Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1912 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

INDIANAPOLIS Henry E. Agar, formerly a millionaire grain dealer ot Gibson county, operating elevators ba twenty towns along the Ohio river, was released from prison and left for Texas. Agar disappeared from a boat the Wabash tiver in’ 1907 and waa thought to have been drowned. Hi® on the Wabash river in 1907 and was wife collected $20,000" life It soon developed that he had forged checks for a large amount of money, had embezzled thousands of bushels of grain and had forged th® names of a number of his friends to notes. Two years later he was found tn Benito, Tex., where he was engaged in business, having changed his name. < He was arrested, brought back to Gil> son county and convicted.

SULLIVAN After a long and exciting chase across the country fronx this city to Shelburn, Joseph Lester, an ex-convict, . was arrested on a charge of burglary. The arrest was made by Marshal Sam Harding of Shelburn. Only the previous day Lester charged with forging a check on, the First National bank of this city and with cashing it at the store of M. O. Robbins. Friends, however, came to his rescue and paid off the amount of the check. He had been released but an hour when he committed the alleged burglaries at Dr Douglas’ office and at the residences of Commodore Butts and John Miller. A charge of burglary will be placed against him. His prison term was served for larceny.

SHELBYVILLE George Cooper was placed under a peace bond here to be held to the circuit court bn complaint of Wilbur VanSeyoc, who showed at a preliminary hearing that Cooper had threatened to kill him. Trouble between the two men led to the separation of Mr. and Mrs, Cooper and at the divorce trial VanSeyoc admitted he had been paying attention to Mrs. Cooper. When VanSeyoc dragged Cooper from the place where he was employed and gave him a thrashing, Mrs. Cooper attacked her husband in defense of VanSeyoc Judge Blair has the divorce case under advisement.

LAFAYETTE ■ — John A. Metzger, the editor.: and publisher oT the Brookston Reporter, may lose his sight as the result of an accident. He was cleaning the stove in his office and was trying to blow the soot from the pipe by putting small quantlt'es. of gasoline stove He placed too much gasoline, tn at one time and the explosion that followed blew the burning fluid out of the stove onto his clothes and head. The Are was extinguished by two office girls His face and head are severly burned.

TIPTON The handsome farmhouse of Harry Nickey, two miles east of Tipton, was destroyed, with all its contents. The loss is about $2,500. Nickey and wife were at Peoria, 111., Where they were called by the death of the latter’s mother Albert S. Nickey, the father of the owner of the property, started a gas lire lu anticipation of their return The pressure came on, despite the fact the temperature was below zero.

TERRE HAUTE William H Taber, president of the American State bank, whose alleged shortage of $45,000 was found by state bank examiners who closed the Institution, assigned to the bank property valued at about* $18,000,-including his home, automobile and his Interest In real estate. Taber has not been arrested and has made no statement

FORT WAYNE—A number of club women of the Twelfth district have named Mrs. S. M Dawson, president of the Women’s league of this city, as chairman of the committee on arrangements for the meeting of the Stats Federation of Women's Clubs in this city in October Mrs. E. M. Wilson of this city has beep named secretary of the committee

HAMMOND While his train was pulling out of Dyer, about six. miles below here, Oscar Grunt, an engineer on the Elgin, Joliet and Eastern road, fell to the bottom of the cab after an attack of paralysis Fortunately before the train gained much speed his fireman discovered Grunt, jinconscious and stopped the train. Grunt’s ,home wag in Joliet.

THORNTOWN The residence of Edward A. Godley was destroyed by fire. The fire fighters were handicapped by the intense cold and a weak water pressure, and the building was burned to the ground. While helping to rescue his wife and a baby five days old, Mr. Godley’s hand was broken. .The loss is partially covered by Insurance,

INDIANAPOLIS—The entire control of the Indiana Democratic organization passed Into the hands of the faction headed by Thomas Taggart, national committeeman, when the state committee met and elected Mr. Taggart’s candidate for chairman, Bernard Korbly, brother of Congressman Charles A. Korbly of this district. EVANSVILLE The trial of Wib Ham Leh, who is charged with the murder of his mother, father and brothes at Boonville on Aug. 24, 1911, was sei for Jan. 23, in the circuit court here) The case was sent here on a changa of venue from Boonville. Lee is how in the Vanderburg county jail.