Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1905 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTB OF THE PAST WEEK. Towerman Saves Express Train by- Derailing; Freisht— Prohibition Always to Reign in New Town Cosmetics Must Be Marked “Poison." By the prompt action of Charles Williams, operator in the north tower of Jeffersonville, what might have beCn a frightful wreck, entailing great loss of life, was averted. The Chicago express on the Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway and a thirty car “Big Four” freight were approaching the crossing at the same iustant. The freight was unmanageable. Williams grasped the situation and promptly ditched the freight only a few yards from the crossing. The express* dashed by unharmed. The engineer and fireman of the freight were slightly injured in jumping from the cab. Blown 60 Fee‘j Injuries Few. Val Stinger passed through Knecht with a traction engine the other_ day. A few minutes later a report was heard. It was found the machine had exploded, but Stinger could not be located. For half an hour the villagers searched, when he was seen crawling out of a nearby ravine, where he had lain unconscious. The explosion had thrown him sixty feet over the hank into a dpnsc thicket. The trees and bushes had broken the fall and saved his life. After re 3 covering from the shock he was able to walk away. Town to Be Perpetually Dry. A new town has been laid out in Dubois County, and it bids fair to occupy a unique position, as one of the conditions to property ownership is that no fermented liquors or intoxicants shall ever be sold within its confines. This means an eternally “dry” community. The place is called Cuzco, and is fifteen miles from French Lick Springs. Every deed issued contains a clause that, if whisky is sold directly or indirectly on the premises, the land shall revert to the original owners, W. H. Nicholson, or his heirs. Owns Indian Chief’s Rifle. David B. Helm of Bass Lake Station, has in his possession a rifle, made in 1829, which was made for Francis La Fontaine, the last war chief of the Miami Indians. The historic gun cost S2OO and is a fine piece of mechanical skill in design and workmanship. It is decorated with silver eagles, deer and national emblems. Chief La Fontaine was a noted marksman and in his day won many prizes in shooting matches with the white settlers.

Skull to Grin on Powder Box. A decree has gone out from the State Board of Health that all cosmetics shall be indicated as poison by the presence of a skull and cross bones upon the wrappers, and that any one selling them without their being so designated will be arrested. State Chemist Barbard has been making an investigation, and says that all cosmetics contain corrosive sublimate, and though not poisonous to the skin are dangerous to have about the house without a label. Miner State Matter*. John Seger, a teamster living near Boonville, committed suicide by jumping into a well. lan Cameron, a high school football player in Evansville, broke his hip in a practice game. Jdhn Gassaway, a farmer near Boonville, was fatally scalded by the explosion of a teapot. Walter Jones, a negro, and Tony Shover are taken to Jeffersonville reformatory to serve sentences for grand larceny. Mrs. Elias Hedrick, aged 30 years, committed suicide fourteen miles south of Wabash. She had been despondent for a week.

August Moritz, a fruit dealer and restaurateur, despondent over ill health, shot himself in the head in Swiney park, Fort Wayne. Samuel Langaeher, aged 18, son of a Fort Wajne farmer, died suddenly from ptomaine poisoning after eating sauerkraut and pork. Triplets were born to Mrs. Frank Wilhelm, wife of an Evansville laboring man in poor circumstances. They are two boys and a girl and will be named Teddy, Roosevelt aud Theodosia respectively. Because she refused to dismiss her suit for divorce and live with him again, James D. Gregg, 35 years old, shot his wife, Maude Gregg, 23, in Marion. Then he fired a shot into his own breast. Gregg died and his wife’s condition is critical.

The Circuit Court of Warrick County hns decided that the refusal of a husband to buy a Bible for his wife or to attend church with her is not n ground for divorce. Mrs. Henry Neater complained that her husband did not believe in a future life, and that as she is a religious woman she came to the conclusion she ought not to live with nn unbeliever. Judge Kiper advised her to live with her husband and work for his conversion rather than to übandon him to his unbelief. The third explosion within a year attended by loss of life at the Aetua powder and glycerin works, near Miller Station, resisted in the death of Frank Grimmer, nged 115, of Miller Station and L. V. Nicholson, nged 35. Both men were blown to fragments. Identification was impossible, and there was not enough of their bodies left to conduct a funeral over. The accident, which took place in nn individual packing house whero only two men are allowed to work, shattered windows for miles around. The Fort Wuyne flyer, running between Fort Wayne and New Haven, struck a wagon containing Michael Koehler and Sam Tillburry f Koehler, a. weil-known Fort Wayne politician, was instantly killed. Tillburry, smashed and lacerated, is in n dying condition. Charles Denliy, Jr., son of the late* Charles Denby, who was minister to China, is being urged by Senator Hetnenway iu Washington for an appointment iu the State Department been use of liia knowledge of Chinese affairs, which, it is claimed, would be particularly valuable to the government at this time.