Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1906 — Indiana State News [ARTICLE]

Indiana State News

PAYS HIS OUTLAWED DEBTS. Man Iletnrnß to His Old Home to Dhcharge Hi" Obligation". Fourteen years ago Amos B. Peters was a well-to-do farmer in the vicinity of Lapaz and he also engaged in other /enterprises which made him a free bor- ! rower of money. His enterprises proved unsuccessful in a financial way and he was compelled to make an assignment. His ■ total indebtedness exceeded SIO,OOO. Air. Peters surrendered all his property,himself and wife reserving only their clothing and a few household goods, less in value than S2OO, but the receiver was able tq pay a dividend of only 6 per cent. Many unpleasant things were said of Mr. Peters by his fanner neighbors and friends because of his indebtedness to them and he left the county, going to Chicago, where a friend aided him in getting transportation to North Dakota, where he took up a claim. He prospered in North Dakota and recently he returned to his old home, paid a dividend of 40 per ceirt on the indebtedness long since outlawed and served notice that in time every dollar would be returned. HOLDS ESTATE FOR BACK TAX. - Statute of limitation Does Not Apply, J,n Porte Court Decide". Sjiecial Judge Charles 11. Truesdell in La Porte rendered an important decision in a suit brought, by executors of the Dr. Garrish estate against officers of Lake county,' Indiana, to restrain collection of $20,240 back taxes on $580,000 worth of property omitted from the tax duplicate between 1881 and 1003. Judge Truesdell held that no statute of limitation applies against the State in placing omitted property in tax duplicate, the taxing officials being able to go back any number of years to the passage of an act by the Legislature authorizing listing of omitted property, which was in 1881. After certain allowances and deductions had been made Judge TmcstlcH held Lake county officials were entitled to collect SII,OOO back taxes from the Garrish estate and granted a restraining order to prevent the officials from collecting more than that amount provided the same was paid at once. Tfip -executors immediately paid SII,OOO into eotirt.

CITY ENFORCES BLUE LAWS. "Thirty-seven Arrested at Terre Haute for Working on Sunday. As a result of the strict enforcement of the Sunday closing law thirty-seven offenders were arrested in Terre Haute* Hotels, "restaurants, drug stores dnd neWfl stands were the only business houses open. Drug stores operated with reduced forces of clerks, the cigar stands- were covered and the soda fountains were idle. Confectionery stores and cigar stores made. no sales, save where the latter places dealt in newspapers. Twenty-four bakers employed in the Gerhardt, Miller, Parrott and National Biscuit companies’ shops were arrested and subsequently.released on the promise of the proprietors that they would produce the men in court. In each of the shops it was shown that the proprietors had several hundred dollars involved in the preparation for Sunday night baking. One man was arrested for shining shoes and another for washing a buggy at a livery stable.

INTERRUPT FUNERAL SERMON. Pastor Arraign* Departed Miner and Friend* Carry Out Body. When Rev. Mr. Balgon, pastor of the Christian church at Ellsworth, said in a funeral sermon that Charles Robbins, whose body lay in front of the pulpit, had "lived a life which would send him to hell” Robbins’ coal miner friends walked forward, and, taking up the coffin, carried it out of the church. “This man is bound to go to hell," they say the pastor declared, as they did so. "His wife sat there and we couldn't stand for it,” said a miner. "Of course, we know Charlie wasn't an angel, but if the preacher couldn’t have said something good about him he ought to have kept still.”

SUSPEND 22 FOR PRANK. Earlhum College Boys Duck n Student and Are Pnniahed. Because they refused to heed the commands of Governor llauly and desist in their effort* to duck Sidney Hutton, a student from Baltimore, M<l., twenty-two of the boys residing in the dormitory at Earlham College, were suspended from that building. At the same time twelve *cholarshi|>* held by various of the boys were revoked. Nothing ha* *tirred Earlham circles so much in many years. The boy* say the duckiug of Hutton wa* simply a harmless prank, but Governor Hanly says the boys showed open rebellion. Many prominent familie* are represented among the students suspended.

ALLEGED SLAYER IS HELD. Uoroner Find* that Wesley Williams Killed James Leitch In Indiana. County Uoroner Baughnn at Boonville has rendered n verdict in the case of JamcH Ix'igh, finding that the man came Io his death from a gunshot wound inflicted by Wesley William*, who now is in the hand* of the officials. He holds no accessories guilty, which is a sdH* disap:x>intm>nt to the pro«ccution. The coroner, when solicited by the prosecution, refused to exhume the body for the purpose of holding a post morteni examination to ascertain the nature of the shot, thus determining the question of premeditation. • ——- > —r

Within Our Ikirdcns The Colonial Hotel In Dunkirk, formerly owned by James White, has been Mold to Alexander Jordan, of Muncie, who will assume immediate control. Mrs. Louise Young, aged 75,. was burn«d to death in Evansville. Her clothing caught fire from a .bucket of ssbes among which there were live Coals. Securing employment after n long search, Thomas Hamilton had worked only two hours on the job when he was ground to piece* in front of a Btg Four goal shed In the jur.lt at La Payette.