Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1916 — STATE NEWS IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

STATE NEWS IN BRIEF

Indianapolis.—-’Six persons were reported drowned in the state during the Fourth of July holidays. All were pleasure seekers Indianapolis.—Dr. Amelia Keller has announced that efforts to merge the two largest suffrage bodies in the state —the Woman’s Franchise league and the Equal Bights league—had finally been successful. Indianapolis.—The state board of health has prepared vigorously to enforce a resolution adopted to prohibit the use of the common drinking cup in hotels, restaurants, fountains and other public places. Indianapolis. alumni at a meeting here laid plans to raise a fund to provide luxuries of life for the university Guardsmen who have gone to the border with the Second infantry. Indianapolis.—The Great Western Manufacturing company of Laporte has been incorporated with a capital stock of $500,000. The company proposes to manufacture and sell automobiles, aeroplanes and parts. Monticello.—Rev. M. A. Hughes has offered his services to any farmer who needs help in the harvest. Farmers here are greatly handicapped by the absence of so many young men who left with the National Guard. Bloomington.—William B. Leonard has a pet Kansas Jackrabbit which runs about his farm, but comes each night to the kitchen to sleep. He has inserted an advertisement tn the papers asking that no one harm the rabbit. Fort Wayne.—Bichloride of mercury tablets caused the death of the two-year-old daughter of J. D. Rauch, president of the American Dredge company. The baby picked up a box containing the tablets and ate several before discovered. Lafayette.—Lafayette citizens are responding generously to the appeal for money with which to care for the dependents of members of Battery B and Battery C. Without solicitation SI,OOO has been raised, and more than S3OO a month pledged. Valparaiso.-—Muskrats seem to have conspired in the Kankakee region against the automobile, and within two days have caused the wreck of three cars just south of Kouts. The muskrats burrow under the gravel on the roads and the cars break through. Hartford City.—The mystery in regard to the music from a piano that had aroused the members of the Lucas family from their slumbers during the night for some time has been cleared up. Two mice, light housekeeping in the interior of the piano, have been caught. Indianapolis.—A 25-mile automobile race with Johnny Aitken, Charley Merz, Gil Anderson and Howard Wilson as drivers will provide entertainment for visitors during the tournament of the National Union Printers’ Baseball league during the week of Atigust 9.

Indianapolis.—A committee of nine Progressives who favor accepting the advice of Colonel Roosevelt to support Charles Evans Hughes have sent letters to party workers over the state, seeking the opinion of representative Progressives on the future course of the party. Terre Haute. —A special meeting of the Mine Operators’ association was held here to discuss labor trouble at the Shirley mine No. 3 in Sullivan county, where the miners have been on strike since April 1, and at the Speedwell mine across the river from the Shirley mine. Lafayette.—G. H. Hoops, a steeplejack, who came here recently from Indianapolis, amazed hundreds of people in the business district by climbing to the top of the statue of Justice on the Tippecanoe county courthouse and calmly lighting a cigarette. The statue is 200 feet above the ground. Laporte.—Arthur F. Lonn, vice president of the Great Western Manufacturing company, a mllllon-dollar corporation, was elected captain of Laporte’s preparedness army, which will soon muster 100 of the city's leading citizens. The plant of the Great Western company has been tendered to the government.

South Bend.—Timothy E. Howard, seventy-nine, Laetare Medalist, exjudge of the supreme court of Indiana, ex-president of the Indiana Historical society, past commander of Auten post No. 8, G. A. R„ city and county attorney, author, poet and lately instructor of law at the University of Notre Dame, is dead following an operation. Alexandria.—Hundreds of letters and about 500 postal cards have been mailed this week by Alexandria girls to members of Company F, Second Maine infantry, at Laredo, Tex. The acquaintance began when about 50 girls, who heard the Maine troops were coming through Alexandria, went to the Lake Erie station with baslrets of cherries for the soldiers. Clinton. —Donald Dushane, superintendent of schools of Madison for five years, has been chosen superintendent of schools here to succeed James Wilkinson, who has been selected superintendent at Goshen. Booneville. —Judge Roberts of the circuit court has granted the saloon men of Booneville an injunction preventing city officials from paying election expenses for wet and dry election held Friday which was carried by the drys. The drys will also endeavor to secure an order enjoining the county commissioners from granting renewal licenses.