Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1901 — NOTES OF THE SESSIONS. [ARTICLE]

NOTES OF THE SESSIONS.

Representative Lawrence, who was prominent in the House of 1899, has been returned from Allen county. He will introduce a bill to amend the road law. Senator Harrison of Shelby and Johnson, has a bill prepared to correct the law relating to legal executions. It is asserted that the law changing the names of the prisons did not designate where the executions should take place. Senator Harrison’s bill will provide that the executions shall be at the Indiana state prison, and shall be by electricity instead of by hanging. Representative Sparks of Rush county has a bill prepared to make a judicial circuit of Rush and Fayette counties, another of Franklin and Union counties and to make Shelby county a circuit by itself. The lawyers of Shelby county want a criminal court established in that county. Newspaper publishers of the state, especially those outside of the larger cities, have prepared a bill concerning the printing of legal advertisements which they will push. Governor Mount, who retired from office Monday, on Saturday pardoned William W. Kennedy, who was sentenced to prison for life in JBBS for the murder of David Baker at Greensburg, Ind. Kennedy was paroled in 1897 and has for several months been attached to the sanitary service in Havana. The case attracted national attention because of the efforts of Kate Kennedy the convicted man’s sister, to secure his pardon. The sister has appealed tc every brother since her brother’s conviction, but without success until today.