Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1906 — Indiana State News [ARTICLE]

Indiana State News

STATE ELECTION RESULTS. Personnel of Winning Ticket anti Conarrexnionnl Delegation. The election of Tuesday resulted in th* success of the entire Republican ticket by about 30,000 majority: Secretary of State ... ...... .Fred R. Sims Treasurer Oscar Hadley Attorney General James Bingham Auditor .John C. Blllhelmer Superintendent Public Instruction—-“-"TT ; . . < 'nssett -A. Oottoß ‘Statistician loseph H. Stubbs Geologist Willis S. Blatchley Judges Supreme Court—- . ;James H. Jordan Leander J. Monk* Clerk Supreme Court..... -E. V. Fitzpatrick Justices Appellate Court— Ward H. Watson .Cassius C. Hadley .Daniel W. Comstock Joseph M. Rabb ~.......;"....Frank Roby The* Toliowing members of - Congress were chosen : 1— *.L H. Foster ....Rep. 2 J. C. Chaney Rep. 3 W. E. C0x.... Dem. 1 4—*L. Dixon’..Dem." 5 *E. S. Holiday Rep. 6 *J. E. Watson Rep. I—“J.1 —“J. Overstreet Rep. 8 — J. A. M. Adair .Dem. 9 *C. B. Landis Rep. 10— “E. D. Crumpacker IRep. 11— G. W. Rauch Dem. 12— C. C. Gllhans Rep. 13 — A. L. Brick ......Rep. ♦Re-elected. Steel Workers at Jol’et and South Chicafro Go on Strike. Structural iron workers employed on new buildings in course of erection by the United States Steel Company at Joliet and Soutli Chicago struck in the effort to “unionize” the company’s new town of Gary. The United States Steel Company has declared in favor of the open shop, and the iron workers now employed at Gary are receiving such high wages that they have refused to organize. The strikes at Joliet and South Chicago were then ordered hy the lahqr leaders in the belief that if the subsidiary plants of the steel comparfy were crijA>led the men at Gary would be compelled to join the union. About 250 men are out. TAKE CHILDREN AS SLAYERS. Boy of IO and Girl of IO Are Accused of Murder. Guy White, aged 10, and his sister Selina, aged 16, wanted in Indianapolis for the alleged killing of Fred Miller, aged 12, were captured at the home of their grandmother near Smithville. The fugitive children had taken refuge in their grandmother’s cabin in the hills. Officers had to walk six miles through the woods to find the cabin. School Teachers Plan Lobby. A determined fight for a minimum wage law on the part of school teachers in Indiana, led by those of Hancock county, has been inaugurated. Resolutions have been drawn up and will be sent to each of the county organizations and a strong lobby will also be sent to the Legislature. Miners’ Officials Are Sustained. The special convention of District No. 11, United Mine Workers, in Terre Haute, voted to sustain the district officials off the top coal question. The district officials ruled that the company could require miners to leave up coal to insure the safety of the mine roof. Sprinkle His Ashes on Ohio. John McHugh, a river man, died in Evansville, aged 65 years. According to his dying request his body will be sent to Cincinnati, after being cremated, and its ashes thrown into the Ohio river, “to wash the banks of the stream he loved so well.” Weds to Have Bride Heir. Col. W. E. McLean, aged 73, for years a leader in the Indiana Democracy, who recently married Jessica Oliver, a school teacher, who had cared for him in recent years while an invalid, that she might inherit his fortune of $150,000, died in Terre Haute. Lasso Hydrophobia Victim. Alonzo Riley, in the tortures of hydrophobia, overpowered teveral nurses and started for the woods near his farm residence at Kingman. He was recaptured with the use of lassos and tied in bed. Death is expected at any hour. Lawyeg Falls Dead. Judge George M. Roberts, senior member of the law firm of Roberts & Cravens, and a prominent attorney at the Lawrenceburg bar, fell dead at his home. Neuralgia of the heart is given as the cause. Lay Murder to Father and Sobs. James Carter and bis sons. Ray and Elmis, have been arrested at Sullivan, accused of murder, because Joseph Orr, whom they assaulted a week before, died. Sandbaaiced and Robbed. Joseph Halteer, a wealthy citizen of ! Newburg, was sandbagged and robbed in He will probably die.

Within Our Border*. William A. McLain, nn employe of the Big Four railroad at Greencastle, fell under a moving car and was instantly killed, Clarence McCoy, foreman in the glass, factory nt Kokomo, was -aught in a, sprocket wheel arid heid .Tgatnst a red-hot furnace, being fatally hurt. Henry Gillman of South Bend did not put tils trust in banks, but buried his money Itvihe ground. There disappeared SSOO from the depositing place. While returning from a dance in Evansville Joseph Mahler and Henry ten quarreled and fought a duel with knives. Mahler may die, and Totten is seriously wounded. Miss Ethel Tucker, 20 yesrs old, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Tucker, near Bengal, committed suicide by hanging herself. It Is rumored she quarreled with her sweetheart. Esra Kinser struck and fatally injured Edward Deckard with a club during s fight at a resort in the hills in the north* »rn part of Lawrence county. Kinaea to beinx searched for bv tho autborili**. _