Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1919 — STATE NEWS ITEMS [ARTICLE]

STATE NEWS ITEMS

The Doings of Hoosierdora Reported by Wire. INDIANA STRIKER SENTENCED Jahn Lazar of Gary Found Guilty by Jury of Assault and Battery at Nonstriker's Home—Attacked Woman With Rifle. , ** 1 '■ Hammond. Oct BL —John Lazar, a steel striker of Gary, la a “direct ao tiontetf eo la the jury to the Crown Point criminal court, which found Lazar guilty and sentenced him to the state penal farm. Lazar was a keep strike adherent, and Is ths first Gary striker to bo tried. He went to the home of Thomas Barr, a nonstriker, to enlist Barr in Che strikes’ ranks. Barr was not at home. Lazar, talking to Mm qilsa Barr, his wife, called Barr “a dirty scab." She resented It, **d according to the testimony, knocked her down, picked up a rifle at hand and maimed Mrs. Barr with it. His arrest and trial for assault and / battery followed.

Steel Car Workers Return. Hammond. Oct. BL—The Standard Steel Oar company strike in Hamnzpnd Involving 3,000 men since July 18, coating four lives, seventy injured, $1,000,000 in wages and twice as much in nonproduction, was settled and the 1< 500 car work laborers went baric to ''work. The agreement Is a victory for the Standard Steel Car company’s open shop policy, though ct a meeting at which tabor leaders and company officials conferred the company granted the laborers an Increase In wages. There will be no shop representation and the various crafte will lay their complaints individually before the company henceforth instead of through i-yyockers* council. This conceerten eased the strikers more than any other. Special police and company guards will be ■withdrawn. The settlement of the strike was hastened by the wintry weather which gripped the district for two days and many of the families were practically without food. The company refused to taltee back Joe Laasch, known as Hegewlsch Joe, the radical leader. Teachers Gather at Capital. Indianapolis, Oct. 31. —The largest attendance tn the history of the Indiana State Teachers' association was .announced by officials of the organization at the sixty-sixth annual session of the association, which opened in Indianapolis. Charles O. Williams, Wayne county school superintendent and permanent secretaiy-treasurer of the association, sent out over 14,000 tickets to school officials of the state In anticipation of Increased enrollment. Reports received at the office of the state superintendent of public instruction indicate that many cities, which have never permitted their teachers to .attend the meeting tn a body before, are closing their schools for the association this year. One of the large delegations coming to the convention will be from Vigo county. Advance enroll-. Imehte from Terre Haute indicate that; more fhtrti 400 teadters wfU attend the meeting from that city. V

To Ctese Schools When Funds Run Out Wabash, Oct. SL—The trustees of Waltz, t-lbffrty «Ad Paw Paw townships hate notified A. B. Oswalt, county superintendent, that as soon as the tuition 'fend is exhausted ndxt year they wfll dope thete schools and make no effort* to borrow money to keep them in operation foe the toll team.. tEhe tefltion torts* th each of tiss*e townships were zeflaasd -by the atoto tux boate and while the levies fee Ittx | erty and Paw Paw townships ware raised this the trustees still say they will not obtain enough money to rrtn their schools for the full term. , , . . Realty to Deal With Dteorder. Indianapolis, Oct. 31.—N0 state > troops have been ordered to the Indiana coal fields and the -necessity of using the militia in the coal strike called for midnight is not anticipated, ’ Governor Goodrich said. “The United Mine Workers having given every as-: surance that there win be no disorder,” the Governor said. “However, we are prepared to meet any emergency,” he added. Great significance is attached, in some quarters to the removal of all but seven companies of militia from the Calumet steel strike region.

. Troops to Remain at Gary. Chicago, Hl., Oct. 3L—CoL W. S. Mapes, commanding the troops stationed in the Calumet steel strike zone, emphatically denied that he had re- 1 celved orders from Washington, D. CL, for the transfer of the troops Into the coal mine regions near Evansville. At the same time he refused to affirm or deny a report that the federal troops now on duty at Gary would be withdrawn Saturday. t

Check Forger at Work. Evansville, Oct. 31. —It developed that a forger operating in this city and going by the name of J. W. Walters had passed worthless checks on local merchants during the last few days. It is said that more than forty bad checks were issued, some of them fer amounts of nearly SIOO. It Is said the man was aided in his operations by a rwoman. _ . _ a , v.- £