Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1905 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTB TERBELY TOLD. _______________ Murder Does Not Stop Carousal—Kokomo Officials Talk of Disincorporation —Reunion of Long-Parted Family in La Porte—Big Deal in Mines. Grover Richardson. aged 22. was shot and instantly killed by William Senegal in the latter’s saloon in Wheeling. A number of men were gambling when a dispute arose. Senegal drew a revolver and fired, the bullet passing through Richardson's chest and continuing into the stomach. The Munch* police, who reached the place an hour later, found the men still drinking, the body of the murdered man remaining where lie fpff.T Senegal and his bartenrher. Ferdinand Riciiei, were arrested and taken to Muneie. Upon the arrival of the police at the scene of the nnu-iler Senegal again pulled his revolver and was not disarmed and arrested uutjl after a terrific tight. Young ttiehardsou Is. reported to have been inveigled into the saloon where the trouble was later started in which he was killed. May Cast Off Its Charter. Because of their auger over the new cities and towns law which in Kokomo is particularly unpopular local officials have started a movement to disincorporate the municipality to escape its operation. The opponents of the movement say that if it is carried sufficiently far they will settle the matter by injunction in the courts. So novel a project is attracting much interest and attention. Kokomo’s city debt is deemed to be a bar to an innovation of the kind. Legally Dead, He Is Alive. A remarkable story was told in the reunion the other day of Jacgb and William Case and Mrs. Orion Laclear, brothers and sister. Jacob left Laporte before the Civil War and served in the Confederate army and then disappeared. Their mother died and in order to settle the estate lie was declared legally dead. Recently word came from Galveston, Tex., he was dying in a hospital. He recovered and came north to meet his brother and sister. Huge Deal in Mines. John S. Bays, acting for a New York syndicate, has purchased seven of the best mines in Sullivan county. The consideration is said to have been $2,500,000. The mines are the Hymera, North Jackson Hill, Sullivan County Coal Company, Union Coal Company and Keller Coal Company mines, owned by Harder & Hafer of Chicago, and the Glendora mine, owned by the >». S. Bogle Coal Company of Chicago.

Bites Wife So She Will Die. Crazed by drink, John Jackson attacked his wife in lluncie, and after biting her like a savage beast for half an hour, left lier insensible and bleeding to death. The woman cannot live. Jackson was captured by detectives. The deed, it is said, was prompted by jealousy. Brief State Happenings. The department store of Ziesel Brothers at Elkhart was robbed of silks valued at- SI,OOO. James Casey, aged 45, died in the county jail in Evansville as the result of excessive cigarette smoking. Frank Hagemun. who disappeared in February • from Vincennes, has been found at Fox, 111., and will return home. As result of a trolley wire falling on the city fire alarm system at Vincennes, thirteen of the fire alarm boxes were destroyed. Charles M. Rouser, a night watchman, and Charles Henry, a general storekeeper, were arrested for handling California lottery tickets at Fort Wayne. Otis B. Fitcl, tlie merchant who disappeared at Fort Wayne, was found wandering in the city drenched with rain, . smeared with mud and delirious with a high fever. At Wabash Judge Plummer overruled a motion for a new trial for Charles Sprung, convicted of murder of Wilson Addington, anil sentenced Sprung to imprisonment for life. Urban Lawrence, a railroad man. finding William Woodruff, a groeeryman, with-Mrs. Lawrence in the Lawrence Isom*.! in Terre Haute, shot Woodruff, but did not seriously injure him. Steen township has remonstrated against the liquor traffic, which prohibits the sale of intoxicants in that township two years. The remonstrance is headed by John 11. Nibloek. a Wheatland nietchant. and is the first yet filed under the new Indiana statute.

Judge A. B. Anderson of the I’niteil States District Court lias ordered that tlie Chicago and South Shore Railway Company's interurbnn line bet ween I,nporte and Michigan City, including all property, rights and franchises, be sold at receiver's sale in Laporte May Indiana’s new marriage license law lias developed some unexpected results. The law requires the statement of ages under oath, and this County Clerk Johnson of Fort Wayne believes accounts for the decrease in the number issued in April (sixteen) as compared with that of April of 1904, when there were forty-five issued. The new law requires applicants personally to swear to answers given to a dozen questions, but does not require a third party to identify the parties, as did tlie old law. Ohio elopers already have discovered that ni period of residence is required, and have begun to come over the/hate line to he married, taking chances on being punished later for falsely swearing to Vjieir residence. The t>ill was framed originally by t'iie preachers’ association. Atirou S. Vail, a prominent northern Indiana who owns a large sawmill north of La I’orte. was fatally wounded by a large buzz saw. which cut off six ribs, plowed through his right Shoulder blade and ripped open his lung. In I’rinceton Coroner Hollingsworth returned his verdict in the recent coal mine disaster in which eight men were killed. He holds ftoscoc Hedrick and the Princeton Coal Company, which owned the mine, responsible. The verdict says that Hedrick was incompetent to prepare the shot and the company knew this.