Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1907 — Indiana State News [ARTICLE]

Indiana State News

INDIANA TORNADO INJURES 7. Buried Under Wreckage of BoilerHouse and Blacksmith Shop. Thomas Judson, engineer; Newton Chambers, fireman, and Louis Freeman, a cashier, were buried under the walls of the boiler house of the Freeman coal mine at Bicknell, which was wrecked by a freak tornado. Judson was fatally injured, his skull being fractured. The powder house at the mines and the blacksmith shop were demolished. Mrs. J. M. Bicknell and three children were rendered unconscious when the roof fell in. At Monroe City, John Robinson, Jr., was killed by the collapse of a barn in which he and six companions had taken refuge Oscar Westfall, a farmer, was knocked senseless over an embankment by a stroke of lightning that ripped his hat to shreds. He will recover. North of Ricknell lightning shattered the barn of County Commissioner Joseph W. Schaffner, killing a team and stunning three farm hands.

BOUT HIT IN NIGHT. Farmer Killed by Lishtnlng and Hla House Destroyed. Lightning struck the home of Morton Buskirk, 30. nine miles west of Bloomington the other night. Mr. Buskirk was killed and the two-story residence was destroyed by fire. Mrs. Buskirk, who was sleeping with her husband, was only slightly shocked. The children also escaped injury. Mrs. Buskirk dragged the body of her husband from the burning building and also rescued her children. MOB TRIES TO LYNCH PRISONER. Terre Haute Police Arrive In Time to Save Negro. Prompt arrival of the police prevented the lynching in Terre Haute of Henry Martin, a negro, of Evansville. During a quarrel Martin shot and fatally wounded Everett Van Osdal, white. A crowd of more than 2,000 gathered, and before the* police arrived six men seized the negro and started for the Vandalia bridge. A detail of policemen in the patrol wagon intercepted the crowd, ! and succeeded in getting the man to jail. Cruelty Charged; Resigns. Following the investigation by a committee of the charges that he had treated his wife, who has become insane, cruelly, the Rev. Alexander McFerrin resigned as pastor of the Washington Avenue Presbyterian church in Terre Haute. His wife was taken by her sister to the home of her parents in Cleveland. . Homesick Woman Kills Herself. Her mind unbalanced because of her inability through illness to return to her native home in France, Mrs. Chris Schillinger, wife of a Lebanon farmer, opened an artery in her neck with a pair of scissors and bled to death in a few minutes. She tried unsuccessfully to cut her throat a week before. Shaves Whiskers; Is Banished. R. P. Briggs was driven from his home at Macy because his wife did not recognize him after he had his beard shaved off for the first time since he marched with Sherman from Atlanta to the sea. The barber had to go home with him and swear that Briggs was the woman’s husband before she would believe it. Breaks Neck Pninping Water. Thomas Oliver broke his neck in Warsaw while trying to get water from his well. The pump was out of order, and when Oliver made desperate efforts to make it work the handle broke, throwing him on his head. He was instantly killed. The i’ictim was 60 years old. Raise Taxes on Sand Lands. The Porter county board of review has raised the assessment on 30,000 acres of sand land in the northern part of the county near Lake Michigan, owned by a Chicago’syndicate, from $lO to S7O per acre. The State board will also increase the assessment. Jealous Husband Wounded. Ezekiel West, aged 65, of Ilanna, found his wife, aged 24, in the company of Archibald Moore. West shot at Moore. Tlje latter returned the fire, wounding West dangerously. Moore was held to await grand jury action. Itonstabont Slays with Tie Pick. John Ramey, a roustabout on the towboat Samuel, struck Alfred Montabue, a fellow employe, over the head with a tie pick at Evansville, killing him instantly. Ramey escaped. Kicked to Death by n Male. Henry Roetgor, a farmer near Holland, In attempting to drive a mule away from a calf which it was tormenting, was kicked to death by the mule. Girl Victim of Water. Frances Lankford, a 15-year-old girl, was drowned while trading in HN river at Marts. * Within Our Border*. Orval Fry, aged 18, was drowned while boating in the White river at Washington. A daughter of the Rex. F. L. Rayboldt of Petersburg wis overcome by heat and died in a short (time. In Evansville John Withers, 84, a veteran of the Civil War, while temporarily insane from the excessive hot weather, committed suicide by shooting himself in the heart. v James Graham, aged 27, was drowned in three feet of water in the Wabash river, north of Terre Haute, becoming entangled in fi»’h line*. Because iv could not do as much Vork as he Wanted to BAiifiihart, a farmer of Peru, became a maniac and tried three times to kill himself. Despondent because of ill health, John C. Ilay, aged 43. committed suicide by jumping off the Colfax avenue bridge iuto Ht. Joseph river in South Bend. When be struck she water.he changed bis mind and attempted to swim, but the current carried him under.