Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 90, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1911 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

LOGANSPORT— Eastbound Wabash freight train No. 82 was completely '■wrecked at Danes, formerly Cass ' Station, a few miles east of this city. Twelve cars were overturned and demolished and the track torn up for 500 feet. Traffic was delayed four hours. All of the crew escaped. A tramp, who was beating his way in one of the cars that was overturned, crawled out between the planking of the shattered side of the car, uninjured. A defective switch is said to baTe caused the wreck., This makqs the eleventh wreck at Danes in seven years. 'SEeven years ago a fast passenger train was wrecked there, killing eight passengers and injuring many more. Following that disaster the name was changed, from Cass Statior to Danes. . ' WASHINGTON President Taft caused considerable surprise by reap pointing Father Andrew Morrissey as postmaster at Notre Dame. Ind. Father Morrissey formerly was presided of Notre Dame university. Two postoffice inspectors who made separate investigations of the office reeom mended his removal on the ground that bis religious duties in conrection with various branches of church work, required his absence from the pcstoffiee more than was good for the service His reappointment in the face of these charges means that President Taft has given him a clean bill of health and it will be pleasing news to Father Morrissey’s wide circle of Catholic friends all over the com. try.

LAPORTE Mrs Nellie Metcalf, one of the victims of the dragnet in the. tenderloin crusade of Stare's Attorney Smith, has confessed to making liberal contributions to campaign funds, and investigation will be made as to the extent of the contributions alleged to have been made for election purposes. With the grand jury in session this week "here is the promise.by State’s Attorney Smith of further startling disclosures. It has developed that the prosecutor has been assured of the support of the Federation of Men's Bible Classes, numbering more than a thousand voters in Laporte county COLUMBUS After a long and expensive tr'al, in which the jury disagreed, the case of Adam Lortz et al vs. the trustees of the Hartsville United Brethren church, the suit to break the will of the late Catherine Barger, who left all her estate to the church to the exclusion of many relatives, has been compromised. The at empt to break the will was made on the grounds that the testatrix was insane and the case attracted widespread notice. Under the terms of the compromise each side will re ceive $4,500 and assume its respective court costs which amount to half of the. estate. :

RICHMOND With tears s'reamIng down her face Mrs Katb erine Eagen pleaded with the beard of works not tb ccnsf met cement walks on Sherman stieet in Tront of the property where she lives. .Mrs Eagen said she had dore without a walk for forty-nine years, and asked the board not to inflict this heavy debt on her at her advanced age Mayor Zimmerman kindly explained that progress demanded the improvement and that the sidewalk had been ordered made. She said she would have to take the shanty from over her bead to pay for the walk.

MUNCIE A motion asking for a new trial has been filed in the case of Otto Williamson, superintendent of the Muncie police department, who a few weeks ago was found guilty by a jury and assessed a fine of $lO on a charge of keeping a room for gaming The motion is in the usual form, averting that the court erred in giving certain instructions to the jury and in allowing the introduction of certiain evidence. It is also averred that the court erred in allowing Special Prose tutor W. H. Thompson to prosecute the case over the objections of the defense

GOSHEN —Simple funeral services over the body of the Rev. H. L. Yannuys, D. D, who occupied one pulpit for sixty years, were held in the First Presbyterian church whi.b be founded inore than fifty years ago. The Rev. Frank Palmer, of Winona Lake, and the Rev. Charles Herrick, cf Elkhart, conduc ed the services, which were attended by many people from distant points. All business in Goshen was suspended arid the public schools were dismissed during the funeral «, . ' "-V.

SOUTH BEND More than ten thousand school children of South Bend have been organized into “clean street leagues” in a movement to make South Bend the cleanest city in the United States. The Chamber of Commerce will offer prizes to the leagues for the best results. Individual prizes will also be awarded to the pupils. The campaign will bet'ri early in the spring. FORT WAYNE —P. A Randall, the president of the Toledo, Fort Wayne and Chicago Deep Waterway association; Charles S. Rash, ah;?enthusiastic “bcomer” of the project, and CapL Charles Campbell, of New York city, editor of The Waterways Magaxine, will go io Indianapolis to work at the legislature in behalf of the canal BEDFORD Bruer Bennet met with a most peculiar accident Being confined to hifi bed with rheumatism, he raised up in bed to change his position and while resting on his right arm he was seized with a violent spell of coughing,‘resulting in the fracture of his collar bone midway between his right shoulder and neck.