Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1911 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

HAMMOND —ln a fierce “Hey, Rube" conflict at Hobart • between Broncho Sullivan’s" West West” show, beaded by Coyote Kate, and the townsmen fourteen people were injured. Sullivan, the proprietor of the show, was in a tent with a broken leg and was unable to stop the fight, though he discharged a dozen men of the show. The trouble started during a rainstorm after the night performance, which was poorly attended. One of the town boys is said to have made an insulting remark to. Coyote Kate. Then the “Hey Rube” cry started a fight, which resulted in the defeat of the showmen. The latter used tent stakes, guns and knives as weapons, and the town boys sent for reinforcements. One hundred farmer boys and townsmen rallied and fought the showmen. The police were able to disarm the showmen before any shots took effect GARY Mrs. William J. Carroll was on the lawn clad in a kimono and slippers. A score of persons were on the street. A gust of wind stripped the young woman of the kimono. The cords and buttons of the garment were out of commission and it could not hurriedly be put on by the wearer. Mrs. Carroll fled to the house Mrs. Bailey, the landlady, and the other boarders, all women, were indignant at her appearance. Mrs. Bailey told the police and Mrs. Carroll was arrested She pleaded that the wind was to blame for her .predicament Judge Windermuth held that women in kimonos ought to be prepared for emergencies and wear something under them. Mrs. Carroll said she had exercised “reasonable restraint” in manipulating the garment The judge fined her $25. She moved.

WARSAW—Peter Evans, aged six-ty-three years, who was at one time wealthy, hut has for many years lived alone in a small shack on the shore of Pike lake, is dead. His body was found at the bottom of a stairway under circumstances that hare '•aused the police to start an investigation on the theory that he was murdered. The police records show that Evans was arrested more than "..(MK times for intoxication Or disorderly conduct. He spent more than ha if of the last twenty years serving sentences in jail and his misconduct was always described as drunkenness or disorder that followed his sprees. RUSHVILLE Mrs. Mary Nestle, a wealthy and eccentric resident of Rushville, became suddenly insane from grieving over the death of her son George, who died in a Chicago hospital a week ago Neighbors heard the woman screaming that her son had been killed by an automobile standing in front of the house, and when they reached her were unable to quiet, The woman had $40,000 in her home, hidden away in tin cans for twelve years, and when she became mentally unbalanced brought it out, saying she was keeping it for her little grandson and would not trust it in a bank.

GREENCASTLE — While stopping in this city Congressman Ralph Moss said: .“If the people of Indiana want me to be their candidate for governor, I would be happy to make the race. HoAever, I cannot make a fight for the nomination, and will .not do so. If the Democrats of the state want me, I will gladly make the race for them. The question of my candidacy is in their hands.” NASHVILLE—When Charles Lucas, a well known farmer of Jackson township, entered his hen house he discovered that thirteen of his hens had been stolen in the night Under the hen roost he found a gold watch which he brought here, and a jeweler fixed its value at $250. No such watch was ever seen in this county and There is much speculation as to the find. LOGANSPORT Her husband being a fugitive from justice and supposedly in the insurrecto army in Mexico a divorce was granted Mrs Thomas Quigley here. Quigley was the Terre Haute representative of a packing firm of this city, and when charged with embezzling S9OO, he fled, to the southern country, enlisting with the rebels. LAPORTE The effort to find oil or gas in northern Indiana has been abandoned by the capitalists, who have had drills working in LaPorte county. One drill was sent to a depth of nearly 2,000 feet without finding trace of either oil or gas. It is figured that SIO,OOO has been expended in experimental wells in this county. RUSHVILLE — Final arrangements have been completed to erect a tabernacle in Rushville to seat from 3,060 to 4.000 persons, which has been planned for several weeks by committees appointed by the members of the various churches of the city to arrange for Orr revival meeting which will be held here June 7 to 24. FORT WAYNE Clifford Howenstine, aged five, stopped playing, told his mother he was tired and died a few minutes later. He and his brother had found strychnine tablets in a barn and swallowed them, believing they were candy. His brother will probably recover. ™ FRANKLIN William A. Green found his wife dead when he returned home. A bullet had pierced her heart and the weapon was on the floor beside her body. Mrs. Green had been in poor health for several months . BOONEVIWiIey W. Caver, about thirty years old, head brakeman on the Southern railroad, was killed instantly near Dagonia by falling under a freight car. His home is in Custco. Ind.