John Schult* and Clayton Hatter were seriously injured by a bolt of'lightning which struck a ished in Knox under which a dozen farmers had sought refuge from a storm while working in a wheat .field.,,.. State News in Bv-ief. Horse thieves are continuing their work near Richmond. John Brennefl, 93, the oldest man In Daviess' county, is dead. Shirley is raising money for the town by starting a button boom. A new hospital, called Maple Wood, has been-opened st Kokomo. George Schmidt, 73, one of the pioneers of Allen county, is dead. Home light and water company will construct a plant at Bloomfield. Big plant for the Central car works will soon be begun at Vincennes. Thieves plundered the house of Dr. W. A. Jones, Fort Wayne, and secured $309 worth of valuables. A washwomen’s union for the maintenance of higher prices has been organized in Newcastle. ' Rev. David DeForest Burrell, Princeton, N. J., has been given a call to the Laporte Presbyterian church. A big meteor fell into the yard of W. D. Miller at Englefield. When the doctor picked it up it was still hot. The family of Greely Johnson. Frankfort, was poisoned by adulterated milk and their lives saved with difficulty. While eating dinner Richard Johnson, aged 54 years, a farmer of Hatfield, fell to the floor and died of heart ble.A junketing committee from the Marion CQuncil is investigating the advisability of establishing a market at Marlon. Several thousand miners in southern Indiana quit work on the false report of the death of John Boyle, their State president. Burglars at Washington tried to blow open the safe of City Treasurer Underdown. They wrecked the safe, but failed to get into it. John F. 1 Groenendyke, Hartford 'City, raised a sunflower, the stalk of which was 14 feet high. It was blown down by a recent storm. Thurlow Grimm, n former lawyer and society leader at Petersburg, was shot by Constable William France while resisting arrest. He will die. At the home of Rev. C. H. Wilson, Crawfordsville, a dangerous fire started and would have destroyed the reiudence had it not set off a box of cartridges at its inception. They gave the alarm and the fire was put out. Charles Carstenson of South Chicago, a 19-year-old reader of dime novels, was arrested in Hammond for stealing a horse. He rode the animal to Valparaiso, and thence to Hammond, where he tried to sell it. He was armed and hud burglar keys about him. Smith, aged 11 years, of Laporte, is in the custody of the federal authorities charged with violation of the postal laws. The boy is alleged to have written an obscene letter to an 8-year-old Ixniisville girl whose picture he raw in a magazine. Indiana middle-of-the-road Populists s>et in convention in Indianapolis and nominated the following ticket: Governor, Ix>roy Templeton; Lieutenant Governor, W. B. Gill; Secretary of State, O. P. Hanna; Auditor, Allen Jennings; Treaaurer, W. B. Wolff; Attorney General, 8. N. Holcomb.