Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1907 — Indiana State News [ARTICLE]

Indiana State News

“BROKER” MAKES RICH HAUL. Alleged Insurance Agent Induce* —s_M*n to “Come In" on n Flyer. Hervey Bates of Indianapolis, president of the American Hominy Company, is out $2,025 as a result of his experience with an alleged insurance broker. A few days ago the man called and asked if he could be interested in life insurance. Bates told him he could not, and the stranger asked him if he could interest him in a "flyer.” He then explained that he could give him a policy in tb# best old line company for SIOO,OOO for a premium of $350, when the regular premium would be $2,375. He bit and gavh his check for the full amount when tha broker “said it must go” into the bank for the entire amount and that the rebate would be issued later. The broker J* still missing. —: SETTLE EVANSVILLE STRIKE. Operatives Win Demand for Pintform Time and Higher Pay. The street car strike which held Evansville in its grasp for ten days, with traffic and business demoralized, accompanied by violence on the part of strike sympathizers, has been settled. The men have returned to work. The strike-break-ers departed for Chicago and Cleveland. Both sides made concessions. By the terms of the settlement the men get plat- . form time and an eleven-hour day in place of twelve hours. Sixteen, 17 and 18 cents an hour will be paid the men instead of 15, 16, 17 and 18 cents, as formerly, and also the right to appeal grievances. MACCABEES DEPOSE OLD HEAD. Order Tnnto Down Great Commander of Fonrteen Tears. Milo E. Merideth of Wabash, sos fourteen years great commander of the Indiana Order of Maceabees, was defeated by S. B. Borden of Hartford City after a contest in South Bend. Other officers chosen were: Lieutenant commander, W. E. Mowbray, Peru; record keeper, J. W. Replogle, Goshen; great finance keeper, Samuel P. Thomas, South Bend; medical examiner, J. N. Kelley, Westville; chaplain, Harvey Reynolds, Muncie. Indianapolis secured the next review in 1910. The great hive of the Lady cabees deferred its election of officers until after the supreme convention July 16. THREE SWEPT INTO RIVER. Fast Train Tosses Boys from Bridge Into Stream Below. An accident camsing the loss of three liras occurred on the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton railroad bridge over Blue river, one mile east of Morristown. Frank St. John, Orville Babb and Joseph Fairchild, aged 16, 17 and 18, all of Indianapolis, were sitting on the bridge looking down into the stream below when fast passenger train Noi 37 bore down on them, sweeping all three into the river. The bodies were horribly mangled when picked up. “DRY" WORKERS TO-BXTY SALOON. Will Then Throw Liquor Away So Township Win Be Without It. Tiring of the fight that is being made against him, Henry Smith will sell his saToon,“the only one in the town of Swayzee, to temperance people, who have been responsible for vigorous prosecutions against him. He has consented to sell his business for SBOO, and the anti-sa-loon league is now engaged in securing the money. The temperance people will rid the town of its last saloon by pouring the liquor into the street. OLD BAYONET HAS HISTORY. Found Near Spot Where “Tlppeea no*" Harrison Fought Indians. An old bayonet, made to fit a musket and of old-fashioned make, was found in Marioo in an excavation for a sewer. It is tbe presumption that it once belonged to an Indian fighter in the division of Gen. William Henry Harrison, father of Benjamin Harrison, also a President. William Henry Harrison had a battle witb tbe Miami Indians just below Marion on tbe Missisrinewa river. Golden Wedding Is Observed. Mr. and Mrs. 11. D. Smith celebrated their golden wedding anniversary by a family gathering. They are aged 73 and 72 respectively and hare been residents of Valparaiso for fifty years. Whisky Kills a Child. The 3-year-old child of John Wells of Newberg drank half a pint of whisky which it found on a dresser and died in .a few hours. Boy Fulls from Raft. Ralph Rohrbecker, aged 12, fell from a raft of logs in a pond near Evansvill# and was drowned. Brief State Happenings. The annual State convention of th# Knights of Columbus was held at Evansville, about 100 delegates being present. Mrs. Martha Taylor, a wealthy woman of I’ike county, who, it is alleged, waa shot by her stepson, Abraham Taylor, is dead. Taylor is In jail. Twenty-one miners and one mine operator were arrested In Terre Haute on various charges of violating the mining laws on complaint of State Mine Inspector Epperson, who said the mining laws will be strictly enforced. Infuriated at the sight of n child fondling her pup, Denny Lee’s bulldog attacked a 2-year-old girl, the only child of William A. Miller, a real estate dealer in Vincennes. The dog sank its jaws over the baby's head and chewed off ita cheek and jawbone before a rescue could bo effected. The child will die. The body of FiJt Gillen, aged 18, who disappeared - so mysteriously from the Motion fast mail train after leaving Bedford for his home with three companions, was found in tbs bottom of Bait creek under'lb# bridge six mile# nort\ of Bedford.