Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1907 — LAWTON'S MEMORIAL [ARTICLE]

LAWTON'S MEMORIAL

Programme of the Exercises at the Unveiling of the Indianapolis Monument. * TALK OF INSURANCE MERGERS Law That Is Opposed by Its Benflcia- • . lies Will Be Enforced Fatal Man-Trap.

Indlnnnpolls, May 9.—The commission having in charge the unveiling of the monument to Brigadier General Henry W. Lawton, which will take place here May SO, has completed the programme of exercises, which will begin at 3 p. in. following a luncheon at the home of Vice President Fairbanks In honor of I‘resident Roosevelt. Rev. D. R. Lucas, ex-chaplain of the national or-rnnf-'ntlon of the Grand Army of the Republic. will offer prayer, followed by a brief address by Governor J. Frank Haitly. James Whitcomb Riley will read his poem: “The Home Voyage,” written after the death of General Lawton, and the address of the day will be delivered by President Roosevelt The statute will ibe unveiled by Miss Lawton, a daughter of ti\e dead soldier. Life Insurance Mergers. Indianapolis. May 9.—Changes are coming In the Indiana life Insurance situation. Not only do some of the Indiana mutual life companies contemplate changing to a stock basis, In order to get sufficient assets to enable them to do business in other states under the retaliatory laws, but there Is persistent talk of consolidation of several of the Indiana companies. Indiana now has licensed nineteen legal reserve life Insurance companies organized and doing business In this state. Will Enforce the Law Anyhow. Indianapolis, May 9. —W. J. Wood, one of the members of the Indiana railroad commission, says that the six-teen-hour law will be enforced by the commission, as any other law passed by the last general assembly would be enforced, in spite of the fact that the railroad employes themselves were opposing the enforcement of the law.

r MAN TRAP PROVES FATAL Farmer's Scheme to Save Hie Chickens Wounds Mortally the First Man to Intrude. Lafayette, Ind., May 9. Louis Schultz, a meat wagon driver, attempted to enter the chicken hous* of Ernest Goodman, in the southern part •of the city at night, and was so terribly injured from a shotgun plated Inside the door of the r chicken house that he is dying at St. Elizabeth hos ~pltal. Goodman bad been troubled With chicken thieves, and he placed a contrivance just Inside the door of the •coop by which an Intruder discharged the shotgun by stepping on a cord. i lie had scarcely placed the gun In position when Schultz was caught. BchultsiMeclared that his dog ran away and jumped into the chicken house, and that he was going in after it when he was shot. He was so close to the muzzle of tile gun tffat nearly the entire load entered his left leg between the knee and hip. One of the large blood vessels was shattered, and the loss of blood is responsible for his condition.

, His Last Game of Pool. Franklin, In<l., Mny 9. —William O. West, who removed to this city a year ago from Indianapolis, is dead. He was playing pool In the HaymakerCutslnger room when he remarked: “I will have tfyquit playing.” stngg.Ted back and fell to the floor. He was picked up and laid on the table where he had been playing, but life was extinct.

Coopers Want More Pay. Lawrenceburg, Ind., May 9.—A1l of the workmen employed in this city by the Central States Cooperage company have gone out on strike,' the third strike since the flrat of the year. They demand an Increase of 1 cent a barrel and that they receive their week's wages in full, instead of having two days held back. He Killed Gen. Zolliuoffer. Crawfordsville, Ind., May 9.—James thvan, unmarried, 64 years old, a veteran of the war of the rebellion, who flred the shot which killed Genera) Zolllcoffer, who commanded the Confederate forces at the battle of Mill Springs, Ky., Jan. 19, 1862, Is dead at the Culver Union hospital, this city. Using the Mails to Defraud. Evansville, Ind., May 9. —Mrs. Violet Lancaster, aged 45, and her daughter Garnet, aged 27, were arrested here on the charge of using the mails'to defraud. It Is alleged that they have been conducting a matrimonial agency and have defrauded hundreds of wifeseekers out of money. . Heavy Rains in the “Pocket.'’ Evansville, Ind., May 9. Heavy rains have fallen throughout this section during thirty-six hours, and many creeks are swollen twice their normal rise and the Ohio a ver is rising. . , 3