Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1907 — Indiana State News [ARTICLE]

Indiana State News

FRATERNITY WAR CLIMAX. Bloomington lll«h School Staff of ~ Teachers Resigns. ' A Sensation was caused in Bloomington by the unexpected resignation of ten of the eleven high school teachers. The resignations were received by the board at 10:30 a. hi., to take effect at the close of school. The reason assigned Is that the-board has refused, to stand- by- Principal Howard Clark in his investigation of high school fraternities, and that, therefore, he cannot maintain discipline. As a result the principal consulted With the other ten teachers in the high school and they followed him in tendering their resignations, resolving to stand or fall together. The trouble has been brewing for some time, but a climax was reached two weeks ago when the teachers published a private report, prepared for the board, on school fraternities. Mr. Clark desired the trustees to authorize him to make a public statement, but the board refused to agitate the matter further, on the ground that it was a personal affair with Clark and the newspapers, and for the further reason that the Legislature had forbidden fraternities by law, and therefore no good could come from continued public-discussion of a matter thati, had been determined by law. GIRL BOBBED, PUT IN A SAFE. Cashier in Evansville Store Badly Wounded by Burglars. Miss Josie Gray, cashier at the store of the largest furniture company in Evansville, was found in the safe at the store early Sunday morning, unconscious from blows she had received while defending her employers’ money from robbers. Several thousand dollars is missing, and the police have no clew to the thieves. When the other employes left the store Saturday night Miss Gray was still going over her books and remarked to one of the salesmen that she would possibly remain for an hour. She failed to reach home at midnight, and her parents notified the police. The store was visited and the doors were found to be unlocked. When the police entered Nliss Gray could not be found. Manager Gumberts was called, and when he opened the safe there lay the body of the cashier, showing that she had been struck over the head several times with some heavy instrument. Her skull was not fractured, and, though her injuries are severe, it is believed they are not fatal.

THIS ARDEN REGAINS LIFE. Hoosier Who Disappeared Reform to Spouse Who Im Now Widow. The return of Richard Harrison from the Klondike to South Bend has developed a tale almost the parallel of that of Enoch Arden. The story came out with the departure of Mrs. Etta Harrison for a Michigan town, wherh Richard Harrison, her former husband, is wealthy and the owner of a big fruit farm. Harrison left South Bend fifteen years ago for the gold fields, but after leaving Seattle nothing more was heard from him, and his wife mourned him as dead. One year ago she was married to Arthur Parry, who died four months ago. A telegram from a Michigan city reached Mrs. Parry, telling her that her first husband was alive and well and that she should join him. Overjoyed she took the first train to the destination.

TELLS THIEF WHERE CASH IS. Woman Unintentionally Gives Secret Away and He Gets SB. Mrs. A. E. McCauce of Marion when she returned to her home unintentionally told a burglar where he could find her money and the burglar got it before a policeman arrived. The burglar was in a bedroom and Mrs. McCauce coming into the home and seeing that a thief had been there exclaimed: “I wonder if he found my money in the pantry.” Then she went to call a policeman. When she returned the pantry, which on her first visit was orderly, was in a topsy-turvy condition. The thief, who had overheard her remark, got SB. ACCLSED OF STARVING WIFE. Sick Woman Says Husband Refused Io Bring Her Food. Frank Fanning is in jail and his wife is in a hospital as the result of an investigation made by the Marion police into the allegations that Mrs. Fanning was being starved by her husband. Mrs. Fanning had been sick for ten weeks. During the last few days of her illness, she said, she was unable to get her own meals and her husband refused to bring her food. Fanning is said to have kept his wife locked in the house during the first part of her illness.

Minor State Items. Charles Bauer died suddenly while sitting on the grave of a relative in a cemetery at Poseyville. Death is supposed to have been .paused from grief. Grant Hardesty, a retired farmer, committed suicide by taking poison. Hardesty was ’ discovered dying on the Grand Trunk tracks east of Valparaiso by the engineer of a freight train. Though the old court house in Peru has been torn down and a new one is under construction, yet the other day all contracts were declared illegal by a decision rendered in the appellate court. The Indiana department, G. A. R., changed the dates of the State encampment at Fort Wayne to accommodate the visit of National Commander Brown. The encampment will be held May 22, 23 and 24. Charles Padgett of Sullivan county, a well-known southern Indiana hotel man and politician, has sued Newton Vaughn, recorder of Green county, for 115,000 for alleged alienation of Mrs. Padgett's affections. The acts of which Padgett complains are said to have been committed three days after the marriage of the couple.