The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-17
Additional Details of Damage In Fayette
and Wayne Counties by the Storm
of Monday Night.
Proceedings of the State Firemen's
Association at Michigan City.
The Crop OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Disappear
anCe-Other News Notes from In
diana and Illinois.
INDIANA.

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sentative from Wayne County.
Special to the indianapolis journal
RICHMOND, May 16.--A hired man on the
farm of Hon. Munford G. Beeson, Represent
alive of this county in the lower house of
the State Assembly, went to the carriage
house, between and o'clock this morning
after some tools with which to begin the days
work, and found Mr.. Beeson lying on his
face in pool of blood, with his throat cut
and rope tied about his legs. In his right
hand he held pocket knife, with the large
blade open. He wore a shirt and pair of
pants, but had no other clothing on. His
boots, coat aud hat were afterward
found in his bedroom, and I'M
der his pillow the servant found
vial half full of laudanum The cook heard
noise on the stairway about $50 o'clock,
and it is supposed after he had drunk the
laudanum he had become alarmed for fear
that it would not do its work rapidly enough,
and went to the carriage-house to hang him
self. Finding it impossible to arrange the
halter so that he would get sufficient fall, he
tied his legs together to prevent struggle,
and drew his knife-blade across the jugular
vein. Ills wife has been an invalid for sew
eral years, and is at Cleveland under treat
ment for what he had just learned was can
Ger, and this has borne with so much weight
on his mind that his reason was de-
throned, and he took his life while
suffering from mental depression. He
was a son OF the Hon. Othniel
d. Beeson, an ex-member of the State Senate,
and was estimated to be worth $4,000 in
good productive farm property. A son,
Florence Beeson, station-agent of the White
water Valley road, at Beeson's Station, and
an unmarried daughter, survive him. The
scene of the suicide is about twenty miles
southwest of here, and is off of any direct
line of communication, so that fuller par
ticulars cannot be obtained. He was a strictly
temperate man, and had an unbemished
reputation among his neighbors. The family
physician has been dispatched to Cleveland
to carry the news to his wife.
The State Firemen's Association Concludes
Its Business.
Special to the indianapolis Journal
MICHIGAN CRY, May 16-The second day
OF the iremen's State convention, now being
full, and the boys got down to business in
good shape. The meeting was called to or
der by President Bruise at 8 o'clock A. M,
and the reading of the reports of the general
committees was listened to by the meeting
The reports were all of an encouraging char
acter and proved the experiment OF State
freman's association to be a success, and the
organization can be considered one of the
promi nent societies of the State.
After considerable protracted talk on the
different and most successful methods
of fighting fire, the subject of where the
next annual convention of the association
would be held came up There was quite
a strong feeling in favor of holding it again
in Michigan City, but the city of Columbus,
Ind, was finally decided upon as the place,
and the time to be the third Tuesday in May,
! 1884.
As to the time and place of holding the
next State tournament, the president and
vice-president of the association were author
lied and iffound convenient, were instructed
to make the place indianapolis.
The following officers were then
elected for the year: President,
II. c. Devie of Columbus treasurer. G.. w.
POLAND, of Angola secretary, A. J. Crueger,
of Michigan City; corresponding secretary,
ID. W. Gillen.of South Bend; recording secre-
tary, J. B. Pauls, of Mount Vernon; statisti-
clan, ]. F. Langenbaugh, of Plymouth
President Devie then appointed the follow
ing Weep presidents: Thomas Bullen, OF Ev-
ansville; A. B, Culver, of South Bend; F. d.
Finney of Goshen; J. F. Langenbaugh, of
Plymouth II. P. Sparth, of Angola. A beau
tful memorial Of respect was then read and
adopted for use on funeral occasions
Subjects for discussions at the next annual
meeting were then proposed and chosen,
seventeen in number. with view to more
thoroughly systematizing the department
ana waging more successful warfare against
fire. After q vote of thanks to Michigan
City and her people for their courteous treat
ment, the convention adjourned sine die
The Damage at Waterloo and Vicinity.
The storm OF Monday night, which did SO
much damage at Waterloo, began its ravages
about eight miles west Of that place and con-
tnued four miles east. On the farms IN its
path scarcely n barn, fence or tree is left
standing The column of whirling wind first
struck on the farm of William Duncan. and
tore down his barn and other out-buildings
but spared his house. 1t moved down for
ests and buildings thence eastward TO the
Whitewater river, half mile west of Water
loo, where stood the fine iron bridge re-
Gently finished at an expense to Fayette
county of $4,000 The two spans of the
bridge, weighing $4,000 pounds. were lifted
off the abutments and whirled into the river,
network of tangled and twisted iron rods
and bars Just west OF Waterloo was a COW
a. mi