Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1912 — STATE HAPPENINGS RECORDED IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

STATE HAPPENINGS RECORDED IN BRIEF

NEWS ITEMS FROM ALL OVER INDIANA. KERN LAWYER IN BOMB CASE United States Senator Will Be One of Attorneys for 51 Defendants in Dynamiting Conspiracy Trials. Indianapolis, Aug. 16. —United States Senator John Kern will be one of the attorneys for the fifty-one defendants in the trials, which are scheduled to begin in the federal court October 1, and are expected to continue for two or three months. In addition to employing Senator Kern, it has been learned that recently there have been negotiations carried on with J. Hamilton Lewis of Chicago, another prominent Democrat. Whether Lewis has definitely given his answer has not been learned! W. N. Harding, counsel for the iron workers, and a member of the committee named by the indicted men to select additional counsel, is now in Chicago. Y. M. I. Select Indianapolis. Terre Haute, Aug. 16. —Indianapolis proved to be the favorite of the seventeenth annual conventicm of the Young Men’s institute, which adjourned after a three days’ session In Terre Haute. Besides being honored 1 with the next convention the capital j city delegates succeeded in electing j their men to nine of the possible fifteen grand officers. Patrick Hanlon J of the Wayne council, Indianapolis, j was elected grand president to succeed James Deery of Indianapolis. The other officers elected were: Joseph C. Seyfried, Indianapolis, first vice- j president; Edward Hayden, Indianap-: oils, second 1 vice-president; Michael T. Cummings, Indianapolis, secretary; James Curren, Brazil, grand marshal; James McCaslin, grand treasurer; I Rev. Father W. A. Maher, Greencastle, grand chaplain. /. •••'•’. . ■ ' .-I . _ ."j Asks Removal of Pastor. Elwood. Aug. 16. —Because he instl-, tuted a system in his church whereby every member who refused to pay' church assessments was to be dropped from the congregation, the members of the Methodist Protestant church are circulating a petition asking that Rev. E. C. Corn be removed from the charge here. That the poorer mem-' bers might be retained, a reserve fund ! was fixed from which the dues of the needy were to be paid, but it Is complained that such a fund makes the unfortunate members feel as though they were appealing to charity. The affair is the more serious because a new church is in the course of erec- j lion. ■ f Fatally Shot by Friend. Peru, Aug. 16. —Ray Moon, fourteen years old, was perhaps fatally wounded while playing “Indian" with Earl I E. Jarvis, sixteen years old. the latter\ shooting his companion with a revolver. The boys were at Moon's home. Jarvis hid in a dark bedroom and when his companion entered and shouted “Big Injun, where are you?” the Jarvis boy replied. “Here I am," and fired. He said when arrested that he did not know the pistol was loaded. The victim said he did not believe he was shot intentionally, so Jarvis was released. Father Bats Ball; Kills Son. Valparaiso, Aug. 16. —During a baseball game between the Hurlburt and Boone Grove teams, at the former place, Ray McGinley, ten years old, was struck on the right temple by a ball batted by his father, Robert McGinley, who was playing substitute on the Boone Grove team. Young McGinley was at short for the Hurlburt team and a liner went through his upraised hands. He was rendered unconscious and remained in that condition until death occurred. Valparaiso Alumni Meets. Valparaiso, Aug. 16. —The annual reception and banquet of the alumni association of the Valparaiso university took place. More than 600 guests were present. Professor John A. Anderson of Johns Ijlopkins university gave the address. Talks were also made by Mrs. E. D. Crumpacker, Valparaiso; Ralph McGee of Shawneetown, Ill.; Samuel C. Farrell of Fort Wayne; Benjamin Rice of Bloomingtop. Ind.; Judge William Johnston Of Valparaiso and others. 3ody Is Found Along TYack. Peru, Aug. 16. —William Wallace of Seymour, Ind., was found along the C. & O. track in this city by Policeman Robert Hunter. The head was found twenty feet from the body, which was considerably a coat pocket were found a Prudential Insurance policy and a card issued Jtjy Aerie No. 655, Order of Eagles, of Seymour. It is supposed that while riding on a passenger train he went to the car platform and fell. Contractor Is Killed. Laporte, Aug. 16. —August F. Hargrave, a well-known contractor, was killed when he was taiocked from a wall to the sidewalk, 28 feet below, his skull being crushed. He was directing the hoisting of material when he was struck by a beam and hurled to kis death.