Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1910 — Referee Bowers Resigns Office To Take Up Law Practice. [ARTICLE]

Referee Bowers Resigns Office To Take Up Law Practice.

John O. Bowers, one of the best known lawyers of Lake county, who has been the referee in bankruptcy in the federal court in Hammond, under appointment by Judge Francis E. Baker and Judge A. B. Anderson for the past nine or ten years, has tendered his resignation. “ The estates of the McCoys were settled under Referee Bowefs and he visited Rensselaer a number of times to hear evidence in the case. Attorney Bowers has been contemplating his resignation for some time and about two years ago he was about to resign when he reconsidered the matter and held on for a while longer. About a year ago he signified his desire to continue for another four-year term, was appointed and filed his ’bond, but now he finds that his law practice and his business interests are such, as to make it impossible for him to longer carry on the work. He will probably open law offices in Hammond and Gary. y

When the prohibitionists of Indiana had their state convention at Indianapolis a few weeks ago they found two or three whiskey 'bottles in the convention hall, evidently left there by some of thp republican delegates who attended a convention in the same hall the previous week. The prohis made quite a fuss about it and the democratic papers chirped it all oyer and pointed out that the evidence of these two or three whiskey bottles proved cqnclusively that the whole republican convention was in the influence of the saloon, when no party of any period ever made the sacrifice that the republican party of Indiana did in the cause of temperance two years ago. But that is an old story, while the whiskey bottle discussion is a current one. And you would think, by the the democrats were working it that the democratic party was the , party ,of white garmented purity. It might astonish some, therefore. If they found that one, of the delegates to today’s democratic county convention became so intoxicated that when he got off the train he didn’t know which end was up and had to be tucked away by his fellow delegates who wouldn’t allow him to attend the convention. Empty whiskey bottles in a convention hall that was occupied by republicans may look suspicious, but not so much so as a democratic delegate that had the contents under his vest. It Is certainly a difficult matter to shift the booze burden. The Wayne county commissioners may be asked to offer a reward to solve the mystery in the death of Eddie White, the young Whitewater farmer who died last December from what was said’ by his physician at that time to be ptomaine poisoning. Part of the stomach wag afterward sent to the state chemist, who found traces of arsenic. In his mother’s home at Martinsville Thursday, Fred Ullery shot and probably fatally wounded Emma Riddle and shot himself through the neck. Ullery is 30 years old and the girl 19. The eatjbe of the shooting is a mystery.