Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 133, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1904 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTB OF THE PAST WEEK. Richmond Man Finds His Demented Father Osteopaths of State Have Taken Ont No License—Odd Fellows Fleet Officers—Accidents to Hunters. —-------1 ■gJJil.g. - Rev. Ellwood O. Ellis, a Friends minister from Richmond who created a sensation last summer, and who later escaped from the Oxford, Ohio sanitarium, where he had been taken for treatment, lias been found by his son, Arthur Ellis. The latter says that he located his fath-er-in Cincinnati a few days ago and bad taken him to Fairmount, where he is now under the care of relatives. The mental condition of Rev. Ellis remains unchanged, it is asserted. Election of Indiana Odd Fellows. The Grand Lodge of Indiana, I. O. O. F„ met in Indianapolis and elected these officers: Grand master, Edwin Farrer, liusliville: deputy grand master, It. H. Hollywood, Indianapolis; graud secretary, W. H. Leedy, Indianapolis; grand treasurer, W. A. Morris, Frankfort. Alexander Johnson of Indianapolis was chosen representative to the sovereign grand lodge and Benjamin Franklin of the same city grand trustee. No License for Osteopaths. The action of the Elkhart County Medical Association in having one of its members file a criminal complaint against Dr. E. C. Crow, an osteopath, for practicing without a license, has brought out the fact that none of the forty osteopaths in the State, has secured a license, because the license requirements provide that all applicants must be graduates of -schools of four-year courses, while osteopathic schools have but three-year courses. Hammond Hunters Fatally Hurt. Charles Quake was accidentally shot by Fred Bloede while hunting quail near Hammond. Both are wealthy farmers. Bloede shifted his gun from his shoulder to his arm and accidentally pressed the trigger, the entire charge lodging in Quake’s neck, inflicting probably fatal injuries. All Over the State. The Citizens’ Gas Company has drilled in a good gas well on the west side of Amboy. Robert E. Miller, a salesman of Austin, Ill.,.dropped dead in a hotel in Mount Vernon. Sherman Harter was fatally injured at Boonville by the accidental discharge of a gun while hunting. While feeding a corn shredder Sidney Carter of Chandler had his left arm so badly lacerated that amputation was necessary. Mrs. Mary Gooch, aged C>3, died from heart disease brought on by running to catch a train at Greenup for her home in Terre Haute, Ind. Mrs. Samuel Ililey, 40 years old, was burned to-death in a fire 'Which destroyed her home in Greensburg. Mrs. Riley was alone when the fire started. Petersburg sportsmen report a scarcity of quail, although quite a number have been bagged already. The rabbit crop is larger this year than was ever known. The Meridian Street Metl odist elujrch j ~“° u thiaetoq-y spell, and after the flt /t---inkler had oeaeed its triple be re left the bare bones furnish our streets more than aide bond iver shown before. In mont bs loose dust in town has Theße C away. The same oonreness is reported on _25 itry roads, also. I now 1 ! 8 s and wife, former re- biaded s. lg lontioelfo and Brooks>re lately of Wilders, BU 7d j *il at LaPorte, oharg- d 1 murder of Hirman H -4, Chicago, whose body House 1 #? n a ditch near Wilders eaob botor ober, Davis and wife «ive betH -7 arrested in MoQenry tQRQ ba^| lo avis was sent to the T he . cos r from MontioeHo, for beVnt bout 25 years ago, but for sale j 1 , 0. a

leaning Elkhnrt*pljysiciifSr, lims cured her 15-year-old son by n system of treatment by suggestion after eminent specialists from Chicago had declared the boy’s death was inevitable within a year. The Washburne lad fell downstairs when a baby, crushing Ins skull in on his brain. For years lie has been unable to walk and was finally threatened with becoming deaf and blind. Six months ago his mother adopted the system of sitting by tlie boy’s bed an hour each evening after lie retired, following the treatment of suggestion. I>r. Washburne declares his sou has been permanently cured. Michael E. Grastou, for seven years agent of the Isig Four road at Wabash, resigned as the result of the defalcation of his cashier. Unfits 15. Conpstick. who is now serving a sentence of nine months in the Wabash county jail for embezzling SI,OOO of the company's funds. The company was but partially protected by a bond and demanded that Mr. Graston make good the difference of $2,101), inasmuch as the shortage occurred under him. Graston contended that the company exacted a bond from 'Conpstick and that the latter reported to the general office direct and refusal to pay a penny, lie was given the alternative of paying the difference dr resigning and chose the latter. Will Baer of North Vernon succeeds Grastou. Milton Clements and his wife Barbara, the couple who have been committing thefts while riding about the country on a bicycle, were sentenced in Terre Haute police court. He will serve from one to three years in the State's prison, ami she will be in jail sixty days. Uiley Robes, who was arrested nnd placed in jail at Newcastle on a charge, of arson, confessed that he was implicates! in the plot which resulted in the wrecking with dynamite of the Friends’ church at Hnysville nml the burning of Asa Sample's barn at Kuigbtstowu, two rears ago.