Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1908 — Indiana State News [ARTICLE]

Indiana State News

WOMAN BURNED TO DEATH. Two Children Injured While Trying to Save Her Life. By the explosion of a cofd oil can in the kitchen. Mrs. Mark Hersbberer, 40 yeftrs bld; of' Crawfordsville, was burned to death and two, of Iler four children Were seriously (burned. Mrs. Hershberger was alone at the time of the explosion and was preparing dinner. It is believed she attempted to freshen the fire in the stove with oil. The explosion forced out the .windows. Hershberger, with her clothing to flames, ran oat the back door and fell to lhe ground, where she died before assistance could reach her. Her daughter Mabel, aged 17 years, and her son Glenn, aged 14, were in the house at the time, and 1 " they suffered severe burns about their heads and hands in an effort to save their mother's life. They were taken to the home of neighbors, where their injuries were dressed. Mark Hershberger, the husband, is . foreman at the shale pit of the Poston Brick Company. He came from Veedersburg about twelve years ago, and a month ago moved into the new home which he erected. The home was not damaged, the fire being put out by the assistance of chemicals. Mrs. Hershberger was formerly Miss Myrtle Chesterton of Veedersburg. —— 1—

Sees Block Hr.nd Vengeance. r- Philip Rock, an Italian' merchant and banker in Bedford, fears for his life because of what he believes td be the Black Hand’s work. Vague warnings for purposes of extortion have been followed by the burning of his store, the destruction of a car load of goods, and the murder es a fellow countryman. Terre Haute Orphans’ Home Burns. St. Anne’s Orphans’ Home, a Roman Catholic institution on North Thirteenth street, Terre Haute, was totally destroyed by fire. One hundred orphans were in the building nt the time the fire stark ed and a panic ensued among them, but all escaped without injury. The loss is about $30,000. , Shows Increase of Suicide. In his monthly health report City Health Ofticer D. IV. McNamara of South Bend deplored the increase in the suicidal mania and the absence of an effective preventive remedy. He stated that the increase of the number of sui--cides in South Bend is alarming. Eloper Dark) Is Forgiven. Joseph Chambers of Union Mills, who a year ago eloped with Mrs. Charles Quigg, has returned and has been forgiven by his wife. Quigg secured a divorce from his wite after she disappeared, but it is announced that they will be remarin Chicago within a short time. Convict Attorney of Fraud. Charged with embezzlng $1,200 and a certificate of purchase for forty acresX>f land belonging to the Arbuckle-Ryan Harvester Company of Toledo. Attorney Jack Graves was found guilty in Warsaw and sentenced to thirty days in jail and fined SIOO. Farmer Hangs Self After Arrest. Ben Trader, prominent farmer 1 , committed suicide by banging himself in a barn at Waldron. He was arrested recently for attempting assault on an 11-year-old girl. Penitentiary for White Capper*. David Fox and Jacob Kirk, charged with whitecapping William L. Vanest of South Bethany last June, were found guilty. They will serve a term at Michigan City of from two to fourteen years. Ade Want* to Be Delegate. George Ade. the humorist, announced in Indianapolis his candidacy for delegate from the Tenth district of Indiana to the Republican national convention. He will support Fairbanks. ALL OVER. THE STATE. The first annual fruit show will be held at Purdue university, Jan. 13 to 18. An option has been received on 800 acres of stone land near Bloomington. The stone will be shipped to Gary. « Mrs. Nancy D. Morris of Shelbyville, who is 70, rode on the first train over the Edinburg and Knightstown railway. A negro of Richmond has patented a corn harvester covering thirty-eight points. It is said to be a great success. The second dairy train which went out from Lafayette covered 500 miles on the Monon and 4,000 people heaWTTKe lectures. - A .farmer near Owensville raised some freak corn. Each stalk bad but one ear. It was grown from one grain of corn to a stalk. Capt. Evan Sharp, one of the leaders of the successful plot by which 100 prisoners escaped from Libby prison at Richmond in the Civil War, died at the home of his sister, Mrs. William Haseltine, in Kokomo, aged 70. Joseph Robson, 16, was accidentallykilled by a bullet from a Flobert rifle in New flastle. lie was with Freddie Scott and William Wallace. Scott was holding the rifle and it was accidentally discharged, tiie bullet hitting Robson. A chicken thief broke into the henhouse of James B. Elmore near Evansville, carried off half a doxen chickens and tacked on the door a paper with the following verse: “Christmas time is drawing near;Thought I’d get my chickens here." Emery Bhaffor was killed and Andrew Lindsay, a saloonkeeper, was seriously shot in a duel in Lindsay’s saloon at Harmony. The duel win the result ota dispute over the price of a drink. Much of the money offered tn payment for th* recent issue ot Hagerstown electric light, bond* was in bills that were damp and musty, • This indicated that it had been burled for a long time. Local business men say that concealing money h«s grown since the failure of the Commercial Bank. In Joly, 1885. All of ths issue of bonds was paid fsr by local people who were eager to get more.