Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1907 — Indiana State News [ARTICLE]

Indiana State News

MAILED IN BOX CAR. Railroad Station A Kent Held Cp T>V Two Men and Robbed. 11. A. Hanning, agent at tlic Evansville and Terre Haute railroad station in Sullivan, was held up at 2:30 o’clock the other morning by two mnske-l men. The strangers entered the office and overpowered Hanning before he could oficer resistance. By means of a rope they tied him, hands and feet, and carried inra to an empty box car whiejj was on the siding. They nailed up the door of the car, then went back to the office and looted the cash drawer of s4.">. When the crew of a north-bouni} passenger train - arrived at the station at 3:50 and found the office empty they made a search of the place, nnHirnri. In t H ,H~IwV <■>«<• hy Hw» yells oFHanning. They released him and took him back to the station. He was uninjured. There is no clew to the robbers, except that one js described as a - tall man -and_the_Qth£r_ one as a~ short man. TRIED ACID AND RIVER. Farmer Baffled in Two Efforts to End His Life. Wesley Alsop, farmer; 38 years old, who had been dissipating freely in Vincennes, paid a fine of $lO in the City Court for drunkenness, after which he entered Jordan’s saloon and invested his last 5-cent piece in a glass of beer, into which he poured carbolic acid and attempted to drink the compound. The bartender knocked the glass from his' lips, and he did the same with the bottle of ucid, to which Alsop had clung. Alsop then started for the river wicb the purpose, of committing suiicde by drowning, hut he was intercepted by Captain Kruse of the police force, and after a stubborn fight he was committed to jail till his relatives could be communicated with. KICKED DEAD BY HORSE. 'JtplmaV' Presented to Father by “Kid” Warner, Damages B#rn. Giles Warner, GO years old, of Hammond, was found dead in a barn in the rear of his home. He was kicked to death by a horse presented to him a few weeks ago by his son, “Kid” Warner, wellknown sporting man and promoter of moving picture theaters and penny arcades. The victim’s head was crushed. Part of the barn had also been demolished by the hoofs of the animal, Mr. Warn® was the owner of the largest drygoods store in Hammond and was a pioneer resident of the city. Cremated While Smoldng. While smoking a pipe Mrs. Mary Brown of Petersburg, 80 years old, fell asleep and the pipe, dropping into her lap, her clothing caught fire. Before help reached her the clothing was burned from her body and the chair in which she was seated was partially consumed.

Train Kills Two at Crossing. Harry Waters, aged 45, and his son, Walter Waters, aged 22, living seven miles east of Greencastle, were struck by the fast mail train on the Vandalia and instantly killed at the village of Almeda. Dogs Save Master from 8011. Rushing to the aid of their master, two big dogs saved the life of A 1 Warner, a farmer, who was knocked down by a fierce bull and whose prostrate form was being beaten by the savage brute near Wabash. Bishop la Salt for Damages. Bishop Chatard has sued .he Itopont Powder Company for $5,000 damages to St. Augustine’s Roman Catholic church, caused by the explosion of the powder mill at Fontanet. The company has compromised five death claims at S7OO each. Judge Has Boy of IT Whipped. Claud King, aged 17, charged with assaulting a small child, was ordered whipped by Police Judge J. G. Winfrey in Evansville. The boy was taken into the police station and about fifty lashes were given him by bis mother.

Found Dead 'by His Wife. George Zimmerman of I>adoga, 84 years old, was found dead in bed by hjs wife, when she tried to call him to breakfast. He had been complaining for several days but was not thought to be seriously ill. Drops Dead Daring Qnnrrel. Mrs. Mary Banyard, aged 00, dropped dead at her son’s feet daring a violent quarrel with him iq Evansville. She had been iq apparent good health. Whipped His Stepson. Ora Mullenix was fined and sent to Jail by Judge Converse of Richmond u;*on conviction for brutally whipping his 9-year-old stepson. Bays ■ Farm for SII,OOO. James Doddridge, jiving in the eastern part of Milton township, has sold his farm. L& Frank Broaddus of Connersville for SII,OOO. It contains 100 acres. Killed by a Corn Shredder. Flora Diredorf, aged 4, of Center Point, is dead from injuries inflicted by a corn shredder. Her dress, blown by the wind, was caught in the cogs of the machine. MINOR STATE ITEMS. While returning from a hunting trip Edward Pugh, cashier of the First National bank of Itushville, was fatally shot near Camden, Ohio. After being out thirty-aix bourn, the jury that tried Thomaa Durnall, ax-re-corder of Brown county, at Nashville on a charge of embexalement returned a verdict of guilty. Fred Sands, 14 year* old, who accidentally shot and killed Grover G. Hayden, 17 years old, a few days ago, near Logs ns port, has been exonerated by tha coroner. The boys were in a barn, wrth Sands on the lower floor. Not knowing the weapon was loaded, he pointed tha gun upward and pulled the trigger, the ballet striking Hayden la the bead, and killing him instantly.