Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1911 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

•••••••••••••••••••••••••a INDIANAPOLIS Two flashilydressed men entered the Mantel jewelry store in the heart of the city at noon and knocked the clerk down with loaded rubber hose, but, failing to silence hintrand fearing his calls for help would bring the officers, they fled from ,the_ building. A crowd was soon in pursuit with the two thugs running through business houses and restaurants and finally boarding an interurban car, which they left at the next corner and made their escape. Two hundred men and boys joined in the pursuit and many tried to stop the thugs, but were induced to step aside when revolvers were aimed at them. The men evidently had planned the route they would take, for they ran through two business houses and one restaurant and by thus coming out on othei streets threw their pursuers off the track until they got goor leads. KOKOMO Bert Thomas, who has been arrested on a charge of “bootlegging,” gave the most novel explanation for the presence of liquor in his room that has ever been offered to the local police department The police found a five-gallon jug of whisky in Thomas’s trunk. When Thomas was asked what he was doing with it he said he' used it to bathe his feet in. He stuck to this story, asserting that the warm weather has the effect of making his feet extremely tender and only by bathing them every night in whisky could he keep thenr in condition that would permit him to

walk and go about his work. The police were suspicious of this defense and slated him for "bootlegging.” SHELBYVILLE Charles Moores a carpenter, living in Hendricks township, committed suicide at the home of Jesse McKee by hanging himself, Moore had been at the place a few months remodeling the house, and he was the only carpenter there. He was separated from his wife, and on several occasions had attempted tc settle their differences, but had not been successful. After reading a let ter he had received from Mrs. Moore he remarked That he had nothing tc live for. McKee left for a time and on his return found his body hanging to a rafter with a window cord about his neck. Moore’s mother was over come and it is feared she will die. PETERSBURG —Alber tJ. Ven neman of Evansville, speaker of the late house of representatives, announces that he is done with politics and that under no circumstances will he be a candidate for re-election. He told his friends here that: “The game is all right for the rich, but the poor must work; I will spend the next few years attending to my profession and trying to lay up something form? family.” COLUMBUS Barney McEvenues aged fifty-seven, a well known saloon keeper at Taylorsville, Bartholomew county, is dead of poisoning from drinking lemonade that had stood for thirty-six hours. He leaves a widow and one daughter. McEvenue had been in the saloon business thirty years and was active in local politics FORT WAYNE The body of a man who was probably fifty-five years old, weight 165 pounds, height 5 feet 10 inches, was found near here a bullet in his breast and a revolver with on< chamber empty. A railroad ticket dated June 20, at Chicago for New York, was also found. The hat bort a Chicago firm’s mark. GARY Daring burglars in vaded the heart of Gary’s business district and robbed three places within one block of the police station. The places robbed are the Gary Liquoi company's office, the Michigan Central depot and the Lightning Repair shop. At the latter place the thieves stole the cash register. SOUTH BEND—The election com missioners of St. Joseph county postponed the opening of bids on fifty voting machines because of lack of competition. The commissioners de cided to prepare new specifications a*id receive new proposals, which wil be opened on Aug. 8. FOWLER To forever set a> rest rumors and dissatisfaction of many people concerning the death oi Peter Larsen, who was found dead ir a cistern in the rear of his home here last Friday, the grand jury of Bentor county was called to meet and invest! gate I arsen’s death. ANDERSON The huge bones of a mastodon are being unearthed ir a big ditch on a farm eight miles northwest of here. The jaw bone containing four teeth, has been taker out The teeth measured four inches across, while the jaw bone is almost three feet long. SHELBYVILLE Harry Wertz nine years old, son of William Wertz of Flatrock, was drowned ir Flatrock river. His only companies was Morris Evans, twelve years old who sounded the alarm. The body was recovered within twenty minutes TERRE HAUTE—An unidentifiec man was instantly killed by a street car on Marksville grade, between Terre Haute and West Terre Haute According to the traction officials the man deliberately stood on the,, track as the car approached. GREENFIELD Another splendid gas well has been drilled ir by Charles Townsend near this city, making three wells, said by expert* to be as strong as some that weri pronounced gushers in the gas boom days GREENCASTLE Carl Levy, a Big Four railway brakeman, was killed here by being struck by a pas senger train. The trip on which he was killed was his first one over the road.