Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1906 — Indiana State News [ARTICLE]

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FIRES AT GIRL FROM AMBISH. Quarrel Caused 11-Year-Old to Lay in Wait for His Little Playmate., A mere mite of a boy, Hollis Carl, 11, shot and killed his girl playmate, Pearl Vance, from ambush. The shooting was the result of a childish quarrel. Hollis went home angry. Then he planned roveage. lie secured a single-barreled shot* gun at home, and barely able tq carry the instrument of death, he hid in a clump of weeds and waited for his golden-haired playmate. She was on her way home, wondering why Hollis was so angry. When she passed the place where the boy was hiding, a sharp report was heard, and Pearl fell fatally wounded. The load carried away a portion of the child’s skull. Little Hollis rushed home, and is now frantic with .grief. The shooting occurred near Corydon. MURDERER DEFIES POLICE. Slays Wife, Keeps Posse at Bay for Day, Then Dips Snicide. William Hardin, a farmer living ten miles from Boonville, shot his wife and stood guard over her body, defying the officers during the entire night. The 13-year-old son of Hardin witnessed the shooting and ran from the house while his mother was still struggling with his father. After the lad left Hardin shot his wife a second time, killing her instantly.. With a shotgun and revolver pointed toward the officers he kept them at bay all the next day. but late the following evening killed himself. He left a letter making serious charges against his wife. Names of prominent business men were mentioned. ARREST IN SCHAFER. CASE. Police Gef New Clew In Famous Bedford Murder Mystery. A new line of investigation into th 4 murder of MisS Sarah Schafer, the Bedford high school teacher, was started in Indianapolis when William Mullex, a laborer who worked on a farm nearßed-/ ford at the time of the murder, was arrested and examined by the detectives. George Brian, a machinist, gave the officers a tip to the effect that Mullex was connected with the murder of the teacher and the inquiry developed that Mullex worked on a farm at which Miss Eva Love, a friend of Miss Schafer, visited. The police think there is ground for holding Mullex and his record will be investigated. ’. ./...._ GRAVEL ROADS IN LAWRENCE. Farmers Regard the Investment as a Profitable One. As the result of a special election $37,000 has been voted in Lawrence county, with which to build thirteen miles of macadamized roads. This will make all the main roads in the county pikes, with many of the side roads. An election for gravel roads always carries in the affirmative, as the voters believe it is the best investment possible for the money expended. Those people who, a few years ago, voted against taxing the property holders for roads, at this election were the most radical.HAT BRINGS BACK EYESIGHT. W iiiiii ■ Accidentally Rubs Against Organ and Its Functions Are Restored. Thge Noyea, a Lake Shore conductor who lost his eyesight in a wreck in the South Bend yards a few weeks ago, has recovered his sight in a novel manner. The straw hat of a child which he was holding rubbed against the eyeball and caused intense pain. Gradually the eye became numb and almost without warning the sight was restored. BLUFFED WITH EMPTY GUN. Sixtcen-Ycur-Old Boy Routs Barglar with Harmless Weapon. Herman Wilkins, 16 years old, son of Mr. and Mrs. S. R. Wilkins of Anderson, while alone at home with his little brothers and sisters, found a negro burglar plundering his father’s house, and, witk an empty shotgun, he bluffed the fellow so vigorously that the negro dropped his stolen stuff, sprang through a window and escaped. Brief State Happenings. The coroner finds that the death of Elmer Patterson, 22 years old, son of Mrs. W. A. Patterson, near Tilden, was due to accident. Fire destroyed the plant of the Kellar Printing Company in Evansville. The loss is s6o,<w. The fire was started by a gasoline explosion. In the trial of Andrew Williams in Evansville, charged with the shooting of Town Marshal Robert Williams at Booneville last January, Mrs. Minerva Williams, his mother, went on the stand and testified that she and not her son fired the shot. She and her husband, Jonas Williams, are under indictment for complicity in the killing of James Leigh, for whose murder their son Wesley received a life sentence. Mary Royal, who has been in jail in Marion, for two months awaiting trial on the charge of bigamy, has been given her liberty by the court, quashing the indictment because one of her alleged husbands ut Cross Forks, Pa., failed to arrive to testify against her. John Royal, a merchant and former postmaster of Fowlerton. the woman’s last husband, has filed suit for divorce from her. The court ordered Royal to pay Mrs. Royal an amount sufficient to defend the case. t Mrs. Nancy Teague, the oldest woman in Indiana, died at Lafayette at the age of 107. George Young, 45 years old, rural carrier on route No. 2, out of Noblesville, was instantly killed by a north-bound Fort Wayne train while passing a crossing. ’•— Garnet, the 18-months-old baby Of Edward Cockerhan, living four miles north of Petersburg, ate four tablets which Mrs. Cockerhan bad purchased tor neuralgia. The child lived about an hour and died in great misery. The tablets contained. 1 arsenic, aconite and morphine.