Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1905 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Williamsport Husbands Make Public Protest Against the Social Duties of. Wives—Mine Mule Figures in Labor Troubles—Stabbing at Vincennes. Driven to desperation by the numerous social functions which their wives.) attend, 200 husbands of Williamsport adopted a novel way of protesting against its further continuance. The other afternoon after discussing the situation and explaining that they were being neglected at home, their dinners late, their business engagements interfered with and their purses depleted, they inarched in a body to houses where their wives were being entertained and protested publicly. Some of the women admitted that there were grounds for complaint and one euchre club disbanded on the spot. Other, wives were less quiescent, but the husbands believe that they have given an effective check to social functions and that the women will be more moderate in the future.

Mine Mule us a Labor Factor. The mine mule has come to the front as a dominant labor factor in the Indiana coal field." Just now the men at the Woolford mine in Terre Haute are on "strike because the driver was discharged for refusing to pay a fine for beating the mine mule. The largest labor disturbance of the year was at Linton, where 700 men struck because of a controversy over what constituted cruelty to “Old Ben,” a mule with decided ideas of his own about how a mine should be operated. Only, a short time ago 200 men struck in a mine near Terre Haute because they alleged the mules did not get enough to eat. Another strike was due to the fact that the- drivers refused to give the mules a daily bath with a hose, saying mules needed no more baths than they did. Dynamo May Oust Farm Hand. The man with the hoe and the patient beast of burden may be driven from the farms of the' Wabash valley as the result of a novelty in electrical service which is proposed by the Fort Wayne and Wabash Traction Company, operating eighty miles of interurban lines in that section. If it is successful dynamos will displace hand workers, draft animals, steam and gasoline engines now used. The company proposes to install at cost an electrical outfit for each landowner within one mile on either side of its tracks, and furnish current at annual rates to be based on the extent of the service required.

Stabbed in Gaming Fight. With his life in the balance, J. M. Murphy, traveling salesman of Lansing, Mich., lies in his room at King’s hotel in Vincennes, and his constant companion is L. C. Frederick of New York, who arrived there with Murphy. Meanwhile a search is on for Dr. J. N. Harwood of Russellville, 111., who in a dispute over a game at the Manhattan saloon stabbed Murphy six times with a lance, while Murphy and Harwood clinched and was in the act of chewing the doctor’s ear to pieces. Little can be learned of Murphy and Frederick, who are perfect strangers, and persist in being extremely reticent.

Balloon Runs Into Chimney. A balloon ascension and parachute leap at the reunion of Dublin old citizens came near ending in the tragic death of Prof. Stiles Thompson of Martinsville, the aeronaut. As the balloon cended it collided with a building, Prof. Thompson striking a chimney and knocking the bricks among the people gathered below. Herman Jones of Cambridge City and Mrs. John Ferguson of Milton were struck by the bricks and seriously injured. Prof. Thompson was slightly injured, but fell safely.

Within Our Borders. Benjamin McFadden of Posey county found a pearl in the Wabash river, which he sold for SI,OOO. Carl Evans and Charles Fall were seriously injured in a fiercely contested football game at Michigan City. John Knapp was found guilty of murder in the first degree for killing Marshal Leonard Geisler of Hagerstown and given a life sentence. Joe Notting shot and killed Henry Repmeir, a wealthy farmer, at the Freelandville carnival. Notting’s brother four years ago killed Joseph French. The Bachelor Maids’ Club of Dunnville has passed a rule that its members are not to marry men who have their hair cut short or who wear broad-brim-med hats. Charles Maid, the bandit leader of Hobart, was indicted by the Lake county grand jury in Hammond, five minutes after in was convened. As soon as the

indictment was returned into open court by Prosecuting Attorney D. E. Boone, young Mahl was arraigned before Judge E. Tuthill. Maid's atorney induced him to turn state’s evidence and throw himself upon the mercy, of the court. Mahl then made a remarkable confesion to the prosecuting attorney. Mahl said that three weeks ago in Chicago he made the acquaintance of a stranger who revealed a plot to him that would line his pockets with money. The plan was to execute a series of daring robberies in northern Indiana cities in quick succession. Chicago crooks were to commit the robberies and one man of “nerve” in each place was to give Information and then throw the local police off the scent. Mahl agreed to perforin this service in Hobart. Within a week twelve successful robberies were committed. Judge Tuthill withheld sentence until Nov. 6 to give the police opportunity to prove his story and make use of it in Chicago. Bert Lyon of Mount Sterling was crushed to death in a sewer cavein at Dayton, Ohio. H. S. Watkins was badly hurt. Elmer Cochran, aged 3 years, was pushed into a tub of boiling water in Evansville by a pet dog and died in an hour of his scalds. As a result of the unusually warm autumn strawberries all over southern Indiana are yielding a remarkably heavy second crop. The berries are much (letter in size and quality than the first crop and if a heavy frost does not come the yield will be a record breaker.