Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1906 — Indiana State News [ARTICLE]

Indiana State News

ATTACKED BY THREE MEN. Joseph. Wessell Knocks Out One As—- ' sailant and Escapejp Joseph Wessell, a well-known young man. wli-le on his way to his home in West Richmond the other evening, was assaulted by three men, .Wessell fought desp«r.- M ely and hc JuiOCked one of hi* afesailants out, and finally broke loose and escaped. lie was struck by a sandbag op a club during the melee, bdt not seriously hurt. Hubert Snavely, 17 years old, was assaulted while seated on a bench in the court house yard and robbed of several dollars. He was rendered unconscious by the blow, and he lay on the ground lor several hours before he was found. Thb boy remembers nothing save that he was struck on the back of the head.

SUPPOSED DEAD MAN ALIVE. Deserted His Family Quarter of Century Ago in Indiana. John Bishop, who twenty-five years ago clisappeared from Now Albany and long since believed to be dead, has made Tils appearance in the city. Bishop deserted his family and when in the course of years he did not -return, they concluded that he was dead. He is the father of Charles Bishop of New Albany andBrooks Bishop of Bedford. While Bishop never communicated with his wife, he learned from the newspapers of her death a few years after his departure and later married a woman in St. Louis, where he now lives. CHIED’S BURNS PROVE FATAL. Injuries Received by Hammond Girl in Bonfire Cause Death. Bernice Chapman, 10 years old, of Hammond, died as the result of burns received while playing with other children near her home. They had built a bonfire and Bernice, going too near, was accidentally‘'pushed .in. Before she could be rescued she had sustained fatal burns. Mr. and Mrs. Chapman have been’prostrated by their child’s suffering.

MAY LEAVE WISCONSIN. RinKlins Bros. Said to Be Seeking Winter Qnarter.M at Elkhart. - The report is current at Elkhart that Ringling Brothers, who have consummated a deal for the purchase of the SellsForepaugh circus, have taken an option on a large driving park in the Indiana city for the purpose of establishing winter quarters. Ringling brothers now maintain winter quarters at Baraboo, Wis. , Aged Blind Preacher Dies. Rev. Thomas G. Stevenson, 81 years old, is dead at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Cyrus Moore, in Marion. He had been blind for fifty-seven years and never saw hi? daughter, Mrs. Moore, who was his youngest child. He had made his home with Mr. and Mrs. Moore for a number of years. Stepped Ont of Window. While walking in his sleep Jesse Nation, aged 70, of Elizabethtown, who was at a lodging bouse in Columbus, stepped out of a second-story window, slid down the awning and fell heavily on the stone pavement below. The fall did not awaken him.

Oil Well In City Street. While drilling for water in the main street of Petersburg, oil was struck at a depth of ninety feet. The well is flowing o/vuiin <x W Ivrvii P ■■■■ ■■. . , v ~ st V (Ml uaiicra wtx* xitrui > Within Our Borders. John Deitsell was instantly killed on his father’s farm near Maples while loading logs on a wagon alone. Fire in the boiler room at the Southern Indiana insane hospital at Evansvillecaused a damage of about $3,000. Mrs. O. B. Whittles of Marion was killed and her husband and two other persons rendered unconscious by a bolt of lightning at a funeral. The Friends’ church of Laporte has. votvff a cull to Miss Delia- Leonard of Wilmington. Ohio, to fill the vacant pastorate. Miss Leonard is but 22 years of age. Henry C. Paul was appointed receiver of the Fort Wayne Gas Company upon complaint of the Central Trust Company of New York as trustee for the bondholders. The company defaulted on the payment of SOO,OOO interest due Jan. 1 on a bond issue of $2,000,000. Rev. llugli M. Stovall, pastor of Zion Baptist church in South Bend, and Mrs. Helen Blake eloped to Niles, Mich., and were married. Stovall, four hours previous to his elopement was granted a divorce on condition that he would not marry again within two years. The necessary two-thirds vote of six councilmen was cast for the removal of Mayor Bidaman of Terre Haute on the impeachment charges, but instead of ac- - eept ing 11* v. verdict. the . May or cal mly walked to the presiding officer's seat and told the council he did not intend to quit and that flie action was invalid. His opponents vainly called on City Comptroller Buckingham, who under the law Im’cwuvs acting Mayor in case of a vacancy, to assume the office, but he said he wanted legal advice first. The Mayor was charged with failure to remove police heads when they did not enforce the saloon laws and in the two days’ trial frankly admitted the charge to be true, but claimed that the saloons wore under better regulations than in prior administrations. In a running battle in Frankfort lietween officers and four men suspected of numerous burglaries over fifty shots were fired. - Ona man, James Murphy, was shot through the hand. The men were captured. Judge McMahan of Valparaiso announced that hereafter divorces would not be granted on charges of immoral conduct. Persons who contract marriages know ofjrach other's moral standing before they enter into such contract, he said, and they must abide by such marriage ip his circuit, Porter and Lake counties.