Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1907 — Indiana State News [ARTICLE]

Indiana State News

GIRL’S DINNER WIN« HEART. Attorney Weds Fair Cook Week After Flrat Meeting Her. John Hamm, a young Elwood lawyer, started to Anderson in an automobile. Near Franklin his machine went “dead.” He went to a farm house to buy a luncheon. Miss Telia M. Welch, who is just 21, informed the young man that if he could wait she would prepare dinner. He amused himself in the parlor playing the piano until he was invited into the dining room. The biscuits were superb, while the coffee was delicious. The pies and cake melted in his mouth. The girl was interesting and pretty. They chatted while a cheuffeur was hastening from an Elwood garage to -bring his “dead” auto back to town. Just one week later the young man and the girl rode to Anderson in the same old automobile, where a license was taken out. A wedding followed. INSURANCE SHOWS LOSS. Report Shows Decrease In Business of Indiana Companies. of the insurance department of the State for the'year ending Dec. 31, 1906, shows that the fire insurance companies had the best of the business during the year and that the life- companies showed a decrease over the year preceding, though made a comparatively good showing, circumstances considered.. The Indiana fire insurance companies wrote a total of $8,246,648 worth of business in 1906, as against $18,308,555 in 1905. The foreign fire insurance companies wrote $80,937,977 worth of business in 1906, which is a substantial increase over the $73,111,565 that they wrote in 1905. The legal reserve Indiana life insurance companies wrote a total of $59,922,882 worth of business during the year. ■ ‘ ■. TROUBLE IN SHELBYVILLE Race War Started Wheip Five- Negroes Attack P6TTceman. Shelbyville has another race war. The trouble started when five negroes attacked Policeman Daniel Starkey, beat him into insensibility and fled when a crowd of whites arrived. Five shots were fired at the fleeing negroes, but none took effect so far as is known. A posse of 100 whites was formed and scoured the city. Mayor Swain and a party of policemen captured two of the colored men, Steve and Robert Marshall, near the outskirts of the city. They were taken to jail, where they are closely guarded. The streets were vlea/ed of negroes. No violence was attempted, but crowds of angry citizens stood on the street corners threatening the colored men. MORE TROUBLE FOR STANDARD Inspector of Indianapolis Gets Tip from Commissioner Smith. Isidor Wulfson, inspector of Weights and measures in Indianapolis, who wrote to the bureau of corporations at Washington asking for aid in his fight against the Standard Oil Company, received a reply from Commissioner Herbert Knox Smith, in which the writer says that certain information asked for by Wulfson could not be furnished, as it was expected to use it in proceedings against the oil company. Mr. Smith said information gathered by the bureau is submitted to the President, who may or may not give it out as he sees proper. Woman, 94, Drops Dead. Mrs. Mary Tucker, 94, who ‘came t« Wabash county when it was all a wilderness, died suddenly the other day. Brief State Happenings. Literally frightened to death by a passing automobile; a horse driven by Mr. and Mrs. Squire Barr, living between Warsaw and Akron, fefi over in the roadway. When Carl Myers, the chauffeur, discovered that the animal was shying at the machine he stopped, just in time to see the horse lunge forward and sink to th.e ground. Despondent because she could not master the English language, Goldie Goldenberg, aged 23 years, jumped into the St. Joseph river at South Bend, in an attempt to drown herself. A policeman saw the girl go down and jumped in after her in time to make a rescue. The girl was taken to the county jail and later was turned over to the Associated Charities. It will require a joint meeting of the State executive boards of the Indiana miners and operators to decide if 400 men at a John R. Walsh coal mine at Terre Haute are liable to a fine of $1 a day each, as prescribed by a contract, for striking pending an Arbitration. The miners took their tools away, which is claimed to mean quitting employment and not striking.

Thrown into a rage by several cups of water being dashed upon him, Henry Robinson, a demented man, who was locked in the city jail in Connersville, killed Austin Ford and seriously injured several other prisoners. After striking with an iron cuspidor Charles Ringo, an old trusty, and William Snow, a member of the city fire department, who was-called Ijo. Robinson attacked Ford and beat his head to a pulp against the bars of a cell. Ford was killed before the jailer arrived. The jailer and police were notified, but were unable to conquer thfi crazed man. The fire department was then called, and after a stream of water «as played upon him he was dragged into a cell. The Rev. Waller Clark of Cassopolis, MiCh., has donated SIO,OOO toward the establishment of an old people's home, to be controlled by the Brethren church. The announcement of the gift was made at the closing session of tbe Brethren church at Winona Lake. Tbe body of Homeg S. Casey was found sitting upright iu a buggy in the barn at his home near Bloomfield, with a bullet hole through the left temple. He was to have been married to Miss Anna Brone, and drove home the previous night from visiting her. The horse was hitched t» 'be buggy when the body was found