Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1905 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Minister’s Son Confesses Many Misdeeds- -Statistics on Marriage and Di-vorce-Late Miser Had Queer Hiding Places for Money—Farmer Shot. , In thirty-six hours Earl 1 Reed, the 12-yenr-old son of Rev. Mr. Reed, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church in Corunna. and temperance worker, was guilty of arson, larceny ami burglary. He lias confessed to these particular crimes and to many misdeeds. Sunday evening, March 19, the community was aroused by the agonized screaming of the preacher's young son.. The lad was calling for help and said that a man had robbed his father’s home while the pastor was attending service. A vigilance committee was quickly formed. Stern men hunted throughout the streets and alleys for the criminal. The same evening the home of John Kynearson was entered and $4.42 taken. The next evening the barn in which Rev. Mr. Reed keeps his horse was set on fire, the minister's son making the discovery. A few days later the lad was accused and then told all that had happened. The lad had gone to Rynearson’s home that night to get the boy of that family to come to the parsonage to play cards while the minister and his wife were away. No one was at home and the youngster entered the house and took the bank. He said that some months ago he was the one who burglarized Doug Wallace’s cigar stand and took a lot of stock. The boy is an inveterate reader of detective stories. Citizens advocate sending him to the reform school. One in Three Is Divorced. According to statistics being compiled by the chief of the Indiana bureau of statistics, for every three marriages that were solemnized there was one divorce in Tippecanoe county in the year 1!K)4. There were 340 marriages in that county in 1904 and 12.” divorces, or a divorce percentage of a littie more than 03 per cent. This percentage is the highest in the ,State. although there arc several counties that follow closely. Warrick, A igo and Sullivan counties are next in line. Lake county had the smallest percentage of divorce, a little over 3 per cent. The number of marriages in the State was 28,088. There were 3.419 divorces.

Find SSO in Stick of W ood. In a stick of wood twenty inches long was found SSO in currency in the woodshed at the home of tlie late John B. McArthur, a wealthy money loaner, who died at his country home three miles east of Marion March 12, at tlie age of 01 years. In a baking powder can in tlie same woodshed was found S4O in currency. It is said Mr. and Mrs. McArthur possessed about $12,000 in easli a short time before they died, BUT members of the family have been unable to locate any part of it except the S9O. Girl’s Suitor Victim of Slayer. September Smithy, superintendent on the farm of Mrs. Rose Kitley, near Greenfield, was found murdered tlie other morning. Mrs. Kitley was awakened by a pistol shot and heard a door slammed and an instant later another opened and closed. She found-Smithy in lied, where lie died in a few minutes. Smithy lias been waiting oil a young lady at Cumberland and had some trouble with rival suitorS. It is said that one- of these had threatened his life. Tries Suicide Twice and Succeeds. August Finke. a wealthy German farmer, committed suicide in Rising Sun, shooting himself. He attempted suicide once before when summoned as a juror in the Gillespie murder trial. He was excused from serving on the jury. Within Our Borders. While working in Woolley’s coal mine east J of Boonville, Pierre Hargrove, a miner, was seriously injured by the explosion of dynamite lie was carrying. Albert Townsend pjf Greensfork is in serious condition as a result of taking carbolic acid, which he mistook for medicine. His throat is paralyzed and he is unable to swallow. Gov. Hanly fixed May 10 as the date for the special election to fill tlie vacancy in the First Congressional His trie*: caused by the election of Representative James A. HemeawiVy to the United States Senate.

Daniel Shaw, an ox driver in Chicago in 1837. and who served sixt.v-eight years as a justice of the peace in La Pore county, his record believed to bo without precedent in the United States, died at Ihe age of 01 years. The maple sugar market is overdone in Brown county. Not for years has there been such an amount of manic sugar made by farmers. There are a dozen sugar camps within three miles of Nashville. The sugar is being taken to Bloomington, Martinsville and Columbus. Maple molasses is cheap and everybody has a supply. The fair dates in the southern Indiana comities have been fixed, as follows: Mt Vernon. Aug. 14 to 19; Chrisney. Aug. 14 to 111; Oakland City, Aug. 21 to 2d Itockport. Aug. 22 to 2*5: New Harmony, Aug. 22 to 25: Booneville, Aug. 28 to’ Sept. 2; Princeton, Sept. 4 to 9; Huntingburg. Sept. 11 to 111; Evansville, TriState fair. Sept. 11 to l»i. Silk thieves in Michigan City stole SSOO worth of silks from the Herman Zeese store. They gained entrance through an alley window, not withstanding that the probabilities of a raid had been anticipated and the alley was patrolled every fifteen minutes. The thieves are supposed to be part of the gang recently operating at Lafayette. Hammond, South Bend and other points. Ernest Wicks, a young clubman of Elkhart, lost the eqd of a finger when a hasty driver slammed a cab door shut on him after Wicks bad called for a young woman to attend a dunce. The' Übero Plantation Company was temporarily plueed in the hands of the Union Trust Company ,of Indianapolis as receiver on a complaint which admits ths solvency of the company, but alleges that existing conditions eanse the concern to be unable to carry on the work of cultivating its property. The suit was brought by Charles L. N’ordyke, the own- •« of eleven shares of stock.