Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1906 — Indiana Stale News [ARTICLE]

Indiana Stale News

BIUAMUr LOSES tJf tOfBT. ~ Judge Robinson Rales Agrafnst Mayor la Terre Haute Fight. Judge W. D. Robinson of the Indiana Appellate Court, sitting at Terre Haute, as special judge in the petition of Mayor Edwin J. Bidamiu to restrain Frank M. Buckingham from assuming the -office of Mayor, dissolved the temporary ing order and held that the action of the City Council in ousting Mayor Bidamin was legal and that Bidamin had no claim to the office. The petition for the restraining order was based on the assertion that Mr. Bidamin was being deprived of office without due process of law. Buckingham, who was comptroller, became mayor on the impeachment and removal <sf Bidamin. Pending the ruling on the legality of the Council’s action the. city has been without an official head and all municipal business has been tied U fc '■

MACHINERY BY MAIL. Boy Orders f 1,000 Engine from Picture in Catalogue. Alfred Larson, a Hobart man, was amazed when he received a notice from the First National bank of Hammond advising him that there was a draft for sl,000 there for him to pay for a traction engine and thrashing machine, which was awaiting delivery to him at the Pennsylvania depot. Light was thrown on the mystery when he reached home, and his son Harry, aged 12, said that it was about time for his traction engine to arrive. The boy had found the illustrated catalogue of ar. eastern machinery house and had filled in the printed blank, accompanying it with a hurry up order for the machines. The boy said: “Well, it don’t cost us nothing. The company promised to pay the freight both ways.” •

STICK AIDS MAX’S HEARING. Deaf Telegraph Operator Invents a Unique Method. W. C. Elliott, agent at Tippecanoe for the Nickel Plate railroad, has for twentythree years been in charge and there has teen no change in the administration of the office since the first train was run over the road. Several years ago Mr. Elliott gradually became deaf, yet he conducts the telegraph office to the satisfaction of the company. He uses a buggy whip stock about eighteen inches long, one end of which he places on the instrument and the other to his forehead- In this way he receives correctly the ticks of the instrument and reads the massages.

BIG COAL MORTGAGE IS FILED. Inillnnu Southern Company to Issue m i ,500,000 In New Honda. The Indiana Southern Coal Company has filed with the county recorder of Vigo county a for $1,500,000 to cover a bond issue. The mortgage fs in favor of the First Trust and Savings bank, Chicago, and is for fifteen years. The purpose is to enable the company to increase its business and extend its holdings. The property involved includes eleven mines in Vigo, Sullivan and Greene counties, with 3,195 acres of land and 9,001 acres leased.

2!» Are Indicted In Scandal. In Valparaiso the grand jury returned twenty-nine indictments. Sensational developments are promised. The body also made a report on the new $25,000 county poorhouse, condemning the commissioners, architect and superintendent for the alleged loose manner of construction followed.

Want* Four Yearn’ Wngea. Joseph 11. Myers, a prominent church worker i nd marble dealer of Kokomo, was made a defendant in the Superior Court in a suit by Samuel J. Ferguson, his t'ather-in-'aw, to recover 1,598 days’ work, valued at $3 a day, making a total of $4,794 demanded, covering a period of four yea ra. Vse* Fire for Suicide.. Mrs. McDowell, aged 75, living at St. Bernice, in a fit of anger poured oil on her own nnd her daughter’s clothing and set lift to herself, causing her death. The daughter eseaped.

Minor State Items. While intoxicated George Ilembes of Mount Vernon, aged 37. waded into a pond over his liend and was drowned. An electric car of the Highland Electric line plunged over an embankment twenty feet high and five persons were injured at New Albany. David Alsop, aged 47, was shot and killed in a New Ilnrmony saloon by Newton Grady. The men had a dispute over the settlement of a Iward bill. Frank Uurlesx. aged 18. saved three companions bathing-with him in Down’s gravel pit in Kokomoj-and was then seized with cramps himself and drowned before help could reach him. Ray Browning, aged 12 years, died in Elkhart from lockjaw resulting from a wound caused by the explosion of a blank cartridge. Frank Beach lost an eye on account of a giant firecracker. Mrs. William Robertson, who shot nnd killed her husband three weeks ago when he Was whipping her for the third time in one night, was discharged in Terre Haute on the ground of self-defense. Learning that her supposed marriage with Roscoe Kersher was illegal, Bessie Whil»v 18 years old, committed suidqje in Terre Haute hy swallowing strychnine and oarbblie acid. The girl ourne from Ilnusertown.

William, the 13-year-old son of Fred 11. Schueinann. while crossing the Pennsylvania tracks at Fort Wayne, was struck by an engine and ground to death. Frederick C. Dierstein, aged 33. was found dead in a bath tub full of water at liis home at Fort Wayne. He was seised with a fainting spell while undressing on the side of the tub. „ , Overjoyed at having the banner wheat crop of his section, William Fowler of Pike county died in his wagon as he was hauling wheat to market. Fowler Buffered from heart disease and excitement brought on a fatal attack.