Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1908 — GOVERNOR AT MUNCIE [ARTICLE]

GOVERNOR AT MUNCIE

Goes Down There to Look Close at the Strike Riot Situation. DYNAMITE ON THE TRACKS Woman Assaulted by Other Women— Mayor Would Let the Troops Go Gradually. Muncle, Ind.. Jan. 8. The arrival of Governor Hanly In Muncle injected new Interest Into the strike situation here. His visit to Muncle was primarily for the purpose of seeing for himself the exact condition of affairs. The governor was received by Major General McKee and staff and at once went to the Delaware hotel, where he began his investigation. He first received Mayor Guthrie In the rooms of Major General McKee. He next asked for Sheriff Perdieu, and then came the board of police commissioners, with Its president, Harvey Koontz. Gradual Withdrawal of Troops. The governor and the officials remained in conference for several hours, indicating that the state’s chief executive insisted on having full information concerning the situation here. Those coming from the conference room say the talk chiefly had reference to the withdrawal of the troops now- that quiet reigns here once more. Mayor Guthrie said he told the governor he believed the time had come when the gradual withdrawal of the soldiers could be begun. He advised, however, that enough soldiers be retained for several days to cope with any outbreak that might arise. There ArcfFears of Dvnamite. The only shadow of danger that has hovered over Muncle the last forty-eight hours was the discovery by trackwalkers of two sticks of dynamite between the street car tracks In the suburb of Congerville. The dynamite was found neatly hidden under the rails, it is said, and would have blown the first car that passed over the rails to atoms. The city detectives say they have a clue. Mob Spirit Not Dead Yet. A woman, whose name the police have not learned, was assaulted by three women, evidently strike sympathizers, when she left the car In Industry. The woman’s clothing was torn from her and she was roughly used.

MOTORMAN HAS DISAPPEARED Said To Be Responsible for a Trolley Accident—Participated In the Rescue Work. j Evansville, Ind., Jan. 8. Dalton H. Brown, of this city, motorman ou the passenger car on the Evansville and Mount Vernon traction line, in collision with a freight car at Ford’s Station, has disappeared. His wife and

. i . brother. In this city, bays heard nothing from him. Coincident with his disappearance comes the report that be was responsible for the accident. Brown participated in the rescue work and when the relief car started for tills city he said that he would remain and look after the property of the company. Later a farmer saw Brown hurrying along a country road and this was the last seen of him. Charles Clayton, dispatcher for the company, says that Brown received the usnal orders to hold his car at Ford’s Station and that he forgot All of the Injured passengers are convalescing. Mrs. Flora Gardiner Kling, of Mount Vernon, who Is the wife of the deputy auditor of Posey county, proves to be more seriously hurt than first reported. Both legs and an ankle were shattered. * , Death of a Prominent Doctor. Crawfordsvllle, Ind., Jan. 8. Dr. Jesse Nicholas Talbot, one of the county’s most prominent men and bestknown physicians, is dead at bis borne in this city, of pneumonia. He was sixty-seven years old. Dr. Talbot began the practice of medicine In 1888 at Wallace, near the Montgomery county line, In Fountain county. Been Away for Twenty-Seven Years. Covington, Ind., Jan. B.—After an absence of twenty-seven years Garry Rabb, a former resident of this place, has returned. He is a brother of Chas. Rabb, police chief, and Mrs. Graca Wolfe. For the last twelve years nothing ha(l been heard from him, and it was supposed he was dead. Convicted White caps on Bail. Columbus, Ind., Jan. B.—David Fox aud Jacob Kirk, tbe two Monroe county men who stand convicted of whitecapping William T. Vanest at South Bethany June 22 last, have left for their homes. Each gave bail in $3,000, a motion for a new trial having been entered. Trolley Station Kobbed. Kokomo. Ind., .Tan. 8. —Tbe Greentown station of the Kokomo, Marion and Western Traction company was fobbed of $l5O. The station is conducted by the Willcuts brothers, and the loss will fall on them. Been Man |and Witte Fifty Years. Jasonville, Ind.. Jan. 8. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Choats, two miles north of here, celebrated the fiftieth annivei* •ary ofTheTr marriage at their home.