Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1907 — Indiana State News [ARTICLE]

Indiana State News

BINDS BOV TO LABOR. Indiana Fit I her Slftnn Bond that Son Shall Obey Mauler. Tiie, old idea of apprenticeship, ion? ago discarded, has been revived in lilk- o. hart county. Isaiah llolderman has priced out his 12-year-old son with Irvin A. Long to remain until lie reaches the age of 21 years. This step followed ib® death of I ioiderman's wife. The appro mi e--shii) agreement has been publicly re ordod. and it proridps that the boy is to be (aught farming and at the end of his term is to receive $200., He is to be fed, clot heel and properly educated. Iu return the lad promises not to u.te tobacco in any form and not to drink intoxicating liquors of any kind. He is also not tp gamble or play any games of chance. In the articles of agreement Long E referred to as the .Say'S mrster* and the boy is bound out to obey Him. • WOMAN STOPS .1 All, DEMVKItI. Though Felled by Iron Bar, She * Sneeeed* in Locking Door. Felled to the floor by a blow from an iron bar wrenched from a died by two escaping prisoners, Mrs. Albert Sum i wife of (lie sheriff at La Port!*, pluckily dragged herself out of the cell corridor and locked the door, preventing the ekcape,. of eleven. other prisoners. Mrs. Smutzer was on her way to give a sick qirisonorn drink whenattacked .by Arthur Cummings and John Edwards, held for larceny, who made their escape. She gave The alarm at once, and "five "minutes Titer " officers were on the trail of the fugitives, but their capture is not expected, as they gainetl the Lake Shore railroad yards.

Save* Home and Child. Mrs. John Weller of Columbus risked her to save that of her little daughter and also to save her home. She had started to light a gasoline stove, but when the match was applied she learned that too much gasoline had been generated. The flames enveloped the stove and spretfß to some curtains. The little girl was sitting close by, aud was in danger of *be&g*¥alight "by the rapidty spreading flames.’ Mrs. Weilel- grabbed the flaming stove and carried it into the yard, where she threw it from her. Her arms, hands, face and neck were badly burned, but her condition i« not serious. .Jealon*}' Inspire* a Tragedj. Curtis W. Baker, traveling salesman for the Page Fence Company, shot at his wife twice in Terre Haute*and then kilted himself. One of the bullets struck Isis wife in the leg, causing a flesh wound. Jeaionsy was the inciting cause. They had been in Terre Haute but a short time. Each Iwd been married before, and each had two children by a former marriage. : ;

Bottle Plant Ordered Sold. In Superior Court in Anderson Judge Greenlee ordered the receiver. .4. A. Small, to sell the plant of the National Bottle Company of El wood within iwo weeks. The receiver was also ordered to shut down the factory, following iwo months' effort to operate it under the receivership. Fear Death from “Tank Scrap." Eleven students of Purdue University were injured in the tank scrap between tho and freshmen. In the ease of Frank Grandyke of New Castle it is feared the injuries will be fatal. E. B. Jacks of Michigan received niter* nal injuries that are serious.

Union’* Cash for Fourth of July Fun.

President Van Horn of the Indiana Miners’ Association has revoked tile charter of the local lodge of 200 Members at Heckland for refusal to restore to the lodge treasury $5 for each member,’ which amount they allowed themselves for Fourth of July spending money.

Take* Marriage Vow Silently.

Charles Rush and Carrie M. Word, deaf mutes, were married in Warsaw without a word being spoken by the officiating justice, the necessary questions and answers being written. Mr. and Mrs. Rush have each had previous matrimnoial experience.

Former Jurl*t Nab* Burglar.

Walter Olds, a former judge of the Supreme Court of Indiana, cornered a burglar in the bathroom of his house in Fort Wayne and when the police arrived led the prisoner down stairs and handed him over to them.

Dlurne I* Fifty Year* Old. I lie golden jubilee anniversary ill 4k* Fort Wayne diocese of the Cntu >iic church was celebrated Sunday. Among the 1 speakers were Bishop Alerding. former Supreme Judge Howard, and Fatoer Morriaey. ( boar* Squirrel) Fntnlly Hart. Carl Brittain, a school teacher of Dubois county, climbed a tree after iij'rel and fell to the ground, a distance of sixty feet, sustaining fatal injuries. Minor Btate XtetM, Hurry Kreimelor. prominent resid nt of Itichuiond, was killed by a carbuncle on his neck. Mrs. Andrew Hulster Duff was thrown from a boggy by a runaway horse in Kvansvilie. She was fatally injured. The board of public safety in ftoiiltt Bend has established a life-saving station on the St. Joseph river, and has also provided a patrol launch with complete life- ~ saving apparatus. /" A Lake Shore train struck and killed an unknown man near Itolling Prairie. Whitecaps who attempted to attack Tobe Gaddy at Bloomington were routed by Gaddy, who firtd ou them, killing Jefferson llobinson. I>uring the absence from home of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Miller of Lyon* a 4-yenr-old child was burned to death by an explosion of coal oil. while a 12-year old daughter is noar death’s door from the same cause.* A third child was badly burned about the arnla. bnt despite (he pain, the child ran to the neighbors aud spread the alarm. 7" *■