Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1907 — Indiana State News [ARTICLE]

Indiana State News

JOKES MAKE MANIAC OF WAITER Believing? He la Panned by Policemen, Chicagoan I.andn in Aaylnm. Possessing the hallucination that he is pursued by policemen, Edward Hoover, until recently employed in a Chicago restaurant, was the pther day taken ;o the insane asylum, the result of continual jokes of his fellow employes ; n Warsaw. During the last holiday season a woman guest at tfye restaurant became infatuated with the boy and placed a $2-T0 stickpin in his coat. When he told his friends of the experience they laughingly accused him of being a thief and continued joking him about the matter. This preye-J on Hoover’s mind to such an extent that he gave up his place and went to his parents’ home at Shipshewanna, where he became a maniac. SAINTS HOLD TO SIMPLE GARB. Decide at Camp Meeting Not to Change Characteristic. Apparel. Notwithstanding a persistent effort by the reform element to bring abont a change in the apparel of the members of the church, the Saints have decided to continue to attire themselves in the same plain garb which has characterized them for years, a majority of those present at the business session of the annual national camp meeting at Yellow Creek 1 Lake declining to make any change in* the prevailing custom. Nearly 8,000 people were present at the closing sessions, twenty States and several foreign countries being represented.

FIVE HURT IN AUTO WRECK. Machine Land* Bottom Side Up al Foot of Embankment. A touring car containing Mr. and Mrs. Don Hawkins, Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Ostendorf and a chauffeur, of Indianapolis was wrecked at Dayton and all the occupant* were injured. The car skidded and turned a landing bottom side up at the foot of an embankment. Hawk in* and Mrs. Ostendorf were pinioned under the car. Hawkins’ legs were crushed and Mrs. Ostendorf’s head was badly cut. The Other occupants were bruised. The party had been visiting in Chicago and was on its way to Indianapolis. Farmers with Liquor Men. Farmers of the surrounding country took a hand in the saloon fight which ha* stirred the city of Warsaw to fever heat, threatening to boycott the merchants who sign the remonstrance petition now being circulated, arid which will be filed with the Council. All northern Indiana is interested in the effort being made to wipe saloons out of that city. Rob Chnrch, Tben Set Fire. St. Mary’s Roman Catholic church in Greensburg was entered by bnrglars for the fifth time in three months and, after robbing the mite box, they set fire to the church, causing damage of $7,000. Bloodhounds were put on the trail of the incendiaries and followed it for three blocks, where it waWost. Man Dying: on Tracks; Had" 9338. Joseph Sbelran, aged 35 years, of To* ledo, Ohio, was found In a dying condition on the Lake Shore tracks, near Nillsburg. He either fell off or was thrown from the train. Sbelran had $338 in bank certificates in his pockets. Minor State Item*. ';", George N. Arthur, a musician, 47, shot and killed himself in Terre Hante. In an X-ray examiriation to locate a piece of wire his finger was burned so badly it had to be amputated, thus destroying his usefulness as a musician. The directors of the tri-State fair, which was to have been held in Evansville from Sept. 30 to Oct. 5, decided to abandon the project, because the City Council had intimated that no beer could be sold on the grounds this year. O. T. Walker, 28, murdered his wife, I.aura Walker, in Crawfordsville by cutting her throat from ear to ear. Walker’s wife had abandoned him and applied for a divorce. Walker called on her and asked that she withdraw her suit and rettirn to him. She refused, whereupon he dragged her from the house and cut her throat, making five vicious slashes. Walker tried to kill himself in the same manner, but was unsuccessful. He is now in jail.

While she was walking in North Jackson street, Anderson, accompanied by her 10-year-old brother, Mrs. Florence Huty 22 years old, wife of John A. Hull, a factory employe, was attacked by an unknown man, who inflicted a gash seven inches long, but not very deep, in tbe woman’s neck. Her cries aroused the neighborhood and the man released his hold, leaped over a fence into an alley and disappeared. The knife or razor used barely missed tbe jugular vein. Because, it is charged, he whipped his motherless boys, aged 10 and, 7 years, Elmer Robinson, living on East Lynn street, in Anderson, has aroused the ire of his neighbors and tbreata of summary punishment have been made. Tbe children’s stepmother is said to have gone to Illinois and left them alone. The father is reported to have locked the children in an upstairs room and left home for the day. The older boy tied bed clothing together and escaped from his prison. The attention of the board of children’s guardians has been called to tbe case. Two expert accountants are working in the office of County Treasurer George W. Irvine at Warsaw as the result of charges recently made to the effect that his accounts are badly muddled. Mr. Irvine declares that all funds belonging to the county are Intact. Carriage manufacturers of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, and Illinois have formed an organization, to be called the National Association of Carriage Manufacturers, tbe purpose of which’ is, as stated, to control the prices of their product. An advance of 10 per cent to the trade ban already been declared. . r