Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 185, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1920 — GOVERNOR HANLY AUTO VICTIM [ARTICLE]

GOVERNOR HANLY AUTO VICTIM

EX-GOVERNOR J. FRANK HANLY KILLED ll* AUTO ACCIDENT IN OHIO SUNDAY Denison, Ohio, Aug. I.—J. Frank Hanly, former Governor of Indiana and candidate for President on the Prohibition ticket in 1916, and Dr. and Mrs. C. M. Baker of Kilgore, 0.,. were killed six miles from, here early today when a Pennsylvania freight train, struck the automobile in which the party was driving to Kilgore. . All three suffered fractured skulls and crushed bodies. They did not regain consciousness being brought to a local hospital.* Dr. and Mrs. Baker had met Mr. y Hanly in Dennison at 6:45 o’clock this morning and were driving him to their home in Kilgore, twenty miles from here. Ex-Governor Hanly, known as a militant Methodist, reformer, lawyer, author and statesman, was born April 4, 1863, in a log cabin near, St. Joseph, Champaign county, Illinois. He received his education at Eastern Illinois Normal School, taught school for nine years, then studied law .He was admitted to the bar at Williamsport, Ind., 'in 1889. In 1891 he was elected a member of the Indiana State Senate. He was a member of Congress from 1895 to 1897. In 1904 he was elected Governor of Indiana by a majority of 85,000. As Governor he was active for reform and fought gambling and liquor interests. 7=■ Because of the failure of the Republican party to. declare for prohibition in their 1916 platform exGovernor Hanly deserted the party and aligned himself with the prohibitionists.