Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1907 — Indiana State News [ARTICLE]

Indiana State News

STANDARD'S MEASURES SHORT. Indianapolis Inspector Threatens Arrest of Oil Vendor*. City Inspector of Weights and Measures Wulfson of Indianapolis arrested the driver of one of the Standard Oil Company’s wagons after finding a shortage of three pints in five “gallon” cans of oil delivered to a customer. When the company’s agent appeared to give bail for the driver, he, too, was arrested and compelled to give a bond. The company refuses to ailow the inspection of the 80,000 cans used in that city, and the inspector threatens to arrest every man who is found serving patrons out of cans that do not bear the stamp of city inspection/ • , ..

PLEDGED TO HOLD WHEAT. Members of .Society - May Organise Whole State In to League. Farmersowning from 300.000 to 500.000 bushels of wheat, forming part of the American Society of Equity, met at many of the county seats in southern Indiana the other day and pledged themselves to hold their crop this year until they are paid $1 a bushel for it. The biggest meeting was held at Poseyville. It is said an effort will be made to organize all the farmers of the State in a league pledged to hold this year's crop. 4 Boy 9 Years Old Is Forger. Charlie Williams, 9 years old, appeared at the First National bank in Marion and reaching up to the counter presented a check for S3O. The check was at once pronounced a forgery and the boy was held until a policeman was summoned. The boy frankly admitted that he had forged the cheek. "I wanted to buy clothes and a bicycle,” confessed the youthful prisoner, who is an orphan.

Shaves, Then Shoots "Himself. Dr. Henry- S. Latshaw, a well-known Vincennes dentist, killed himself by firing a bullet into his brain. Grief over the death of his wife and daughter and financial troubles are said to be the cause. The body was found in the doctor’s office. He had shaved and carefully dressed himself, left notes to relatives and then placed a wet towel against his cheek to prevent powder burns.

Head of Love Colt in Jail. Joseph Gates, aged 45, the founder of a secret religious cult, whose basic doctrine is that “every man shall have seven girls clinging to h'.s coat tails,” is in jail in Logansport to face a charge brought by Margaret Bailer, a 13-year-old girl. The girl testified to the State’s attorney that she and six other girls, none older than herself, had been to Gates’ room. Train Wrecked In Tonnel. East-bound limited passenger train No. 12 on the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern railroad was wrecked in a tunnel onefourth mile long, near Mitchell. The drawbar of the engine broke and the coaches piled up on the tender. All left the track except a sleeper. No one was killed. Traction Companies Unite. The Evansville Railways Company, incorporated, with a capital stock of sl,000, marks the consolidation of the Evansville, Rockport and Eastern Railway Company with the Evansville and Mount Vernon Company. It is proposed eventually to build an electric line to Louisville. Splinter in Foot Kills Girl. While playing on the veranda of her home, the child of John Hays of Wabash ran a splinter in her foot. The accident was thought trivial. At the end of a week blood poisoning, followed by lockjaw, caused her death.

Drowning* at Indiana Harbor. Vincent Tecuson, 29 years old, was drowned while swimming in the Indiana Harbor canal. The body of an unidentified man was found in Lake Michigan and brought to Indiana Harbor. Indiana Official Badly Hart. State Tax Commissioner John C. Wingate of Wingate, was seriously injured by falling down an’elevator shaft at the Barnett house in Logansport. Jeffersonville 105 Years Old. The one hundred and fifth anniversary of Jeffersonville was celebrated the other day. Miner Is Drowned. Floyd Shields, a coal miner, was drowned in Terre Haute in a rowboat. Minor State Items. The body of Cal French, a wealthy lumberman, was found in the Wabash river near Crawieyville. lie is supposed to have committed suicide. Claude Wilkinson, a well-known stock raiser, who lived near Cynthiana, was thrown agaiust a barbed wire fence in a runaway and died of his injuries. On account of a technicality in the indictment, the Supreme Court of Indiana reversed the conviction and sentence for embezzlement of WiTlinm Wright, treasurer of a local union of the United Mine Worker*. Constable Jacob Middleton of Marion served a warrant on himself. lie was charged with violating the pure food law by selling “thinned” milk at his restaurant. Middleton took it as a joke. When the justice handed him the warrant to serve he said be would go out and find himself. He returned a little later, pleaded guilty and was fined. Herbert Gustin, 20 years okl, a cartoonist, was drowned while swimming in an abandoned stone quarry near Anderson. William Reagin, aged 20, while on tba bridge over the Wabash at Main street, Terre Haute, dared Itollo Apple to jump with him to the water, fifty feet below. Apple refusing, Ileagin handed his coat to the latter and told him to meet him on the bank. Then be jumped, and, rising to the surface, started swimming. After a few strokes be sank and did not rise again. Reagin's borne was in Vandal ia. 111.