Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1907 — Indiana State News [ARTICLE]

Indiana State News

TOWN TREASURER IS INDICTED* C. E. Merer of Michigan Cltr I* Held tor Embesslement. The grand jury of the Laporte Circuit Court returned four indictments against C. E. Meyer, city treasurer, charging him. with embezzlement and misappropriation of public funds. Meyer was arrested and gave bonds for SSOO on each count. indictments were Based off street assessments and license fees which, it is alleged* had not been accounted for. The action, of the grand jury is a result of an investigation that was commenced more than a year ago. A shortage of $3,000 was found in the accounts of C. Miller, predecessor of Meyer’s, and Miller recently paid that sum Into the treasury. UNWRITTEN I.AW BARRED. Frank Howland Goes to Prison forShooting Man Found with Wife. Frank Howland, whose parents live in Grand Rapids, Mich., was found guilty of intent to murder in the Elkhart Circuit Court and must serve a prison term of two to twenty-one years. His victim* Charles B. Carroll of Marcellus, Mich., whose physician testified that he eoujd not survive a year, unwillingly gave tho evidence which convicted Howland. Carroll is carrying three bullets in his body. He is alleged to have been caught by Howland with the latter’s wife, and theshooting followed. Judge Dodge instructed the jury that the unwritten law should not be considered in their verdict.

EATS TILL, STOMACH BURSTS. . Hearty Meal Kills Indianapolis Mam —Coroner .Finds the Real Cause. Carl Schuster, a young German in Indianapolis, ate heartily the other night and a few moments after he had risen from the table complained of intense pain in his stomach. Ten minutes later ho died. The coroner held an autopsy under the supposition that Schuster might haveeaten poisoned food, but instead he found that he had eaten so much that his stomach had burst. The organ was not diseased, but appeared in a perfectly healthy condition. There was a long rupture* which, the physician said, was the result of the hearty meal.

DARE BY GIRL COSTS A LIFE. One Youth Killed and Another Fatally Hurt to Show Bravery. While a party “of young people who reside in the vicinity of Lovett were returning to their homes late on a recent night from a singing school, one of the’ young women of the party dared Charles Dawson and Fred Ochs to remain on the railway tracks a longer time than herself in the face of a rapidly approaching train. The challenge was accepted. As a result jured. The girl escaped with a slightly torn dress.

WOMAN CAPTURES BURGLAR. Brave Housewife Looks Up Marandet and Calls Police. At a late hour the other night Mrs. Samuel Vickery discovered a negro burglar in her house in Evansville, going: through a dresser drawer. Mrs. Vickery was alone and caught the burglar in theact of picking up a pocketbook. She commanded him to drop the purse or she would kill him. The negro let go the purse and Mrs. Vickery locked him in the room and telephoned for the police.

- Gets Drank | Shoots Up Town. Charles Douglas, game warden, drunk and dressed up, was in possession of Mexico, a town of 300 population* near Peru, for an hour the other day. He paraded tb* streets, firing revolvers with both hands, and drove everybody to places of safety. He was arrested after he bad fired forty shots and broke* a score of window panes. Kills Hta Daughter. Robert Jolly, aged 45, living in Indianapolis, killed his daughter Gladys, aged 9, by forcing carbolic acid down her throat. The child’s screams attracted Anna Peters the housekeeper, who witnessed the act. Jolly escaped. Roller Explodes; One Killed. The boiler in the sawmill of the Andrews Novelty Works in Wabash exploded, killing William Mote and seriously injuring Henry Mote, William Gift, Leo Burson and Philo Willis. Alleged Cattle Thlof Arrested. “Oak" Compton, said to be wanted at Columbia, Mo, where, it is Said, he broke jail and escaped with a stolen team while held on a charge df stealing cattle, was arrested in South Bend. Nephew of Pitcher Cnppy Drowned. George Cuppy, nephew and namesake of the former National League pitcher, was drowned In the Wabash river at Logansport.

Brief State Happenings. Mrs. Yetta E. App died In Evansville from the effects of the heat, having been overcome a few days ago. The executive board of the United Mine Workers of America, eleventh district, has issued a strike order calling on about 5,000 miners to leave the mines. The strikers have eight or ten grievances which they insist must be adjusted. Goshen College is receiving propositions from Chicago hospitals in regard so establishing a training school for Mennonite nurses and missionaries In connection with some hospital where practical experience may be given cadet nurses. Anna Rader of Chicago was sued for divorce by her husband, Robert Rader of Goshen, In tht Elkhart Circuit Court. The plaintiff alleges that his wife is not conducting herself with propriety in Chicago. The parties are well known in Goshen. The plaintiff also alleges that Ms wife attended wine portlee and laughed at hie remooetraacua.