Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1907 — Indiana State News [ARTICLE]

Indiana State News

NEGRO ABDUCTS GIRL. Cab Driver Drive* Society Leader Into Country aa Escort Shoota. Forcibly abducted, in the midst of a hail of bullets, by a negro cab driver, and driven at top speed into the country, Miss Grace Marvin, a beautiful society girl of Logansport, was rescued by a posse, which found her unconscious in the vehicle, with marks of violence on her throat. Claiburn Lewis, the cab driver, was discovered in the cab beside the unconscious girl. It was necessary to take him to jail through the back streets of the city, to avoid a mob which had formed to lynch him. Miss Marvin’s abduction was spectacular. She had been making a tour of road houses in the vicinage, in company with Barry Cardigan, a vaudeville actor. He left her in the cab while he entered a case for a cigar. When he returned to the street he saw the cab rapidly disappearing, with a negro lashing the horses into a gallop and the young woman leaning from the window, screaming for aid, but not daring to jump. Cardigan gave chase on foot, firing his revolver at the negro, and ran until he waa exhausted. The shots had attracted a crowd and a posse was hurriedly formed, which overtook the cab after a chase of two hours. When caught, Lewis had driven into a secluded lane, apparently with the idea of throwing his pursuers off the track. When abducted Jhe girl, was wearing diamonds belonging to Cardigan valued at SI,OOO. These, together with the actor’s overcoat, in which was S4OO, were recovered in the cab. William‘Marvin, the young woman’s father, has sworn to kill the negro and is being guarded by his friends. PECULIAR OLD MAN DIES. Sleep* in Open on Iron Grating for Fifty Year*. . “Cast Iron”. Jack O’Connell is dead at the county infirmary at Evansville. He was 83 years of age. O’Conjnell was a well-known character in that city. For fifty years or more, until removed to the county infirmary, be was never known to sleep in bed, but instead he lay on the iron grating in the rear of a factory in First street. No night was too severe for him to sleep in the open. His food came from, the free lunch counters in the saloons, and as he always had friends who would buy liquor for him, he never went hungry or thirsty. Where he came from was a mystery. The death certificate reads: “‘Cast Iron’ Jack O’Connell, aged 83 years. Cause of death, old age.”

DASHES INTO A CROWD. One Man Killed and Several Injured at Warsaw. West-bound'Pennsylvania fast train No. 10 plowed into a crowd of people at Bourbon Station, killing Tout Sloane, a Warsaw saloonkeeper, and seriously injuring several others. At the time of the accident 1,000 persons were standing on the platform waiting for the east-bound passenger train. Somebody cried “Here she comes,” and the mass of humanity surged toward the track, several persons being thrown in front of the locomotive. The most seriously injured were Frank | Miller of Plymouth, who lost a hand, and George Rodibaugh of Milford, who suffered internal injuries. GIVES LIFE FOR HER CHILDREN. Marion Woman Perishea in Fire in Attempt to Aaaiat Family. Thinking only of the safety of her seven children and disregarding her own danger, Mrs. Harvey Mendenhall perished in a fire which destroyed their home near Marion. ’ The husband and six of the children escaped, blit the seventh child, Theodore, aged G, died with his mother. Mrs. Mendenhall was overcome in attempting to rescue the children. The parents, aroused by the crackiing of fire, found themselves shut in, their exit being barred by flames. Mendenhall and six children escaped through a window. Chicagoans Ron New Road. At a meeting in Bloomington of the stockholders of the Bloomington Southern railroad, the new quarry line the Illinois Central is building from Bloomington to Bedford, they following directors, all Chicagoans, were\jelected: I. Rawn, J. B. T. Titus, Blewitt Lee. The other members of the board are J. T. Harahan and W. G. Bruen. Two Fatally Hury by Exploalon. In ajjynamite explosion at Wolcottville Howamußoy’s head was crushed. Charles Craft was also fatally hurt, both bis legs being broken. Minor State Items. Alexander Sarvas was probably fatally stabbed by John Czima, with whom he quarreled at a church fair in South Bend. Cfinaa fled. » Julius Toth, 15 years old, touched a guy wire that came in contact with a live electric wire in South Bend and was in stantly killed. The removal from office of Marshal Greene and the appointment of Fred Bohnke to the place has caused Mayor Cpffee of Decatur a peck of trouble, and he must now fight impeachment proceedings started by the common council. The council charges Coffee with intimidating officers and with incompetency. Thomas Shea, tramp, shot by Sheriff Oglesby after the official bad been fatally wounded by bullets from Shea’s revolver, died in Winamac from his wounds. I A receiver was asked for the Leah Ma iufacturing Company of Warsaw, of which Theodore P. Shouts, former Panama commissioner, was for paany years president Mismanagement is charged. > Walking two blocks after he had fired a bupllet into his heart with suicidal intent, Abraham C. King, aged 33, dropped dead in the street in La Porte. He had been despondent on account of «icknesa