Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1901 — A WeeK IN INDIANA. [ARTICLE]

A WeeK IN INDIANA.

RECORD OF HAPPENINGS FOR SEVEN DAYS. I , t' StrnvKr Kthal s.rlko* a Sunken Log ou Webster Lake, and Twenty-Nine Kx< uraloulete Hnve a Narrow Eeoape (mm Drowsing—Hunt Sinks. Chiiroli Worker*’ Sreslon. The business session of the thirteenth annual convention of the Young People’s Christian Union of the United and Ascoclated Reform Presbyterian church of North America began at Winona lake. The following national officers were elected: President. Millard McMurdock of Marissa, Ill.; recording secretary, Mary J. Stew- j art. of Philadelphia: press secretary, John A. Craford of Chicago; treasurer, E. K. Marquiy of Indianapolis; junior ■chairman, J. A. Crosby of Aurora, 111. Mr. Marquis pledges to raise $50,000 for t! e work of the United Presbyterian church. W. C. Nicoll, who retired as president, will soon leave for Rawai Pindi, India, as one of the faculty of the Gordon Memorial college, the donors of which are Miss Ina Law Robertson and Miss Eleanor C. Law of Chicago. Nearly 1,000 delegates And visitors are there. General Secretary T. E. Hanna in his report showed 1,100 societies, with combined membership of 40,000 United Presbyterians, while the number of Associated Reform branch will reach 20,000, principally in the southern states. Bryan a Clilaf Attraction. On Democratic day at the Island Park assembly Colonel W. J. Bryan was the chief attraction.. A secret meeting of politicians was scheduled to be held at 1 o’clock, at which district and state politicians were ex- | petted to be present. James M. Robin- . Son, Congressman of the Twelfth In- | (liana district, presented Mr. Bryan amidst loud applause. Mr. Bryan said that for the past few years he had devoted his time to politics and a study of the government and he had decided that'if this nation was going to be a great nation the people were to bo aroused to high ideals. He would | make a Democratic speech, meaning It not In a partisan sense, but In that broadest sense, which means rule by the people. Ho lauded Thomas Jefferson and said he was the greatest Democrat that ever lived and compared him with Lincoln. He referred to the United States as a conquering nation and Bald: "If you show me a man who wants to conquer the Filipinos I will say that I believe we want to conquer the world. Not only do I believe it, but think it is possible.” Mr*. (r*M* Kill* W. IC. Or*y. William E. Gray, a stone contractor of Franklin, was shot and instantly killed at the Red Mills, near Boggstown, by Mrs. Martin Freese. The woman was visiting relatives near there and had gone to the creek to fish. She also took a bath, and Gray came upon her while she was bathing, and, it is alleged, Insulted her. She came to town, procured a revolver, and, accompanied by her husband, a former employe of Gray, returned to the place where he was working, and, without a word of warning, she shot . twice, the second bullet piercing Gray’s heart and causing instant death. Mrs. Freese Is still at large. Birth In a l*ntrnl Wtfon. If the young son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Larson of Hobart, Ind,, pursues the course which might be expected from circumstances surrounding his birth, he will eventually become a policeman. The boy first saw the light of day through - the narrow windows of a patrol wagon speeding swiftly to the Englewood Union hospital, Sixty-fourth and Ha sted streets. Chicago. They had gone from Hobart to visit the young woman’s mother, who lives on the North side. Lerson is foreman in a manufacturing plant at Hobart. I*l*nd V’ftrk Amftniblf. The annual meeting of the Island Park assembly at Rome City opened with a coneert. The assembly talent and faculty for the year Includes Gen. John J. Gordon, Rev. Marshall C. Lowe, Rev. Sam Jones, Wallace Bruce, Rev. Edmund F. Albertson, Rev. C. A, Vincent, Rev. 8. 8. Hager, Rov. Ulysses A. Foster, Rev. Aaron' Worth, Rev. N. B. C. Love, J. E. Bolless Prof. H. V. Richards, Col. Robert Cowden, John M. Wiley, Rev. W. F. Harding and Rev. J. V. Coombs. Kxnunlon lloat Sink*. The steamer Ethel, on Webster Lake, twelve miles north of Washington, struck a sunken log and In two minutes the boat sank from sight. Twen-ty-nine excursionists were rescued, some of them in an unconscious state. It is thought all were saved. The boat sank in forty feet of water. Indiana New* In Hrl*f, Sullivan.—Elder M. Wilson Yocum of the First Christian church has resigned, to take effect on Bept. 30. He came here from Brazil and has been very popular. Indianapolis will be unable to meet its August bills unless there is some immediate change in the city’s financial conditions. The treasury is empty and no loan can be negotiated without the authority of the council. The council is not in session and will not ' again convene until August 5.