Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1911 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

HAMMOND The Indiana state tax commissioners have ‘arrived in Hammond . to investigate the charges that the Lake Shore andi Michigan Southern, the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, the United States Steel company, Henry.C. Frick and George T. Cline, of Chicago, are withholding a million dollars in taxes from the state on their Lake Michigan frontage in this state along the shore line from South Chicago -almost to Michigan City. Suspicions were arousSd when a was noticed that the city of Whiting had paid the Forsythe estate nearly $5,000 an acre for a park lake frontage. Township assessors had put a valuation on the land of about 12,000 and the Gary Land company, the United States Steel company's subsidiary, only paid |l,ooo per acre for Lake Michigan frontage The acreage dispute involves shore line privileges. SPENCER—The last remaining hope of the liquor forces of being able to obtain a foothold in Owen county under the Proctor law disappeared when a remonstrance containing a majority of sixty-eight names was filed from Marion township, from which licensed saloons were excluded by remonstrance a little more than three years ago. Many Germans live in this township and it has always been regarded as the "wettest" spot in the county. The fight just closed was bitter and during the closing days the fee'imr was intensified by the appearance of a mysterious, well dressed etranger in town, whe was active in the cause of the “wets.”

CICERO Harry Hiatt, twentyfour years old, shot and instantly killed his wife. Nellie Hiatt, aged twenty-one. at the home of her father. A. W. Bonn, half a mile west of Cicero. Hiatt, after shooting his wife, ran across the road to a meadow and shot himself in the forehead. The bullet glanced upward and came out the top of his head. Domestic troubles caused the tragedy. After being arrested he asked the officers what he had done. He does not seem to be severely injured, but is suffering from a nervous coilapse. SHELBYVILLE—Miss Mazie Lamb of Indianapolis has finally accepted S3OO from David McCord of McCordsville as a settlement In full in connection with a verdict of SI,OOO recently gh en her in the Shelby county circuit court, following a trial of the case in which she was suing McCord for $lO,000 for breach of promise. Mr. McCord was intending to appeal the case, but changed his mind when the plaintiff agreed to accept the SSOO and pay all costs. The case came here from Hancock county. HARTFORD CITY Charles A Reeves, editor of the Hartford City Daily Journal, was found guilty by a jury in the Blackford circuit court of criminally libeling City Marshal Michael Sauers and a fine of 1500 was assessed Three more cases are pending in the circuit court against him. The case grew out of a charge in Reeves’ newspaper that Sauers gave prejured testimony in a justice court and was the first of Its kind ever tried in Blackford county

INDIANAPOLIS Twenty-four applicants for citizenship in the United States, all proprietors of saloons in Ha ugh ville, a suburb, were denied citizenship by Judge Orbison of superior court, because they lacked intelligence about the affairs of the government The cases were continued until the September term of court in order that the applicants may have time to acquire some knowledge of the manner in which the country is governed. COLUMBUS An attempt was made to wreck an Indianapolis. Cdlumbus and Southern traction car a little after midnight at a point one mile north of Taylorsville. Four piles of ties, placed about 100 feet apart, were found. The car struck the first pile, but was not seriously damaged. It is believed the attempt was made by some drunken men who were not permitted to board a car at Taylorsville. NEWCASTLE Being unable to subdue his appetite for liquor, which was gradually causing his savings of years to ebb away. John Sprague, employed in a local factory, called at police headquarters and asked the police to place his name on the “black list” so he could not buy liquor at any of the saloons for himself or anybody else " INDIANAPOLIS James R. Wood, who shot and instantly killed Jasper Bucy Jan. 27, 1911, following a story his -wife told him of her relations Bucy, and who was acquitted by a jury in criminal court on the ground of temporary insanity, has been discharged from custody. EVANSVILLE The residence of John Warrick, near here, caught fire and Miss Maude Garrett, living near by, threw several large cans of buttermilk on the flames and saved the house from total destruction. She kept the blaz£ confined to one room until help arrived. NOBLESVILLE John Burtwell colored, one of the oldest persona who were born in slavery, died here. According to the best evidence obtainable, when a t guardian was appointed for him recently, he was one hundred and twelve years old. LYONS—Mrs. Oscar Keller was instantly killed by a bolt of lightning while feeding chickens in her yard. She was formerly Miss Lilly Patterson, a social favorite of this place. KOKOMO Farley Zeeke. about thirty-five years-old, was killed by a passenger train at the Markland avenue crossing.