Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1903 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. . Governmerit Takes Much Trouble to Secure Two Cents—Laws of Last Legislature in Kffect— Valparaiso Girl Strangled to Death—Arson Charged. James Miller, a mail carrier of Jeffersonville, was arrested by Postofflce Inspector Kyle on the charge of failing to turn into the postoffice the sum of 2 cents collected over a year ago, on a postage due stamp. The arrest is the result of an investigation conducted by half a dozen government officials, and extending over the Time since the alleged collection was made. Miller is a brother of Charles W. Miller, Attorney General of Indiana -He—says if Ee~ collected the money, he is certain he turned it into the office. ___ Girl Found Dead and Suitor Held. The finding of the dead tfßdy of Miss Martha Lawrence, aged 19, at the home of Silas Beam, a farmer near Valparaiso, for whom she was housekeeper, has led to the arrest of Truman Beam, son of Silas Beam, pending the verdict _of—thecoroner's—eotirt, "which held an investigation. Truman Beam and Miss Lawrence had been keeping company for three years, and recently quarreled, when Beam asked her to marry him, and she refused. Beam at that time—is sard To have threatened the girl’o life. —eOTJF -Car son's post-mortem examination of the body shows that the girl was strangled to death.

New Laws in Efffct. The laws enacted by the last General Assembly went iuto effect the other day. Gov. Durbin issued a proclamation reciting that the last filing of the acts with county clerks was with the clerk of Marion County, at 9 o’clock that morning, and he, therefore, proclaimed the acts in force from, that hour. The date is the earliest for the proclamation in several years. Many of the laws had already gone into effect because of emergency clauses. Runaway Boys Are Caught. Two Chicago boys who started out to see the world were picked up in Lnportel>y the police from tfie"TronV end of a mail car of a Lake Shore train. The -boys, whn nre JBmil -Newton and Willie llaycs r -}5 ar:tJ 12 years old, respectively, say the-., , were.at the Grand Central station in Chicago when two older boys asked them if they didn’t want to take a ride to the first station. Arson in a Theater Fire. J. J. Aughe, manager of the Columbia Theater at Frankfort, which was destroyed by fire a few weeks ago, was arrested on an indictment from the grand jury charging him with having set fire to the theater. Jesse Blinn, father-in-law of the accused, is pushing the prosecution, testifying before the grand jury. The arrest created a sensation. .—— —