Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1911 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

RICHMOND—The Earl ham Press, a college newspaper, publishes an account of an attack, by a Prussian nobleman on John Wesley Perkins, of the class of 1909, who received an appointment last fall from the Carnegie Foundation s to teach in the English department of the gymnasium royal at Potsdam, Germany. Perkins was returning to his rooms through a park when attacked by an intoxicated man with a drawn sword. Mr. Perkins, in defending himself, obtained possession of the sword and wounded his assailant. The Potsdam papers next day appeared with a story that a certain Prussian nobleman had been set on by robbers and that the only clew to their identity waß that one used some English exclamations. On the advice of his landlady, who pointed out the seriousness with which the authorities view an encounter with a nobleman in Germany, Mr. Perkins left Germany and is now at his home in Rising Sun, Ind. HAMMOND—That present conditions in the Crown Point jail were unsanitary, the prisoners poorly fed, and that as a result Philip Beliff, the emaciated murderer of Simon Nestorovich, of Gary, was in the throes of tuberculosis was the result of a prison investigation made by Dr. A. W. King, of the Indiana state board of health, a few weeks ago. King’s diagnosis of Beliff’s condition was a state scandal. Amos Butler, late commissioner of charities, was sent to Crown Point to make a secret investigation. Butler took several of the prisoners into his confidence, and they admitted that they ate soap to make themselves look emaciated and secure the sympathy of jurors when their capes were tried. The practice gave them every appearance of being in the last stages of con sump tii n. The diet of soap was stopped and Beliff gafned ten Pounds in one week. HAMMOND Four serious accidents on railways in this vicinity make up one day’s record. John King, while en route from Maryland to Chicago on the Nickel Plate road, fell from a freight train in the yard and was instantly killed. Charles Graham, in getting out OX the way of a fast freight train, was instantly killed by a passenger train- near Athens. -Frank Topolski, 35 years old, was in Chicago, was struck by a South Shore traction train at Dunne Park and received internal injuries which will prove fatal. W. Ridenauer, 28 years old, a Pennsylvania fireman, fell from a train into a cinderpit at the Wavalot coal docks and was probably fatally hurt. SPENCER —The explosion of a large can of gasoline at the home of Charles Corns resulted in the death of Jesse Corns, 16 years old, and the father, Charles Corns, was so badly burned that his life is despaired of. The boy v : s building a fire in the kitcher; stove and got the gasoline can by mistake for kerosene. When the can exploded he was completely enveloped in the flames and ran screaming from the house, his clothes dropping from him as he ran. The father overtook him, and in trying to extinguish the flames was himself badly turned about the face and hands. INDIANAPOLIS—The leading Republicans of this city have written President Taft that they are not in symptahy with interviews given out at Washington by former Congress-

man and Whip, James E. Watson, attacking reciprocity with Canada. The writers say that they believe the Republicans .of Indiana favor the proposed treaty and that Watson does not voice the sentiment of Republicans when he says the provisions of the treaty destroy the principal of protection. ; ■ - ». TERRE HAUTE —Health Commissioner Frank W. Sbaley has issued a formal notice, declaring that smallpox is prevalent in this city. The health authorities request ail citizens to be vaccinated without delay. Though the health officers- believe they have the disease under control, they are using the greatest precaution in treating all cases All of the school buildings of the city have been thoroughly' fumigated. Three new cases were repprted. MARION—CIark Mills, who was the former sheriff of Grant county, was named as chairman of the organization of citizens that will conduct a campaign to prevent a return of saloons to the city of Marion under the new Proctor bill Oren Kem, a business man, was named as secretary The petitions asking for an election will he filed at once. PORTLAND —A band of robbera who entered the postoffice at Geneva, twelve miles north of this city, were discovered by Night Policeman Baker before the safe could be blown and fle.d without securing any booty leaving their tools behind. The knob of the safe door was knocked off and a charge of nitroglycerin placed, but hot discharged COLUMBUS—AIready the grade stakes are being set for an Interurban line from Nashville, Brown county, to Frultdale, a point on the Indianapolis Southern railroad, eight miles from Nashville, and construction work Is to be commenced at once. The road is principally financed by Indianapolis capital BLOOMINGTON— Judge Henry C. Duncan, sixty-six years old, vice president of the First National bank, a graduate of fndlnaa university and one of the oldest members of the Monroe county bar. died suddenly of apoplexy In the l ath room of his home.