Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1911 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

CONNsRESVILLE William Garrison, forty-five years old, arrested for burglary, implicated by confession Rupzrt Cnrisman, twenty-twq years I old and unmarried, a young farmer | living north of th;s city. A warrant i was procured and Sheriff Anson B. ' Miller, Constable Henry Osborn and Edward £l. Lewis, chief of city police, drove, out in an automobile 1b bring him in. Seeing the officers young Chrisman started to run. Calling to him to halt, and, not being obeyed. Officers Lewis and Osborn each fired their revolvers at the fleeing man, both shots taking effect, one in the thigh and one in the, small of the back, the last shot going through his body, cutting the intestines in many places. Chrisman was brought in to jail at once 2nd later transferred to the Fayette Sanitarium and given every attention, but to no tfvail, his death occurring the same evening. HUNTINGTON Prosecuting Attorney Otto Krieg has been notified that personal violence may he the result of the investigations he is conducting of alleged liquor violations in “the Bowery,” the district of Huntington near the Erie railroad shops and offices But Prosecutor Krieg says that he is not frightened and would be willing to walk, alone and unarmed, through the Bowery at any time, day or night. For weeks past there have been evidences of law violations in the eastern part of the city, but because of the close fraternalism between the railroad men evidence was difficult to secure. Prosecutor Otto Krieg is a young man. just out of law school, and Since taking office last January has been quietly gathering evidence. This culminated last week in an exhaustive examination before Squire A. J. Rosebrougb.

INDIANAPOLIS For the first time the Indiana railroad commission has ordered a failroad to put on a passenger train. The road against which the order was directed is the Pere Marquette, and the line affected is between LaCrcsse and LdPorte. William J Wood, chairman of the commission, on complaint of residents of the community affected, recently inspected the train service on the road and found that the only facilities offered passengers was a mixed freight and passenger train. With the imperfect service Chairman Wood found the receipts of the line to be about $5,000 a year for a distance of twen-ty-three miles. Pending the installation of the additional service the commission directed that the company establish a schedule for the mixed train and attempt to keep it.

BLOOMINGTON While going to the relief of a coal train that had stuck on the Wallace junction branch of the Monon, engine No. 253 of the large “battleship” type, jumped the track near Midland, turned over on its side and pinioned the crew until the arrival of the wrecker Irom this city. Fireman Long of lost his left arm as a result of the accident, while Engineer Johnson of Lafayette received serious internal in juries. Conductor Hensley and Brakeman Tindley of this city were badly bruised. NEWCASTLE —Superintendent William C. Vannuys of the Indiana Village for Epileptics announced that the four new cottages at the village would be completed within four weeks and that it was expected to receive ninety-four new patients early in June This will bring the total population of the village up to 210. Patients will be received in the order that applications received. Work will soon be begun on an addition to colony group No. 1, which will cost $7,000. GARY —The Calumet United Railways company, a five million dollar corporation backed by C. H. Geist, the Philadelphia gas magnate, was granted a fifty-year franchise to operate their lines on twelve of Gary’s most important streets. Work will begin at an early date on building the new line, which will eventually link Chicago with Gary. COLUMBUS The body of Mrs. Elizabeth Long, fifty-five years old, was found hanging in a smokehouse at her home in Rock Creek , township by her aged mother, Mrs. i Nathaniel Reed. The woman was not , dead when found, and the mother, with I the assistance of a neighbor, cut her down, but she expired within a few minutes.

NEWCASTLE Charges of assault and battery with intent to commit murder were filed against Lewis Hart and Aubrey Owens, who seriously slashed with razors Jasper Powell and Leroy Cook, and they were arid ted. Hart and Owens ran amuck and attacked Powell and Cook. ,he men slashed may die. RICHMOND Once worth nearly $40,000, Earl Huntington was found guilty of petit larceny by a jury in the circuit court, and, it being his second offense, he will be sent to- the penitentiary. It was shown Huntington had stolen a wrench and an ice pick, which he tried to sell in order to get money for liquor. MOUNT VERNON Two suicides in twelve hours is the record for Posey county. The first one occurred at Stewarts ville. when Mrs. Rosa Crawford Shot herself, the second one at Parker Settlement, when Frank Lutterman drowned himself on a pond on his farm. -

COLUMBIA CITY Dr. Edward E. Grant, a dentist, was elected truant officer here by the trustees for one year. He was opposed by two other candidates and secured his election on the first ballot