Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1907 — Indiana State News [ARTICLE]

Indiana State News

GIRL WEDS TO KEEP FROM JAIL. Marries Man to Testify Agalnat Hey for Federal Authorities. By marrying August Michnick, a wealthy Cortland, Neb., farmer, Garnet Lancaster of Evansville took unto herself as husband the man on whose testimony federal authorities expected to send her to jail and also the man who was the innocent cause of the prosecution of the case against her. The girl and her mother, Mrs. Violet Lancaster, were arrested several days ago on charges of nsing the mails to* defraud, on complaints of numerous men over the country who had answered their matrimonial advertisements and sent them money on which to come to them. Their apartments were searched and a number of letters, all speaking of money inclosed, were found. Among the letters were several from Michnick, and in all of them were references to cash forwarded for a trip to Cortland or of tickets wired. Michnick was immediately sent for by the authorities to come to Evansville and testify, but on his arrival he and the younger Lancaster woman were quietly married and the authorities now admit he cannot be forced to testify against her. YOUTH IS KILLED; FATHER HELD Indianapolis Man, Charged wltb Harder, Tells Strange Story. Paul 11. Green of eling salesman for a Chicago shoe house, is held at the police station charged with the murder of his son Newell, aged 17. The youth was found in the front yard of his home early the other morning after neighbors had been aroused from sleep by four pistol shots. Green says his son came to the house before daylight and when the father came to the door in answer to his knock the son asked him if he intended to send him to a stammering school. He replied that it was a strange inquiry to make at such a time of night, and just then, he says, the bay fired one shot at him. He closed the door, be asserts, falling down upon the floor and keeping in this position till the other three shots were fired. Then, he says, he went upstairs to bed thought no more of it till he was later awakened by neighbors who had found the young man in the yard with a bullet hole in his cheek and another in his brain. LIGHTING PLANTS IN COMBINE. Company Formed (o Operate la Illinois and Indiana. Articles of association were filed in Anderson by the Central Indiana Lighting Company, with a capital stock of $3,000,000 —$2,000,000 common and sl,000,000 preferred. William M. Wherry Jr., John W. Tobin and Ivan L. Meloon, all of New York, are the incorporators. The Central Indiana Company is a branch of the National Heat, Light and Power Company of New York, which is operating light plants at Taylorsville, Jerseyville, Robinson, Charleston, Paris and Pana, Ill.; Lexington and Marshall, Mo.; Hoosick Falls, N. Y.; Bennington, Twin City and Brattleboro, Vt.

ADMITS SHORTAGE OF *2,SIS. F orcaer Treasurer Sen da Cheek ta Mayor of Michigan City. Former City Treasurer Charles H. Miller of Michigan City, now county auditor of La Porte county, in a letter to Mayor Fred C. Miller admits a shortage in his accounts while treasurer. A check for $2,513.58, the amount alleged to be due, accompanied the letter. This follows a recent upheaval in city financial affairs. City Treasurer Elijah Meyer was charged with a shortage and was acnnitted. In going over Meyer’s accounts Miller’s shortage was found. Boy Kill* Himself While Hunting. The body of Melvin Wiseman, 14 years old, was found lying half submerged in a ditch near Wheat field by the side of a boat. The boy went hunting Sunday, and there was no trace of him till his dead body was found. Death was accidental, as indications showed that he had evidently laid his gun in the bottom of the boat after rescuing a plover which he had shot, and that in pulling the weapon toward him it was discharged, the load striking him in the neck.* Instantly Killed by Live Wire. Charles Alphers, 23 years old, employed by the Huntingburg Electric Light Company, was instantly killed by coming in contact with a live wire while attempting to repair a refractory street light. He leaves a young widow, whom he married three months ago. 'Ballplayer Shoots Himself. Joe Goar, the once famous National League ball pitcher, while hunting in the woods near his home at New Lisboa, accidentally shot and wounded himself In the thigh with a pistol. 11l Health Causes Snlelde. John Himburg, foreman of the Democrat of Petersburg, committed suicide by taking carbolic acid. He was in ill health. • Within Onr Bordai-a. Edward Deuster, aged 19, taken suddenly ill playing baseball, died at Terre Haute. The Indiana Supreme Court decided that county officials cannot employ tax ferrets on a percentage basis, but holds that an appropriation must be made in each case. Mrs. Violet Lancaster, aged 45, and her daughter Garnet, aged 2T, were arrested in Evansville on the charge of using the mails to defraud. It is alleged that they have been conducting a matrimonial agency and have defrauded hundreds of wife seekers out of money. In their rooms were found several hundred letters which showed that money had been received from numerous men on the pretext that the women needed money to join them to be married. The women were preparing to depart for Portland, Neb., where the daughter was to marry a farmer named Mlschmick.