Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1911 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

INDIANAPOLIS—The local employment bureau of the Children’s Aid association has learned the history of a boy’s stay of fifteen months in Indianapolis, and it is believed to be typical of tl.e experiences of a large class of boys who came to the city in search of work. The boy was sixteen in May. During his stay he has worked at eight different factories and at all but two he worked ten hours a day. In one he worked eight hours and in another he worked thirteen and one-half. It is believed by the head of the employment bureau that the child labor law passed at the recent session of the state legislature will put a stop to the employment of boys for such long hours. The association has been investigating the case of this lad for two weeks, and has found that his record is the best. A place in the country has been found for him and when fall comes be will be sent to the Broad Ripple High School. HAMMOND—Hundreds of passengers and two carloads of United States mail for Chicago were placed in danger between Hammond and Whiting, through the carelessness of section men on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, who left a heavy track jack between the rails when the B. & O. Chicago flyer came along The engine picked up the jack and it was hurled into the running gear while the engine was running at high speed. The engine was partly derailed, the blow-off valve broken and a mail car set afire.

Indianapolis Many complaints alleging violations of the sixteen-hour law for trainmen have been filed in the federal court against the Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis, and the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway companies, by United States District Attorney Miller on behalf of the federal government. It is charged that the defendant rohds required trainmen to work longer than sixteen continuous hours maximum provided by the law, and SSOO is asked for each alleged violation.

COLUMBUS—A report which has just made up in the office of ;he county auditor here shows that Bartholomew county has more than $1,000,000 worth of taxable property listed this year than was listed last year, and the report does not include corporations assessed by the state tax board. The amount of personal property listed this year is smaller than the amount listed last year. The total amount of property listed for taxation in the county this year is §19,393,453, while the amount listed last year was $18,342,865. INDIANAPOLIS Lieutenant Walter L. Reed, in charge of the post exchange at Fort Benjamin Harrison, has brought suit for SIO,OOO damages against the wife of Captain Henry E. Eames. He charges that Mrs. Eames, in the library of her home and before several people, intimated that he had been dishonest in the handing of money. The plaintiff’s attorney, O. L. Pond, said Lieutenant Reed had brought the suit in order to protect his good name.

SHELBYVILLE Formre Judge Thomas Whallon of Indianapolis, has filed a lien in the circuit court here against the judgment of SIOO,OOO recently given in favor of Mrs. Ella Dare Rhodius in connection with the settlement of the million-dollar estate of her husband, the late George Rhodius. Judge Whallon is filing the lien to aid him in collecting $25,000 from Mrs. Rhodius, which he alleges is due him from her as attorney’s fee.

GARY Residents of the old town Of Tolleston, which is now a part of Gary, who for fifty years have never permitted a negro to settle in the neighborhood, are aroused by the action of the Gary and Interurban railway in quartering one hundred negro laborers in the old town. A committee has ’ been named to request that the company order the removal of the colored men at once. SHELBYVILLE Louis Isley, a tenant on the Charles Major farm near Flat Rock, lost twelve sheep and two fine cow's from a vegetable they ate in a woodi-on the farm. The farm was formerly owned by David Conger and at that time half a flock of sheep was lost in the same way. The nature or type of vegetable that is so destructive has never been learned. SOUTH BEND Two headon collisions and a smashup in as many days is the record of the Northern Indiana railway. In all instances the passengers had narrow escapes from death and in no instance was any person seriously injured. In each of the collisions the cars were running at a good .speed. The crews at fault have been discharged

MUNCIE—CarroI N. Jones, a policeman, w’ho was accused of having impersonated the chief of the Muncie police while in Indianapolis July 4, and beating the driver of an automobile when the latter demanded $lB as pay, has been exonerated by the police board and will be retained as a member of the Muncie police force. RUSHVILLE Thomas E. Gregg, field examiner under the state board of accounts, former city treasurer and trustee of Rushville township, has been missing from this city two months and his whereabouts are unknown to his friends and relatives here. ' '• MUNCIE Greatly angered because her mother made ter give up a magazine which she was reading to a younger sister, Emma Ditton, aged fifteen, committed suicide.