Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1901 — A WEEK IN INDIANA. [ARTICLE]

A WEEK IN INDIANA.

RECORD OF HAPPENINGS FORSEVEft DAYS. The State Board of Charities In Its Report to the Governor Censures tho Alleged “Inminlty Truat”—illumes Conductors of Inquests, Censures “Insanity Trust.** The state board of charities has filed a report with the governor on the result of its investigation of the Insane hospitals. The report says no sane persons are confined and have notibeen within the last eighteen months, “unless it bo in the case of John Ross, or Morse, or Janies Haywood, who probably recovered after he was found insane and before he was received at Hie hospital, a period of fifty-three days." The report says somewhat sarcastically of the attorney general: “It may not bo proper for us to suggest that the effort to connect the ’lnsanity trust’ with the hospitals very unfair to the institutions.” The board says the blame rests on the persons who conducted the inquests and suggests that it is the duty of the officers to recover that part of the $15,000 in fees wrongfully taken from the county treasury. The report says such ft conspiracy as shown by the attorney general’s report renders the members liable to severe prosecution. The board suggests that an entirely new insanity law be enacted by the next legislature, providing that all commitments be made by a Circuit or Superior judge. Ol*M FiK-torloN to Start. At a meeting in Indianapolis between President Rums of Indianapolis assembly, No. 300, tho National Glass Workers' organization. President Cole of the Independents, Vice-President Hart and Secretary Phillips of the American Window Glass company, officers of the National Federation of Co-operatives, Pres. (Jay of tho Jobber's association, and Capt. Brown of the Pittsburg Glass company, it was decided that the co-operative factories shall resume work Oct. 15, and tho American and Independent organizations, known us tlie two trusts, will start their flies Nov. 1. Tho effect on the product, so far as the quotations are concerned, it was said, will not bo immediate. Probably the market will witness a stiffening of prices, tint no direct advance will bo observable until later in the season, possibly a month from now, when tho supply on hand has been practically exhausted and the fires have not yet begun to . turn out the finished product in large -quantities,—- 1 -«•

Progre.alve Ilrotlirmi Kleot Officer*. The national conference of the Progressive Brethren In annual session at Winona, elected officers as foJlow3: Moderator: The Rev. J. M. Tombaugh, Hagerstown, Md.; vice moderator, the Rev. Q. W. Rench, Goshen, Ind.; secretary. Professor W. ,D. Furry, Ashland, O.; treasurer, Joslah Kelm, Ashland, O.; statistician, the Rev. W. H. Miller, North Manchester, Ind. Previous to the election of officers devotional service was held, led by the retiring moderator, the Rev. J. H. Knapper of Myersdale, Pa., who also preached the annual sermon at night. Hillsdale service was conducted by the Rev. E. 0. Hoskins of Johnstown, Pa., during which three-mlnuta addresses were given by representatives of the various states. Professor J. Allen Miller, president of Ashland college, Ohio, conducted the Bible reading at night. The reports of various church officers and educational institutions were heard. Four hundred delegates were in attendance.

w»*« Mock Indian Battl*. Twelve thousand people saw the reproduction of the historic battle of Tippecanoe at Kokomo. Red Men of this state, representing twenty lodges from nearly as many towns, acted as the Indians. Veterans of the SpanlshAmeriean war and a company of state militia acted as the troops under General Harrison. The Red Men were In costume, five hundred of them impersonating the Indians. The entertainment lasted two hours and calcium search lights followed the movements of the soldiers and warriors. Mr*. Ulrich Seek* Divorce. Helen Studebaker Ulrich, daughter of the late Jacob F. Studebaker of South Bend, has applied for a divorce from her husband, Russell Ulrich of Chicago, and the custody of her 8-year-old son. She charges abandonment. Mr. Ulrich is in Alaska. State New* In Delef. Madison —Thomas Lacy, sixty years Old, was found dead in the willows, opposite this city! Wabash —The But'er Music company proposes to establish a large organ factory at Lafontairte. Madison —Prof. Ed. O. House has been elected to the chair of natural sciences in Webb City college. Brazil —Philip Trout, a farmer of this county, is reported fatally hurt, the result of a fall into a well. Elkhart —M. M. Maxwe l, cf Angola, will construct the Carnegie l.brary building in this city; contract price $27,467. Goshen—Alva Gardner, thirty-five years old, is ..reported to have been driven insane by taunts of fellowworkmen. Connersville —Albert Kirtley, seventeen years old, near this city, was kicked in the face by a colt and terribly injured.