Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1906 — CLEW TO* LOST BOY? [ARTICLE]

CLEW TO* LOST BOY?

Indiana is the only state in the union which has a solid delegation of college bred men in the two houses of congress. Heretofore Massachusetts ranked highest in that particular. Of Massachusetts fourteen representatives in the present congress ten are college bred and four are not. In New York twenty are college bred and seventeen are not, but Indiana is the only one that has a solid delegation that is college bred.—Ex.

The Independent desires to go on record with the prediction that a special session of the legislature will not be called. If, however, one is called, there will be revelations that will land more than one Indiana statesman in the penitentiary, and the state officials now under fiie will not be among them. There will be a “house cleaning” not half as pleasing to Hanly as his efforts to crush Sherrick and Storms have been. —Indianapolis Independent.

A call has been issued for the meeting of the Democratic State committee at the Grand Hotel, March 12, for the purpose of se lecting permanent headquarters for the Democrats during the coming campaign, and also to decide upon a date for the Democratic State convention. Temporary headquarters at the Grand have been opened by Democratic State Chairman William H. O'Brien and Secretary Joseph Reilly. Mr. O’Brien will not be there all the time between now and March 12, but the committee rooms will be in the charge of Secretary Reilly.

Secretary of State Daniel E Storms will get out; his friends among the railroad interests who fared a special session to oust him from office and incidentally the passage of a 2-oent fare law are said to have brought influences to bear on him to resign. Therefore he has tendered his resignation, which has been accepted by the governor, to take effect April 1, and Fred Sims, republican candidate for the nomination for the office, has been appointed to succeed him. Storms agrees to refund $6,310.41 of the State’s money, which be is alleged to have wrongfully taken, as a part of the pact by which he is to vamoose. Hanly says there is a great and growing demand for a 2cent fare on the railroads and other legislation, and he may yet call a special session of the legislature, to enact such measures. Come to The Democrat office for all kinds of job printing.

Man In Alabama Says He Knows Where Dr. Byers’ Son May Be. HIS STORY SOUNDS ALL HIGHT Seen First with an Old Woman a Year Ako—Lawyer Censured by the Judge—ltems. Terre Haute, Ind., Feb* 22.— One of the best clews of riilsslng “Rich” Byers, of Seelyville, comes from Fort Payne, Ala., where J. A. Burgess, a farmer, says that a year ago last Octolier, five months after the 5-year-old son of Hr. Byers disappeared, ap old woman with a boy answering his description, including tlie cross-eye, remained at his house one night He says the woman called the boy “Richmond,” which Is the missing boy’s name; that the boy refused to call her mother and asked when he would “get to see his mamma.” Payne says he kncrtvs where the boy Is now. Editor Wolfe (Jot the Clew. The word from Burgess comes as a result of the effort of Editor Wolfe, of New Harmony, who printed in his paper “an appeal to editors” with a story of the missing boy andsentcoples to editors in several southern and southwestern* states. Wolfeisnow sending Ills paper to editors in other states. Dr. Byers is In Pensacola on a clew and will be informed of the Fort Payne clew as soon as he returns. Was Not the Missing Boy. Daniel Miller, who lives near Black Hawk, Sullivan county, brought a boy to Terre Haute who was left at his house by a party of movers a year ago. The boy could not tell where he came from. He wasJaken to Seelyville and Mrs. Byers saw at once he was not her son. The number of small boys whose parentage Is unknown found with mov ers is the surprising fact developed in the search for “Little Rich.”

COURT CENSURES A LAWYER Refused to Permit Children of the Principles to Testify in a Divorce Case. Noblesville, Ind., Feb. 22. Judge Christian has made an order prohibiting children from testifying in divorce cases. This action was prompted by two children of William Beals, the eldest not over 12 years old, being taken from school and brought Into court to testify to some ugly charge made by Mrs. Beals against her husband. The court censured the attorney from the bench for permitting this to be done. He said that in the future, if the allegations In a divorce case cannot be proved by witnesses, no more divorces would be granted. The court continued: “It certainly must be very humiliating to the children, and I will not permit this to happen in any more divorce cases in my presence.” Base Ballers Are Alarmed. Terre Haute, Ind., Feb. 22.—There is some alarm in the Central Base Ball League over the proposed enforcement of the law in Ohio against Sunday games. Springfield and Canton could not remain in the League without the profits of the ten or twelve Sunday games at home, and, perhaps, Dayton would not make oven. The question will receive serious attention at the meeting in Grand Rapids, March 12, called to adopt a schedule.

Schaefer Murder Record Safe. Bedford. Ind.. Feb. 22.—A mistaken impression has gone abroad that the records, documents and other memorandum of the examining trial of Frank Evans and Elmer Browning, in the Schaefer murder case, had been stolen frofn the office of Justice MeLnlilin, who presided. On the contrary, the record is still intact, and all the official data is still in his office. She Never Knew the Truth. ~ —Poltnnbns; lird., Feb. 22. Without knowing that her son killed a man, for which lie served a sentence in the Michigan City prison, and not knowing that his death which occurred two yeai-s ago. was caused by a bullet which he tired at himself with suicidal Intent, Mrs. .lustlna Pfeiffer, 76 years old, Is dead nt her home in this city. Suicide of W. H. Hardesty, Fort Wayne. Ind.. Feb. 22. A telegram from Kock Island, 111., says: “W. 11. Hardesty, registering from Fort Wayne. Ind., was found dead in a room in a hotel tJ' this city, having shot himself in the mouth. It is believed that the act was committed three days ano. There was nothing to indicate a cause for the suicide. He Didn't Keep His Promise. Greencastle. Ind., Feb. 22. —Alleging that lie had broken his promise to quit drinking. Mrs. Effie Callahan has tiled suit for a divorce from Daniel. Callahan. The plaintiff says that they have been married two years and that the defendant kept his word nicely until s short time ago. Herd Brings a Good Price. Vincennes, Ind., Feb. 22.—A herd of fifty-three choice Angus cattle from Simpson & Hogue’s Mapleton farm was sold at public auction and brought u total of $5,705. Hanly Refuses a Free Ride. Washington. Ind., Feb. 22. Governor Hanly declined to ride free on a special train to view sites in Martin county for a proposed epileptic village.