Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1908 — FROM OVER THE STATE [ARTICLE]

FROM OVER THE STATE

As a result of a collision with a fellow player In a ball game in South Bend, Johin Gdieser sustained a compound fracture of the skull and a broken nose. The man with whom he collided, Jess Sharp, was also injured. The Rev. Arthur Gorter, rector of St. Paul’s Episcopal church, Laporte, is considering a call to a pastorate at Medford, Wis. His pastoral work at Laporte will close August 1. The Fortieth Regiment, Indiana Veterans' Volunteer association, will hold its annual reunion at Lafayette Tuesday, Sept. 1,1908. Headquarters will be at the Union Veterans’ Legion hall. Emanuel Hamman, aged 53, of North Webster, became temporarily insane Saturday when arrested by a constab • on a charge of selling liquor in a dry town on Independence day. There are three affidavits against him. Of the officers elected at the first county election in Newton, John Ade, of Kentland, father of George Ade, author- and playwright, is the only one now living. Mr. Ade is eighty years old. He was the first recorder of Newton county. The Switzerland county commissioners have refused to grant a license to Lee Wright to sell liquor in Vevay, Ind. Vevay and Switzerland county now have only one saloon and an effort will be made to put it out of business when the license expires in June next year. Within a short time thirteen rural cariers out of Logansport will have motorcycles. Three carriers now have the machines and in good weather they are able to cover their routes in less than two hours. Investigation shows they are cheaper than horses and far more speedier. Gunnar Teilman, a florist of Marion, has just been appointed florist of the Mountain branch, National Military Home, at Jackson City, Tenn. Mr. Teilman is a chrysanthemum specialist, and has taken prizes at the annual chrysanthemum exhibits at Indianapolis, St. Louis snd Chicago. A postoffice will be installed on i every ship in the United States navy, l authorization having been made at I the last session of congress. Enlisted I men on each ship may be appointed ias postmaster and assistant post- , master, their regular pay to be inj ceased by SSOO and S3OO a year, rei spectively. They must give bond of SI,OOO. Realizing that good roads in and about South Bend are among the best advantages a city has to offer and that i they are included in inducements for people and industries to locate In a place, the South Bend Business Men’s [ association has taken the initiative ;in making an effort to obtain good : roads in all directions radiating from : South Bend. '= x = Henry Codman Potter, seventh ' Protestant Episcopal bishop of the diocese of New York, died last night at “Fernleigli,” his summer home at Cooperstown, N. Y., after an illness of several weeks. The bishop was unconscious all day and the end, which came at 5:35 o’clock, was peaceand quiet. The prelate was 74 years old.

The New York Sun, in a discus--1 sion of the democratic campaign plana says: ‘‘Denver gave the democratic national committee SIOO,OOO for the convention. The committee used $46,000 of the fund and turned up in Lincoln on Tuesday with the other $55,000. Mr. Bryan directed that $5,000 be used immediately in Indiana. Iso that the party machinery in Hoosier land may be set a-going at once.” i i = x = A considerable number of Indianians will be interested in the reunion of the survivors of Whittaker’s Iron Brigade, which will take place during the national encampment G. A. R., to be held at Toledo, 0., beginning September 1. One of the regiments of this famous brigade, noted because of its gallant defense of Snodgrass hill in the battle of Chickamauga, was the Eighty-fourth Indiana. =. x = I Mlbb Mol lie Conder, age 56 years, is , thought to hold the record for the I state in continuous hotel service. Forty years ago, at the age of sixteen years, she entered what was } long known as the Williams hotel, Worthington, aB assistant cook; was afterwards promoted to the head of the culinary department, in which position she continued in the same ! hotel until last spring, when she re-1 signed the place, at the expiration of, * forty years.

Marcus D. Reid, a contractor, indicted at Bedford, Ind., for attempt- ] lng to bribe two jurymen, was caught at Terre Haute after eluding the authorities two years. Fred Hauswirth, formerly of the Brazil Brewing company, will leave Indiana for Hong Kong, China, Tvliere he will manufacture booze for the chinamen. Charles Fisher, a Terre Haute solicitor, committed suicide Saturday night after first snapping the weapon at Gertrude Lorey, with whom he had quarreled as they approached her home. Prof. S. E. Dubois, for several yearS connected with the school at Winona Lake, has accepted the position of principal of a ward school at Minneapolis, to which city he will go next month. The cornorstone of the Young Men’s Christian Association building—ah Indianapolis was laid with appropriate ceremonies. Bishop Edwin Holt Hughes was the principal speaker. The building is to cost $250 i 000, the money for which was raised by popular subscription. William Wyck, Sr,, retired contractor, 65 years old, grieving Qver blindness, seized a penknife, stabbed himself in the stomach, wounded himself in the breast and then cut his throat. He lived thp£e~'hours. William Wyck, Jr., a banker, attempted to save his father’s life by breaking down a barricaded bedroom door. The Summit mine, near Linton, claims the state record for work during the last year, having worked 260 full days out of a possible 308, and it would have operated ten days longer but for strikes. The mine also claims one of the best records for tonnage in the state. During the last year the tonnage was 241,000. A mine with a tonnage of 200,000 is consideied to be rare in Indiana. It is said that I. W. Geer, superintendent Of the Logansport division of the Panhandle, with headquarters at Logansport, has been appointed to succeed W. C. Cushing, former chief engineer, with headquarters at Pittsburg. It is said that Frank Worthington, superintendent of the Vandalia, with headquarters at Logansport, will succeed Geer. Worthington’s successor is not known. Joseph Taylor, a farmer, who lives near Hope,Bartholomew county, came near losing his life Saturday afternoon by being buried under a wagonload of wheat. He was hauling the wheat to Hope, and started to cross a small culvert when it gave way with him. The wagon was overturned and the man was buried under-the loose grain. He was rescued in an unconscious condition. The Evansville government revenue office reports great gains in the amount of revenue collected off nonalcoholic drinks, manufactured by two Evansville breweries. It is said that the drinks are supplanting beer in many places. According to Collector Zeb Sullivan, the Evansville reveuue office is the only one in the United States which showed an increase in receipts for the six months ending June 30 last.

The democratic 1 and republican cen£ S.ral committees of Johnson county have joined in an anti-boodle and anti-booze agreement for the coming campaign. The plan has been indorsed by leading citizens, who will see to the observance of the agreement. With the only saloons in Johnson confined to Edinburg, the saloon opponents are cneered by the plan to eliminate booze from tbe campaign.* While Emmett Barrett, twelve years old, accompanied by two boys about the same age, were riding their bicycles along tbe national road west of Richmond, they were halted by a man driving a covered wagon. The man seized Barrett and the other boys abandoned their wheels and ran. Bariett’s cries and struggles prompted the man to release him. The boys told the police the man resembled a Gypsy. Barett believes an attempt was made to kidnap him.