Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1905 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Murder Arouses Terre Haute People to Ask Reforms—Woman Hears of Son Who Ran Away 20 Years Ago-Wal* lace Fish Hatcheries for Nation. Protestant church ministers the other night preached on the wide-open conditions in Terre Haute, which culminated In the murder of “Matty” Robertson by Joe Roach in a .gambling room, and the congregations were asked to attend a mass meeting the next night, which took action binding Mayor Bidaman to a closing policy as regards public gambling, at least. When Roach killed Robertson the gamblers voluntarily closed their places, after which Mayor Bidaman’s police board issued orders to close them. The reform clement lias faith in Mayor Bidaman and hopes that the mass meeting will influence him to carry out his own views. The fact that Roach shot Robertson because he suspected the latter was a party to the theft of $340 in Roach’s, gambling room is pointed to by the reform element as conclusive proof of the evil effects of permitting public gambling. Find* Son Believed Dead. Ray Freeman, a Westville boy, disappeared twenty years ago and vcigorous advertising and efforts to find him were of no avail. Then he was mourned as dead by the mother' and other kin. Last week, however, the silence of years was broken by tidings received by Mrs. Jennie Freeman, the young man's mother, that the long-imissing son was in Chicago, where he is filling a position in a bindery. The boy has not Communicated with his mother, but she will now make an effort to find him that tlie reunion may take place. Search for Father Ends. Mrs. E. J. Dawson of Chicago, who for twenty-four years Ims been searching for her parents, has found her father, Noah Black, who is a wealthy Franklin county farmer. Mr. and Mrs. Black separated and Mrs. Dawson, who was then a small child, was placed in an orphan’s home. The child was adopted by a family near Chicago and a short time ago she was married to E. J. Dawson. Black has £one to visit his daughter at Chicago. Wallace Gift to the Nation. The great fish hatcheries at Waterbable, on which General Lew Wallace spent thousands of dollars, are to be presented by the family to the government. Congressman C. B. Landis received a letter from Henry WallaV-c. the only son of the general, making the offer on behalf of iiis mother. There is no doubt of the government’s acceptance.

Wabash Foundry Burned. A SIO,OOO fire partially destroyed the foundry of the Btircus Company and Wat»a»h Stove Company in Wabash. The main part of the plant was saved, but patterns were destroyed which will be hard to replace. The fire started iu the molding room. AH Over the State. The I. O. O. F., at Harrisburg;- will erect a new hall, costing $2,000. Twenty-two young men of Shelbyville and county have recently enlisted in the regular army. Eastern capitalists have leased rooms preparatory to opening a bank in Muncie to cater especially to oil men. A majority of the taxpayers have petitioned for a special election at Daleville to pass upon the question of incorporation. John Benton, aged 70 years, deliberately walked to bis death near Hanna, by stepping iu front of a Pere Marquette passenger train. The Sixty-seventh Indiana Infantry survivors will hold a reunion at Madison during the State encampment of the G. A. R. in June. The Peru grand jury has adjourned, returning but two indictments, and reporting all the county institutions satisfactorily>managed. ParrygGrady, aged 33. was found dead in his barn at Covington by his wife. His throat had been cut. The coroner's verdict was'suicide. Mrs. Mary A. Sust wants $5,000 damages from the city of Muncie because of a defective sidewalk, by which she was permanently injured. Two blocks of buildings in the business center of Monroe were destroyed by tire, five stores and the postoffice being, swept away, the loss is $20,000. Miss May Malone, daughter of exSheriff James IL Malone, and James Gordon Spencer of Chicago were married by Rev. J. H. O. Smith at Valparaiso. A company is being organized in Rushville to manufacture buggies in the building to be vacated by the Rushville Buggy Company, which will remove to Flora, 111. Charles Lambert, near Harrisburg, while driving along the highway, lost one of his horses, the animal dropping dead through fright on seeing an interurban car. George Bullock, 38 years old, committed suicide in Evansville by shooting himself, after having attempted to kill his wife and daughter. He had been drinking. , John (Smiley of Muncie, 20, kissed his young bride nud infant babe good-by and announced that lie was going to end his life. For half an hour his young wife fought bravely to prevent the rash act. but at last she was overpowered, ami her husband swallowed the morphine. dying two hours later. He was insanely jealous, but relatives say his jealousy was unfounded. Victory Bateman, the well-known actress. who has appeared liefore the pule lie frequently a* a member of a stock company, was seriously burned in a hotel fire in Edwardsville. There is a family of seven boys and four girls in Pierceton, whose names begin with a “P"—Pleasant, Paul. Percy, Peter, Perry, Philip, Patrick, Pansy, Pearl, Polly and Phyllis. Raymond Nolan, of Richmond, ten years old. attempted to drive a nail into a box, but, as a result of a mis-atroke. the nail bounded and struck him in the tight eye, instantly destroying the sight.