Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1911 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

LAFAYETTE William- H. Justice of this city, a conductor on the Fort Wayne and Wabash Valley traction line, was badly beaten by Grant and G. C. Whiteman and s Jesse Wilson, who live east of Delphi When Conductor Justice started to collect fares in the smoking compartment of the car, G. C. Whiteman attacked him. The motormaji, tC. B. Mellinger, rushed to his assistance. The car was in an uproar, and the two Whitemans and Jesse Wilson were all after the conductor. Wilson tried to bar the door so that the motorman could not help Justice. Before the three men were quieted Conductor Justice was seriously injured. His nose was broken, and it is feared he is injured internally. He was brought to l.afayette and was taken to his home.

BHELBYVILLE —Edward Henry was arrested here while he was trying to cash a check to which it is alleged he forged the name of Mrs. Monroe Spurlin. While his case was being investigated in a justice’s court, Judge Blair was finishing the hearing in the juvenile court of a case against Earl MeGibbons, fourteen years old, on a charge of forging an order in the name of Carl lindall to obtain wages due [ the latter at the Monte wrench factory. The lad was taken to Plainfield. I Two other alleged forgers, Flo Effie Campbell and Frank Richway of Indianapolis, are still in the local jail, which also harbors Bronson Walker, the Adams Express employe who, it is said, stole $5,000 from the company. MARION Two young men who gave their names as Claude Sanders and Harry Miller were arrested at Fairmount on the charge of counterfeiting. The constable found in the pockets of the two men counterfeit nickels representing the sum of sls. The men rented a room in Fairmount a week ago and worked secretly, but were suspected of w r rongdoing by their landlady and were forced to move. They then worked in a corn field on the farm of Joshua Hollingsworth, and were found there. The dies the men are suspected of using have not been found. The federal authorities have been notified to take charge of the men.

SOUTH BEND - More than thirty thousand stockholders of the Kosciusko Building and Loan Fund association, a $3,000,000 concern, are anxiously awaiting further word from the Btate authorities at Indianapolis in regard to the condition of the association, which in many cases holds the life-time savings of the depositors. Officers, however, say that everyone will be paid in full. Many have called at the office of the association to make inquiry, but no run has taken place. An audit company will be engaged at once to put the books in condition, among other things translating them from Polish to English. LAWRENCEBURG Charles W. Gellispe of Hogans township, whose buggy was wrecked and who, with his wife and little daughter, was painfully injured by an automobile, has applied to a magistrate for permission to carry a revolver to shoot autoists who habitually endanger lives and property of farmers in his neighborhood by furious driving. He offered a reward for the identity of the driver of the large touring car that wrecked his vehicle and drove on without stopping. COLUMBUS Work has been started on a secret passage which is to be built in the new federal building which is being built here. The secret passage will be for the exclusive use of postoffice inspectors, who will be the only persons holding keys to it. The passage will admit of a view of all of the employes of the postoffice while they are at work and the inspectors will enter the passage without the knowledge of the employes. LAWRENCEBURG Mrs. Emma Barrott Enyart, aged forty, the widow of Edward J Enyart, had a narrow escape from death when a large, heavy folding bed in which she was sleeping closed up. Her screams for help aroused her sixteen-year-old son, who rushed to the neighbors for assistance. Mrs Enyart was unconscious when rescued and is painfully injured. MUNCIE Muncie automobilists came very near getting another victim, when smnachine driven by J. E. Bowman, a garage owner, collided with Armound Davis, nine years old, son of Claude Davis of Terre Haute. The Davis boy was on a bicycle. His head struck the pavement and he sustained a slight concussion of the brain. He will recover. EL WOOD - About an hour after he began complaining of cramps, Robert J. Haffel, twenty-three years old, whose home was at Fiat Rock, 111., died suddenly at a local hoarding house. He came here Saturday to accept a position as telegraph operator for the Ohio Oil company.

ANDERSON Frank Eales, sixty years of age, is dead at St. John’s hospital as the result of having been shot by Henry Hertsinger, who is locked in the county jail charged with murder. Hertsinger claims self lefense. BLOOMINGTON While he was walking with three other young men from the city water works reservoir to the city after a fishing trip, Oscar 1 ampkins, a local barber, was the victim of a sunstroke. He fell unconscious in the road and it required the efforts of a physician to revive him. I INDIANAPOLIS —Because she firmly believed her husband had ceased to lore her, Mrs. George Kline, twentythree years old, committed suicide by irinking poison.