Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1901 — A WEEK IN INDIANA. [ARTICLE]

A WEEK IN INDIANA.

RECORD OF HAPPENINGS FOR SEVEN ' DAYS. Trial of a Family at Vincennes Charged With Burning a Methodist Church — Couple Wed While Biding Fifty Miles an Hour. Meeting' of Ministers at Brasil. Bishop Fitzgerald opened the fiftieth session of the Northwest Methodist Episcopal conference at Brazil and the roll call showed 225 ministers present. A devotional service was held and prayers were offered for McKinley. The presiding elders of the various districts reported all the ministers in good standing and a vast number of new churches built this year. Rev. L. C. Buckles, who has been an effective member of the conference for thirtyfive years, was placed on the superannuated list and the stewards were instructed to make him a claimant. A resolution was adopted Instructing the secretary to send J. H. Hollingsworth of South Bend, who is dangerously ill, a telegram assuring him of the prayers of tne conference. Rev. E. W. Laughlin of Boswell was attacked with heart disease and was carried from the con-ference-room to the basement and medical aid summoned. He is in a serious condition. Auditor Will Fight Order. The city council of Biuftton and Auditor Marsh are having a controversy which If It gets into court will be looked forward to with Interest by every city and town in Indiana. June 1 City Clerk Koontz filed a certified copy of the tax levy adopted by the city council with the auditor, who has refused to place on the tax duplicate without compensation. Heretofore the auditor received S2OO a year for placing city taxes on the duplicate and the treasurer $l5O for collecting the same, but City Attorney Sturgis’ opinion is that the auditor under the state law is compelled to place the same on the duplicate, and, as no compensation is stated, he is not entitled to pay. A writ of mandate will be issued if Auditor Marsh does not change his attitude. If a test case takes place it will be of vital importance to all cities in the state. The supreme court has never passed on such a case

Bought by a Chicago Firm. The Collier Shovel and Stamping company of Washington, Ind., has been consolidated with the Chicago Steel Manufacturing company of Chicago, the deal having been consummated Thursday. The price paid for the Washington plant was $150,000, the capital stock of which is to be increased from $500,000 to $650,000. The officers of the company will be: President, F. S. Hutchinson of Chicago; first vice president, F. M. Baldwin of Indianapolis: second vice president, A. F. Cabel of Washington; treasurer, M. S. Denslow of Chicago; secretary, L. H. O’Donnell of Washington, Ind. The Washington plant employs about sev-enty-five men. It will probably be removed to Hammond, Ind., within the next few months and consolidated with the rolling mills of the Chicago company, which are located in that city. Charged With Firing Church. The trial of Isajic Barekman, his wife, Lucy, and their daughter, Miss Helen Barekman, was begun in the Circuit Court at Vincennes. The Barekmans are charged with burning Barekman Chapel, a Methodist Church, east of that city, last March. The Barekmans were arrayed against practically the?> entire congregation. Mr. Barekman had donated the site for the church. On the morning after the fire, it is alleged, a horse and cart were tracked from Barekman’s gate to the church and back.

Wed at Fifty Miles an Hour. John Sanderson and Miss Josephine Breitenbach of Greentown were married on the Clover Leaf passenger train between that pljice and Kokomo. At a given signal of the engineer, while the cars were going fifty miles an hour, the couple stood up and was married by Mayor Rogers of Greentown, that official having accompanied them to Kokomo to procure the license. New Electric Line Plnnned. The Cincinnati & Indianapo is Trac tion Company, organized for the purpose of building an electric line from Indianapolis to Cincinnati, has been incorporated. The route will be through Marion, Shelby, Decatur, Franklin and Dearborn counties touching Shelbyville, Greenburg and other county seats. Thieves Beat and Bob Woman. Mrs. William Haberkorn was at tacked at Valparaiso by two unknown men, whom she refused something to eat. She was found unconscious two hours later by her husband. The thieves ransacked the house and se ‘ cured SIOO and some jewelry. Her in juries may prove fatal. Two Prison Officials Jtestgn. Harry L. Henderson, chaplain and State agent, and Dr. A. L. Spinning, physician of the State’s prison at Michigan City, have resigned and are no longer connected with that institution. They resigned at the request of Warden Shideler. who declines to make public the reason except to say that he asked for their resignations for the betterment of the prison. Warden Shideler tendered his resignation to Governor Durbin a few days ago and it has been accepted.