Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1903 — AM Over the State. [ARTICLE]

AM Over the State.

Kokomo will have $30,000 coliseum, with seating capacity of 4,000. Labor famine at Kokomo. Many factories cannot get enough men. Eastern Indiana Traction Company given franchise iu Hartford City. Anderson plant American Tinplate Compauy tied up by strike of day laborers.

Thousands of dollars’ worth of eggs and poultry are shipped from Greenfield every week. Workmen in C., R. & M. Railroad shops, Richmond, who objec-ed to a foreman, struck. The Floyd County Fair Association has been organized, and a fair will be held Aug. 17-22. Terre Haute merchants object to a double street car track on the new bridge across Wabash river.

Werner Hager, managing editor of the South Bend Courier, has mysteriously disappeared. He had considerable money on his perron. A meeting of the Tipton County Sunday School Union lias been called to adopt plans in opposition to Sunday baseball in Tipton. Kokomo school board denies report that loaded pistols were taken from 500 school boys. It is snid two unloaded toy pistols were found on boys. A child at Hazel College swallowed a pin and it stuck in its throat for two days and nights, nnd was then removed by a doctor. Until the pin was discovered it was thought jtlie* child had a sore throat.

A posse of'eitizens prevented a bank robbery at Michigantown. The robbers made their escape after a running fight in the streets of the village. Scores of shots were and it is believed some of the desperadoes were wounded. A. F. Norten, a grocer who lias been operating a number of stores-“os Christ would conduct them,” lias rented the old Presbyterian Church building at Marion aud is converting it into a store. Norten will conduct bis business there ns he has at other places, telling only for cash, refusing to deliver goods at houses of custotners, paying his clerks each evening for their day’s work, aud each month giving them a part of the profits. He pays cash for goods, and declares that night shall not find him in debt at any time. A new feature of the Marion ■tore will be the ringing of the old church bell morning and evening to notify the people of tbc opening and closing of the store.

Suit was filed in Laporte ogninrt C. F. Burnham of Chicago to recover real estate and personal property of Mrs. Sarah Wilkinson, which, it ia alleged, he persuaded her to convey to him to invest in Mexican mines in which he claimed to be Interested. Mrs. Wilkinmn, who was divorced from her husband last December, disappeared soon after the conveyance of the property and was found in retirement at St. Louis waiting for the mining interests to materialise. Au investigation is alleged ts have ahowu that Burnham bad .no mining property. *