Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1911 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

GARY Forty thousand dollars more has rolled into the treasury of the Gary Young Men’s Christian association, making the total gifts to date $290,000. The latest gift is from the subsidiary companies of the United States Steel corporation in Gary and the sum will be used to furnish the quarter of a million dollar home which Is rapidly nearing completion. Announcement to this effect has beeu made by Charles M. Mayne, the newly elected general secretary of the local association, who for the last en years has been engaged in a similar capacity at Lincoln. Neb. Other, gifts to the association include SIOO,000 from Elbert H. Gary, a sum which he later raised to $200,000, and which was supplemented by a third gift of a block of Fifth avenue frontage valued at $50,000 to be used as a site for the club building.

SOUTH BEND—A determined fight for cheaper gas in this city has been launched against the Northern Indiana Gas and Electric company. A petition bearing several thousand signatures was presented to the common council. The company will be called on to reduce its rates to a figure in conformity with the cost of production, which has been greatly reduced through modern inventions. The rate is now sl.lO a thousand. This was made when the original franchise was granted in 1898, and the company promised to reduce it. The franchise does not expire until 1960. The Northern Indiana company, the moving spirit in which is Charles H. Geist, of Philadelphia, has gas and electric plants in nearly, every city and town in this part of the state and also operates interurban lines.

V/ABASH - According to a recent ruling of the Wabash county board of education, no girl who is engaged to be married during the coming year will be employed to teach in schools of Wabash county. Members of the boa r d frown upon the “newly wed” teacher and say that she cannot successfully reign over both a home and a school room. The board further says that when a teacher weds she will be discharged. Past experience has taught the school authorities that a woman just married loses proficency as instructor. There are a number of teachers in the county who have been married several years and they will be retained, but single ones must not marry and expect to hold their positions. WABASH Bert Jackson, who is eighty-three years old, living five miles south of this city, attempted suicide by cutting bis throat with a razor, J>ut did not sever his jugular vein. He then threw the razor down and itabbed himself with a small pocketfchife about fifty times in the cutting entirely through the windpipe and It is not believed he can recover. He had accumulated considerable property, but recently became mentally unbalanced BLOOMINGTON-—ihomas Stimson who is town marshal of Ellettsville, seven miles north of here, Was almost mobbed, tarred and feathered by Ellettsville citizens. When Sheriff Browning of Blpomington arrived on the scene, a crowd of several hundred had Stimson naif stripped. His name had been connected with that, of a woman. Both were taken to jail.

Au URN Suit has been begun in the circuit court kto oust Lida Leasure from Le office of county superintendent of DekaP county. The four trustees filed the suit, basing their action on the grounds that Dr Lcasire does not possess the necessary quaii fications, the licenses required by law. She is the only woman ever elected to the office in Indiana. INDIANAPOLIS Charles Kohtzeldt, employed as a caretaker on the country estate of Albert Lieber, was mysteriously shot while plowing corn in the lowlands along White river. The bullet is thought to have been fired by campers along the river and tne shooting probably was an accident. Physicians de not believe the wound Is fatal.

COLUMBUS—An affidavit has been filed in Mayor Barnaby’s court here against C. Mathron of Indianapolis, charging him with violating the pure food law. A car load of bananas shipped here from Indianapolis and consigned by Mathron was condemned by the local board of health and the sale of the fruit was stopped. PRINCETON Frederick J. Lewis with a 44-caliber Smith and Wesson revolver, put ten bullets through three paper balloons at heights of 250 to 300 yards, bringing the balloons to the ground. Lewis’ feat was to demonstate the efficiency of a heavy revolver for long-distance shooting. BLOOMINGTON—That the county jail has been overrun with occupants since the saloon began operations is the assertion of the county sheriff. The county is trying to devise some scheme by which the board cost of prisoners may be shifted from the county to the city. SOUTH BEND—With four frightful knife wounds in his breast, John L. Baldwin of Detroit was found in a dying condition in Howard Park. He died a few minutes later on the way to the hospital. The name of his assailant is not known. The stabbing was a mystery.

TERRE HAUTE—Supposedly “mad” cats have bitten children in West Terre Haute and Dr. Thaley, county health commissioner, has issued notice that “all stray eats or cats that show any evidence of sickness must be shot at once.”