Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1906 — Indiana State News [ARTICLE]

Indiana State News

SWAP BANK FOR CLOTHING SHOP. <5,, South Bead Men Tire of Their Work and Make Odd Deal. Tiring of their respective lines of business, James D. and KirSey De Rhodes, the largest stockholders in the Merchants’ National Bank of South Ben 1, and F. B. , Bellinger and C. E. Campbell, owners of the Vernon Clothing Company, have swapped businesses. The De Rhodes came to South Bend fiom" i fcifayette about five, years ago, and. aided by local capital, built up a , good banking btniness. Bellinger and Campbell came there two years ago from Michigan. DIES OF FOOTBALL HURTS. High School Student Receive* Fatal Kick in Stomach. As the result of injuries received in a higli school football game in Lafayette, Lyle Nicol, the 16-year-old son of Hugh Nicol, manager of Purdue Athletic Association, died in great agony. Yeung Nicol . was making a run around the end when he was tackled and in the scrimmage was fatally kicked in the st'u'aach. The father is an old National League basebail player in the Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis teams. EIGHT BURIED IN WHISKY WELL. Cave-In at Distillery May Result !■ One Death—Others Rescued. Effective work on the part of a rescuing party —saved the lives of at least seven of eight workmen entombed by a cave-in in a deep well at the plant of the Indiana Distilling Company in Terre Haute. When the cave-in occurred the men were at work at the bottom of the well.’ Six of the men were badly crushed and cut, and one will probably die. Fireman In Hen/a Role. .J. G. Holloway, a fireman on the Louisville pad Nashville railroad, as his train was running* at the rate of forty miles an hour near -Evansville, saw a little girl playing - on the track. He crawled out on the pilot and rescued the child, who was unhurt. Terre Haute la on Rampage. The Terre Haute city council has ordered an investigation of the gas and electric lighting service. It seeks more frequent street car service and asks the State board of health to examine the water supplied to the city. Strong charges have been preferred. Made lusane by Brother’s Fate. Driven insane by worrying over the fate of, his brother, Jonas Strickler, a farmer, was lodged in jail in Wabash and will be taken to the asylum. The brother, William, was made insane by sunstroke, and. after returning from the asylum cured, committed suicide. Three Killed by Powder Explosion. The powder storage house at the Lehigh cement plant at Mitchell blew up, killing William Boyer, William Ruble and another employe whose name cannot be learned. The explosion shook houses for ten miles. Athlete “Cribs”; la Expelled. Clifford Carry, star football, basketball and track man of Earlham <<.llege, has been dismissed from the institution for “cribbing” in examinations. Carry’s loss will be keenly felt on the atnietic field. Hold* Dividends Not Earned. Receiver Andrews has made demand on directors of the Vigo National Bank in Terre Haute for $45,000 paid in the last six years as dividends which, it is alleged, were not earned. Home Burned; Three Periah. The country home of William Whitley, five miles south of Goodland, was burned. Two small children and a farm laborer were burned to death. The fire' was started by the explosion of a lamp. Alleged Absconder Caught. C. C. Johnson, alleged absconding town collector of York, 111., was arrested on the Wabash river near Russellville while attempting to pass there in a rowboat. Thieve* Start a Fire. Safe crackers in attempting to break into a safe in a New Albany flour mill, started a fire which damaged the building to the extent of $13,000. Hiccough* Kill Contractor. A. J. Baker, a contractor at Evansville, died from hiccoughs, from which he had suffered for five days. Brief State Happenings. Myrtle, the 7-year-old daughter of William Neal, was shot and killed near her home in Columbus by an unknown hunter. Miss Agnes Scott of Bicknell committed suicide, according to the coroner. The farm hand found alone in the house with the girl has fled. Mrs. Fannie Dunbar of Chicago and her aunt, Mrs. Bond of Laporte, were rescued nt Laporte at the point of death from suffocation by coal gas, generated in a stove. Intense excitement prevails at the little town of Mount Ayr over the probable blinding for life of Dr. J. T. Martin, a prominent physician, by an unknown man who threw a quantity of carbolic acid into his face. William Auberry and Shirley Irwin, who, it is alleged,’,wrecked a freight train on the Southern rAilroad on the night of Aug. 15, were indicted at Petersburg for murder in the first degree. They were remanded to jail without bail. Walter Johnson, 19 years old, was acquitted of the murder of William Kepping by a jury in Vincennes. Tin men were • rival sweethearts of Anna Bell, ’and Kepping’s jealousy prompted him to assault Johnson, when Joh.won shot in self-defense. The secret marriage of John Johnson, the grandson of J. M. Studebaker, 8r n , of South Bend, which took place at Milwaukee two weeks ago, is now announced. The bride was Miss Dorothy Phelan of Ludington, Mich. Johnson Is no* connected with an automobile company of Cleveland.