Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1906 — Indiana State News [ARTICLE]

Indiana State News

HOLD WOMEX l\ MURDER CASE. Police Invcxti k:illnur Mystery jot Found on Railroad Tracies. The body of Paul 11. Marks, a young machinist, was found on Ihe Indianapolis and Wineennes railroad' in Indianapolis.witb,‘a bullet through the heart. Marks was a comparative stranger in’the city, liis parents living at Charlottesville. Pa. Money and valuables on Marks’ person were found to be undisturbed. In his pocket was .found a J'oaded revolver which had not receutly been fired- The police are at a loss to explain the motive of the murder. Fred Cairnes, Miss Daisy Forsha and Mrs. Blanche Forsha, -who ar-e snid- to-have had nTt-cngagemont to meet Marks, are being hold pending investigation, j : ~ ; : WIDOW GETS’ WARRES ESTATE. Will ot Dead Chlcneo Physician la Probated at I.aporte. The will of l)r. Clark B. Warren. 1780 Lexington street, Chicago, was probated • in La ports, that l>eing his former home. Tlie Laporte property is left to the widow, Mrs. Minnie Warren. The Dunning, 111., property is reserved for the use of the widow for twenty years, after which it goes to the children, Dr. Frank Warren of Michigan City. lud., and Miss Cinderella Warren of Chicago, who inherit it before that time lii the event of the death of the widow. The estate is 'estimated to be .worth Between $50,000 "and $7.7.000. ' 'V* MOTHER SAVES SOX’S LIFE. Deflects Father's Bullet Aimed at Self-Willed Boy. His son’s open avowal that he tvas going to marry, notwithstanding tire fact he is only 18 years old, so angered/the - father of Frank Pokorski of Hammond that the parent started in to give the boy a thrashing. The boy decided that he would retaliate in kind, and was in a fair way to best the head of the family - when"the latter drew a revolverT and tired. The boy was slightly hurt, his mother interfering just in time to deflect the weapon from the youth’s breast and save liis life.

*3,000 DAMAGES IX AUTO CASE. Laporte Jury Decides in Favor of Man Who Was Injured. A decision of interest to automobile owners was rendered in I.nporte when a jury in Judge Funk’s court awarded Gustave Pacliolke $3,000 for injuries receivedjn a runaway caused by tha.team M' Was ' driviug becoming frightened at" William Brinckmnnn's automobile. The auto was in charge of a chauffeur and was being driven the public highway in excess of the speed limit fixed by the automobile law passed by the last Legislature. 4 FEDERAL OFFICIAL TXDICTED. -• -■ • t ' " ; Indianapolis District Commissioner Charged with Embezzlement. William A. Van Buren, for years United States district commissioner in Indianapolis, has been indicted by the grand jury for embezzlement. The indict meat. charges a shortage of about $2,400 of funds entrusted to him as receiver of the National Bond and Realty Company. Mr. Van Buren is very ill at his residence near Riverside Park. He was well known in commercial circles.

RICH MERCHANT IS HELD. Wealthy Indiana Man May lie Inna lle in St. Louis Hospital. A dispatch from St. Louis states that Owen McDevitt, a wealthy shoe merchant of Evansville, is being held in the city hospital there to be examined for alleged insanity. When found he had over $50,000 in money and securities on his person. McDevitt left Evansville suddenly. At his store no explanation of his absence was given. To Test New Law. Mitwdamus proceedings have been filed to compel the Shelbyville City Council to seat Julius L. Showers and Edward Comstock as couuciliuen at large, elected at the November election, the Council having refused to admit them and five others. The action is to test the new law fixing the terms of office in cities of the fifth class. • Retailers I'labt Mall Order Houses. Because the mail order houses of the large cities, and especially Chicago, are cutting into their business, the Indiana Retail Merchants’ Association is proposing to wage a vigorous warfare for selfprotection. A call has been issued for a State convention at Fort Wayne Jan. 1(5, 17 and 18 to discuss the situation. Keep* I'roinine to Marry.Senator Albert I>. Osborn of Newcastle and Miss I.aura Quick of Frankton will marry on Jan. 24. The Senator by this marriage mokes good a pledge of two years age, when lie promised to marry if nominated and elected to the State Senate. Fatally Stabbed Durlnic Huurrel. As a fesult of trouble arising from n family feud iu I.ynuville, Arthur and Henry Miller and Will Ricketts had a fight, during which Arthur Miller was probably fatully stabbed. Child Smothered by Qolklag, Too much clothing caused the 4-inonths-old baby of Mrs. Jiarve Todd of Lngro to smother while she was taking it to the home of Alexander I'ence, a mile distant. Within Our Border*. Four-year-old Lydia Stencil was found drowned iu a cistern at Elkhart by the mother. John M. Uerron, aged 73, end Margaret nged 73, of Windsor, 111., were married In Tere llaute. Eight horses and thirty-four bead, of cattle were burned to death on (red ElierhardVa farm near South Bend. While hunting near Evansville John Goodwin accidentally "hot and killed hia companion, Thomas Medlin. aged 15 years, _ ; - * ■