Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1911 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

HAMMOND A pitched battle between the West Hammond police, headed by Chief Johnson, and adherents of Miss Virginia Brooks, gathered for the purpose of putting a ticket the field for the city election, resuited In a riot, in which a large number were more or less injured in the clash. Four hundred voters, chiefly Polish, gathered to name a Azket, and a fight precipitated, in which nearly every man in the hall was involved. The police, in civilian attire, were taken for combatants and threatened as such, while some of the spectators were so excited that they jumped through second-story windows, carrying the sashes with them. Joseph Lewandowsky, chairman of the meeting, was compelled to vacate the hall. Joseph Goyke. a saloon keeper, was named as the Polish candidate for mayor Fifteen men were cut and bruised about the head. 7

ANDERSON Jeffrey T, Ferris, who for the past twenty-two years has been manager of the Sefton Manufacturing company’s Anderson plant, has tendered his resignation to Jake effect on Oct. 1 and will move to California, where he .will devote his attention toward perfecting an aeroj lane which he has had under process of construction for the past two years. Mr. Ferris came here when the Sefton factory had but a few men and has been directly responsible for its growth to one of the largest factories in the city, employing 1,000 persons. In addition to his work as manager Mr. Ferris has patented several inventions of use in the factory, the royalties from which have made him a comparatively rich man.

RICHMOND —In a letter received by Judge Henry C. Fox, John Knapp, of Hagerstown, who is now serving a life sentence in the penitentiary for the murder of Lennie Geisler, marshal of Hagerstown, in 1905, seeks the assistance of the judge to get a pardon. He says the blow he gave Geisler was only contributory to his death. Knapp says that though it did not come out in the evidence, yet it is nevertheless true that Geisler’s friends took him to the town ,pump after he was injured and there put cold water on* his wounds, which caused a fatal blood clot to form. LAPORTE The trial of Carl’ A. Badsing, a large Laporte county j land owner, who has been con fined in Jail in Cook county, Illinois, for sev- ! eral months charged with poisoning his wife, causing her death, will be ! called this week in one of the Chicago criminal courts Badsipg’s first wife j died under circumstances which t Were considered suspicious at the time. The death of Badsing's second j wife, -which took place in Chicago, was ! attributed to arsenic poisoning, evidence of the drag being found in the expert examination of the woman’s in- ! ternal organs made by Dr. Haines of i Rush Medical College. KOKOMO —Although opposed by some of her children, Who assert that she is unduly influenced by her son, Harry Gammons, and that the latter Is seeking to get more than his share ! of her property, Mrs. Martha Gammons, aged .113 years, placed under guardianship in 1909, is seeking to regain the control of her property. She is present in court and watches every detail of the proceedings toucln ing her mental capacity. One child is 75 years old and her husband died fifty, years ago. CRAWFORDSVILLE Professor I. N. Hines, of this city, chairman of the executive committee of the Indiana State Teachers’ association, has forwarded an invitation to Col Theodore Roosevelt asking him to address the teachers on Friday, Dec. 29, 1911. President E. B. Bryan, of Colgate university, Dr. William E. Watt, principal of the Graham school of Chicago, and Dr. Henry Suzzalo, of Columbia university, have already accepted places on the program TERRE HAUTE —Nicholas Hickey, the administration as the estate of the late Albert R. Sw inehart, filed suit against the Sugar Valley Coal company for SIO,OOO damages, j Swinehart died Sept. 11. 1910, as a result of injuries sustained the previous day when ? he was crushed by a mire car. The complaint charges that the passage was not properly protected. LOGANSPORT FiVe cases of’ smallpox have teen found in this city and the. subjects have been isolated by the health, authorities in a portable pesthouse, which has been wheeled to the city limits. Several cases, while not pronounced smallpox, are under observation of the health authorities and tke patients are subjected to strict quarantine.

COLUMBUS The forty-six residents of this city, who a few days ago were sued by the receiver for the United States Amusement company for the amounts of their unpaid stock, held a meeting here where they discussed the matter thoroughly. They have pooled their ‘ issues by employing an attorney jointly to fight the cases against them.

MITCHELL —Edward Holpingarn,er, and Everett Todd, each about 21 years old, living at Lawrenceport, six miles east of here, while going home on a handcar were run down by a fast freight on the B. & O. S. W. railroad. Holpingarner sustained serious in juries. ANDERSON —* The war for the Sunday closing of grocery stores was reopened in this city when Vincent Scampmorte, a grocer, was arrested by Constable Roos of Justice of Peace post’s court on a charge of violating the Sunday closing law.