Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1898 — INDIANA GRAND ARMY [ARTICLE]

INDIANA GRAND ARMY

NINETEENTH ANNUAL ENCAMPMENT AT COLUM3US. ' r Patriotic 'Societies Elect New Officer* and Transact Important Yearly Bus-iness-G. A. R. Resolves that Pension Commissioner Evans Be Removed. State Encampment of Veterans. The annual State encampment of the Grand Anny of the Republic, Woman’s Relief Corps, Sons of Veterans, Ladies* Aid Society of the Sons of Veterans and the Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic, which was held in Columbus, was the largest and most successful of the kind ever held. Fully ten thousand visitors were in the city. Daniel Ryan of Utica was elected department commander of the G. A. IL, R. S. Thompson of Rising Sun was re-elect-ed commander of the Sons of Veterans and Miss Addie Wallace was elected president of the Ladies’ Aid Society. Mrs. Olive Allison of Logansport is the new president of the Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic and Mrs. Mary J. _ Hadley was chosen president of the Woman's Relief Corps. The main feature of the first day was the parade and grand review. About five thousand persons were in line. During the second day the various organizations were iu Intsiness session and the general business for the year of the different orders was cleaned up. At the morning session of the G. A. R. resolutions were adopted strongly condemning the action of Pension Commissioner Evans for not giving more liberal construction to the pension laws. The resolution demands his removal from office and copies of it will be sent to the different Congressmen and President McKinley. The Sons of Veterans adopted a resolution authorizing a committee of the division to recruit three or more regiments from Sons of Veterans camps to enlist on the second call in the war with Spain. This organization will also make an effort to have the Sons of Veterans recognized as a reserve force to “suppress insurrections and repel invasions.” The next encampment of the G. A. R. and W. R. C. will be held at Terre Haute. Next year the State meeting of the Son* of Veterans and Ladies’ Aid Society will be at Shelbyville.

ANOTHER WIFE HEARD FROM. Terre Haute Woman Fcara She Wa» Tricked and Swindled. Mrs. Olissa Thurman, who was the widow of the late Prof. Thurman of the Terre Haute High School, is in doubt whether she is now the wife of S. J. Slade or his dupe. Slade was a traveling agent of a Toledo firm when he became acquainted with Mrs. Thurman last Janutry. They were married a month later, and she made several trips with him hi this State and Illinois. He represented that he was a widower and that he owned fine proi>erty in Ohio, but as he could not legally dispose of it he wanted her to raise $2,000, which she did by selling her property. Slade left Terre Haute a few weeks ago. A few days ago the wife received a letter from him dated at Haskins, Ohio, and she says it was such as an affectionate husband should write. The same mail brought a letter from the Ohio authorities asking the police of Terre Haute to locate Slade, saying he was wanted by his wife, who lives in Maumee, near Toledo.

CHILD BURIED ALIVE. Mrs. Thompson Arraigned at Terre Haute for a Horrible Crime. At Terre Haute, Mrs. Mary Thompson vzaa arraigned for trial on the charge of burying her 4-iuouths-old child alive, to which she partly confessed about a year ago. She was jointly indieted with Geo. Cottom, whom she afterward accused of committing the crime, although she said she was present when it was done. Her husband had secured a divorce from her because of her infatuation for Cottom two years before. When a detective called on her to ask about the missing child she tvok him to a spot in the woods where four days before it had been buried. It was found in a basket in a shallow grave, but still alive, with its little hands chitehed in front of its mouth. Nourishment was given to it, and to-day it is walking about as healthy as any child of its age. Big Suit in Fort Wayne. The suit of the Guardian Trust Company of Cleveland against the Fort Wayne Consolidated Street Railroad, has begun in Fort Wayne. It involves about $500,000 and is for the foreclosure of the mortgage bonds. Frank De Haas Robinson and J. J. Shiperd took some of the bonds for security, and others bought the bonds in the Chicago and New York markets. Those purchasers claim rights over the Shiperd and Robinson claims. Robinson at one time alleged that Shiperd hypothecated a large number of the bonds and diverted the money obtained to his own private use, when it legally belonged to the street railroad company. The case is full of intricate questions.