Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1907 — Indiana State News [ARTICLE]

Indiana State News

DESK ITED "IVIFE FOL'ND DEAD. Two Doga Goard Body of 'White Woman in Negro’a Home. Detected h.v her husband and abandoned by her friends, Mrs. Maude Knight, aged 35. white, was found dead on the floor in the home of “Limber” Williams, colored, in Marion, The janitor of the house attempted to enter the room when two dogs that remained faithful to the woman stopped him at the door and refused to let him enter. He asked the police t» kill the dogs, but the officers were field at bay by the maddened animals. At last a man who knew the dogs succeeded in getting into the room and there, Upon the floor, lay the body the dogs were protecting. Near by was a tin cup half full of a liquid, the nature of which thej coroner has been unable to determine. * LEG - BROKEN; FEARS EXPLOSION. Defective Fuse Saves Life of Man Penned Honrs Beside Dynamite. John Connors lay three hours pinioned under an upset hand car, his leg broken, with a heavy charge of dynamite within a few feet of him, expecting momentarily that an explosion would blow him to pieces, His calls for help were not resnondetl to bv his fellow workers of a railroad ■ construction gang at Cataract, because they also feared the explosion. The fuse had bpen lighted and all were hurrying from the spot when the hand car upset with Connors. He says that when his calls brought no rescuers lie, at times prayed for the explosion to bring death and relief from the torture of suspense. Because of a defective fuse the -dynamite was not exploded. WALL PAPER KILLS WIVES. ’ Poison In Dlucovered After Blnn Lose* Three Helpmate*. It developed the other day that the wife of Zacarlah Watson of Posey county, who died recently, was killed by the wall paper in the parlor which she cleaned the day before she was taken sick. For the last three years Watson has lost a wife each spring and he remembered that every wife cleaned the wall paper shortly before being taken sick. The wall paper has been examined and found to contain poison. SCHOOL BOARD BACKS DOWN. Decide* to Reinstate Bloomington Teacher* Who Resigned. The Bloomington board of school trustees has decided to reinstate the resigned school teachers, provided they ask either in person or in writing that their resignations be reconsidered. Most of the teachers will do this, but Prof. Howard Clark and Louis Dirks will not go back into the high school under any consideration.

Trees Imperiled by Scale. MpriTHio have made scientific investigation of the spread of the San Jose in Marion say that within two years every tree in a large district of the city will be killed and have recommended that the city take cgntrol of privately owned trees and j;hrubbery. The scale has been found over a third of the city and the shade trees in some parts have been attacked. ■ - Eiiiln Idle Near Sweetheart. Charles Calkins shot and killed himself in the street in front of the house in which Lottie Adams, his sweetheart, was employed in Elkhart. The only paper in his pockets was a clipping giving an account of the suicide of “Chick” Stahl, captain of the Boston American League baseball team, at Wfst Baden. Attorney Victim of Assault. Warren W. Borders, a wealthy attorney of Winamac, was found unconscious in a remote part of Logansport the other night, suffering from brain contusions. He had apparently been assaulted, but not robbed. He is unable to talk and cannot explain his injuries. Worried to Death hy Charge. J. 11. Kennedy, ex-secretary-treasurer of the Indiana Mine Workers, died in Terre Haute. Death was the result of a nervous collapse following disclosures which led to his removal on a charge of embezzling funds of the organization. Jump from High Trestle Kills. Jasper Davis, 19 years of age, while walking on a trestle of the Evansville and Terre Haute railroad near Evansville was run down by a fast train. He jumped and falling sixty feet was instantly killed. Pickpockets Fleece Chicago Man. Thomas D. Scott of Chicago had his pockets picked while attending the convention of the Northern Indiana Teachers’ Association in South Bend, the thief getting $476 in checks and cash. Fell Dead While Sowing Oats. William Teimeyer, a farmer living six miles east of Brownstown, fell dead in the field while sowing oats. He was 45 years old and is survived by a widow and several children. Minor Btat« Items. Frank Harrison, aged 72, fell from a window of a hotel at Evansville nad waa killed. William Wohlgamuth, a wealthy widower, was found dead in bed at Wabash. He was especially well when he retired. Heart disease is given as the cause of-death. Mrs. Polly Baker of Indianapolis, whose extensive matrimonial experiences have been widely commented on, has just been divorced from her eleventh husband. She has lost several of her mates by death and others have been taken from her by the courts. Judge McMahon in the Laporte Circuit Court granted a permanent injunction to prevent the city of Laporte from paying money to the Laporte Water Supply Company. He held that the plant, which was built seven years ago, and which has been in litigation ever Is the property of the city.