Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1905 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Terre Haute to Furnish Its Own Electric Licht—Demented Man Attempta to Burn Baby—Fire Destroys Farm of Decker Melon Grower. The Tern- Haute city" .-.dmi'iistration has contracted with the Mr-t'ull x-h..com-pany of St. Lottis to prepare plans ami estimates for a munieipal electric light plant. Mayor Birlamnn report-; as a tisult of his investigation, that lit- is taififident it will be. cheaper-and better for the euty to own its own plant. He believes that !MJ per cent of tin- people of the city favor a inunicipal plant, but that a skillful attempt is being made to array business interests against it. Science Is Ilefeutcd. Just as strrgotins believed they had successfully arranged to provide him with a metal lower jaw to replace a 1 >ss through illness in his yotuigt-f days, Ralph Hirsi-hlef. son of a wealthy Terre Haute family, died in Waukegan. HL, of pneumonia. He was 21 years old. The operation, if successful, would have been original in surgical science in many details. Tries to Burn His Baby. Worry over financial losses mentally deranged William Wendling of Walton, who was found by his vjfe piltting tlieir 4-inbnth.s-oid baby in the stove. sayingThL was going to use the child for kindling wood. Wendling and his wife were painfully burned in struggling for the infant. He was committed to the Longcliff hos-, pital for the insane. Finds Baby on Porch. A baby boy was fotjnd in a telescope on the porch at the residence of Stover Hicks, a Valparaiso bitsiness Tnan. The baby was about 2 weeks old and well dressed. It is believed to have been left by two women who alighted from a Chicago train. Tli'O officei- are-investigat-ing. Valuable Barn Is Destroyed. Fire of incendiary origin destroyed the huge barn and wart-house on the farm of Emery Yates of Decker, loss $!).l»t)i», insurance .'fi-1.000. Yates is a melon grower and is in Florida, His entire stock of melon baskets and much live stock, including thirty head of sheep, were l&st. Girl Scalped by Machine. Miss Josephine Halter, 15 years old, was completely scalped when her hair caught in the shafting at the Vincennes button factory. One car was torn off. The girl’s injuries are fatal. Minor State Matter*. Pneumonia is prevailing at London, fifteeii cases being reported. John. Reed, a bachelor, ."5 years old, hanged himself at Rochester rather than go to jail for one day. Traction service to Rushville on . the Indianapolis and Cincinnati lino, being built by Charles L. Henry, is opened. A burglar entered the jewelry store of A. C. tlenung. at Frankton, and finding the safe unlocked, carried off S2OO in cash and, S4OO in jewelry. Anderson has been placarded with 5.D00 printed notices in effect that the anti-spitting ordinance is now in legal effect and will be enforced. The wharfbont at Leavenworth was wrecked by ice from a gorge which broke above the city. The wharfboat at New Amsterdam was also wrecked. Rev. Richard Bassett, the best known colored man in Indiana and a former member of the Indiana Legislature, died at his home in Kokomo, aged G 2 years. J. H. Wilson of Fortville, a sophomore at Depanw university, suffered a severe hemorrhage as a result of injuries received in the class fight. Hh> condition is critical. The perjury charges against George W. Riley, a newspaper correspondent, and “Dude" Cook, the divorced wife of Elmer Browning, growing out of the Shafer murder in Bedford, lia ve been dismissed. Mrs. Effie Stanfield, bride of Howard Stanfield of Washington, made two attempts at suiyide by hanging. Each time she was unconscious when found, but was cut down in time to save her life. Sue and Howard Stanfield were nnirried at Muttoon. Ilk. three months ago. Harry S. Hicks, formerly treasurer of the Indiana Dental college. i<. in a complaint filed in the. Superior Court in Indianapolis, charged with having misappropriated nearly $20,000 of the eolleg-’s funds. An accounting is askel. City Clerk Taggart of Richmond notified the administrator of the estate of the late James Morrison to appeal- and show cause why stock in the MorrissonPlummer Drug Company of Chicago, which is owned by the estate and in the administrator’s hands, should tint be listed for taxation. The city claims the stock lias not been listed for a period of stivOral years and the city clerk’s estiniate of taxes due is in excess of $lO, 000. A lawsuit will probably result. Representatives of the Elkins-Wide-ner syndicate of Fhilndelphia have been investigating traction, gas and electric plants in Ln I’orte. It is understood that negotiations are pending for the purchase and merger of the Chicago and South Short* Railway Company, owning and operating the interurban line between I.a Porte and Michigan City; the La Porte Gas and Coke Company; the Michigan City Traction Company, owning and operating a street cur line in Michigan City: the La Porte Electric Comimny, owning and operating an electric and hot water heating plant, and the Lake Citie* Electric Company of Michigan City. The deal if made will involve over $2,000,000. Trustee Williams of Prairie township, hns awarded the contract for construction of a SIO,OOO school house nt Springport to W. H. Jones o£ Newcastle. Drillers sinking a water well ut the home of John Miller, in Muncie, encountered what they supposed to be a vein of gold, and specimens have been sent away for analysis. The fraudulent marriage chnrgc brought by Louise Pierce Riley against Howard lliley in Newcastle hns been dismissed, and. insteißl, n divorce euit was filed, with the decree in favor of Mrs. Riley, coupled with S3OO alimony.