Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1906 — Indiana State News [ARTICLE]

Indiana State News

lyrrETClt “*AR KMOV B M AYOli. New - Hxeeiithe Onsted for Accepting; New Seweraire System. William V. Gi-'jsi', Mayor of Now Albany, was impeached and removed ; from office by the City Council. John Tegaat and Charles members of the board of-public works, were also removed from office. City 'Clerk Eugene Brisby assumed the office of Mayor and appointed a' new 'board of public works. The removal of the Mayor and members of the hoard bf public works was the result of an investigation by the Council committee on supervision and investigation. JThe acceptance’ of a new keweragc system just ..completed at. A...cast...Qf_s22l>dX*). .by. the Mayor and board of public works is said -to have been the eatwe -of the imiM‘achment of the Mayor and the removal of the board of works members. POPCWr STATE CONVENT IO.V. People'* Jt’nrZ.y.. Kepri-Mentati ve» Name a Full Ticket. The following ticket was nominated by the Populists of Indiana in convention us Indianapolis: For S?e ere ta r y o f St a te, Ja- * cob W. Clark; for Auditor, Joseph Hpuser; for Treasurer, Franklin Yerks; for Attorney General, Orland L. Ross; for Clerk Supreme Court, George M. Thompson; for Superintendent Public InstrueItjon, Wni- hl- Hurley; for State Geologist, William Smith; for State Statistician, Parker T. Brown. JAIL DELIVERY IS SUCCESSFUL. Six Prisoners Cut Way Out of Frankfort Bast lie. James Murphy, James Hammond and James Murray, three desperate burglars, and Ed. Shurtliff and Charles Williams •and William Spence, confidence men, escaped jail in Frankfort by cutting out through their cells and” knocking a hole in the brick wall of the jail. - None of the men has been captured, although Sheriff Haggard has offered a reward of $l5O for them.

No Schaefer Marder Chnrge. Ernest Tanskley pleaded not guilty before Mayor Smith in Bedford to the charge of wife desertion. His trial was set and he was returned to jail in default of SSOO bond. No charges as to the Schaefer nutrder were made against against Tanksley, that matter being left to the grand jury. Find Bomb and Quit Work. While excava-ting for a street extension iu J. R. Devor’s property in ElklttirL? which has been condemned, a bomb was encountered. Devor, pho has opposed tlie road extension, says he lias buried many bombs. The workmen have laid do.-.n their tools. Foul Ball Fatally Hnrtx Boy. While watching a baseball game at the Rockport fair, Truman Ellison, 11 years old, was hit by a foul ball and, it is thought, fatally injured.' Within Our Borders. While dynamiting stumps near Evansville Huston Leonard, aged 25, was killed. His body was blown into many pieces. • Daniel Otto, 47 years of age, died at Goshen from a fractured skull which he received from falling down an elevator shaft. Forest Vic. aged 17, while swimming was drowned in Pond river near Evansville. He was a member of a railroad surveying party. ( Eighteen persons were made ill with typhoid fever from eating ice cream at a social in Terre Haute, among them the mother of President O’Connor of the Indiana miners’ union. Lightning struck and instantly killed Nancy Brown, 60 years of age. She was the widow of Hiram Brown, once a prominent NVarrick county farmer, living near Tennyson. A severe storm did extensive damage. Speaker Cannon has closed a deal for the purchase of a farm of 400 acres in the Kankaee region, paying therefor SOO per acre. It is understood that ffib Illinois Congressman is negotiating for other large tracts of land in the region, which is being rapidly reelsimed. While riding on a hanfffai* from Leiters to Germany, on the Erie railroad. Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Ralston were struck by a passenger train. Mrs. Ralston was killed instantly. Her husband escaped with slight injuries. Ralston is the telegraph ■ operator at Germany and w’as going to his work. Thomas McCleary, postmaster at Mackey, was arrested on a bench warrant issued by Judge Welborn, based on a grand jury indictment charging him with the killing of his brother-in-law, Melville Stucky, Aug. 31. 1005. Two former grand juries had failed to indict McCleary, who was exonerated by the coroner. Stucky was killed in the postoflice as he was advancing toward McCleary with an uprawd knife with the declared intention of killing him. \ triumph of Surgical skill is the case of Amos Abbott, aged 26, of Hagerstown. When he tvas about 2 years old he fell, striking his head against a sewing machine. His skull was fractured and the boy became an imbecile. He was strong physically and grew strong and robust. The ydting man was taken to the hospital nt Richmond, where an osseous growth two and one-half inches long and two inches widp was removed. The brain was uninjured. He will have full possession of his mental faculties, but must start as a child. Alice Kribbs. the 2-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Kribbs of Shelbyville, playfully took a bite of strychnine intended for rats and died. George W. Boss, aged 46..0f Belmont, W. Va., was found dead in bed in a hotel at Vincennes. It Is believed his deatlj was. cat|»ied by apoplexy. Mr. Boss wni largely interested in the oil fields. At the conference of the German Evangelical church of Indiana. Ohio, Kentucky and Illinois at Evansville, it was announced that .Nirs. Ott of Ixtulaviile had added $2,000 to her donations for superannuated ministers. , *