Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1905 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERBELY. TOLD. Wives Will Get Up No More Feasts for Thrashers—Porter County Man Thinks He Is Cured by Prayer— A Most Persistent Suitor. The farmers of Shelby county are having great difficulty in getting men to assist in the thrashing of the immense crop of wheat because of the fact that it has been reported that the farmers’ wives in many localities have jbanded themselves together in clubs with ironclad obligations not to cook lavisli feasts for thrashers. Heretofore these localities have been noted /or their thrashing.dinners of mutton, veal, boiled ham, toothsome roasts, stuffed turkeys and fried chicken, the women having vied with each other in preparing these meals. They have now resolved that all this bustle in the heated season is vanity and a waste of energy and that the men cun get along on cold “grub.” Friends' Prayers-Answers. “I am going to die.” With this remark John Kinney, a Porter county farmer, called his family to his bedside. “The only thing that will save me is, prayer,” continued Kinney, “but I fear I am marked for the grave.” “Tell* all your people to pray,” was the message of Kinney to the pastor of his church. The village pastor, Rev. Mr. Smith, requested the prayers of his congregation for Kinney’s recovery and for several days and nights there were almost constant prayers. Later the attending physician pronounced Kinney to be convalescent.

Says Marry Him or Die. Dan Bailey followed Miss Maud Franklin from Indian Territory to Shoals and going to the home of her sister, Mrs. Robert Conquest, threatened to kill her if she did not marry him. A telephone message was sent Sheriff Workman, who went to the scene and arrested Bailey, who was taken before Squire Sherrill and placed under bond for his appearance at the September term of court. Failing to furnish bail he was placed in the county jail. Elevator Man Killed. Michael Shirk, employed in the factory of the Studebaker Brothers’ Manufacturing Company in South Bend, as elevator man, was killed the other nighY Shirk was running the freight elevator in the shipping department. In attempting to step from it before it stopped his foot slipped and he fell between the floor and the car, which rose. Before help could reach the unfortunate man his breast and head were crushed. Discharged Gun in Mouth. Austin C. Beeman, an old soldier having served in Company D, Fifty-first Indiana, committed suicide in Vincennes by shooting himself. lie placed the muzzle of a shotgun in his mouth and blew the whole left side of his -face off. He was 71 years old, and had been in ill health. He leaves a widow and six children. Kills Herself in Prison. Anna Forster, a chambermaid who stole $35 from a guest at the hotel where she was employed and hid the bills in the tresses of her hair, died suddenly in jail in Terre Haute. She is thought to have committed suicide. Within Our Borders. Charles Fund, aged 72, was taken to Peru from Fond du Lac, Wis., and jailed for stealing a livery horse and buggy. He confessed. Reports indicate that the wheat yield will average twenty bushels. Most farmers will store their wheat and hold it for higher prices. Frederick Treu, aged 40, stubbed his toe in Fort Wayne and died of lockjaw. He leaves a widow and four children in poor circumstances. The 7-year-old son of Nelson L. Jones of South Bend was drowned in an unused cistern in the rear of his father’s undertaking establishment. The Rev. M. J. O’Brien, the Indiana clergyman of the Wesleyan Methodist faith who left the ministry of that denomination because of the inadequate salaries which were paid, has accepted a call to the pastorate of the Christian church at Kankakee, 111. After a stormy joint meeting of the executive boards of the Indiana operators and Indiana miners several grievances were settled, notably the Shirley Hill strike, where the men went out against the orders of the president of the miners and were ttien discharged by the company. The joint meeting upheld the discharge of about 100 men. The operators complain of too many unauthorized strikes.

The weekly crop report issued by '.he government has the following review of conditions in this State: Thrashing wheat well advanced, yield and quality good; oats and timothy mostly harvested with satisfactory results; corn crop as a whole in excellent condition; seed clover, tobacco, potatoes, tomatoes, onions, encumbers, watermelons and cantaloupes doing well; apple crop light; peaches, pears nnd plums fairly plentiful. 11. Hans, bookkeeper nt the People's Bank nt Darlington, lias disappeared, nnd it is feared by the hank officials that be bus taken $6,000 of the bank's reserve. In the absence of the cashier Haas was given the combination of the safe, and after banking hours it is suid lie visited the bank wjtli a suit ease, nnd was afterward driven to Crawfordsville by a chum. From this place he took a train for tlie East. Ilis father is a wealthy business man and states that he will make good the loss, if his sou took the money.

Seventeen persons were injured in a collision between n passenger cur and a work train on the Mttncie, Hartford City and Fort Wayne traction line. All of the injuries with one exception were slight. John Butier, motorinan of the pussenger, was injured internally. Excitement has been caused at Chesterton by the receipt by Joseph Stephens, the marshal, of two anonymous letters, mailed at Chicago, threatening him with death if he does not resign. Btcphens has aroused much ill feeling by hi* vigor in suppressing violence in the recent class workers’ strik®