Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1908 — FROM OVER INDIANA [ARTICLE]

FROM OVER INDIANA

Arlington Allman, of Garrett, attempted to shoot himself because the war department was after him for deserting the navy. He will recover. Mrs. Jefferson Hanelie, of Columbia City, has had a needle imbedded in her foot for thirty-eight years. It only began bothering her recently. = 1 = , The two-year-old daughter of Ross Shields, at Clay City, was left by her mother in charge of hr father, She followed some ducks to a pond while the father sleflt and was drowned in two feet of water. Hon. John W. Kern, the democratic nominee for vice president, returned to Indianapolis and announced that Tuesday, August 25, would probably be fixed as the date for the notification meeting to be, held in Indianapolis. Robert E. Bly, a barber,thirty years old, while alighting from a Lake Shore railroad freight train at Kendallville, was run over and killed. Bly lived in Toledo, 0., but being ill he was returning to Kendallvllle to stay with his parents. Realizing he was in a serious condition and had but a short time to live, D. H. Harris, a wealhty citizen of Grandview, Ind., held an auction Monday and sold all his proprety. In a few seconds after the sale he died. He was 62 years old. = x , Activity of James Epperson, state inspector of mines, and his assistants resulted in the suspension of half a dozen mines and prosecutions of nearly 100 cases for violation of state mining laws. Mr. Epperson has taken the field to help his deputies.