Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1907 — Indiana State News [ARTICLE]

Indiana State News

HIGH SCHOOL PUPIL KILLED. Swung Off One Train and Landed In Front of Another As a' result of a school boy lark, in which a number of the students of West -Lafayette* high school participated, Hiram Tooker, 16 years old, met instant death. Young Tooker, with a party of companions, left the high school after the afternoon session and walked to the Big Four tracks. Beneath an overhead hridge they boarded a gravel train moving toward the gravel pit at Summit, two miles west. When the train slowed down Tooker swung off and stepped on the main track just as a swiftly moving eastbound passenger train came along. The pilot of the locomotive struck the lad and knocked him two rods. He was the son of Shephard C. Tooker, traveling salesman; and had been in high school two years. He was athletic and bright in his studies. „ “f FINDS TSYOKESS^OO-eeSTWiU-Therefore Congressman Watson Intends to Han for Governor. Because, so he says, he can't afford to live in Washington on the salary he gets, Representative Watson is going to run for Governor of Indiana. Watson is the Republican whip of the House and has been regarded as one- of the coming men, but he finds that he can’t hold on long enough to get there. He was reminded that the salary liad been increased from $5,000 to $7,500, “I know it,” he answered glumly, “but in the end a 'man grows old and finds himself impoverished. If I don’t get the governorship I shall retire to private life. I’m through with the House.” i KILLED IN TBAIN WRECK. Engineer’s Wife Comes so Depot to Find She Is Widow. Two persons were killed and eighteen injured, three seriously, in a rear-end collision of the Chicago and Erie flyer and a freight train ten miles from Rochester. The dead Michael J. Mast, engineer, Huntington ; James G. Henry, Brakeman, Huntington. Engineer Mast was to have met his wife, who is visiting her married daughter in Chicago, at the Polk street -station at 12 o’clock and had wired her that he expected to be in on time. The accident was caused by three cars breaking gway from the freight which was pulling into’a sidings ' NAB NEGRO WOMEN FOOTPADS. Charged with Holding Up Six Mea at South Bend, Ind. Three negro women, giving their names as Lizzie Elsbury, Grace Martin and Ida Hance and their homes at Indianapolis, were arrested in South Bend. During three weeks’ time, it is alleged, they held up and robbed six men. One of the wbmen, it is elaimed, attempted to murder Detective Butler when he placed her under arrest, drawing a dirk from her dress. When searched SSO was found in her pocket. At the house where they were living a large quantity of silk waists and new were found. Witness Defies the Judge. The chief witness in jail, the defend-! ant a free man, is the result of a trial in the city court of Marion. Tom Turner, race horse trainer, swore in an affidavit that Harry Johnson struck him in a saloon. Johnson denied the charge, but John Zent contradicted him. Another witness also said Zent dealt the blow. Zent was recalled and admitted he had knocked Turner down. He talked back to the court and the result was that he got thirty-five days in jail. Both Feet Cut Off. William Adams, a telegraph operator, said to be from Indianapolis, fell under a Monon train at Lafayette and both his feet were cut off. He was stealing a ride when the accident occurred. He is in St. Elizabeth hospital and it is believed he cannot recover. SIO,OOO lor Her Beauty. Lucy Bennett of Notre Dame, through her next friend, her mother, has filed suit against Jerome Lilian, a saloonkeeper, for SIO,OOO damages. Lilian is charged with disfiguring the girl by shooting blank cartridges at her face because she refused to dance for him and his friends. Boy Dies of Tentaana. William Mann, 10 years old, living near Evansville, died of lockjaw, the result of stepping on a rusty nail several days ago. Plumbers I.oae In Strike. The plumber* returned to work in Terre Haute at the old wages of 45 cents an hour, after a strike of ten days. Within Oar Borders. William Solomon of Evansville, 50 years old, despondent because of deaths in his family, went to a secluded spot, drnnk cartxdic acid and died. Three men were fatally Injured and fourteen others seriously hurt in a collision of work trains on the Chicago, South Bend and i«ake Shore railroad at South Bend. 1 <• While participating j«l a scrimmage, Guy Wagoner, member of the McComb high school football team, suffered a broken collar bone and his shoulder was crushed In Warsaw. He was taken a hospital on account of his serious condition. Because her father objected to her choice of a sweetheart Ruth Anderson, 13 years old, drank carbolic acid in Wncennes. and fell dying in front of an undertaking establishment, in which she expired ted minutes afterward. Frank McClure, a' member of ‘he J. S. McClure Sons’ furniture firm and undertakers, and a-well-known citizen of B'cknell, spent the other day In his office and on his farm in the country, and ieturnc.l home for supper, apparently in good health. After taking a warm Inch preparatory to conig to bed, he stepped from the bathroom and fall dead of apop ax/.