Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1902 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Quarrel* Over Township High SchoolCollege Professor Kills Himself— Sheriff of Sullivan County Ousted by Governor. A complaint Iras been filed contesting the election of David S. Goss and Robert S. Sturgeon as members of the advisory board of Needham township. Tlie building of a township high sehqpl has caused the contest. The township joins Franklin on the east and part of Franklin is located in it. It is the only township in the county without a high school, and for years tlie question of building one has been discussed. The question came up in the recent election and the anti-high, school faction elected their candidates—Sturgeon, Goss and Andrew J. Johnson. The anti-high school people will stand by Sturgeon and Goss, and the case may be carried to the Suurciue Court. _____ ” Captain Garrigus a Father. ’ The other day the stork visited the home of Captain Milton Garrigus, a veteian of the Civil War, aged 72 years, in Kokomo, and left a tine baby daughter. The father is past commander of the Indiana State G. A. It. A year ago Captain Garrigus, after a stormy scene with relatives, in which the aged lover find Henry Edwards, the girl's guardians, came to blows, married Miss Marie Thomas, aged 20, a cultured young woman. The infant born the other day from this union came into tlie world to greet half sisters more than 50 years old and it is aunt to several grown memlters of the family. Fort Wayne Scholar Ends Life. Dr. Otto Siemon, professor of philology and Latin at Concordia College, the noted Lutheran institute of learning in Fort Wayne, committed suicide. He had suffered from nervous prostration for six months, and for the last few weeks had not been responsible for his acts. Dr. Simeon was visited Sunday morning by relatives, who noted no change in his condition. An hour later he was found dead in his bedroom, having strangled himself with the bed clothes. He leaves three children. His wife died some years Durbin Oust, the Sheriff. As a result of the lynching of the negro Dillard Gov. Durbin has notified Sheriff Dudley of Sullivan County that bis office was vacant. The coroner becomes sheriff ex-officio. The Indiana law provides that a sheriff shall vacate his office when a prisoner in his charge is lynched. The mob took Dillard away from the sheriff on the highway and hanged him to a telegraph pole. The sheriff has the tight under the law to ask to be reinstated, but he must show that he was powerless to protect his prisoner. Votes Cost Forty-five Cents Mach. The recent election cost Indiana $262,384. There were 5!H»,356 votes cast for Secretary of State. Taking that as the number of voters, one computes that every vote cast cost the State 45 cents.

All Over the State. Edwin Cole lost his arm while operating a corn shredder on Samuel Thompson’s farm at Vincennes. The I'nion Railway Company of Indianapolis has increased the pay of its trainmen, engineers and firemen 2% cents an hour. The Crab-Reynolds-Bell Grain Company has begun the erection of a new elevator at Lafayette to accommodate the enormous eofh crop. The safe of the Blue River Milling Company was blown open at Edinburg. Only a small amount of money wns taktn. It is thought the burglars are home talent. In a iorn husking contest at Rushville Orville Higgs has been declared the champion of the county. His record was seventy bushels by noon every day for »i week. Milton Smith. 17. son of Joseph Smith, near Bristol, is in a critical condition as the result of a corn shredder accident. LiM-kjaw has set in front a wound on a linger. Raymond S. Archer, aged 20, a freshman at the Ross Polytechnic Institute at Terre Haute.*was cut in two by a train. He was a son of N. S. Archer of Pittsburg, formerly connected with the Armours nt Chicago. Harry Welch, a messenger boy, who was learning telegraphy nt Muncie, has gone to Huntington to take possession of a large estate, which was left to him by a relative. The estate consists of Indiana and Chicago real estate. Frank'Lory of Petersburg, who is said to have been robbed of $63.54)0 by a fake foot race in Colorado, pulled off by Evansville gamblers, has asked the Evansville police board for a detective to run down tlie ten men in the plot. His request will be granted. Elmer B. Bryan, who has ls>en appointed superintendent of education for the Philippine Islands by Gov. Taft, formerly resided in Bloomington. He lias been engaged in educational work in tlie Philippines for some time. Previous to his promotion lie whs sjiperintendent of schools in Manila. It is said his promotion was due to his popularity with the Filipinos, who asked his apiMjjjitment to the higher position. The Waterloo postoffice was eutered by burglars. The combination knob of the safe was pounded off and nitroglycerin placed inside the safe door, with n fuse and cap ready to light. The three burglars were scared away by a I tan sleeping upstairs in the building. The night wntclininn claims he saw the burglars in the postoffice, but refused to make an arrest because the postmtister did not pay him for watching. Twenty-three drivers in the Montgomery coal mines at Washington struck because the hostler had overslept ’himself ami their mules were not harnessed nnd hitched up ns usual. Two hundred and fifty men were temporarily thrown out of employment by the strike. A tight at Oolitic ended in n general riot, in which the general store and bakery of William Owens was demolished and several persons hurt. Jim Higgins shot Gil McDonald twice and Ed Gunn stabbed a brother of McDonald. John Bears, the town marshal, succeedsd la arresting the two McDonald boya j