Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1908 — FROM OVER THE STATE [ARTICLE]

FROM OVER THE STATE

Sutton Bros.’ circus, which had been playing northern Indiana towns, disbanded. it showed in Lagrange and Syracuse. The novel sight of a load of oats hauled by an automobile was seen at Donavin, recently. The load—sev-enty-five bushels—was v hauled into the elevator and dumped without a mishap. A crime wave is sweeping northern Indiana. From every little town and hamlet comes reports of burglaries, robberies and holdups. People are keeping cash in their homes and place of business instead of banking It. = X =r ■ The Laporte county commissioners have granted the contract for the new county jail, sheriffs residence and stable to the E. Burner company, of South Bend. The contract price was 960,00, that being the lowest bid. From Crawfordsville to Bristol, Vt., via Cleveland, Buffalo and New York city, is the trip on which Mr. and Mrs. Dumont M. Peck, with their son and Mrs. Peck’s mother, Mrs. Lee S. Warner, have just started. They expect to be gone a fortnight *= x = Grief 1b believed to have hastened the death of Mrs. Houghton, of North Manchester, whose daughter, Miss Amy Houghton, became insane and fide to the woods, where she was captured in an apple tree. Mrs. Houghton’s death was due to tuberculosis. The remnants of a corduroy road laid through Mishawaka and South Bend over sevdnty-five years ago were discovered at Mishawaka by workmen who were excavating for a sewer. The road was eight feet below the present street level and the logs Vere in excellent condition. = x The Soo railroad has placed an order with the Wisconsin free employment bureau for 7,000 men. They are wanted as harvest hands in Minnesota and North Dakota, and the wages offered run from 92 to 94 a day with board. Under the order several hundred men have already been placed. Mrs. L. A. Anthony, a Wabash mute, gave a surprise party at her home Monday evening In honor of her birthday. Thirty mutes were present from Fort Wayne, Indianapolis, Huntington and Pern. Devotional services were held, the guests ninging religious songs in the sign language.

The Grantham barn near Delphi burned to the ground early Wednesday morning of last week. Five horses perished and two otherß were badly burned. Twenty tons of hay and tiOO bushels of wheat was destroyed. Insurance $2,100. New hay in the mow is supposed to have caused the fire. John W. Kern, democratic candidate for vice president, said the next address he would deliver would be at Charles City, la., Aug. 8, before a Chautauqua gathering. Mr. Kern has accepted the invitation of the Muncie Trades council to make the principal Labor Day. speech. His address will be non-partisan. Many sportsmn along the Kankakee river are interested in what appears to be a general movement looking to a change in the present fish and game law. They assert that a law that will not permit a m»n to hunt on his own land, nor kill game that the fruit of his toil has fed and protected, without first procuring a license, is unjust. The American Thomas automobile in the New York Paris race, which is virtually regarded the winner of the world contest, reached Berlin yesterday after an all-night run. The crew was given a great ovation as the Car swung through the streets, and at the hoted where the Americans stopped for refreshments they were the cynosure of the eyes of thousands. The democratic superior judgeship convention, at Elkhart yesterday, on the fourth ballot nominated Henry Stein, of South Bend, over Francis Jackson, of South Bend, and James Lewis Harman, of Elkhart. The last ballot stood 82 tor Bteis, 17 for Jackson and one for Hannan. On the first ballot Harman got the full vote of Elkhart county, twenty, but gradually lost to Stela. = x =s Horse thieves stole a horse and busty belonging to X. D. Cain, of Prattville, and so far have eluded capture. The following description of the stolen outfit Is given: Pay mare, black mane and tall, seven years old, weight 1,060, both hind feet white, wire cut on left front foot, very small star In forehead, smooth made mare, hitched to rubber tired buggy, wSaig colored gears, gray trimmings, nssrly new, Lull Broe. make, single strap

harness, leather fly net A reward of fifty dollars has been offered for the return of the horse and rig. Roman Catholic priests from all parts of the country are In South Bend for the session bf the Eucharistic league, which opened yesterday. Among the distinguished arrivals are Rt Rev. C. P. Maes, bishop of Covington; Mgr. Baker, vicar general of Buffalo; Mgr. Lavelle,. rector of St Patrick’s Cathedral, New York city, and Mgr. Lammel. President John Cavanaugh of Notre Dune University delivered the opening address. Because he is fond of tobacco, and prisoners in the Michigan City penitentiary are allowed to use the weed, whereas those in Jeffersonville Reformatory are not, James Connett, who does not appear to be over twen-ty-two years old, asserted that he was thirty-one. He has been taken to the Michigan City institution. He was convicted of robbing the A. J. Wilson grocery, and did not deny the charge. In appearance he is a mere boy and he should be, by reason of his age, In the Reformatory, but his persistence in saying that he was thirty-one yhars old and his willingness to make oath to this, caused him,to be sent to the prison north.