Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 127, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1904 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Tatint Leads to Son’s Suicide—HusbandReturns After Absence of 25 Years— Fear for Life of Boy Orator—Lons . Electric Line Planned. \ “When father gets well tell him that I didn’t do it and that I didn’t have anything to do with it,” was the message left by Floyd Fifer, aged 22. Friends found the young man’s lifeless body hanging in his father’s barn near Goshen. When the Kinney bank failed at Angola Addison Fifer lost all of his ready money. He brooded over the failure until lie became insane and then,so violent that it was necessary to take him to Longcliff insane hospital at Logansport, where ho is still restrained. Floyd Fifer visited his father frequently nnd his messages from home appeared to have a ben ficial effect upon the afflicted father. The last time Floyd was there the father seemed to be more rational. “If it hadn’t been for you I wouldn’t have lost my money and wouldn’t be here to-day,’’ the old man declared. When the boy went back home he brooded over the charge of his father. Mourned us Dead, Is Alive. After an absence of twenty-five years, during which time his wife and children thought him dead, Frank T. Yount has returned to Muucie as mysteriously as lie disappeared. He tells a remarkable story of an irresistible desire to leave the country. He has visited almost every foreign land nnd lias acquired extensive flouring mill interests in Canada and is now wealthy. The return of Yount suddenly terminates a courtship. His wife, satisfied that her husband had been dead for years, was soon to be married to an easterner. It is said the wedding Kas been called off and that Mrs. Yount will return to the north with her husband and make Canada' her future home. Plan a Line to Cleveland. A fact not generally known is that the St. Joseph Valley Traction Company’s interurban, now being built between La Grange, Elkhart and South Bend, was intended by 11. E. Buck'lin to be one of a series of co-ordinate electric roads from Chicago to Toledo and Cleveland. Those who know' him beat say that he will keep pounding away until an electric line passing through Elkhart will connect Chicago with Cleveland. Fear Boy Orator Is Slain. Charles Benadum, 15 years old, is strangely missing from the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Spencer Benadum, north of Muncie, and it is feared lie has ended his life. Young Benadum was so ambitious that he practically ruined his eyesight from constant study. He received highest honors at school and when forced to give up his studies owing to his eyes lie became distracted. He was known as “the boy orator.” Lighthouse Dweller Insane. Having lived in the Michigan City lighthouse for nearly fifty years, Miss Ann Hartwell has become violently insane as a result of being removed from it. She had been the sole companion of Miss Harriet Colfax, the keeper, who recently resigned the position. State News la BrleL T. T. Butler of Noblesviile will manufacture patent egg eases. Nelson Cook, 10, of Columbus, was struck by a “shinny club” and his nose was broken. There is much complaint in Indiana towns because many persons burn leaves in the street. Mrs. Eliza Forrer, 80, of Clarksville, sustained a stroke of paralysis and is perfectly helpless. Burglars made an unsuccessful attempt to crack the safe in the office of the C., C. & L. railroad at Muucie. Mrs. Aaron Worth, 81, of Bryant, is dead. Her husband is the Prohibition Candidate for Congress in district 8. A man supposed to lie Vernon Kroll of Hoopeston, 111., committed suicide in the railway station in Kokomo. A note in his pocket accuses Dowie’s church of robbing him. Experts have reported that Perry Groves, former county recorder in Kokomo, has been found short in his accounts $1,500, receiving fees in that amount not turned over to the treasury. Samuel Eastliam, who lived three miles south of Terre Haute, was drowned in Lake Murel by the overturning of a boat in which lie and his father and mother were fishing. The parents got ashore safely. Mayor Zimmerman of Richmond believes that incurable insane persons should be put to an easy death. He says that he believes that nine out of ten physicians believe as he does, but are afraid to express such an opinion. t , A freight train on the Big Four railroad broke in two near Marion, and the rear part coming down a grade crashed into the engine, hurling Harry Pillman, a brakeman, between the engine and the binder, pressing his body against the Hjjfew, where lie was burned to death. p.is--i:ig ilie house of Willlgtei, , u .-::i 11-i.vanl e->an--1.1 • -• 1 :i *!■.:•]