Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1905 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY ——_ TOLD. Shot in Fight Over His Child—Muncie Schoolboy Draws Color Line Husband Slain By Wife’s Lawyer Cannery Swindler Has Many Victims. George B. Thurston of Shelbyville was probably fatally shot at the home of his father-in-law. George Dippie. five miles west of that city. Thurston was divorced from his wife two years ago, the court decreeing that their 10-year-old child should spend half of each year with each parent. The other day was the date for the child to go to her father, .bi't the mother recently wrote asking that lie allow the girl to complete the school year, which ( loses in ten days. Insterad of replying Thurston drove to the school, got the child and then proceeded to the Dippie home after her clothes. Ou his arrival there -George Dippie. Jr., a brother of Mrs. Thurston, appeared with a gun and fired three shots at Thurston, all takiijg effect. Need Nat March with Negro. James Ward, a 9-year-old white boy whose parents recently moved to Muncie from Virginia, refused to march in line with a colored boy when requested to do so by a teacher in the Roosevelt school. The teacher tried to force the boy to march beside the negro, ami lie quit school. The boy’s parents refused to compel him to return, and Mr. Ward was arrested under the law which requires parents to keep their children in school a certain number of days each year. At a jtirj- trial Ward was acquitted, the jury deciding the teacher had no right to force upon a child associates that are distasteful to him. Killed by Wife’s Attorney. A. J. Taylor, former Vincennes councilman. was shot and killed by Louis A. Meyer, an attorney, during a fight in front of tlie postofflee. The shooting was witnessed by many persons. Meyer had acted as attorney in a suit brought by Mrs. Taylor against a woman on the ground of alleged misconduct of Taylor. When the two men met on the crowded street a tight followed a brief argument, and Meyer was roughly handled. Freeing himself from Taylor, lie drew a revolver and fired three times, two bullets taking effect. Meyer is~ulfiler arrest. Leaves String of Victims. O. F. Bowman of Carthage. who pretended to operate a canning plant in Indianapolis, has disappeared after swindling several farmers and others. It.' 11. Hill & Co. will lose over $6,600 and R. E. Ileliley over $5,000. Altogether the loss in one township will foot up over $20,000. Bowman had plants at Berne, and others in Alabama. One of his,victims had to sell ills farm to meet, a security note in favor of Bowman, who has been indicted.

Seeks to Poison Husband. Mrs. Jennie Rood, a comely woman of 35. is iii jail in Marion on the charge of attempting to poison her husband, John K. Rood. 78 years old. a wealthy retired business man. Mrs. Rood admitted the attempt- to take the life of the old man to a detective before arrested and made a full confession to Bert White, superintendent of police, and Captain Anthony George. Minor State Matter*. John Duncan, aged til. dropped dead while at work in the machine shops at Princeton. Ephraim Smith. G 8 years old. prominent Indiana farmer, was killed while unloading logs. Congressman E. S. Holliday announces that he will recommend John Gregg for the postoffice in Brazil. Larkin Barnett, a wealthy Warrick county farmer, living near Elberfeld, was fatally injured by a hay knife failing on him. Andrew Carnegie sent a letter to the trustees of tyrlham college at Richmond. announcing a gift of $30,000 for the college. A 3-year-obl daughter of Mr. ami Mrs. Klemeuz Klass, near Spencer, fell into a kettle of boiling maple syrup and was scalded to death. “Bess” Morley stabbed, perhaps fatally. "Curley” Walker in a Terre Haute saloon because he struck her for speaking to another man. Dr. Horace Wardner died at La Porte from blood poisoning, due, it is saiil. to running a sliver under his thumb nail fourteen years ago. Charles Watterson, a brakeman on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, with headquarters nt Garrett, was instantly killed by falling under his train at Mark Center. Ohio. Thomas Telley. who died in Fort Wayne, hail been for fifty years an engineer on the Pennsylvania railroad, with a record of never having had a fatal iic<-ideuT. Joseph Jobst, 44 years old, a driver of a brewery wagon in Fort Wayne, shot his wife and then committed suicide. The woman will live. She had applied for a divorce from Jobst. While attempting to arrest “Red” Jacobs. an old-time outlaw. Officer John Valle was seriously stabbed in South Bend. Jacobs cutting a gosh in his left side with a butcher knifs. Jacobs has a record of six stabbing affairs. Indianapolis ministers have started a movement to have churches supported by a direct tax upon the membership, according to the amount of worldly goods they possess. The idea of the ministers is that the ability of a member to pay should be ganged by'his property, as represented by the tax assessment books. Rev. O. V. Wheeler of the Baptist church at Elkhart has been selected for appointment as chaplain of the regular army. Former Policeman Henry Barnett was shot in the abdomen and fatally wound* ed on the street in Mount Vernon by ( Officer John Williams. There had been laid feeling between the men for some time. Williams surrendered. Nettie Smith of Wabash secured a verdict of damages against bar nephew, Myrtle Roucli, who a year ago playfully tipped over her chair, permanently injuring U«u.