Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1906 — SHOCKS IN INDIANA. [ARTICLE]

SHOCKS IN INDIANA.

PEOPLE FLEE IN FEAR FROM SHAKEN BUILDINGS. Ci tie* in Southern Part of State Feel ' Earthquake Tremors Distinctly— New-Yorker Killed by Explosive ==-<= He Invented. ■aw—™— k- .\ ‘ Southern Indiahawas visited by a succession of earthquake shocks between 10 and 31 o'clock Friday morning and in some places they were K> severe as to frighten the people, causing them to leave their homes and rush into the streets. At some points as many ns three shocks were felj, while at others there was a fiticecssion .of tremors that lasted jspvtTal seconds, but not dTstTncTonougfi lo Ite rvetignieed a* separate shocks. Princeton and Owensville., a ‘few miles distant, appear to have felt the quakes more sensibly than .other cities. ALlhe Jprnier some of the buildings rocked and the oc-rirpaiits were greatly JrigTrtened. They rushed into the streets, men. women and chil- . dren, and. .X<jr..a.Jew-4u<»mehß”wi>r«' terer •F’jok.c" As Owensville where Ilu re. .wcre._ three distinct shocks, people left their homes and remained away., for sexcrM hours, fearing to -rt-twn. Shocks weVe felt at a number of other places, the tremors apparently being from west to cast. AtTßoonville.the shocks were so sensibly felt at the court house that all the county officials left the building. ON THE DIIMOM) FIELD. Proc res* of Clubs in Race for n»»e Hall I'cnnanta. ~ NATIONAL LI AG EE. ' - - - .... W. L. . W. J,. Chicago .... It*( 32 Cincinnati .. 56 76 •~~New Xoik.. 82 4.’*> Brooklyn ... 517.5 Pi ftsburgSt 48 StTTJouisi.’.4B 81 Phil’delphia. 58 70'Boston ..7<. 42 88 AMERICAN LEAGUE. - - W. L. w. INew York.. .77 4S St. Louis....t>s ’•! Chicago ....76 49 Detroit .....50 67 Cleveland . .69 54 Washington. 49 77 Phil’delphia 68 56 Boston .....40 88 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. W. L. w. IColumbus ...89 54 Ixiuisville ...70 77 Milwaukee. 82 03 Kansas City. 67 77 Toledo .....76 67 Sf. Paul.... .66 77 M inneapolis 76 GS Indianapolis 51 94 WI ST! KN LEAGUE. W. L. W; L. Des Moines..9l 37. Sioux City... 58 70 Omaha .....54 31 lienver .... .57 70 Lincoln .. . .62 65 Pueblo .... .48 77 EXPLOSIVE! KILLS ITS INVENTOR. Kew-Vorker Dies InwtHntly mid AnNiatant Im Fatally Hurt. Frank W. Wbrdenberger of New. York, chcmi't and inventor of a powerful new explosive, was killed in Lynn. Mass., by the accidental discharge of some of the stuff while giving a demonstration of its power in the presence of a number of contractors. George Tattnall, also of New York, president of the company that has been endeavoring to get the explosive on the market, was fatally hurt. An Italian laborer was severely injured and a dozen'spectators were slightly hurt by Hying bits of rock. Mayor and Police llcnda Quit. Mayor W. W. Rose. Vernon J. Rose, chief of police, and John F. Kelly, captain of pdH?e.‘ th Kansas Citv, agreed to resign their offices upon promise of the State officials that contempt proceedings, brought against them recently in the Kansas Supreme Court would be dropped. Mayor Rose had assumed the office of Mayor after the Supreme Court had ousted him for not enforcing the prohibition law. New Cruiser Shown Speed. A report has been received at the Navy Department in Washington stating that the cruiser Raleigh has made a trial, sailing out of Tofcio bay. It was a full power run for six hours, and rhe Raleigh attaiaed < maximum speed -of-35.5 knots for more than an hour, and an average speed el 20 knots. Endo Life in Shnmr for Son. Ijeaving n letter in wh'nJh ho stated that he could no longer bear the shame and ignomy brought upon him by die alleged defalcation of his son, J. S. Wisher of Anaconda, public administrator of Deer Lodge County, committed suicide in a Buße. Mont., lodging house by swallowing strychnine. Baby Dropped Off Fast Train. Thrown or fallen from the Pennsylvania New York-Chicago nineteen-hour flyer, a 2-mbnths-old boy baby was picked up in the weeds and bushes east of Lima, Ohio, in perfect health and uninjured, having alighted in soft? clay and marsh lands. The babe was gowned in costly linens, marked in French monogram. r«>un<l Dead in Hotel. Colonel F. W. Blees, superintendent of the Klees Military Academy at Maeon, >Jo.. was found dead in the Southern Hotel in St. Louis undid cinuthstanc.es that seem to require a coroner's inquest. Hundred* Killed by Authorities. Hundreds have been killed or wounded —in Biedlee. Runwian Poland, by |>oli<» ami , troops In retaliation for an attack by terrorists. The city is in flames. . - . j Body* Seerr ted Under Woodihrd. The body of D. A. Wile was found secreted under a woodshed at his hour* at Ripley, N. Y. He had apparently been dead several days. He was last seep alive at Brie. Dream Causes Woman'* Death. Becoming hysterical over n drcam that a negro wap standing her bej with a knife to kill her, M its Annie Morgan, I aged 37, of Columbus; Jlb io. ran from her I room crying out her fears and sank io the floor overcome, dying in a few minutes of heart trouble.