Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1905 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. ' Sheriff Stope Prize Fight and Arrest* 300—Hainljet of Tailholt Renamed by Postofiice Department—Returns After 35 Years’ Absence—Fatal Runaway. Sheriff J. Stephen of Newport broke up a prize fight by appearing at the ringside in the woods near the IndianaIllinois State line, arresting 300 spectators and bringing two of the principals to jail. A number of sports from Hammond and Chicago had gathered to see Carl Anderson of Hammond and “Kid” Hubert of Kansas City go twenty rounds in a pasture just over the State line. The fighters,were putting on hand bandages when the man of law arrived. A wild scramble to escape followed, some plunging head ‘first through wire fences, leaving part of their clothing behind. The sheriff grabbed Anderson and Trainer Ed Kennedy and drove to Newport. Hubert, dressed only in trunks, sprinted for Illinois and reached Danville wrapped.in a horse blanket.

Uncle Sam Disowns Tailholt. The Postoilice Department Itas decreed that “Tailholt,” the Hancock county hamlet that James Whitcomb Riley has made famous by his poem, “The Little Town of Ta illicit,” shall bear the official name of Carrollton, that it shall no longer have a postoffice and shall be a rural route station only. The people of Tailholt are up in arms against the degradation of the place by the department, but there is no help for it. They have determined, however, that though Carrollton may be the name by which the government will designate the place, it shall be Tailholt to them, and they will recognize no other name save as. compelled to do so in sending out and receiving mail.

Fails to Keep His Word. John Emigh, who mysteriously disappeared thirty-five years ago, leaving a message that he never again would be seen, returned the other day to his former home in Stark county and was reunited with a brother, who, despite the farewell message, still believed him to be alive. Mr. Emigh is now president of the Nebraska Rural Mail Carriers’ Association. He disappeared when a young man of 22 years. Auto Causes Fatal Runaway. Asa Bullock, aged 65 years, a wellknown lawyer, died at his home in Hobart, as the result of injuries received in a runaway caused by an automobile frightening his horse. Miss Jessie Bullock, his daughter and private secretary, was badly injured in the accident. The driver of the automobile, former Aiderman William Kleihege of Hammond, stopped his car and went to the assistance of Mr. Bullock and his daughter.

Brief State Happenings. A certificate has been issued authorizing the First National Bank of Warren to begin business with a capital of $25,000. Because his wife persisted in having a sign, “Plain Sewing Done,” placed in a window of their home in Elkhart, Melvin Alford asks a divorce. John Hardy and Henry McCain of Chicago, alleged cheek forgers, were arraigned at LaPorte. Hardy pleaded guilty, while McCain will fight the case. E. C. Curry, a Cincinnati detective, has brought suit against the county commissioners in Newcastle, to recover a reward of SSOO offered for the arrest and conviction of the murderer of Mary Starbuck. Announeemena is made that Rev. Dr. William Bayard Dale of Richmond, but at present in Philadelphia, has been decorated by the king of the Belgians, being made a knight of the Order of Leopold. Thirty-six divorce suits filed and twenty decrees awarded during September has caused the judge of a Terre Haute court to make stricter rules. During the same month there were ninety-one marriage licenses issued. Two hundred out of 223 freight handlers employed by the Big Four Railroad Company struck in Indianapolis. It is said the men asked for an increase of pay from 15 to 17% cents an hour, and that instead of granting the increase the company inaugurated the tonnage or piece system. Clarence Clayton, 18-year-old son of Cassius Clayton, a Chicago business man, has been married secretly to Miss Margaret E. Sloan, a wealthy woman, aged 54, of Syracuse. Miss Sloan has refused many offers of marriage, believing her suitors coveted her fortune. She is proprietor of a restaurant, and says she has found her ideal in her youthful husband. The boy is still in school. While standing in the door of his farm house near St. Anthony's. Cyrus W. Winkler saw a ball of fire fall from the sky and alight in a vacant lot near the house. Mr. Winkler found it was a meteor five inches in diameter and weighing five pounds. During the darkness the meteor shines like a jewel. The owner was offered SSOO for the meteor, but refused it and will turn it over to a museum, probably the Smithsonian institution.

Walter L. Ellison, a wealthy merchant of Emporia, was murdered in his store by a man wearing a mask, and the crime is involved in mystery. The man entered the store about the dosing hour, walked up to the merchant, and, apparently without a word being uttered, shot Ellison dead. He then made his escape. There was no attempt to rob the store, and it seems that the murder was deliberately planned and executed, but no motive whatever can be found. Officials at Indianapolis have learned that air is mixed with gas and sold nt *.M> cents a thousand cubic feet, and the whole town is enraged as a consequence. George Campbell, while baling straw on McDaniel's farm near Shelbyville, attempted to regulate the engine. His shoestring caught in a cog, which tore off his shoes, socks, • trousers and underwear. In endeavoring to save himself his hand struck a steam valve, opening it, and he was scalded in a horrible manner from the waist down. The engine was stopped just in time to save Us life.