Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1907 — Indiana State News [ARTICLE]

Indiana State News

. OFFICER IS HUMILIATED. Deputy Sheriff Is Held Up by Boy „ for Trexpaxuinß. Deputy Sheriff Charles Nelson’s star does- not shine as brightly as of yore. Its luster has been dimmed. He has been held up-—and by a boy. It happened because Nelson decided to do a little rabbit shooting near Madison on the side while serving j’apers. He chased a rabbit into a brush pile on the farm of Sylvester Thomas. A negro helped remove the brush until the rabbit was frightened out and shot. Then the negro refused to assist in putting, the brush back. Before Nelson could get away, Guy, the son of Sylvester Thomas, attracted by the shooting, appeared and ordered the brush replaced. Nelson tried to buy him off by offering the rabbit, but it was useless. It took him two hours to replace the brush.

—“TIBST CHURCH AT GARY. It Will Be Erected by Episcopalians at a Cost of $20,00'0. As the result of a meeting of the missionary board of the diocese of the Episcopal church, held in the office of Albert Gt Harlan in South Bend and presided over by Bishop John Hazen White of Michigan City, the Episcopal church will have-the distinction of erecting the first church at Gary. A proposition made by the United States Steel Company of Gary, offering four lots, centrally located, as a church site, was accepted. The steel company will also contribute largely toward the erection of the church. An edifice to cost about $20,000 will be erected. Ground will be broken in the spring. CHOKED WHILE EATING CANDY. Boy’s Stealthy Act and Subsequent Accident Breaks Up School. While John Hartley was surreptitiously eating candy in the school room in Muncie, a piece lodged in his throat and he almost choked to-death. Miss Helen Carr, the teacher, tried in vain to dislodge the obstruction and children were hurriedly .sent, for physicians. .The mother of the hoy was called. The mother was the first to arrive, and she removed the danger by poking her finger down the boy’s throat. By this time physicians began arriving in fltftomobiles and carriages. The school was broken up for the afternoon. -FATALLY HURT UNDER TRAIN. Alleged Wife Deserter Forfeits Ball Bond His Father Signed. Claude Davis, aged 30, brought to Bedford on a charge‘of deserting his wife and three children, after giving his appearance at trial, jumped his’ bond, which his father furnished. He fell beneath a train on the Indianapolis Southern railroad, losing one leg, and sustaining other injuries which are pronounced fatal. t? 7 CREMATED IN HIS BARN. Zacharias Weddell Loses Life While Saving Live Stock, Zacharias Weddell, a wealthy farmer of Benton township, is supposed to have been cremated in his barn while he was attempting to save his horses and cattle. Two horses were burned at the sajne time. He was last seen entering the burning structure. Weddell leaves a wife and four small children. The family is a leading one. Many Indiana Mines Closed. The demand for coal in this State has been falling off the last few days. The Brazil Block Coal Company has only one mine at work. Similar reports come from the bituminous district. This is the first time in many years at this season that the companies have closed even temporarily any of the large mir«s in this district. Killed as Her Father Was. Miss Lizzie Schultz, aged 35, was run down by the Pennsylvania flyer near Schereville at a street crossing and killed instantly. Two years ago this month her father, Henry Schultz, a wealthy stock buyer, was killed by the same train at the same crossing. 1 ' V

Twenty Hurt in Crash. Twenty persons on a Chicago, South Bend and Northern Indiana railway car were seriously injured when a baggage car crashed into the passenger coach. The wreck occurred between South Bend and Mishawaka. Suicide at Noblesville. Miss Clara Albright, 17, committed suicide by drinking carbolic acid. She has a widowed mother in Perkinsville, but has been employed as a domestic in the, home of David House in Noblesville for a year. No cause is assigned for the act. Two Men Killed by Train. Mathew James of Medora and John Wade of Fort Pitner were killed by a Monon freight at Mitchell as they were walking on the track.

Gored to Death by Bull. Domer Swinebamp, a young man of 19 years, was gored to death by a bull near Jasonville. WITHIN OUR BORDERS. At Peru John” Savage, 10 years old, was fatally hurt by the accidental discharge of a gun in the hands of his elder brother. The boys were hunting at the time of the accident. George P. Nickels, postmaster at Rye, N. X, was arrested in Indianapolis and confessed to embezzling $2,000 from the Rye postoffice on Nov. IJ. He had but 55 cents when arrested. He is 47 years old and married. ( , Thomas Welsh, who headed a crowd of young men at Mitchell in a disorderly street parade, was shot and killed by Marshal Frank Dale for making an attack on the officer who tried to disperse the crowd. Dale had but recently taken the office of marshal, relieving Enoch Cheek, who also killed a man a year ago while making an arrest.