Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1907 — Indiana State News [ARTICLE]

Indiana State News

WOMAN HIRLED FROM BTGGY. No Clew a* to Identity of Assailant of Mrs. Josephine Griffin. In the death of Mrs. Josephine Griffin at the county jail in Santb-4iemh-rlie i>ce lice have a murder mystery to solve to which they have as yet no clew: The wttsMuu ln au unconscious condition, and with her body~cov?THl—with— was thrown from a buggy in front of the county infirmary Sunday. Immediately the driver whipped up bis horse and escaped. No trace of him or of the rig has been found, despite the fact that the police have been working on the case for nearly a week. When the woman rallied she was insane and unable to give the authorities any information regarding her relatives or her home. The only statement she made was as to her name. THREE BURN TO DEATH. Father, Mother and Baby Dose Dives When Kerosene Explodes. Charles Webster, his wife, and 2-year-old son were burned to death in a fire that destroyed their home near Mentone. Two daughters—Dolly, 10, and Mable, 5 —escaped. Some kerosene put in a stovo by Mrs. Webster to start the fire exploded, igniting her dress. The husband also ca tight fire- w-hen he wenL to .her rescue. The house was soon a mass of flames, and the baby, which was in bed, could not be rescued. The daughters made two unsuccessful attempts to save the baby. KING ONION RECEIVES HOMAGE. Farmers In Vicinity of Wolf Lake Hold Festival in Honor of Crop. King Onion held sway at Wolf lake the other day when 5,000 people gathered to pay respects to that vegetable, which is the principal crop raised by the farmers of Wolfe and the vkfinity. Three Indiana Congressmen, C. C. Gilhams, James and J. A. Adair, delivered addresses. All of this was because the onion crop is fully up to the expectations of the growers.

CHICKEX SWALLOWS DIAMOND. Servant Find* Gem In Gizzard and Balks Employer's Greed. Susie Bell, a colored servant in Evaiisville, while cleaning a chicken found a diamond that is said to be worth $173 in the gizzard. Her employer took the diamond from her, it is said, and refused to give it up until the woman consulted an attorney, who was ready to file out replevin papers when the man turned the precious stone over to the servant, who will be permitted to keep it until the real owner can be found. ONE KILLED IN WRECK. Wreck Train Crashed Into a Freight at Hagerstown. A wreck train on the Pennsylvania line crashed into a freight at the Hagerstown yards, killing Roscoe E. Febern, 33, of Richmond, a member of the wreck train crew. Joseph Myers, William Owens, Engineer Frank Calkins, Joseph A. Gorman and Michael Bosworth, all of Richmond, and Laurel Showalter of Middletown were injured. All were on the wreck train. The responsibility for the wreck has not been fixed. MISTAKE PREVENTS A SL’ICIDE. Clerk Places Rim Fire Cartridges In a Center Fire Revolve* I ’. - The mistake of a clerk in a hardware store at Sullivan prevented P. F. Anderson from committing suicide. Anderson asked for cartridges, handing over his revolver to be loaded. Then he placed ~ it at his temple and pulled the trigger four times, but there was no discharge. The clerk had placed rim fire cartridges in the revolver, which is a center fire weapon. Uses Oil on Kitchen Fire} Dies, Maud, wife of Albert Swarm of Elkhart, is dead from burns received when a can containing what sbe thought was kerosene exploded as she was pouring some of the fluid on the kitchen fire. Train Kills Aged Woman. Mrs. Sunday Stillwell, 70 and deaf, was killed by a Lake Erie and Western excursion train at Fairfield. Fire Destroys Town. Fire of unknown origin practically wiped out the business section of the little town of Larwill. Within Our Borders. John Phillips, 15 years old, was drowned in Evansville while bathing in the Ohio river. Simon Ward, air brake inspector for the Chicago, Cincinnati and Louisville railroad at Peru, was found dead under a train. Whether it is suicide or accident is unknown. Gov. Hanly of Indiana reiterated the warning given in his Elkhart speech urging caution in the policies of the administration in its efforts-to correct corporation abuses. One man was killed and fourteen injured on the Pennsylvania railroad near Hagerstown when a local freight crashed into a wreck train. Rcsponsibiitiy for the disaster has not been fixed. Edward Fahrholz of Evansville, superintendent of a factory at Princeton, was killed by falling from the platform of a train on the Evansville and Terre Haute railroad. Both legs were cut off. Fire by lightning destroyed eleven business building* in Reynolds. Loss $50,000. United States Senator James A. Iletnenway has authorised the appointment of Henry Baldwin Lewis of New Albany as cadet to West Point. He is a son of •Capt. Lewis, an officer of thirty years’ standing. ‘ Mrs. Ruth Clayton, the centenarian, who died in Hancock county, besides being 190 years old, was a remarkable woman in many ways. She leaves forty grandchildren, seventy-one great-grandchildren find eleven great great-grandchildren.