Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1907 — Indiana State News [ARTICLE]

Indiana State News

, LACK ROOM FOR ALL ISSASE. Asylum* Are Crowded, Many Lna* tic* Remaining; in Jails. With insanity on the increase in Indiana and the Richmond hospital especially overcrowded scores of insane are being held in county jails all over the district. An unusually aggravated case deserving the care of the State is in charge of Sheriff Meredith in the county jail in Richmond. John Henry Thorman, deckled insane and awaiting admission to the hospital, has not lain down to rest for more than eight weeks, getting but an hour or two sleep a day while seated in a chair. Thorman has developed an abnormal appetite and will eat bits of string or pieces of cloth torn from his clothing. He under surveillance.

WOMAN ATTACKED BY HAWK. Kokomo Housewife Severely Lacerated in Fight with Bird. Mrs. Albert Taylor of Kokomo is likely to die as the result of injuries sustained in a desperate battle with a chicken hawk which she and her sister, Misa Blanche Petty, waged. The hawk was despoiling the hen roost when the elder "woman came" on the scene and Attacked it. Enraged at being interrupted, the bird of prey flew at the woman and sank its talons to the bone in her shoulders and arms, lacerating her badly. Her cries attracted her sister to the spot, and the bird was finally killed. It measured four feet from tip to tip of its wings. Note Shaved Oil by Stovepipe. A peculiar accident happened at the plant of the American Sheet and Tinplate Company in Elwood to Edward Alley, who is employed in the sorting room. He had finished his task and was sitting by a stove, when suddenlly the stove pipe fell, and his nose was shaved off as neatly as if done-lrvith a knife. A local surgeon sewed it ba«k, and it is believed it will grow in place again. The officials say that never in the history if the plant was such an accident chronicled before.

Robbers Loot a Village. Dyer, a suburb of Chicago on the Michigan Central railroad, was held up by a band of robbers early Sunday morning. The robbers, armed with shotguns, thoroughly frightened every inhabitant in the village who showed any signs of interfering with their plans and after blowing the safe at the postoffice and taking all the valuables in sight left the town and there is no trace of their identity at whereabouts. Robbers Blow Safe and Escape. The safe in the bank of Knight Broa, at Canesville, was 'blown open early Satra»r ii.iiia tore reaching the inner cash vault. Dynamite was used to blow open the safe doors. The explosion was heard by the night telephone operator, who summoned assistance. The robbers escaped.

Missing Girl In CnstodT. Miss Anna Loughlin, the Indianapolis high school girl who disappeared on April 8, following a reprimand by the principal, was taken into custody In Des Moines, lowa. She readily admitted her identityX Her mother has gone after her. Church Takes Tainted Money. “Tainted money offered will be accepted by me and will be placed to proper use,” said Rev. Allen Jay of Richmond, in dedicating the new Friends’ church in Wabash. All of the $12,000 indebtedness was met at this dedication. Theaters Outstrip Churches. Th9* Y. M. C. A. count of the attendance of the Sunday theater on g_jrccent Sabbath in Terre Haute showed there were 5,927 men, while in all the thirty churches there were 1,972 men, according to an announcement just made. Think Contractor Murdered. The authorities of Spencer county will investigate the death of Richard Bell, a cross-tie contractor, whose body was foupd mangled on the tracks of the Southern railroad near Evansville. It is believed the man was murdered and robbed. High Heels Almost Cause of Death. Caught by her high heels in a Pan handle railway frog, Mrs. Charles Morris of Logansport was saved from death by a flagman, who tore her feet from ths tracks a second before a fast train passed. Woman of SO Falls to Death. Mrs. Zuln'a Klingelhoefer, aged 80, fell from a window of a hospital in Evansville and was killed instantly. Suicids is suspected. ; Baby Fatally Scalded la Rocket. The 3-year-old son of Charles Wainman. of Evansville, fell into a bucket of boiling water and was fatally scalded. Within Our Borders. A deed of assignment was filed by ths Evansville Glass Company. The asset* of the company are given at $03,000. The Jay Brown manufacturing plant, making wagon stock, and the electric light station at North Manchester wa* destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of $20,00<*« *

The members of the Masonic order in Indianapolis have completed a fund of $500,000 with which to erect a temple. The last $125,000 was raised by popular subscription in one week. Mary Jones, cook at the Pettiford hotel in Clarion, went hunting dandelion greens, broke hex leg painlessly twice, did her own surgical work, and tumbled down a flight of stairs-*«U in an hour. “Anyhow,” she said. “I’m glad It was the cork leg.” James Scanlon, aged 21, a teamster of St. Louis, killed Ispas Beakcs, a porter in a saloon and rooming Uose, In Terre Haute, after a quarrel about the price of a night’s lodging. Scanlon bad been drinking. Beakes was struck on the head with a board and Instantly killed. Scarlon was arrested.