Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1907 — Indiana State News [ARTICLE]

Indiana State News

Knock* Out Four Men. At Elwood Katherine Moneyhan was attacked by four men, who sprang out from behind a building she was passing. Instead of screaming or faipting, as most •girls would, she planted her fist in the face of one of her assailants, and he went doWn as if shot. An upper cut put a second to the ground and she made a grab at a third, but got only a handful of hair. The fourth took to his heels, but not until she had recognized him. Ths young woman proved as fleet of foot as she was expert at fisticuffs and she pursued the youngster until she caught him. She gave him a severe pummeling and forced him to give the names of his associates. On his plea that they were just trying to scare her she let him go and agreed not to prosecute, .providing such tactics were cut out of the young men’s repertory in the future. .■1 Worry Kllla Indicted Banker. Daniel Krisher, president of the Bank of North Manchester, ex-postmaster, former editor and lawyer, is dead of worry following his repeated indictments for embezzlement. His bank failed, and depositors prosecuted him, claiming he accepted deposits knowing the bank was insolvent. Three grand juries indicted him, the indictments of two being quashed. The third indictment is still pending. Knew Deatli 'W'aa Near. Mrs. Mary Grindle, whose funeral was conducted at the family home in Mier, foretold to. the day the time of her death. Several days prior to her death she called an undertaker to her.home and made arrangements for her funeral, directing that her burial robe and coffin be of the purest white. She asked that her relatives come to her home on Sunday. She died in the afternoon. ' Lima Wins More Lyric Honor. Lima, Ohio, singers duplicated their performance of last year and won the lion’s share in the contests of the National Choral Society at Winona Lake. Lima won the mixed chorus,-the feature of the entire contest, with S6OO prize, over Marion, Ind., Newark, Ohio, and Northwestern. The meeting closed with singing of “Messiah” by 400 trained voices. Pay Fine for Short Measure. Notwithstanding the Standard Oil Company filed suit at Indianapolis to enjoin the city from enforcing the ordinance requiring inspection of measuring vessels in which it delivers rojls, Rudolph Beaumont and Eli Abbott, local manager and driver respectively of. one of its wagons, pleaded guilty to giving short measures and consented to pay fines. Rose Bash 100 Years Old. On the farm of J. F. Meacham, near Evansville, is a rose bush that has bloomed every year for the last one hundred years. The blooms are just as fragrant and beautiful as they were the first year the bush produced the roses. The house occupied by Mr. Meacham was built in 1802 and five years after it was built a rose bush wm planted in the front yard. Auto Causes Fatal Injury. J. C. Murray of North Manchester was probably fatally injured by being thrown under a horse’s hoofs when the animal became frightened by a passing automobile belonging to an unknown Elkhart man, for whom Sheriff Haas secured a warrant. A farmer who witnessed the accident says the autoists put on full speed and left their victim by the roadside. Fatal Shot Explained. The mystery of the fatal shooting of William Curry, a negro, several weeks ago, as he stepped from an interurban car at midnight at Clinton, after spending the day in Terre Haute, has been solved. He was accidentally shot, and by his own revolver, and the theory of assassination has fallen through. Accident to a Musician. By the breaking of a nerve in his tongue Prof. W. H. Mershou, a widely known cornet player, who has had charge of the music school at Winona lake, was incapacitated to play a note. His speech also is impaired. The accident occurred while he was playing a solo. 200 Attend Don's Funeral. Two hundred persons attended the funeral of Foxie, a pet dog belonging to Samuel Trowbridge of Evansville. The dog was laid to rest in a little oak caeket lined with satin. A. monument will probably be erected at the canine’s grave. Measles Kill Dying Woman. Mrs. Lender Dawson, wife of a wealthy Wabash farmer, while dying from tuberculosis, contracted measles from some caller and succumbed from this disease. Boy Kills Twin Brother. While in a skiff on Pigeon creek near Evansville Jacob Hihelder, aged 14 years, accidentally shot and killed bis twin brother with a rifle. Within Our Border*. ' The postoffice at Marengo was robbed of SI,OOO in money and stamps. Ther* is no clew to the thieves. *— ' John Myers, aged 19, while swimming in a pond near Evansville, was seized with cramps and drowned. Charles Ferguson and Raymond Weir, both 12 years old, were drowned while swimming in Leatherwood creek, near Bedford. The Weir boy went to the rescue of his comrade and both sank. While a group of laughing children were watching the antics of the animaV at the Gentry shows in Logansport, “Gallagher,” a big baboon used in one of th* acts, broke from bis keepers and seised Clyde Edwards, aged 7. The baboon carried the child to the center of the ring and began to climb a pole with him. When the frantic mother rushed to save her child, the huge ape sank bh teeth in the child's face. He then released hi* victim, and was about to spring upon the mother when he was knocked senseleu by a club m the hands of a circus attache.