Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1906 — Indiana State News [ARTICLE]

Indiana State News

LAW- HALTS A WEDDING. Falhrr Frown* on MurrtaKf of Son with WldoW of 40. George W. Browning, residing two miles west of Windfall, has filed legal objections with the clerk of the Circuit Court of this, county to ./.event bis 22-year-old son William—fruin obtaining a marriage license to wed Mrs. Jennie Smith, a widow of 40 years, who is said to have two living divorced husbands and two children. Upon the lodgment of the father’s objections the clerk refused to issue the much-desired document, and all arrangements for the wedding are blocked. The objections are based upon the act of 1905, which substantially provides that the clerk of the Circuit Court shall not grant a marriage license to any applicant who is not able to support a family, and is likely to so continue. If young Browning insists upon his demand for a license it will be me duty of the clerk to certify the PfOcacdlUgH to tbs Circuit Court, where the case will be tried by the judge without the intervention of a jury.

■ GOVERNMENT SEIZES PLANT. ForeelosC* Mortgage Held by C. T. W. Steely - , "Who Defrauded Cnb». Deputy United States Marshal Boyd has seized the property of the R. R. Cowan Printing Company in Muncid, which was held by chattel mortgage as security on a note for about 5t,509, given by Cowan to C. F. W. Neely, against whom the federal government has a judgment for $45,000. Neely is alleged to have defranded the Cuban government while serving as treasurer of the United States postal department out of several thousand dollars. DYNAMITERS RUN “BLIND PIG.” Store ol Sroqer Snipeotod of Selltiig Liquor Wrecked. The grocery store of Patrick TTvernberry, believed by some of the residents of Brooklyn to have been a “blind pig,” in which liquor was sold to youths, was wrecked' early the other morning by dynamite. No effort is being made to find the dynamiters, as the residents of the village are in sympathy with chem. Two other suspected illicit saloons have been blown up within the last few months. WHITE CAPS TERRORIZE TOWN. Send* Threat* to Fenana In Engliab —One Man Forced to Leave. Whitecaps again are rife in Crawford county, and almost bvery day some one receives warnings and switches. John I. Blevins, one of tho.town’s oldest citizens, was- warned the ether night. His son, a veterinary surgeon, was warned a week ago and moved from town the next day. The “black caps” doubtless will reorganize to counteract. ARBITRATION OR CASH FORFEIT. Novel Agreement In Force When 14,000 Binera Return to Work. Fourteen thousand miners have begun work Under the first -labor contract in 'history providing a money penalty for causing a suspension without arbitration. The operators who broke irorn their association and signed are now in a dilemma, not having the concessions in their contracts gained by the association. Young Feudist Senteaieed. Slavin Williams, a young member of the famous Williams feud family of Boonvlife, was sentenced to the State reformatory for boys for theft. Nearly every member of the family is in jail for murder. Onion and Tobneeo F*er Free. Eugene Ely was granted a divorce from Grace Ely by Judge McMahan in Valparaiso. Ely charged that his wife left him because he chewed and smoked tobacco and ate onions. She lives in Chicago. Child Cremated and Mother Burned. The 5-year-old daughter of Henry Freese of Kingsbury was burned to death when her clothing caught fire from a gasoline stove. Mrs. Freese was seriously burned in attempting to save her daughter. Hat maker*’ Strike Settled. The strike at the Pioneer hat works in Wabash was settled after a two months' struggle. The establishment will be conducted hereafter as a closed shop. Fntallr Kicked by Horae. Marvin Stevens, n wealthy farmer and prominent politician living near Evansville, was kicked by a horse and instantly killed. Within Our Borders. The beautiful monument in Marion over the son of Raymond Hancock has been destroyed piece by piece and Hancock has caused tin* arrest of his divorced wife. That Oscar A. Baker, chaiged with bribing memt>ers op the Indiana Legislature In connection with the attempt to defeat the anti-cigarette hill, and who is now a fugitive from justice, is still on the pay roll of the (tropic whom he represented in the Legislature and Is being furnished money by them with which to live in exile Is declared to be the case by a friend of bis who recently visited Baker in Windsor, Ont., taking him letters and telegrams. Baker is said to hare bean exceedingly depressed and tired of the chase to evade capture. Willis Root, aged 11, while with other boys following a party of Austrian miners at Jakofiville, was fata'ly shot by one of them, who turned and fired into the party of boys without warning and, it is said, without provocation. The identity of the shooter is not known. Four masked burglars br<uc into tha Pennville ttost office early tin other day and were discovered by Wasson, who fired a number of shots at them. The robbers fired seven shots at 'Vision, none of which struck him. On# hundred dollars was secured and the robhers escaped.