Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1905 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Rat Poison in Flonr Alniost Kills Four Persons—Sou Held for Father's Murder Prosecuting Attorney Forced to Resign-Suspccted Student Freed. Because Mrs. Rebecca Stewart,, a prominent woman in Leroy church circles, kept rat poison on a pantry shelf right over her flour barrel, sire and three of her family were perhaps fatally poisoned. and Mrs. Stewards daughter, Mrs. Harriet Hathaway of Troy, is in a critical condition. ' Mrs. Hathaway, who teaches the village school? suggested’biscuits for supper. They were made, and in some manner Mrs. Stewprt allowed the box of poison to fall into the flour barrel. After partaking of the food members of the family were seized with convulsions. Held for Father’s Death. The jury which tried John Godfrey, Jr., on the charge of killing his father, John Godfrey, Sr., at Miami, last March, returned a verdict Ttfter deliberating twelve hours. Tire verdict was voluntary manslaughter, and the penalty is fixed at two to twenty-one years. The verdict is not a popular one. The general impression was that the jury would acquit. The first vote was six for acquittal and six for conviction of murder in the first degree. Prosecutor Made to Quit. Deputy I’rosecutor Jesse I’. Houghton resigned upon demand from the members of the Knox County Bar Association. It is said he was requested to hand in his resignation or stand trial for having fraudulently collected costs in cases against law violators where the cases were never tried. His resignation is due to the wholesale prosecutions instituted in Fyffe's court which were worked up by Detective Charles Snyder. Normal Student Freed. Zeno Vandbver, the Indiana normal school student at Terre Haute arrested for thefts, in whose room were found pocketbooks stolen from gymnasium lockers and 1(H) locker keys, and who was formally accused of stealing a few towels, was acquitted at the preliminary hearing, as was also Lewis Phillips, a fellow student whom Vandover told the police had divided stolen money With him. Coeds “Soak" Eavesdroppers. The young women of Butler university gave a party the other night: one-half of them being dressed as boys. While theywere in the parlors of the dormitory the young men secured ladders and gained admittance through windows. The eaves-, droppers were discovered and drenched -with ice water before they could escape down the ladders. Within Our Borders. August Pequignot of near Fort Wayne killed himself with a rifle. Walter W. Modiin of Richmond shot his wife and slashed her throat with a razor. The W. C. T. I’, of Warren is urging the town council to miss a curfew ordinance. Adolphus J. Hines, a former policeman of Fort Wayne, hanged himself with a halter strap in his barn. Fred Steariy. 17 years old, of Brazil, accidentally "shot himself in tire stomach, inflicting a fatal wound. B. Ilullett, aged 35, was fatally injured at Boonville by a mule, which slipped on the ice. falling on him. Clinton Reynolds of Selkirk, Mich., made restitution to a merchant in Indianapolis for a 5-cent eraser he had stolen when a boy. The theft, he said, stood between him and salvation. Mrs. Henry Welsh of Covington gave birtli to triplets, one girl and two boys. The girl died at birth and one of the boys died soon afterward, but the third child, it is believed, will live. Burglars broke into Mrs. R. W. Davis’ store in Shelbyville and secured $39, which amount was in a small cigar box at the cash desk. It is thought that the robbery was the work of local talent. Washington Kelley of Marshall county has just received from tire United States government tire sum of seventyfive cents overpaid by him at the close of the war when he settled his accounts with the quartermaster. Ivy L. Reynolds, captain of tire Indiana National Guards, Company L, at Connersville, has resigned his office with that military organization on account of business duties, and' Basil Middleton, first lieutenant, has been appointed to fill the vacancy. Burglars started in to ransack the business portion of Denver. They robbed five stores, and, while breaking into Harry Meredith's grocery, the proprietor, who lives upstairs, opened tire on them. It is thought one robber was wounded. Grandville Costin and son Orla were found guilty at Martinsville of an attempt a* manslaughter on Ira G. Ratts on Nov. 8 and sentenced to from two to fourteen years in the penitentiary. Ezra Costin, another son, was released on the same charge. The Dennis Carbon Fuel Company has been formed to make fuel out of the, marshy soil in the Kahkakee river valley. It is estimated 20(1 square miles of marsh fuel material lies in Laporte. Starke, Porter and other Indiana counties bordering on the Kankakee river. The fuel will be made by a secret process. each ton being composed •of 1,800 pounds of marsh soil and 200 pounds of other ingredients. The cost to the consumer will be half that of anthracite coal. The Rev. I’. S. Wadkins of Danville has deelini-d a call to the pulpit of the Morgan Street Baptist church in Rushville. The jury’ in the case of Tobias McGrew and Eugene Pierson, charged with robbing and attempting to murder William Brown, returned a verdict of not guilty in Angola. When Chuck Stewart, a c->al miner, chased Elmer Winters, wlip hail ent him with a knife, behind the bar of William Warren's saloon ten mi Lus north of Terra Haute, Warren shot him several times and he will die.