Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1902 — Won’t Take a Back Seat. [ARTICLE]

Won’t Take a Back Seat.

The Indianapolis News prints diagrams of the floors of both the senate and house of representatives rooms, at Indianapolis, showing where member is to be seated at the coming session. The fliagram shows in a graphic manner how nearly the Republicans will come to being the whole thing down there (his* winter, they occupying about two thirds of all the seats, in both chambers. Our representative, Jesse E. Wilson was not among the lucky ones in the assignment of seats. His seat is in the next to the last row back, and clear over to to one side. But although he will “go way back and sit down” in a literal sense, figuratively speaking, we expect to see him take a front seat and be an industrious and influential legislator Women Drivers-are Always Loaded. A woman driving a horse is always leaded and more dangerous than a decrepit shot gun with both hammers up. Hence any man who stirs out of his own house while a woman is driving anywhere in the same township, is guilty of contributory negligence if he gets run over and hurt The Indiana Supreme court has just practically established the above principle as a maxim of law in a case decided last Thursday. Pauline Radke, wife of August Radke, was driving a wagon loaded with butter, eggs and other produce in Michigan City when she knocked Louis Sohlundt, a street cleaner, down and ran over him. Sohlundt sued the husband for damages for personal injuries and a jury awarded him a judgment of $575 against both husband and wife. The Supreme court reversed the finding of the lower court, holding that a husband cannot be held responsible in damages for reckless driving by his wife.