Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1911 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

INDIANAPOLfS —Many complaints alleging violations- of the sixteen-hour law for trainmen have been filed in the federal court against the Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago and SL Louis, and the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and SL Louis Railway companies, by United States District Attorney Miller on behalf of the federal government It is charged that the defendant roads required trainmen to work longer than sixteen continuous hours maximum provided by the law, and SSOO is asked for each alleged violation. EVANSVILLE While' overcome with jealousy at seeing his rival Noah Russell, returning from a buggy ride with his sweetheart, Ebert Meredith, aged thirty, it is alleged, shot and instantly killed Russell at Strikers Landing, twenty miles above here on the Ohio river. Meredith escaped. According to Miss Flora Hyton and Ella McDaniels, who were in the buggy with Russell and witnessed the tragedy, Meredith shot their companion in the back as he was climbing out of the buggy. Russell is eighteen years old. GREENCASTLE Deputy Sheriff Michael Kelly found a demented man wandering about the farm of Jonathan Stoner, eight miles west of Greencastle. The man was nearly nude, and his body was covered with scratches and bruises, indicating that he had been at large several hours. He told the deputy sheriff that he was forty-five years old, and gave his name as Charles McClintock of New Albany, Ind. He said he is a plumber by trade. The sheriff has been unable to get in touch with the man’s relatives.

TERRE HAUTE Mrs. James T. Conrad w'as killed by lightning while talking over the telephone with her husband. He had called from the city for his home south of the city. He heard a sharp report, and hung up the receiver, not thinking of the possibility of an accident at his home. A nephew of the woman extinguished the fire in her clothing. The insulation was stripped from the wire and wires in the neighborhood were put out of service. INDIANAPOLIS—On the motion of Prosecutor Frank P. Baker the five indictments charging Cyrus J. Clark, former audiior of Marion county, with making and presenting false claims against the county and receiving payment therefor, were nolled in criminal court. In making the motion Baker explained to Judge Markey that there was no possibility of convicting Clark; and that money would be saved to the county if the indictments were dismissed. MOROCCO Harry Cole,- aged nine yeais, son of Mrs. Anna Cole, a widow, living north of this city, and a boy about the same age, named Shuttes, of Danville, 111., were found dead In a cave near the Cole home, having been smothered by earth. The discovery was. made by a little daughter of Mrs. Cole, who on go ing to the cave, noticed the boys’ feet protruding from the sand. HUNTINGTON All the property of a carnival company winch has been showing here for the benefit of the baseball team wa3 attached to sat isfy a bill of $25 for hospital service rendered at Wabash to an aeronaut, who fell from the balloon and was badly hurt. The managers dispute the bill. The balloonist is still in the hospital. JAMESTOWN About SIOO in money and a large quantity oi stamps were taken when burglars en tered the pcstoffice here, carried the safe out of the building and then blew it open with nitroglycerin. In the same room with the office w-as a jewelry store, but a safe there, which contained valuable jewelry, was not disturbed.

SHELBYVILLE —FIoyd Ashe, aboul twenty-eight years old, was fished from Blue river by Alfred and John Schultz, who were boating on the rivei at a time when the man threw him self into the river, bent on committing suicide. He begged them to allow him to jump into the river agaim after they had landed him on the bank. TERRE HAUTE— A strike which Involves about 250 men was called at the Sandford mine, near here, follow ing a meeting of representatives of the company and the miners’ executive board. The strike grows out of the discharge a month ago of a miner on the ground that he did not keep his “place” properly timbered. KOKOMO Dustin Sailer, twenty nine years old, was killed while assisting in the thrashing of oats upon the Jacob Ayres farm near Greentown. Saler was driving a loaded wagon when the stanchion broke and he turn bled to the ground, his skull being crushed by the load of eats passing over him.

— Clyde Flanders who is twenty-three years old and deaf and dumb, was instantly killed by a Lake Erie Western passenger train, eight miles south of Nobles villej He was walking around a sharp curve and the engineer did not sec hkn in time to stop the train. RUSHVILLE Thomas E. Gregg, field examiner under the state bovd of accounts, former city treasurer and trustee of Rushville township, has been missing from this catty twc months and his whereabouts are unknown to'his friends and relatives here. , WABASH- —Mrs. Mary Olson pleaded guilty to the charge of assault and battery- on her tlree-year-old stepdaughter. Mrs. Olson took the child to a well, and disrobing it, scrubbed It with ice cold water and a broom. Her arrest followed* ■' i * -