Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1901 — VEEK IN INDIANA. [ARTICLE]

VEEK IN INDIANA.

It 800 RD OP HAPPENINGS FOR SEVEN DAYS. Dleenaaloa at 8orn« of th® Prevtelow •* Gen. ■arrUoa’e Will —Important Ap» polauaentt Mad* by Governor Dubto —Maa La®®* Wlt» and Home. May Reject Her Huband*® Win. Intimate friends of Mrz. Harrison at Indianapolis say that she la seriously contemplating the propriety of rejecting the will of her late husband and standing upon her right* as hl* widow, which would give her a considerable larger part of the estate, and she could dispose of it at her death az ah* pleases. Estimating* the estate at $275,000, one-third would be $125,000, and this is the amount in which under the will she now has a life interest If she should take this amount under the law each of the three children would get $83,000, whereas under the will they would get about SIOO,OOO, a reduction in the case of Mrs. McKee and Russell Harrison of about $17,000. General Harrison contemplated such a step on the part of his widow and gave her one year in which to make choice between her rights as his widow and the provisions specified in the will. According to these provisions, she is to receive a life interest of $125,000 and the home in this city, $15,000 in cash, and the summer home in the Adirondack* in fee simple. Her friends say she will be a gainer by rejecting the will, and she can thus leave theentlre fortune, which represents her third, to Elizabeth, and the latter would thus get, all told, $200,000, while the other children would receive only $83,000 each. When W. H. H. Miller was asked about the matter he refused to discuss it, saying substantially that he never talks of his clients' affairs. It is thought from this that Mrs. Harrison. has consulted him in regard to her rights under the law. A wellknown Indianapolis lawyer said: "The impression is that the son, Russell, and daughter, Mrs. McKee, were cut out of part of the estate for the sake of- his wife, but if anyone got the worst of It it was Mrs. Harrison herself.” Ex-President Harrison left $40,000 life insurance. This fact has been announced by the president of the Union Trust company, which is executor of General Harrison’s will. New Indiana Appointment*. Governor Durbin has announced the following appointments: Quartermaster general, Gen. R. S. Foster, Indianapolis; state veterinary. Prof. A. W. Bitting, Lafayette; judge of the appellate court, Frank S. Roby of Auburn; trustee of the Indiana reform school for boys, W. C. Varnarsdel, Indianapolis; executive clerks in governor’s office, Patrick J. Flaaagan, Lafayette, and Miss Grace Duvall, Indianapolis, both reappointed. Ihe appointments will all t*ke effect at once, with the exception of that of quartermaster general, which will go into effect March 31. General Foster is a member of the board of control of the Indiana state prison at Michigan City. Recently he resigned as a member of the prison board, the resignation to take effect March 31. Prefessor Bitting, who is professor of veterinary science at Purdue university at Lafayette, will succeed Dr. F. A. Bolser of New Castle. He is recognized as one of the foremost veterinarians in the state. The appointment of Frank S. Roby of Auburn as judfe of the appellate court was made in fulfillment of the provisions of tht new law calling for the appointment »f an additional judge for the appellate court. Testimony Again®! Leach Interest in the trial it Muncie of Dr. Garrett Leach for earning the death of Mary Farwig, of Richmond, by an operation, was increased regardless of ths fact that the evidence is simply a rehash of that once be'ore given in the trial that convicted John Dish!. The dead girl’s mother aid brother testified, as did the hacknan who hauled the girl to the offlo of Dr. Leach. The latter testified that she was in good health, to offiet the defense’s claim that she was operated on at some other place and brought to the Leach home for treatment. Dr. Bowles, called by Dr. Leach -tefore the girl’s death, testified that ae died from a criminal operation. Wife, Hom®, Proarty Gon* To avoid payment < judgment in a suit brought against him six weeks ago, Moses Batson ofHuntington testified that all real at personal property about the placebelonged to his wife. Mrs. Batson tld part of . the personal property ai eloped with. Grant Beeching. Batm instituted replevin proceedings, tx now finds that his testimony in the >rmer suit nullified his claim to anylghts, and he is now without wife, tone or personal property. Telephone Sy®** 1* Sold. A telephone deal was completed at Fort Wayne wheby the stockholders of the Horn-Telephone company of that city pubased from the Telephone, Telegrapland Cable company of New York 11 the interests represented by the Nional Telephone company. The celderation was $120,000. The Natial company has 1,100 miles of wire, anectlng Sturgis, Mich., North Baltlire, 0., Auburn and Kendallville, li, and all intermediate points witifort Wayne.