Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1902 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Quarrel Over Township High SchoolCollege Professor Kills Himself— Sheriff of Sullivan County Ousted by Governor. A complaint has been filed contesting the election of David S. Goss and Robert S. Sturgeon as members of the advisory board of Needham township. The building of a township high school has caused the contest. The township joins Franklin on the east and part of Franklin is located in it. It is the only township in the county without a high school, and for years the question of building one has been disenssed. The question came up iu the recent election and the anti-high school faction elected their condidates —Sturgeon, Goss and Andrew J. Johnson. The anti-high school people will stand by Sturgeon and Goss, and the case may be carried to the Supreme Court. Captain Garrigus a Father. The other day the stork visited the home of Captain Milton Garrigus, a veteitrti of the Civil War, aged 72 years, in Kokomo, and left a fine baby daughter. The father is past commander of the Indiana State G. A. R. A year ago Captain Garrigus, after a stormy scene with relatives, in which tho aged lover and Henry Edwards, the girl’s guardians, came to blows, married Miss Marie Thomas, aged 20, a cultured young woman. The infant bom the other day from this union came into the world to greet half sisters more than 50 years old and it is aunt to several grown members of the family. Fort Wayne Scholar Ends Life. Dr. Otto Siemon, professor of philology and Latin at Concordia College, the noted Lutheran institute of learning in Fort Wayne, committed suicide. He had suffered from nervous prostration for six months, and for the last few weeks had not been responsible for his acts. Dr. Simeon was visited Sunday morning by relatives, who noted no change in his condition. An hour later he was found dead in his bedroom, having strangled himself with the bed clothes. He leaves three children. His wife died some years ago. Durbin Ousts the Sheriff. As a result of the lynching of the negro Dillard Gov. Durbin has notified Sheriff Dudley of Sullivan County that his office was vacant. The coroner becomes sheriff ex-officio. The Indiana law provides that a sheriff shall vacate his office when a prisoner in his charge is lynched. The mob took Dillard away from the sheriff on the highway and hanged him to a telegraph pole. The sheriff has the right under the law' to ask to be reinstated, but he must show that he was powerless to protect his prisoner.

Votes Cost Forty-five Cents Each. The recent election cost Indiana $202,384. There were 590,356 votes cast for Secretary of State. Taking that as the number of voters, one computes that every vote cast cost the State 45 cents. All Over the State. Edwin Cole lost his arm while operating a corn shredder on Samuel Thompson’s farm at Vincennes. The Union Railway Company of Indianapolis has increased the pay of its trainmen, engineers and firemen 2% cents an hour. The Crab-Reynolds-Bell Grain Company has begun the erection of a new elevator at Lafayette to accommodate the enormous corn crop. The safe of the Blue River Milling Company was blown open at Edinburg. Only a small amount of money was tak<?n. It is thought the burglars are home talent.

In a corn husking contest at Rushville Orville Biggs has been declared the champion of the county. His record ■was seventy bushels by noon every day for a week. Milton Smith, 17, son of .Joseph Smith, near Bristol, is in a critical condition as the result of a corn shredder accident. Lockjaw has set in from a wound on a finger. Raymond S. Archer, aged 20, a freshman at the Ross Polytechnic Institute at Terre Haute, was cut in two by a train. He was a son of N. S. Archer of Pittsburg, formerly connected with the Armours at Chicago. Harry Welch, a messenger boy, who was learning telegraphy at Muncie, has gone to Huntington tp take possession of a large estate, which was left to him by a relative. The estate consists of Indiana and Chicago real estate. Frank Lory of Petersburg, who is said to have been robbed of $03,500 by a fake foot race in Colorado, pulled of by Evansville gamblers, has asked the Evansville police board for a detective to run down the ten meu in the plot. His request will be granted. Elmer B. Bryan, who has been appointed superintendent of education for the Philippine Islands by Gov. Taft, formerly resided in Bloomington. He has been engaged in educational work in the Philippines for some time. Previous to hb promotion he was superintendent oi schools in Manila. It is said his promotion was due to his popularity with th< Filipinos, who asked his appointment t< the higher position. The Waterloo postofflce was entered by burglars. The combination knob o the safe *n«, pounded off and uitrogly cerin placed inside~t«*e. -A*cor witl a fuse and cap ready to light. The tlire burglars were scnred away by a nn> sleeping upstairs in the building. Th night watchman claims he saw the lara in the postofflce, but refused to iuakan arrest because the postmaster did no pay him for watching. Constable Robert Burnside was fatai ly stabbed by Stanford McCauley of She. byrille, whom Bumsidjs was trying t< arrest. McCauley was intoxicated. J. H. P. Ilughnrt, general manager o the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad announced that the road’s employes v.i. be given an advance in wages, the sum as on the Pennsylvania lines. The Haselrigg Opera House was d( stroyed by fire at Greensburg. Th building was a frame structure, includin the theater and s dancing hall. I'he toti loss was about $7,000, and the Insurant amounts to $3,500.