Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 August 1911 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

LAFAYETTE—John A, Hayes special agent for the Monon returned to Lafayette after spending several days and nights walking the tracks -and riding trains between Ofleans and Bedford. He has arrested Lineman Kelly and W. W.' Holley who are charged with stealing |1,00( worth of whiskey from Monon freigh cars. Robberies have been going or with more or less frequency during the last three months. The plunder was found by Hayes in a cave near a quarry. Holley was discovered visiting the cave and was arrested. He had thirteen bottles of whiskey in his possession, carrying them away when arrested. Mr. Hayes said that more than a dozen would probably be implicated and more arrests would follow.

BEDFORD—M. E. McGrath, pres Ident of the Dugan Cut Ston< company, with his wife,' M. J Morgan of the Giberson Stone com pany and wife, and Miss Anna Reed daughter of Robert Reed, has a nar row escape from death while on : tour. They left Bedford in McGrath’: automobile and while climbing th-; Leesville Hill the machine started backward and over the embankment, turning turtle twice before stopping Mr. Morgan suffered a broken collai bone. Mrs. Morgan was terribly bruised and Mrs. McGrath suffered a sprained wrist and was bady bruised Mr. McGrath and Miss Reed, on the front seat, escaped injury. The car i> a wreck.

MARlON—Barney Sullivan, wh< has been mayor of Gas City for several years, made the announcement that he will tender his resignation at the next regular meeting oi the Gas town board. Mr Sullivan says bis reasons for re signing are chat the office takes ur too much of his time and that th c salary is too small. After leaving the mayor’s office, Mr. Sullivan will devote all his time to his tailoring business at Gas City. No intimation has been given as to who will be elected to succeed Mr. Sullivan. TERRE HAUTE— A movement is on foot among local label leaders to elect either George W Lackey, vice president of district No 11 United Mine Workers, or Charle: W. Fox, secretary, to the presidency of the State Federation of Labor tc succeed Edgar Berlins of Indiana polls The movement will be launched at the annual, convention to be held in Evansville next rccnth. It is sale Perkins has signified his willingness to retire in favor of a Terre Haute man. He has held the office many years.

MISHAWAKA—The Northern Indi ana Editorial Association is hold ing a two days’ session here This association was organized in this city twenty years ago and it has never held a meeting here since. Not many of the original members are left, but the people of the city proposed to make it a sort of homecoming for the editors just the same and they certainly are doing it. COLUMBUS—WhiIe boat riding on White river, ten miles south of here, Levi Hoffstudler, a far mer, 35 years of age. and Miss Mayne Taylor, twenty years old, daughter of Hiram Taylor, were drowned. Their boat struck a snag and was capsized. Mrs. Hoffstudler was .also in the boat but she succeeded in getting safely to shore.

ROCKVILLE—Frank Firestone, ar rested on charges of forgery, pleaded guilty before Justice Bryant and was bound to the circuit court He admitted signing the name of Howard Stark, a farmer of Greene township, to notes for $25 each. The forgeries were so cievei that they were not detected by bank ers. BLOOMINGTON—FIagman O’Her rin of the Menon Chicago express, identified Claude Lindsey agefi twenty-one, as the man he had seen ripping open and robbing a mail sack as the train passed through here. Inspector Ela of Cincinnati, turned Lindsey over to authorities for trial in November. LAFAYETTE—One of the leading features of ‘-the entire week’s program was the jubilee meeting at the Victoria theatre. At this meeting the conferring of the Page rank, the first degree of Pythians, was done by the local lodges. Grand Chancellor John F. Petri, presided. GREENCASTLE—H. C. Wyant, of St Louis, is dead as the result of being struck while riding in his motor car by an interurban car east of thia city. He was on his way to Pendleton to engage in the automobile garage business in that city. MORRISTOWN—CharIes Bryant, twenty-three years old, a bricklayer, was drowned in Blue river near here whiles bathing. He was unmarried and had been working tj Rushville for some time. TERRE HAUTE—Austin McCammon, twenty-one, of Shelburn, pleaded guilty of attacking a thirteen-year-old girl. A brother of McCammon was sent to prison for life for attacking two little girls. NEWCASTLE—Angry because a grandchild removed a board from the front yard where she had placed it, Mrs. Corintha Ray, aged seventy-three, a widow, committed suicide. i ANDREWS- —Fire that destroyed the Betcy grocery, Abbotlyly meat market Cogswell’s liver j barn, and damaged the town hall, caused a loss of $20,000.