Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1906 — Indiana Stale News [ARTICLE]

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r.~ ' 1 -u-c-Ln.-.-u-u.-u-u-C-u ' T £ see evidence: of murder. Wom»n'» Hair and Corset* In Smoldering Fire. Miss M. Mahan-, the teacher at the Greenwood school, -two miles south of Mitchell, tohl a horrible tale which has conviiiced many people a murder has been committed. Accor-diag to Miss -Mahan when she arrived at. the school house the other morning, she discovered that several horses had been tied to the hitch' lack. On .entering the building a stench as of burning flesh and hair abmost suffocated her. Whisky bottles were strewn about the floor and soma of the furoitnjre was demon) isbed. In the stove she found a mass of long auburn hair, in which was tangled hairpins, corset stays, buttons au<i other articles of women’s apparel. In the stove still smoldering were the remains of a Are;" ’AH the wood w£ich had been piled in the school room had been bnrfied. The school house stands in an isolated spot more than half a mil 6 from any habitation. WOMEX HOUND RICH MAN. One Clnim* Him ns Hnsband anil An* other aa Fiance, Interesting legal complications have arisen to entangle the business affairs of Walter B. Leiteh, a wealthy resident of Starke county. A woman named May Sullivan of Chicago put in an appearance the other day with the allegation that she and Leiteh had lived together as husband and wife for fifteen years and made legal claim to valuable property. Several days ago Mrs. Selki Nicholas filed action in the court to Leitch’s properly, producing documents declaring that if she would secure a divorce from her husband and marry Leiteh the property was to pass to her title. Mrs. Nicholas obtained the divorce, but the proposed marriage was never consummated. - BURGLARS LOOT A SAFE. Find It Unlocked and Take All It Contained. Burglars broke into the general store of McMannis & Dulin in Elizaville and obtained SIOB in cash and $2,000 notes from the safe. Entrance was gained to the storeroom through a back door. The safe was not locked and the robbers did not find it necessary to blow it open. They pried open the inner drawers and got away with the contents of the safe without any one seeing or hearing them. The money and papers belonged to Charles E. Richey and the notes were made payable to him. McMannis & Latin had no money in the s^fe. HURT IN STORE EXPLOSION* Right Persona Suffer Injury When Gan Blow* Up and Starts Panic. Eight persons were injured by a gas explosion in the dry goods store of S. P. Minear in Greensburg. The injured are: Anna McManaman, both arms crushed at elbow, right arm amputated; Mrs. Dick Thomson, right leg crushed; Annabelle Allen, cut on the side and face; Gertrude Crume, cut on head and face; Arthur Hazelrigg, right leg crushed; Anna Gerhardt, cut on head and face; Charles Jackson, cut on face; James Dashields, burned about head and eyes. The explosion caused a panic among clerks and shoppers in the store. CHILDREN BURN TO DEATH. Parents Fatally Injured While Trying to Rescne Them. Clara and Mildred Beggs, 7 and 8 years old, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. William Beggs, living near Royerton, were burned to death. Mr. and Mrs. Beggs were so seriously injured both may die. The family had been living in a tent on the farm of Mrs. Lucy Moore. The gas stove in the tent set fire to the canvas while the family was asleep and the parents tried to rescue their little girls and it was in this effort they received their injuries. BINDS HORSES BY TAILS. Farm Hand After Trick Urges Animals In Opposite Directions. A farm hand at Lawreneebnrg, while intoxicated, tied the tails of two horses together with a stout strap. He then urge 4 the animals to pull in opposite directions. They tugged so hard the tail of one of the horses was completely torn off. The tail of the other was practically severed from its body. The animals were the property of W. E. Brnnders of Jackson township. MOVE FOR A DEEP SEA BASIN. Steel Corporation After Conunodloni Walrrnar at Indiana Harbor. The United States Steel Corporation, which has bought a large tract of land in Lake county, for the erection of one of the largest steel plants in the world, is stnrting a movement for n deep sea basin at Indiana Harbor, and hna asked Gov. Ila nly regarding the possible attitude of the Indiana Congressmen toward a government appropriation in aid of the project. “ . ■ ;

Planned Memorial Hall. By a provision of the will of John A. Burbank, once territorial governor of Dakota, which waa filed in Richmond, $113,000 is giyen the town of Centerville for the building of a memorial hall in honor of his mother. , Within Our Bordets, Mrs. Anna Brandt, aged 68, despondent and in ill health, severed the artery in her wrist and jumped off the bridge at Elkhart Into the river. William Tlionias Moran, who saya he was at one time a millionaire in Michigan, was sent to the poorhouse at Evansville. He is 01 years old. David S. Maule, a farmer, aged 55, residing in Adama County, died from being poisoned by dust while cutting corn, a "Swelling being caused which thoked him to death. m