Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1911 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

BLOOMINGTON—A well-filled locked mail pocch received at the Monon station here from the BloomingtonLouisville accommodation train and to have been placed aboard the mail car of the Chicago express, was stolen from the platform station. Amos Wiggins, aged twenty-five, was arrested and is being held until the inspector arrives from Cincinnati. The thief who tock the sack carried it to the Hughes lumber yard, ripped it open and rifled the contents, scattering money orders, drafts and other valuable mail promiscuously. A flagman on the Chicago train saw a man cutting open the sack, reported the matter to toe night agent and Chief Hensley with five assistants succeeded in locating Wiggins, seated in front of a saloon.

HARTFORD City Police officers are searching for the two young men, believed to be farmers, who insulted and assaulted a party of women autoists returning home from Muneie. In the machine were Mrs. John Day, her son Fred, who was driving, and Misses Ruth Cortx and Bertha Pattoux. As Day drove to the side of the road to permit a rig to pass one of the occupants arose and struck Miss Cortx a stinging blow in the face with a buggy whip, then drove off, hurling vile oaths at the occupants of the machine. Recently an attempt was made to wreck the Day machine at almost the same spot, fence rails being laid across the road in front of it. MARION Two young men w’ha gave their names as Claude Sanders aDd Harry Miller were arrested at Fairmount on the charge of coun terfeiting. The constable found in the pockets of the two men counterfeit nickels representing the sum cf sl6. The men rented a room in Fairmount a week ago and worked secretly, but were suspected of wrongdoing 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.

LAFAYETTE While engaged to make a slide for life on a wire suspended from the Main street bridge to the New York Central railroad bridge, a distance of one block, in a sheet of flame, J. H. Howard became enveloped in flames '-at the start and Wuß forced to jump into the river, was forced to jump into the river. He was rescued unconscious, and it was said at the hospital that he probably would die. He was burned severely and it was feared he had inhaled the flames. GARY More than one hundred Greek fruit peddlers engaged in a riot when health officers confis cated two carloads of spoiled food that had been shipped from South Water street, Chicago.. Arrival of police on the scene saved Health Commissioner Milstone and Deputy Charles Mullen from injury at the hands of the mob. The food confiscated comprised carload of water melons, a carload of grapes and one thousand pounds of tainted pork. SOUTH BEND —The constitutionality of the Indiana state law that provides for the purchase ot voting machines is attacked in a suit filed here. When the commissioners of St Joseph county were examining various kinds of machines on the eve of opening bids, and letting a contract for fifty of the devices at an estimated cost of (40,000 the proceedings were summarily stopped by the filing of an injunction by J. M. Chilias, a tax-payer.

INDIANAPOLIS— John A. Kemper a well known attorney of tnis city, reported to the police that during a two weeks’ absence some one had taken all his furniture and household goods from his home, 2029 East Washington street. Neighbors said that they saw men hauling the furniture away but as Kemper had been gone some time they supposed he was moving.

CORYDON Elaborate arrangements for a centennial celebration in 1913. commemorative of the time Coryaon became the capital of Indiana territory, were made at a mass meeting In the old statehouse. The citizens appointed committees to form permanent organizations for the purpose of planning the celebration. LEXINGTON— Thieves who broke open and entered the postoffice here obtained (500 in stamps and a small amovnt of money. With a pick stolen from the hand-car house near the depot they forced the door of Campbell’s grocery store and from there gained access to the postoffice safe.

LAFAYETTE Samuel W. Marlow, aged thirty-three of Lafayette, engineer on the Monon railroad, fell into a turntable pit at South Hammond, the northern terminal of the railroad, and his neck was broken. He, was dead when he was taken from the hole. LAFAYETTE Almost every hotel and boarding house is jammed to its capacity and private homes have been thrown open to the visitors on account of the big jubilee and encampment of the Uniformed Rank of Knights of Pythias here this week. BEDFORD While he was going through an alley at the rear of the Deckard Hotel here y Edgar McOscar, twelve years old, son of Dan McOscar, a prominent business man, was instantly killed by a live wire. MT. VERNON— CarI Delbauxer, died from injuries received in an automobile accident Four other young men barely escaped death when the machine turned turtle while going at a high rate of speed