Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1905 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Princeton Women Terrorized by "Man in Black’’—lnvalid’s Corpse Found in Lake—Kankakee Valley Land to Be Rec'aimcd end Colonized. ~ ~~ £ ~ A “man in black’’ has been frightening the women of Princeton for several nights. He appears on the street in a black suit, wears a black hat and a black necktie and has large dark eyes. It is said he has seared several women by "making eyes’’ at them. The man is seen only at night and is- not known in Princeton. The police have thus far been unable to apprehend him. although they have been appealed to several times. Invalid Drowns in Lake. The body of Charles Howard, son of Timothy Howard, ex-judge of the Supreme Court, was found floating on St. Mary's lake, at Notre Dame university. Howard was -10 yeays old a nd’ had been missing from his home in South Bend for several hours. He was an invalid and may have been mentally deranged at the time of his drowning. Circumstances indicate that the drowning was accidental. Caw Hanged by Horne. Sherman Boone, a,cattle buyer of Marion, found a cow which he had bought, and which was being pastured on a farm, hanging in a tree, the horns of the cow haviyx been caught in the fork formed by iw limbs. Upon first sight Mr. Boone thought it a deliberate case of suicide, but on.closer investigation found the cow, on rearing up to eat leaves from the tree, had become fastened by the horns in the fork, and in this position ha ’ hung until she died.. Quits Saloon and Is Rich. With the proviso that he must quit the saloon business', Henry Isfort, a Starke county vendor of liquor, will come into possession of a fortune of SIOO,OOO left Jiim by wealthy parents in Germany. Isfort’s parents opposed his saloon departure and in compliance with the dying request he Will dispose of his business and leave for Germany to tak* possession of the estate. Colonize Kankakee Laud. 2k Chicago syndicate is negotiating for the purchase of 150,000 acres of land along the Kankakee river in the northern tier of Indiana counties. Drainage experts are now devising means for the reclamation of the land and the consequent destruction of famous hunting grounds. The land will be platted into small farms and colonized. Homesick, Kit s One, Wounds Two. Homesick and enraged at h;s countrymen, who refused to contribute money to pay his fare back to Europe, Cantro Wassili, a Macedihlian'L-drew a revolver in a lodging-house filled with foreigners in Indianapolis and began firing. Tonese Itisto Was killed and two men were wounded, one of whom will die.

Within Our Borders. Jesse Means, an Indiana farmer, was instantly killed and John Fogarty fatally injured while felling trees. Miss Goldie Kelly of Richmond, who was rendered hysterical through a burglar scare a few days ago, has lost her reason. Fred Davis, aged 25, employed as driver at the Scales coal mine, near Booneville, was fatally injured by a mule falling upon him. ,4. Daniel Chapman falls from the top of the new court house in Goshen, suffering a compound fracture -of both legs and internal injuries. 'k. VJosepli Brennan, while playing baseball in Peru, was struck by a baseball and probably fatally hurt. The ball is half imbedded in his temple. Attorney Asa Bullock of Chicago will be crippled for life as the result of injuries received by being thrown from a buggy near Hobart. His team was frightened by an automobile. Charles TV. Smith of Aurora, traveling salesman for the J. G. Kerr Company, wholesale grocers of Cincinnati, committed suicide by shooting himself at the Campbell hotel in Aurora. Ray Weeks, aged 14, who prepared the meals for his father, the mother being dead, was burned to death at Terre Haute by the explosion of a gasoline stove while preparing a meal for his father. The Carnegie library at Portland has been closed owing to lack of funds to support it and it is probable that Mr. Carnegie will be asked to take back the .library, which was erected with his gift of SIS,(MM I. Warned by his physician that he had less than a year to live. Rev. Henry Boeckelmann, pastor of St. Vincent’s Catholic church at Elkhart, announced to the members of bis congregation that lie would give $2,000, practically al) he possesses, if they would raise $6,000 more before he died to lift the debt on the church. His ambition is to die leaving the church free from debt.

Friends of Stephen Kovi, a miner at Diamond, who was shot and killed while walking with his sweetheart Aug. 20, have become convinced that James Meehan, a rival, was the murderer, and they have offered a reward of s.‘>oo for Meehan’s arrest. Kovi ami his sweetheart were returning from a dance at a late hour, when a man asked them the way to Diamond. He was told the way, but soon again accosted the couple and said they had told him wrong. Immediately he fired the fatal shot, Kovi falling in the arms of his sweetheart. -jhe said the murderer was a tramp and posses searched several days for auspicious characters.

Indiana crop conditions are thus reviewed by the government's weekly report: Weather ideal; most corn safe and drying satisfactorily, crop heavy, cutting in progress; potato yield below normal; tobacco crop good; peaches and pears fair crops; apples light. Col. Ivan N. Walker, one of the best known members of the’ Grand Army of the Republic not only in Indiana, but throughout the Union, died at his apartment* iu the Victoria flats in Indianapolis. He had been in failing health for mor* than a year and his death, due to uraemic poisoning, was not unexpected.