Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1906 — Indiana Slate News [ARTICLE]

Indiana Slate News

FENCE FACTORY IS BURNED. Blase at Fraukton Causes a Loss y 40,000. Fire totally destroyed the factory of the Hoosier Fence Company at Frankton and also John Hays* 1 ivory bara and several fra m e b.ui 1 dings, resulting in—a_ total loss of about $49,000, of which onehalf was on the fence factory, with SB,OOO insurance. The factory was owned by A D. Hurst and W. H. 11. Quick of Anderson and was regarded as remarkable because in thirteen years past it had netted for its owners about $200,000. They will rebuild. . ~ , - • YEGGS NEARLY DESTROY , TOWN. Bnrglnrn Set Fire and Rolling? Prairie Has Narrow Escape. The safe in Eugene R. Adams’ general store at Rolling Prairie was blown early the other morning by robbers, who either accidentally or intentionally set fire to the building, which was totally destroyed, including contents. The safe contained leas than SSO. The loss on the building and contents is SIB,OOO. The robbers escaped. The residents with difficulty saved the business district from destruction. GIRL OF ELEVEN A THIEF. Steals |l4O from Parents, Bays Clothes and Makes Trip. Lucy Hill, 11 years old, daughter of Frank Hill of Kokomo, took $l4O from -a-dresser, bought some new dpthes, jewelry and a railway ticket to Dallas, Texas. She started south alone. Her parents thought she had been stolen, but she was arrested in Oklahoma. She will be returned to her distracted parents. “Oil, I just went out to have the time of my life,” was her only explanation. SHOT DOWN IN HIS HOME. A Boonvllle Miner While Drunk" Threatens Officer and Is Killed. Marshal. Charles Schave of Boonville shot and killed William Woods, aged 32, a miner. - Marshal Seha ve wa 9l called to Woods’ house by the letter’s [wife, and when he arrived was met at the door by Woods himself, who threatened to kill the officer. Schave retreated across the street and then tired three shots, which resulted in the man’s death two hours later. Woods had been drunk all night. I.caps from Moving; Train. A man supposed to be Victor Holer, aged 40, of Rhinelander, Wis., leaped through a window of an east-bound Pennsylvania passenger train at the Ohio State line. He has been unconscious with a fractured skull nil day and may die. Drowned in tlie Kankakee. Adolph Eisner, 20 years old, was drowned white bathing in the Kankakee river. He was a member of a theatrical troujie playing at Shelby, and the body was shipped to his home in Chicago, lie was alone at the time of losing his life. Farmer Killed by Fall from Train. Lige Iletti. 25 years old, a farmer of Dale, returning home from the fair at Christney on a crowded train, foil off and struck his head on a tie, fracturing the skull and sustaining fatal injuries. Brief State Happening^. Joseph F. Robinson, a wealthy farmer, depressed by ill health, committed suicide by shooting himself twice with a revolver at the Dejeans hotel in Vincennes. He leaves a family. He carried $20,000 life insurance. Gertrude Price attempted suicide hy jumping into the harbor before the eyes of several hundred Chicago people, who were passengers on the steamer Roosevelt, which was pulling up to the dock in Michigan City. Charles Marshall, a lifesaver, dived into tlie water and saved the girl. Disappointment over a love affair Is'given as tlie causer^ Suits have been filed by tlie Indianapolis prosecutor and State railroad commission on relation of the State against the Adams, the American and the United StatPs express charging them with habitual failure to obey the law in respect to express package delivery and asking that their charters be revoked. At the same time mandate suits la compel deliveries and for the collection of the SSOO penalties for failure were filed. The companies establish their own delivery limit, while the law says they shall deliver without extra charge to any point within an incorporated city having a population of 2,500 or more. The companies refuse to make deliveries outside of limits established by themselves. Within two days two small boys died near Terre Haute from gunshot wounds received mysteriously and which they were not able, owing to prolonged unconsciousness, to fully explain. The 6-year-old son of Bernardo Ptucfca was found oi» the porch with a gunshot wound. No one was near and at first it was reported he Was a victim of feudalism among the foreigner* at the mining camp. Once in the three weeks lie lingered he was conscious for a short time and muttered something about another boy accidentally shooting him. The coroner is investigating. Harry Morris, 8 years old, son of a farmer south of the city, died from a wound received July 21. Frank Kauffman, another boy, gays that he, Kauffman, shot at a bird in a tree and that the bullet glanced from the tree and struck Morris. The latter, in his conscious moments, told his mot her “that Kauffman ‘re go home and that when he did not comply Kauffman shot him. George Zumbrum, the militiaman Who pleaded guilty to the, charge of throwing acid in the face of his former wife, Mrs. Ira Vtiiidevener, seven miles west oi Windfall, wots taken to ahe penitent inry at MuhignirTTty to servf-TtprTtmcurr of from two to fourteen years imposed by the court. Geqrge Wolfe, proprietor of the Hotel Nicjfcl. suddenly left South Bend. His creditors held a meeting anti the sheriff attached tlie hotel. The Kainm and Rebel* Huger Brewing Company of Mishawaka holds a mortgage upon the place. Wolfe’* shortage will aggregate SIO,OOO.