Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1903 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Fortune Hinges on Adoption—Kokomo Girl an Enemy of Baloons-Mechan-lea In New Union—Suicide in Church —Nevada Postmaster le Missing. Indianapolis society is greatly interested in a suit instituted some time ago by a sister and brother of Mason J. Osgood, one of the wealthiest citizens of that city, whose estate had been inherited by his adopted daughter, now Mrs. Ida Stanley. Mr. Osgood died without a will, nnd Mrs. Stanley received all of his estate of $1,000,000. The brother and sister of Mr. Osgood filed suit for the property, alleging that Mrs. Stauley had not been legally adopted. The case was decided in the Superior Court the other day, the court holding that the adoption was not legal. If the decision is sustained by the higher courts, the property will go to the brother and sister. Girl Knocks Out Saloons, Miss Carrie Slyer, who was discharged from her position in a Kokomo store because she headed a hand of shimmers among the saloons, is likely to pat the whole liquor fraternity of Kokomo out of business. After her dismissal she canvassed the town with remonstrances and in court put thirteen saloons out of commission for two years. She has remonstrances almost ready for use against all other applicants for licenses and will possibly knock out every drinking place in town. Miss Styer, who is a sister of ex-County Treasurer Charles Styer, lias the backing of the churches and Civic Federation. Break from the Old Unions. In Muncie 200 representative craftsmen were initiated into the Independent Association of Mechanics. The action is backed by business flken owing to the many strikes which have been on there for a month. Carpenters, plasterers, telephone linemen and other crusts have been on strike and business is stagnated. The wave of enthusiasm which threatens to disrupt local unions is without precedent. Many cities throughout the State ure taking up the new organization. Contractors are becoming affiliated with it and will employ all its members and pay according to merit. Commits Suicide in Church. The hell did not Ving fur mas* nt St. John’s Catholic Church at New Haven the other morning, nnd investigation reveait d that Joseph Kroch, the aged sexton, had climbed to the organ loft and b id knotted th - end of one of the ropes that hung from the belfry and taken his life. The deed was prompted by ill health, and in the selection of the instrument of deatli the sexton had chosen the rope attached to tile clapper of the* bell and used only when the bell is tolled for funerals. Nevada Postmaster Missing. J. G. Powell, postmaster 'at Nevada, is mysteriously missing. Several days ago Powell went to Kokomo with S2OO. lie told bis wife lie would deposit it in a bank. So deposit was made in the hank named, and Powell, who sent the office keys home to his wife, has not been seen or heard of since. Diligent efforts are being made to locate the miss- | ing official. The postotfice accounts will be- investigated. Will Hefu.c lligli Position. Col. C. A. Carlisle of South Bend has been offered the position of assistant secretary of the new cabinet Department of Commerce and Labor, but will refuse it because he cannot afford to take it in view of his business connections. Col. Carlisle is a member of Gov. Durbin’s staff and is vice-president for Indiana of the National Manufacturers’ Association.

State Items of Interest. A non-refillable bottle is being manufactured at Ingalls. Richmond carpenters want the wage scale fixed at 30 cents an hour, and a strike may result. An old log school house, built in 1812, will be moved to the city park at Richmond and preserved. A factory, Wilkesbarre, Pa., employing 300 people, desires to locate iu •Elwood, under certain conditions. Thieves raided Plainville, robbing the postofliee, depots anil the stores of M. If. Bunch, William Little and John Denny. As a result of a family fetid Davtil Gaines shot bis son Lloyd, 14 years old, in the breast at Franklin. An older son, who interfered, was shot through the left hand. The younger brother will die. Clement Studebaker, Jr., president of the South Bend Watch Company, pressed the button the other morning that started the new $1,000,000 watch factory which will employ 1.5Q0 watchmakers nud manufacture 1,200 watches a day at South Bend. L K. Davis, C. W. Cutter, W. C. Wright, T. C. Summerville and L. B. Bird of Chicago, members of the Merchants’ and Manufacturers' Coal Company, have taken options on several thousand acres of coal land in Clay County. They expect to begin drilling at once. The company will have headquarters at Chicago. At the instance of Chicagoans owning summer cottages nt Bass Lake, a bill was introdueed and passed in the last Legislature prohibiting the construction of drains in such manner as to lower the water in the lakes of the State. The measure was vetoed by the Governor and already n petition lias been filed for the building of a ditch tliut, if openfd, will be detrimental to Bass Lake and damaging to the property of resort owners and Cottagers. The farmers near the lake are determined to have the ditches and the hundreds of cottage owners are resisting. Hampton West of Fisher’s Station, who has beeu in jail at Noblesville for several weeks on the charge of grave robbing, was rearrestod ou a grand jury indictment charging him with stealing the bodies of Newton Brackeu and Walter Manhip from Beaver cemetery, southwest of Noblesville. His bond was fixed at $1,500 in each case. He could not furnish the security and is still In jalL Lucius R. Stout of Eagletown was arrested on a grand jury indictment, charge ing him with helping West get the body, of Manhip. Hia bond was Qxed at sl,* 500, which he gave.