Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1907 — Indiana State News [ARTICLE]

Indiana State News

SEVEN PRIESTS ARE ORDAINED. Bishop Allerdlng Officiates at Ceremony at Notre Dame. In an unusual ordination ceremony, that of solemn pontifical high mass, seven . members of the Congregation of the Holy Cross were solemnly ordained priests in the Church of the Sacred Heart at Notre Dame, near South Bend. The new priests are: Fathers Sypniewski, Gruza and Szybokiez of South Bend, Father O’Malley of Westport, VV is.; Father O’Connor of Galveston, Texas; Father McKeone of New Haven, Conn., and Father Farley of Paterson, N. J. They -were ordained by Bishop Allerding of Fort Wayne, JEAtOtS WOMAN KILLS MAN. Mrs. Florence Graves Shoots Frank Brown at Michigan City, Ind, Graves, 2a years old, shot Frank Brown to death in Michigan City. Brown had called at Mrs. Graves’ home and the couple quarreled because of Brown’s alleged attentions to other women. Brown started from the house. Mrs. Graves ran to the top of the stairway and fired a bullet into his brain. The wounded man died a few minutes later in a hospital. When Mrs. Gravesywas arrested she admitted the shooting. Brbwn was 20 years old and came recently from Three Oaks, Mich. SWALLOW'S SNAKE IN DRINK. Camper Coughs Up Green Reptile Six Inches Long. Thomas Jefferies, member of the Rough Rider Club, of Cincinnati, who has been camping on the Ohio river near Lawrenceburg, got up the other night and took a drink from a spring near by. This was at 1 o’clock, and in a few minutes after be -retired he awoke his companions with liis groans. A doctor was summoned, but before the physicians arrived the man nearly died. Jefferies was given an emetic and he coughed up a green snake six inches long. Jefferies haa now entirely recovered. — ALL TO CHURCH; NEAR DEATH. Indlanian Who Lived Like Miser t« Aid Missions Very'Low. Elijah Hays of Warsaw, who gave all his fortune to the of missions, at the age of 90 is at the point of death. For years Hays lived like a miser to get more money for charity. He gave SIOO,000 twenty-one years ago to the Methodist College for Ministers at Mercedes, Argentina, and the church granted him an annuity of SI,OOO and one of SSOO for his wife. From this sum he saved s2o,* 000, which he gave for missions five years ago. Indiana Lines Will Obey. At a conference between representatives of the railroads operating in Indiana and the Indiana railroad commission, it was agreed that the railroads will comply strictly with the law passed by the last session of the Legislature, by which all , railroad trains must come to a full stop at Interurban crossings unless they are protected by an interlocking device, a guard, or by other means.

Youths Steal Grocery Wagon. . Given a job as grocery delivery boy, Jesse Burkholder of Wabash, secured his chum, Luther Lutz, and the two lads started out to hunt Indians, first securing a big load of groceries on which they intended to feast for the first few weeks of their nomadic life. They evaded capture for half a day, but were overhauled by parents. The hoys are each 13 years old. Fort Wayne Boy la Drowned. William Rowley, aged 11, dived from a springboard in St. Mary’s river at the Taylor street bridge in Fort Wayne and did not come up alive. It Is supposed he struck on bis head on the rocks at the bottom and was stunned. Former Superior Court Judge W. J. Vesey waded in and recovered the body. Killa Man; Does Not Know It. . In a quarrel over a dollar Oscar Proctor. aged 18, who had placed his horse with N. C. Titus, a Lebanon liveryman, aged 70, struck Titus on the head with a rock, secured his rig, and drove out of town. Titus died later. Proctor was followed and arrested. He did not know Titus was dead. * Fears Insanity; Eads Life. James W. Stewart, a veteran school toucher, ended his life in Peru by firing a bullet into his brain. He wroie a letter to his daughter saying that he realized that he was becoming insane. Admits Robbing Ticket Office. A man giving his name as S. O. Manual, who was arrested in Bedford, owned to having robbed the Southern Indiana ticket office at Borns City. Brief State Happenings. Mrs. Samuel Blackburn was fatally burned In Evansville In a fire due to spontaneous combustion caused by gasoline. Myron, 5-year-old son of Sheriff Logan Staples of Whitley county, was burned to death by the explosion of a can containing gasoline. Harry Hemenway, cousin to United States Senator Hemenway, while pickling blackberries near Boonville, killed sixtysix snakes in one place. Word was received in Indianapolis of the drowning of Earle Irvin at Colon. He rescued four Americans from drowning in the surf, but was so exhausted by his efforts that be was unable to reach shore. Carson Emery was arraigned in court in Logansport, charged with snoring so loudly that he kept neighbors from sleeping. “He lives two blocks from me,” said Louis E. Garber, the prosecuting witness, “but last night he kept me awake by his snoring.” Police Judge Smith put Emery under a ss® bond to keep the peace. * *