Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1908 — NEWS FROM INDIANA. [ARTICLE]

NEWS FROM INDIANA.

Latest Happenings Within the Bor* ders of Our Own State. Church Elder Sentenced. Indianapolis, June 10. —Robert H. Green of Waynetown, vice-president of the Farmers’ and Merchants’ bank of that place, a trustee of the local Methodist church and a large property, owner, was sentenced to from one to 14 years in the state penitentiary, disfranchised for one year and fined ten dollars for horse stealing to which charge he pleaded guilty. A number of stolen animals were found in Green’s possession when he was arrested here under an assumed name. Plan to Fill Hughes’ Place. Greencastle, June 10.—A president of De Pauw university will be elected at a meeting of the trustees in Indianapolis next December, the new man to take the place of Dr. Edwin Holt Hughes, recently elected a bishop by the Methodist general conference in Baltimore, and who has been assigned to San Francisco. The date and place of the meeting was made known following the semi-annual meeting of the trustees by Secretary Felix T. Mo* Whirter of Indianapolis. Wabash to Have Cavalry. Wabash, June 10. —Steps are being taken to organize a cavalry company in Wabash and the organization is expected to be perfected by September I. A number of young men will be members and these have been at the head of the movement. It is intended to have the cavalry company a member of the Indiana National Guard and it will be accepted when organized and recruited. Student Killed by Train. Lafayette, June 10. —Lee Kohl, 14 old, son of Leander Kohl of this city, a sophomore in the Lafayette high school, was killed by a Wabash train two miles out of town. When he failed to return home his parents became anxious, and their inquiries at Logansport were made at the same time the Logansport police were taking the boy’s body to the morgue there. Indiana Murderer Extradited. Michigan City, June 10. —W. A. Garner of the penitentiary identified J. H. Simmons, alias Cortland, held in the Galesburg, 111., jail on charges of horse stealing, as John Fleming, a murderer, who was serving a life sentence in the Michigan City institution, _ but who escaped a year ago. Since, then Fleming ha* been working in Illinois. He was brought back to thiscity. State Will Condemn Land. Indianapolis, June 10. —At a meeting of the state tuberculosis commission with Gov. Hanly it was decided to condemn 44 aCres of land included in the site selected near Rockville for the new State Tuberculosis hospital. The land is owned by William and Charles Britton, who have refused to sell at the commission’s figures. Horse Killed by Elephant. New Albany, June 10. —Seizing a horse with its trunk, an enraged elephant in a circus, which left here, dashed the animal against the ground until it had pounded the horse’s life out. The showmen were loading the animals on a train when the elephant ventured too near a horse that kicked It Trains Collide; None Hurt. Frankfort, June 10. —A mistake in reading signals caused a costly wreck here between passenger train No. 48, north-bound on the Vandalia. and a freight train on the; Clover Leaf. Nona of the passengers or crew were injured, but all were badly shaken up. Traffic was delayed several hours. Student Also Solon. Bloomington, June 10. —As a college freshman L. K. Babcock of Topeka, a student of the law department of Indiana university, enjoys a peculiar distinction. He is a member of the state legislature, representing Lagrange and Steuben counties, and has been renominated for pnother term. Shaw’s Body Is Recovered. Warsaw, June 10. —The body of Dr. H. M. Shaw, 30 years old, of Gaston, which sank in Tippecanoe lake near here, was recovered, when it was taken from the lake 100 feet from where It went down. The victim was married and the father of two children. Takes Drug, Shoots Self. Richmond. June 10. —Rather than face a charge of being an accessory to an operation alleged to hare been performed on a woman here, Adolph P. Uhly killed himself. The body was found in his room in the home of Samuel K. Morgan. Holmes Goes to Cornell. Bloomington, June 10—M. E. Holmes, a senior in Indiana university this year, has been appointed an assistant instructor in chemistry at Cornell university for next year. Mr. Holmes’ home is at Kempton.