Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 118, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1904 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Woman Kills Herself Rather than Go to Asylnm—Window Glass Factories Start Up—Son Kills His Father—Boy’s Terrible Heath. Mrs. Oliver Cullar of Elkhart, aged 38, drank carbolic acid which she had secreted in a dresser while pretending to dress to be°Aaken to an insane hospital, dying in a few miuutes. Two revolvers had been taken from her, and a matron was watching her closely, while Sheriff Robertson of St. Joseph county stood just outside of a half-opened door. She asked the matron to hand some money to her father, the Rev. D. B. Miller of near South Bend, and as the matron turned her head drank the qprrosive, the bottle being knocked from ifer hands by the matron as the latter turned back. Mrs. Cnllar, who separated from her husband five years ago, had declared she would kill herself and three young sous rather than go to an asylum. Murder Is Hone at a Rally. Sheriff Stout has placed Fred House, a farmer, aged 33, in jail, charged with murder. There was a political rally -at Monroeville the otner night. The saloons at the village were wide open. About 3 o-clock House, with a party of friends, went up and down the streets threatening the crowds. John Gressley, a farmer 55 years old, was in front of a saloon. He received a blow on the jaw and fell backward, helpless, against the curb. His skull was fractured and death was instantaneous. House was in bed three miles from Monroeville when arrested. He denies any complicity. Bystanders say he struck the blow. Give Work to 30,000 Men. An air of prosperity seems to pervade the window glass world. Thirty thousand workmen are about to begin work. There will be an ihcrease of almost 500 pots this year over last, giving more than 6,000 workmen steady employment. Within the next fortnight 1,444 pots will be worked. Indiana and Illinois, representing the western district, will furnish the balk of the business, since the American’s plants will be chiefly operated in the East. Of the western industries almost 90 per cent represent either independent or co-operative plants. Finned to Ground by Broken Bone. Ono, the 12-year-old son of Carrie Watson, died of lockjaw at Corydon, resulting from a fractured bone of the arm. Several days ago the boy was attempting to ride a ca.. in a field. The animal was playful and threw him to the ground. He fell on his left arm, the bone of which snapped and, protruding from the flesh, stuck into the ground. He was pinned, unconscious, for several hours, until discovered by accident by a laborer returning home in the evening. Held for Father’s Murder. Silas Radeliff, an aged farmer, is dead at his home near Hardinsburg as the result of being struck over the head with a club. His son Oliver, 29 years old, who lives on an adjoining farm, is in jail in Salem, charged with murder. The quarrel is said to have grown out of a dispute over the ownership of live stock. Young uucliff declares that his father attacked him with a piu and that he was foroed to defend himself. Hunter Is Found Head. Shirley Cummings, 11 years old, who had been missing for several days, was found with a bullet hole through his head in a wood just a few rods from his home near Hartford City. He had been hunting and is supposed to have accidentally shot himself. Miner State Matters. The Indianapolis Bent Wood Works, Indianapolis, was burned with a loss of $60,000, and the C. H. Gillette wood finishing plant in Indianapolis, loss $60,000. Nelson Faught, a veteran of the Mexican war, 84 years old, committed suicide in Pittsboro by shooting himself in 'the temple. He lay all night in the front yard. Six sons of George Lockwood graduated at DePauw University and he has just placed his seventh son in that college. Mr. Lockwood himself is a graduate of DePauw. A unique movement has had it? inception in this State to organize the servant girls into unions with the specific object in view of lessening the hours of labor abd to increase the wage scale. The organization will be taken under the protection of the American Federation of Labor. In Richmond the corner stones of Reid Memorial church and Reid Memorial hospital were laid with impressive ceremonies and in the presence of a large number of people. Both are gifts from Daniel G. Reid of New York, the multimillionaire, who was until seven years ago a resident of Richmond. The structures are to be of solid stogie and their combined cost is estimated at $250,000. After a lapse of twenty-three years to the exact day Miss Julia Michael, a pension ngent at Dowagiae, succeeded in solving the mystery which apparently surrounded the death of Mrs. Matthew Brimingstool of Elkhart. From the tales told by her children Matthew Briming stool was suspected of having killed his wife. Miss Michael has found that Mrs. Brimingstool died a natural death. MisMichael has written the Elkhart police department that she found a brother of Mrs. Brimingstool, who says she died at his house in Cass county, Michigan, Sept. 26, 1881, while she ami her family were visitiug him. Miss Michael's unraveling of what was supposed to have been a murder was brought about during her search for proofs of the death of the first wife of Matthew Birmingstoo! to perfect the application of the second widow for pension. Survivors of the Twenty-third Indiana iufantry held a big reunion at Campbellsburg. Dr. J. H. MePeeters of Lgvonin was elected president and W. 11. Mix of New Albany secretary. William Myers of Hartford City was attacked by a rattlesnake while he was hunting in Wells county. As the reptile coiled to spring upon him he grnbhed ft by the neck and choked it to death. Orville Harald, the Richmond tenor, has dscided to refuse the offer of Mme. Schuman-Heink to give him a musical education in Germany, and Instead will •• on the road aa an srangsliet singer.

Brazil is urging vaccination. Knightstown is still boring for OIL Goshen saloons now clos? on Sunday. Pawpaws poisoned Charles Prewitt of Cartersburg. A good crop of apples is reported in Hamilton county. John Grace, 53, of Raber, was fatally kicked by a horse. Ephraim Grim, near Noblefiville, cleared $45 oil an acre of peas. S. Martel of South Bend was killed by the caving in of a sewer. Ora Schell, 17, and Will Moss, 22, have disappeared from Bryant. William Dornan of Muncie was fined S3O for assaulting Frank Bowers. William Harmon of Brazil was fined sll.lO for striking 0. Vendeventer, 17. Will Stevens of Deming sold 120 bushels of cloverseed from 60 acres for S7BO. The young married w»men of Westville are trying to organize a brass band. Charles Suttles, 38. of Greensburg, committed suicide by the morphine route. Frank A. Felts, 51, of Port Wayne, committed suicide by taking carbolic acid. Theodore Ott of Kingman died of lockjaw as a result of stepping on a rusty nail. Robert Craig of West Reddiugton, sold a span of mules to a Seymour firm Cor $•225. Steven Curtis of Eden sold jOl bushels of cloverseed for $604. It grew on 28 acres. John Valentine, colored, of Lebanon, was run down by a train and fatally injured.

Clay C. Hunt of New Oastle has been reappointed referee in bankruptcy for district 6. Horace Porterfield is held at Evansville oh the charge of murdering Richard Swanson. ; Twelve “White Elephant” potatoes raised by A. J. Wood of Tipton weighed 17 pounds. What’s in a name? Albert Oates and Susie Millet were married in Evansville by a justice. The Indiana yearly meeting of Friends took steps toward providing for superannuated ministers. The creditors of the Sterling Buggy Company of Rushville will get about 25 cents on the dollar. Farmers are discovering that new gravel is no inducement for aotomoblldsts to use the roads. C. E. Noble, 36, of Fort Wayne, injured by the bursting of a flywheel at Simwnitville, is dead. Mrs. Samuel Baurber of Letts slipped and fell while trying to catch a chicken and broke her right arm. William Garrity, 23, of Evansville, a brakeman, was killed by a Big Four engine at Mount Carmel, 111. - Carnegie library at Salem is now under way. Mr. Carnegie has forwarded $2,500 to apply on his donation. The Indiana Endeavorer is a new publication at Muncie. It is the organ of the Christian Endeavor societies of the State. Columbus street commissioners “repair” their asphalt pavements by filling the holes with gravel. Citizens are kicking. August Green, 50, near South Bend, while temporarily deranged, went into a pig pen, swallowed carbolic acid and died. Osroe, the little son of Duss Hull of Lebanon, was thrown to the ground by a 'horse and has arm was broken in two places. In the Boone Circuit Court William S. Conyer was awarded $5,000 damage* against the Indianapolis street railway company. A slight abrasion between two toes of William Siders, a South Bend contractor, caused abscesses all over his body, resulting in death. Miss Virginia Robertson, 18, of Lafayette, who is deaf and dumb, waa struck by a street car and perhaps fatally injured. Everett Bodkins and David Key, miners, were killed in the Ayreshire mines at Petersburg by the premature explosion of a shot. Beaohard Gartin, a school boy of Greensburg, was struck on the forehead by a cinder thrown by another boy and seriously injured. John R. Glaser has sued the Logansport street railway company for SI,OOO < lam ages for injuries received and damage to his buggy. Veedersburg’s sixteenth annual street fair will be held, Get. 24 to 29. The main feature will be the display of farm products and live stock. Nelson Bradley and wife of Greenfield have just celebrated their sixtieth marriage anniversary, lie is president of the Greenfield Bunking Company. Lafountaine public schools have been closed on account of diphtheria. Miss Edna Spinks died of the disease, and Miss Lucy Snyard cannot recover, it is said. Lightning killed 26 Angora goats belonging to Caleb Cobb of Springville and the next day a train ran into a bunch, killing 17. lie is an extensive dealer in goats. The Indiana Baptist *' Association at Shelbyville adopted a resolution by which it was determined to build an orphanage worth $5,000 on the 185 acres given by Mr. and Mrs. Edward C. Crawford of Plainfield. Bert Jones, colored, who was arrested in Michigan City for robbing a Dowaginc, Mich., store and who fought extradition, escu|H*d from the Michigan City jail by breaking a lock. The escape was not discovered for six hours. German Methodist Episcopal ministers have been assigned as follow#: South Bend, Rev. H. Karnopp; Michigan City, Rev. B. H. Becker; Hammond, Rev. 0. Diesnneyer; La I’orte, Rev. A. J. Leoppert; Crown Point, Itev. D. Mueller. An attempt to destroy the Monroe Methodist church was discovered the other day. Holes which jiad teen bored into the large timbers of the foundation were filled with explosives. The fuse which was made of straw was only partially burned. Mrs. Winnie Beatly of Kokomo, 53 years old, accompanied by her youngest son, has departed for Portland, Ore., to become the wife of C. F. Long, a wealthy ranch owner, whom she has never seen. A mutual friend some months ago started a correspondence betweea then),