Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1906 — Indiana State News [ARTICLE]

Indiana State News

FEkIJI RER GPVE-N SENTENCE. ''—-- -■ Woman Who Testified in DarrosV Case MUM Serve in Prison. , Mrs. Rose Duck, the self-confessed perjurer whose evidence contributed largely to the verdict of guilty rendered in the disbarment case involving Mayor Darrow of La Porte, and John W. Talbot of South Bend, rendered in the Circuit , court of Elkhart county, wgj brougbtbefore Judge Richter and on her plea of guilty to uttepng perjured evidence the judge imposed an indeterminate sentence of two to fourteen years and then suspended judgment. Mrs. Duck has ben incarcerated in the county jail for the last year. , BILLET lodges in tobacco. Veteran Escapes When Missile Strikes Plug in Ills. Pocket. When Albert 11. Thomas of Logansport sank to the floor struck by a bullet from a revolver which was accidentally discharged while John Simmons was displaying the weapon, it was thought that he had been mortally wounded. A closer investigation revealed the fact that a plug of tobacco, which Thomas carried in ' his hip pocket, contained the bullet, and Thomas was uninjured. Both men are well known farmers and Civil WaiOveterans. Simmons thought lie had extracted all the shells from the weapon he was ..exhibiting. CONVICT ( 111 SHED TO DEATH. Oven at Michigan City Penitentiary Caves In on Top of Mun. The new dining hall of tho State prison in Michigan City was the scene of a tragedy in which William Mitchell, a convict. was crushed to death., Mitchell had crawled into the oven to remove an arch when the oven caved in and caught him beneath an avalanche of brick and sand;; “ The -body, which was 'reeqyered several hours later, was terribly crushed.

Minins Engineer Stabbed. From trouble originating in a saloon and starting from a misunderstahdlng, Thomas Jones,, aged 35, a coal mining engineer in BoOTivitfr;was probably "fiF tally stabbed by Claude Barton, a miner, who is only 19. Barton used a pocket knife and slashed his victim over twenty times in the breast. Crash in Egg Corner. Because of a heavy investment in cold storage eggs, F. 11. duce merchants doing business at Seymour, I led ford, Scot twbu rg and Bloomington, have failed. The liabilities ire placed at $100,060, the assets being considerably less. Life Saved by Suspender Buckle. A suspender buckle on the person of Hugh Vauhn of Newcastle stopped a bullet alleged’ to have been fired by Clarence Mullen in shooting at rowdies. The buckle was over the heart and undoubtedly saved Vaulin's life. Drowned in Shallow Pool. William Reis, aged 17 years, of Mount ’ Vernon, was drowned in three feet of water in the pool of the Young Men'* Christian Association building in Evansville. Miner State Matter*. Pastors in South Bend churches attacked M»yor Fogarty for not enforcing the Sunday laws. Michael Burke, the alleged Indiana bank robber, has been brought to Indiana from Toledo. Dr. E. F. Yohn, aged 42. a prominent physician of Valparaiso, died from blood lioisoning contracted from a patient. Blood poisoning resulting from a decayed tooth resulted in the death of AdamStbltes,“ngrd-7.— m Evansville. Fire destroyed the Mr-Gregory Opera House, Wall's music store, Keller’s drug store and several offices at Brazil; loss $75,000. ' President Roosevelt's »4ews on race — suicide have made it necessary for him to send to an inquirer at Hartford a formal denial that hq is paying SIOO for every set of triplets born in the country. After long resistance of Gov. Hanly’s orders for Sunday closing the Mayor of Terre Haute closed all saloons and places of business iu the city, except hotels and drug stores. Thirty-seven arrests were made for violations of the closing laws. In the thriving settlement of Flanders the general store of James Docket burned down the other night without anyone knowing it. The proprietor, living on the opposite side of the road, woke up after it was all over and discovered the smoldering ruins. The loss is $2,006, with no insurants*.- Docket had been in business only a year. Two fires in Washington caused a loss of property valued at $6,506. Fire broke out in the Murphy block, doing SI,OOO damage to the buildings and damaging ben L. WhetzeH’s shoe store $4,000, J. E. Bowman's restaurant $706 and Padgett & Padgett’s law office SIOO. William /Prater’s feed store was totally destroyed, at a loss of S7OO. The death of B. B. Weed, formerly ,*f South Bend, at Fayetteville, N. C., shows he had been living a dual life. Mrs. Weed, who resides at Jackson, Mich,, went to the South to search, for her husband. She was surprised to find he was dead nnd that his estate was in the hands of another Mrs. Weed. Mrs. Weed No. 1 has legal proof of her marriage and will fight for her rights. Mrs; William Barrone of Monroeville purchased some medicine' from a faker traveling about the country and her 4-year-old daughter Caroline swallowed two of the pills and in a few miijutes was in convulsions The child died. Imrge owners of lands along the Kankakee river will divert the flood"'waters of the Kankakee into the Tippecanoe river, whereby a more rapid and thorough discharge may be bad and much damage to cropa averted. The channel will bo about eight miles long. The Kankakeo will then flow'down the Wal>as|| instead of the IllinoiaW, ,