Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1907 — Indiana State News [ARTICLE]

Indiana State News

tJN VKII, MONT VIEXT MAY, 30. President Roosevelt to Help, Commemorate General Lawton. The Lawton monument commission has decided that the exercises incident to the unveiling of the monument to the memory of Gen. Henry W. Lawton in Indianapolis, including an address by President Roosevelt, will be held the morning of Decoration day. May 30. If the G. A. R. veterans wish to itave the President address them at Crowq Hill cemetery he will probably be available in the afternoon. Gov. Hanly will introduce the President. The commission wishes to have United States reguars detailed from Fort Sheridan and Fort Thomas to take part in the program of the morning. All of the ceremonies Will be over by noon and it may be that the President will address the school children who will strew flowers around the monument early on Memorial day morning. MANY HOOSIERS GO INSANE. .... , .. , v . ... .. . - Statistics Show 1,122 I.out Reason Darlnß the I,ast Year. Figures compiled at the office of the bureau of statistics show that 1,122 persons in Indiana were adjudged insane in the year 1906. In the year 1905 only 959 persons were declared to be of unsound mind. In 1904 the number was 1,105. Reports to the bureau show that in 1906 in the courts of the State 27,981 civil cases were filed. This is almost 1,000 less than were filed in 1905. The number of cases disposed of in 1906 was 24,602. These figures were procured by the statistician for the benefit of attorneys of the State. Of the total number of civil cases filed in the courts last year 3,320 were brought in Marion county. Hendricks county had the fewest number of cases to handle. SANITY INQUIRY KIBES. Man Palls Paralyzed When Summoned Before Lunacy Board. Summoned to the office of Dr. John W. Ballard of Logansport, supposedly for a friendly call, H. F. Stoughton, a farmer, found Ballard and others assembled as a lunacy board to inquire into his sanity. “My God, John! Would you send me to the madhouse?” he screamed, and then, fell unconscious from his chair. When resuscitated he was paralyzed. The sanity board adjourned and Stoughton was taken to the home of a sister, where he died a few hours later. Relatives of Stoughton had petitioned for the appoint ment of a commission, declaring a few weeks’ treatment would restore Stoughton’s faculties. TWO-CENT LAW IN EFFECT. V Other Statutes Passed by Indiana Lesrlslature Also Now Binding. The laws passed by the Indiana Legislature which closed its session last month went into effect at noon April 10 by proclamation of the Governor. Among them are a 2-cent railroad fare law, an anti trust law and laws inflicting a life prison sentence for kidnaping for ransom, closing barber shops on Sundays, limiting trainmen to sixteen hours’ consecutive work, prohibiting the sale of poison without a prescription and classifying as embezzlement the receiving of a deposit by an insolvent bank.

GREAT FAMILY OF BOYS. Charlea Grltton, Father of Fifteen Sons and One Daughter. Charles Gritton of Troy township claims the distinction of being the father of the largest living family of boys in Fountain county. Mr. Grittln is 52 years old, and his wife is eight years his junior. Their union has resulted in sixteen children, all of whom are living and are hale and hearty. It is almost a case of “1G to 1,” as there are fifteen boys and but one girl. The oldest boy is a soldier for Uncle Sam, serving in a foreign land. Mr. Grittpn is a well-to-do farmer. ]_ Crowd Cheers as Bulldinors Burn. The old station building of the Lake Shore railroad in La Porte were destroyed by fire to the delight of a crowd that gathered and cheered each fresh outburst of flames. The fire started in the express in which a great quantity of dress goods and other merchandise was stored. The origin of the fire is a mystery. The loss is about $12,000. Hitch School Bov* Wins Honors. As a result of a oratorical contest in which the high schools of Plymouth, Bremen, Argos, Bourbon. Culver and La Pas were represented, Earl McLaughlin of Plymouth has been selected to represent Marshall county in the contest of the Northern Indiana Schoolastic association to be held in South Bend May 11. Farmer Blown to Atoms. William Henry Buesking, a Lake township farmer, while carrying a stick of dynamite to blow up a stump tripped in climbing a fence and fell With the dynamite. He was blown to atoms. Brief State Happenings. H. Baldwin, a river man, who received 13,000 volts of electricity, died o« his Ipjuries in Evansville. Mrs. James Duly, aged 40, of Evansville, who has been ill, was reported dead and her death notice was printed. She saw the notice, worried over It, took a relapse and died. Charles Hart and wife left their Russell avenue home in Fort Wayne to go shopping. Harold, their 3-year-old son, was left at home asleep. In some way the house caught fire and burned to the ground, cremating the boy. John P. Walker, former county and city treasurer, who is on trial in Evansville. charged with the embesalement of county funds amounting to $68,000, went on the witness stand and told bow he had invested the county's money and how when the shortage became known to him he had planned to blow out bis brains with a pistol.