Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 112, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1904 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Gov. Durbin Is Lost Three Days in Wilds —Lake Swallows Up Most of Mau’s Farm js Young Man Found Dead —Falling Scaffold Injures Four. Lost on the plains of South Dakota, Gov. Winfield T. Durbin spent three days and two nights in the open, without any food, except two small sandwiches. When found by Indian scouts, who had been impressed by his friends, he Was nearly starved. The Governor is camping with a party on the plains. He mounted his horse and set out for a ride, but' underestimated the speed at which he was traveling. When he sought to return the camp was not in sight, and no familiar object was in view. The Governor had taken no account of the direction in which his horse had traveled, and, after wandering about for several hours, he was forced to camp out alone for the night. Thinking his friends would start a search for him, and fearing that he would get further away from the camp, he remained at the place where he had tethered his horse till late the next day, but none of his friends appeared, and again he tried to reach the camp. Night overtook him and he was forced again to remain in the open. His Farm Is Disappearing. Thousands of people have visited the location in Noble county where a tract of land several acres in extent surrounding a lake has disappeared. The land that has been swallowed up has been farmed for many years and one of the heaviest crops of recent seasons has been harvested this year. J. C. Holden, whose land as disappearing, says the ground began/fo disappear a few feet at a time, until now water covers a large section of his farm, and this despite the fact that a drouth has existed. State Geologist Blatchley will make an investigation to determine the cause of the phenomenon. Mr. Holden fears his entire farm will disappear from sight.

Mystery in Man’s Death. Early the other morning while returning from a neighbor’s house the two daughters of Henry Williams ran on to the dead body of Charles Harris, aged 25, a young farmer, north of Dublin. By the side of Harris lay a revolver. He had been' shot Through the heart. The young man was last seen in Cambridge City the previous night and the spot where 'he was found is lonely and unfrequented. He was not a drinking man and had no enemies. While all appearances indicate suicide, it is thought that Harris came to his death by other hands. Courthouse War Ends. The county council voted favorably upon a $50,000 appropriation, to be used in improving the county court house in Goshen. The council’s action brings to a close the war which has been on with Elkhart regarding the proposed improvements. The citizens of Elkhart refused to sign the bond ordinance, proposing that in lieu of the ordinance a new court house be erected in Elkhart. Conies Back a Millionaire. A colony of young men is being organized in Whitley county recruited from the State at large to locate in Africa. L. S. J. Hunt, who went to Yorea a number of years ago practically penniless, amassed a fortune in the gold fields of that country and now is a millionaire. He is organizing a syndicate to make the Soudan the cotton field of the world. Scaffold Falls) Four Hurt. A scaffold bearing five men dropped twenty feet at the Swedish Mission church near Porter. John Strom, Otto Johnson, Swan Johnson and August Malmstrom, members of the congregation, who were making repairs on the church, were so badly hurt that they may die. The fifth man was unhurt.

Miner State Matter*. The northwest Indiana conference at Terre Haute decided to meet in Michigan City next year. Prof. Marion Redding, Warren, has been employed as instructor in science at the Peru high school. Albert Butcher, Clinton, has organized a religious band which holds services in the surrounding towns. Madison county board of children’s guardians is making a tour of the orphans’ homes of the State. Porter Patton, a well-known oil worker of Marion, was run over by a Panhandle train and badly hurt. St. Joseph county board of education is finding it hard to get a sufficient supply of experienced teachers. Joseph Deutsch, a traveling picture agent, secretly married Miss Maude Rose, a well-known Kokomo young woman. While trying to kill bedbugs with gasoline, Thomas Harvey, Logansport, set the house on fire. All the bedbugs were burned. Miss Jennie Hall, 22 years of nge. was killed in Marion by a Toledo, St. Louis and Western passenger train while walking on the tracks. Her skull-was crushed, right leg broken and back injured. She was dead when picked up. During a fire in Indianapolis James Hillyer ran into the burning building, cried to one of the firemen to close the door after him, and was suffocated. The police believe he took this method of ending his lite. He had been despondent. A steer weighing 1.800 pounds was drowned in a two-gallon tin pail in Kokomo. The steer put his head in a pail of tar, thinking it water. The tar and the bucket rim held his nose and mouth In the liquid until death followed from strangulation. Whale hauling gravel out of a pit on his farm David Rusk, living north of Connersville, unearthed a large tooth and other bones supposed to be from a mastodon. The tooth weighs 10% pounds and is in a splendid state of preservation. William Caviness, unmarried, aged 63 year*, shot himself soon after midnight in bls room at the Central Hotel in Martinsville. He Hved in Danville and served as auditor of Hendricks county. He was known in business circles in Danville. Plainfield and Indianapolis. He had loot his fortune.

1 Cambridge City is having a building boom. “ Richmond City Council has employed a tax ferret. A Kendallville firm will erect a large : mitten factory. r South Bend Elks will erect a handsome lodge home. A new school building has been completed at Bedford. i Matthias Tnnzler, 60, committed suicide at New Albany. Anderson City Council has decided to build a new fire station. Germania orchestra is a new musical organization at Columbus. ~ Ben Bobo, son of the late Judge Bobo, has disappeared from Decatur. First Christian church of Indiana Harbor has just been dedicated. A -stock company has been formed to conduct a Chautauqua at Columbus. New Albany is hoping to secure one of the largest factories of the gas belt. War on saloons which has been raging at Royal Center has been declared off. A new pest has appeared in Wayne county which infests the heads of oats. Zionsville's only barrel house was dynamited by a crowd of angry citizens. The Wood Mosaic Flooring Company’s plant at New Albany burned; loss $50,000. Jonathan Spaulding, 73, one of the best known citizens of Washington, is dead. Elkhart company of Indiana National Guard is planning to build a new armory this fall. Rev. F. D. Dressell has resigned the pastorate of the Lutheran church at Middlebury. William Topping, aged 44, a paper maker, was killed at Kokomo by an electric car. Thomas BabcoA, who died at Nappanee, was one of Elkhart county’s oldest pioneers. First carload of fine onions this year was shipped from Columbia City a few days ago. Frank Marian, once a skillful engraver, committed suicide in the Marion police station. Anderson citizens are contributing money to send the boys’ band to the world’s fair. Logansport capitalists are contemplating organizing a company for the manufacture of brick. A canvass of the Richmond banks shows that they have not been affected by the campaign. The little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Roberts, Maysville, swallowed a penny and soon died. It is predicted that the open shop principle will prevail at the Hartford City glass factories this year. Oil drillers at work pear Wabash struck an old log at the depth of 250 feet below the surface. Joseph and August Moeller have been heavily fined for selling intoxicants at Pennville, a “dry” town. The program for the dedication of the Pigeon Roost monument at Underwood, Oct. 1, has been completed. While eating canned salmon, Peter Zeigler, East Germantown, swallowed a piece of tin which killed him. Prof. N. C. Grimes, Carthage, has been appointed as teacher of botany and zoology at the Muncie high school. Harry D. Keller, president of the Fort Wayne Federation of Labor, has announced his intention of resigning. Drowning in buttermilk is the fate which befell the 14-months-old child of Mr. and Mrs. Adam Steele of Larwill. While cutting limbs from a tree, near Lafontaine, James Goff let his ax slip, which severed the toes on his right foot.

Benjamin Jackson, 83, and Nancy Speece, 69, have just been married at Kokomo. It is the fourth attempt of each. A big snake appeared in the treasurer’s office, Boone county. After much difficulty, Treasurer Lase Wilson killed it. Frank Stonecifer, Washington township, Wayne county, shot a hawk that measured four feet and a half from tip to tip. Mayor and police force of Terre Haute have agreed on a plan jo check vice and will no longer allow Terre Haute to be a wide open city. While holding services at Montezuma, the Salvation army of Clinton was pelted with rotten eggs. The hoodlums have not been arrested. H. W. Smith and C. F. Zwiek, proprietors of an Indianapolis glove factory, are considering the matter of locating at Noblesville. Pilot W., a race horse which broke the record at the Shelbyville fair fifteen years ago, is now drawing a delivery wagon at Shelbyville. While John Hholtcs and two companions were fishing near Hammond, th* boat capsized and the men were nearly drowned when rescued. Shirley citizens say that they will b« able to show that the town is a city. They think that the next census will prove that they have a population of 2,000. Samuel Schwartz, aged 18, whos* sensitiveness many times caused him to say he would commit suicide, killed himself at Terre Haute, after a trivial dispute. An unusual romance is connected with the marriage of Miss Cora B. Moore of Dublin to Simon Waltzen of Benson, 111., which took place in that city. About a year ago Miss Moore, with • a -number of other girls employed in the Spiceland tomato factory wrote their addresses on the boxes about to be sent away. The box bearing Miss Moore’s address found its way into the department store where Mr. Waltzen is engaged as a bookkeeper. A correspondence was at once begun, which culminated in the marriage. Miss Edna Hertsog, 18, who was imprisoned at Fort Wayne on the charge of stealing jewelry, has confessed to having killed a negro in Ohio. Arthur B. Reed, Dudley Wadsworth and Warren Meyer, young men of laiporte, have started on a trip down the Mississippi in a small boat. Following the shooting of Jasper Hammond, colored, by Constable Johnson, at Carlisle, in resisting arrest, a mob of 600 persons visited the homes of all negro families and finding the occupant* absent demolished the doors a»d window*.