Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1911 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

SOUTH BEND Two city officials, one of whom is Controller Patrick A. Joyce, present acting mayor of South Bend, have made the startling discovery that they are not American citizens. The other is Policeman Samuel Derrent. Both men took out first naturalization papers years ago, but never appeared for final examination and secured second papers. The discoverey was made in St Joseph circuit court where the two officials were among the witnesses at the examination of sixty-three prospective citizens. Because Joyce and Derrent are not citizens themselves John T. Neisgodski, cigar manufacturer and former members of the board of police safety, and Emil Schellenj beck, a saloon keeper, failed to get their naturalization papers. FORT WAYNE Just as he and his wife were on the point or departing for Chicago to make their home there, Benjamin F. Harper, for many years treasury auditor for the war department, committed suiicde here by shooting. 11l health is given as the cause. Harper resigned his post with the war department last April, and, after practicing law here, decided to remove to Chicago. __ The household goods were packed, and just before starting to the railroad station Harper went to the barn and shot himself. Mrs. Han>er found the body when she became worried over his long absence. Harper, who was forty-five years old, was appointed to the war department post in 1905.

HOLTON —As a result of a battle with Sheriff Thomas Sparks of Ripley county and his depuay, Walter H. Smite, S. James, an ex-convict, twenty-six years old, is in a critical condition at the office of Dr. C. E. Holton The officers were trying to arrest James for an alleged assault upon Mrs. Irma Williams, during a storm. The woman said she recognized her assailant by flashes of lightning. James was cornered in a poolroom. The exconvict held out his left hand for the officers to handcuff, but with his right reached for a revolver. Sheriff Sparks and his deputy both fired, three bullets taking effect. EVANSVILLE The Vanderburg cofiqty grand jury has found an indictment against Thomas Littrell, charging him with first degree murder. Littrell has been under arrest for the past two weeks and bond denied him. It is charged Littrell hit Anthony Jung on the head with a pair of brass knucks while on board the steamer D. A. Nishet on a Sunday excursion, and that the blow caused Jung to fall into the river. His body was found three days after his death. Several witnesses testified before the grand jury that they saw Littrell stiike Jung. SULLIVAN Ten coal miners employed in the Baledonia mine of the Monon Coal company in the Sullivan field each have filed suits for SIO,OOO damages against the company. The suits are the result of the miners being stricken by black damp after the mine boss had told them the mine was in fit working condition. After the incident, the prosecuting attorney of Sullivan made an investigation and action was taken against the officials of the company MICHIGAN CITY Earl Holloway of Deming, Ind., who shot A G. Buchanan of Cicero, foreman of a fence construction crew- on the Lake Erie and Western railroad, was bound over to the grand jury under a $2,000 bond or. the charge of assault and battery with intent to kill. The condition of Buchanan, who was shot through the abdomen, is said by his physicians to be favorable. FORTVILLE Frances Sherman, the seven-year-old daughter of Grant Sherman, living three miles northwest of Fortville, was run down by a freight train at a crossing here and both her legs cut off. It is said she cannot recover. The little girl had waited for one train to pass and stepped directly in front of the second one on another track before she saw it. RUSHVILLE —Edward Joyte, aged sixty-seven ,a prcminent and wealthy farmer living four miles northeast of the city, committed suicide by shooting himself through the head with a _shotgun. Joyce was despondent because his wife and children had left him. which is believed to*be thecause of his deed. His wife left home one week ago and filed suit for divorce. TERRE HAUTE Patrick B. Reinbold, a cigar maker of Terre Haute, tas been selected as opposition candidate for president of the Indiana Federation of Labor at the convention this month. President Perkins’s alliance with the state Democratic organization is meeting with opposition. '

COLUMBUS—A cat knocked over a lantern in the large barn of Clancy Markland, a farmer who lives near Hartsville, Bartholomew county, and a fire loss of about $2,000 resulted. Markland tried to extinguish the flames, but was unable to do so. He saved his horses. PERU The lifeless body of. David Wolff was found hanging in his barn at his farm home, six miles south of the city. He was six-ty-five and / leaves a widow and several children. The cause for suicide is not known. He was a Dunkartf preacher. SULLIVAN —Elmer Turpin, about thirty-five years old, a coal miner, was killed on the Terre Haute, Indianapolis and Eastern Traction line, three miles north of here. The car men say he was asleep on the track.