Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1913 — HAPPENINGS Of ONE – DAT IN INDIANA [ARTICLE]

HAPPENINGS Of ONE - DAT IN INDIANA

Latest Doings in the Cities, Towns and Villages in the Hoosier State. 4 . Bloomingtonv-Southern Indiana Power Company officials are seeking a franchise in Bloomington. Richmond—Depositions of surgeons of New York, offered as evidence in the suit of Earl Savage against Drs. Marvel and Schillinger, have been contested, and the court has talcen their admsision under advisement ' Huntington—C. W. Fry, county health commissioner, has condemned the school building at Mt. Etna and the board has surrendered its charter. The place is located at the junction of four townships, and an effort will be made to have the four combine to maintain a school. Warsaw—A loss of $3,500 was.occasioned by the burning of the Highland Baptist church, north of here.

Worthington—O. E. Hart has been arrested, eharged with practicing as a veterinary surgeon without a license. Jeffersonville—'The county council has been instructed to draft an ordinance regulating roller skating. It is complained that the streets are being cut up. Terre Haute—lt is eharged that then owning liquor licenses have sold them more than once. The county will investigate. Greencastfe—While E. E. Black was driving his auto across the Big Four tracks the •engine “died” and a passing train wrecked the machine. Dr. A. M. Deitz has petitioned that a divorce degree granted his wife last December be annulled. He says he knew nothing of it nor of the proceedings* until this month. The woman has since died, and her estate is unsettled. Liberty—Walter West’s farm home burned to the ground, the fire starting from a defective flue. Loss $2,5<H), partly insured. Leroy Hawley has sued Benjamin Snyder, his son, and three daughters, alleging alieniation of Mrs. Hawley’s -.affections. He asks $50,000. Mrs. Hawley is Snyder’s daughter. South Bend—Two children have died of scarlet fever and there aTe a number of others seriously ill with the disease. As a result of a saloon quarrel, Edward Deacock, of Mishawaka, has lost his left eye. Mrs. Jacob Strickland, 1 70 years old, fell down stairs and is in- a critical condition. Hammond—Two seven-passenger touring cars were ditched between here and East Chicago. The occupants, fourteen in number, escaped. Columbus—Local attorneys have organized an association fdr social purposes. Marshal Hacker is president, and A. T. Connor, secretary. Sullivan— I The county commissioners have sued on the bond of former Sheriff Marion. F. Walters to recover $2,000 for fees alleged to have been wronly withheld. Muncie—Physicians pronounce the present epidemic of measles the worst,ever known in the city. The disease is of a mild nature. Samuel Collins, whose son was killed by coming in contact with a live wire, has sued the electric light company for $5,000. Seymour—Relatives identified the man who died on a B. & O. S. W. train near here as John Puckett and have taken the body to his home in Tipton county. Marion—Ferorengo Ciccone and his wife are held to answer charges of keeping a blind tiger at tff&ir residence near Home Corner. Tipton—Nelson Hiatt, superintendent, and Alva Apple, lineman, of the lighting plant, have resigned and their resignations have been accepted by the mayor. No reasons are given. The country home of Albert Mitchell, north of Windfall, was destroyed by Are, with all contents. Loss, $2,500; insurance, $1,400.