Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1907 — Indiana State News [ARTICLE]

Indiana State News

CARRIED BULLET UNAWARES. Hooaler Had Lead In Thigh—Shot in Watermelon Patch. John Zanhouton, proprietor of the mattress factory at Rochester, while preparing for bed recently noticed a lump ou his right thigh which was rather, sore. He pressed on it and a bullet wocke*3 out. Instantly he wal carried back to his boyhood days, when he had been shot while, robbing a watermelon patch. .. This was eighteen years ago. The bullet had been fired from a target rifle by the owner of the patch. It entered Mr. Zanhouton’s leg and never bothered him until this lime. GIRL DRIVES BINDER. Volunteers Free 'AId lu Harvesting When Grain Seems Doomed. Harvest hands are scarcer now ilian ever before in the history 6f this section of the country, to tha oldest farmer inhabitants. Henry Abel-of Shelbyville, like many other farmers, was in danger of losing his wheat crop on account of the dearth of harvest hands. -Then Miss Ethel Bates, -a beautiful and jcultured neighbor, volunteered her assistance and is driving a binding machine. She will keep at the work as long as she sees that crops are in danger of being lost. She refuses to accept any wages or STORM HITS ELKHART. Bridge Company’* Plant Leveled and Telephone Service Paralyzed. In a terrific electrical windstorm the ■ Elkhart Bridge and Iron- Company’s building in Elkhart was leveled. It cost SO,OOO and carried $5,000 insurance. The Pierce Specialty Company, recently of Chicago, sustained damages of SI,OOO. General damage was done by destruction of trees throughout the city. Telephone service was paralyzed. The Joas Maclin residence was destroyed by lightning at a loss of SI,OOO, _ HOPES TO REPAY THEM. Ex-Connty Treasurer Works to R-e- ---— embnrse Bondsmen. George Lightcap, old and feeble, commenced work in La port* as a day laborer the other day’ for the purpose of repaying bondsmen money they lost through his shortage while treasurer of Starke county. The same day, also the last of thirty bondsmen paid the last of Lighteap’s shortage. The total amount owing by Lightcap was $5,033, lost in bad investments. 1 4 INTERItRBAN CAR KILLS DENTIST Companion of Victim at Lafontalno ----w— *— -■ Bnciii»cn Injury. ...... James Brook in, a dentist of Anderson, was kfiled at Lafontaine when he drove his auto on the interurba.i car tracks, directly in front of a car running thirty miles an hour. Brookin apparently did not see the car coining, nnd the -.notorman could not check the speed of the car. The auto was wrecked and Brookin crushed. A companion escap«d injury. Dives for Soap; Is Drowned. Benjamin E. Taylor,- 23 years old, was drowned in forty feet of waier in a gravel pit at Vincennes. Taylor was soaping Ernest Bollman’s •back when the soap fell into the water. Taylor (lived for the soap, and did not come to the surface. Drowning at Michigan City. Harry Hartman, aged 27, of Maywood, HIT, was drowned at-Michigan "City. He ~ dived into the lake from a height of five feet nnd struck hard against the bottom in shallow wafer. He was stunned by the blow and was drowned before rescit’rs reached-him; Live Stock Killed by Lightning. One of the hardest storms in months passed over Evansville the ether afternoon. Great damage is reported. Lightning played havoc with many telephone and telegraph wires. Reports received say that considerable stock was killed in the fields by lightning. Impure Vegetable* Kill Woman. The Evansville city health board has announced that the death of Mrs. Josephine Sell iff erst ein was the result of rating impure vegetables that were purchased at a local store. A full investigation is to be made. Killed When Bolt Eire* Gnn. Lightning struck a tree under which Sherley Mitchell of Evansville was resting, holding his gun. The gi.i was exploded and Mitchell was shot in the head, dying almost instantly. Boy Oaraman Loae* Life. While boating with a number of boy companions Albert Cupp, aged 15, drowned in the Eel river nt Wabash. N Drowned in Cistern. Floyd Wagner, 4, son of Mr. and Mr*. George Wagner of Williamsport, fell Into a cistern and drowned. Minor State Item*. James Lawrence, aged 35. was drowned in a quarry hole at Bedford while bathIng. A negro woman from Chicago was drowned while fishing In the Calumet river at Gary. * t David Zuech, aged 21. a stone carver, was drowned while bathing with two companions at Bedford. While bathing in the Ohio river at Tell City, Kirk Muelchi, aged 13, was seised with cramps and drowned. In Kokomo, Eugene Ilurtsell, the 7-year-old son of Lewis Hurtsell, died of lockjaw. On July 4 a fit ©cracker exploded in hjs hand, slightly burning one fiq* - ger. Wabash rnilrond officers found that an interlocking switch repair gang was responsible for the wrecking on June 2i nt McGee of the Continental Limited, imperiling 200 Eves: The repairmen wer« censured and retained at work becaun* the scarcity of switch repairers. — : “ -