Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1908 — FROM OVER INDIANA [ARTICLE]

FROM OVER INDIANA

M. L.' Galbreath, of Columbia City, has a plan to obviate any more horror at the crossing where the King pyty met death. He would construct an overhead roadway at the point. A heavy rain Tuesday evening saved the corn in Elkhart county, for two 1 more days of burning sun would have ruined it. The rain also stopped the timber and grass fires in the county. It hag been announced that on Sept. 2, the Citizen’s Glass company would start its plant at Evansville giving employment to 200 skilled workmen and later on to a thousand men. Aaron Hartzler is installing a plant for irrigating his fruit farm of fifteen acres north of Goshen, and has put in two large wells this week, and a gasoline engine with rotary pump is being installed. The St. Joseph Valley Traction company announces it will build from Middlebury to Elkhart via Bristol if farmers will donate the right-of-way. The franchise in Elkhart expires September 19. The Mariop club of Indianapolis has invited W. H. Tafe, republican presidential candidate, to attend a banquet to be given by the club shortly after election. Mr. Taft indicated that he will accept the invitation if possible. A mountain of manure is on fire at Phil McLaughlin’s farm near Hammond, and has been pouring smoke from its summit, like a volcano, for several days. Over 20,000 carloads of well rotted fertilizer which is worth 15 cents a yard, is doomed to destruction and nothing but a drenching rain can save it. Confronted with a loaded shotgun in the hands of Mrs. Julia Hamman, near North. Webster, Constable Isaac Blesser.of Warsaw,was deterred from arresting Emanuel Hamman, son of the woman, who is accused of selling intoxicants without a license. The constable has now filed an affidavit against the woman, accusing her of assault,but it will be necessary to call in special officers, as the regular constables decline to serve the warrant. Developments during the last few days indicate that the depositors in the Kosciusko County bank, closed two months ago by the state auditor, must wait several months for payment of the first dividend owing to the fact that $27,000 in the bank belongs to Kosciusko county, and is a preferred claim. Suit on the bond against the surety company backing the bank in the acceptance of county funds is threatened unless the amount due the county is paid within a reasonable time. Charles Scribner has returned to Oakland City after an absence of seventeen years. Shortly after Scribner left, a notice of his death was sent to relatives. The story of his death was accepted as truth by the family, and his appearance created a sensation. He states as a reason for his long and silent absence that he was afraid to write home lset he would hear of the death of some of his people.

Elijah Stevens and Jacob Mlchler, of Bowling Green, lost control of their horse while driving, and the buggy was overturned, throwing both to the ground. Stevens suffered two broken ribs and severe cuts about • the face, while Michler was injured in the back so that he was helpless. Both men lay for an hour exposed to the sun’s ray» before their condition was discovered. Lake County finds It has a stiff proposition to contend with, that of raising all the bridges on the Calumet river. The United States government has made urgent requests for those improvements, and the county commissioners from the south district went to East Chicago Wednesday, and was joined by the rest of the board at* Crown Point on a trip of inspection. There are eight bridges in all to be raised to a sufficient height to allow steamers to pass under them. Some of them will have to be turn bridges which will mean a heavy expense for the county. Chas. A. Rigdon, of Warsaw, deputy grand president of the Fraternal Order of Eagles, secretary of the state order and temporary national president of the same order, left yesterday for Seattle to attend the annual national convention. One amendment in the constitution that the Indiana delegate will make an effort to get through will be the elimination of a column in the cash register of all Eagle lodges known as ‘‘buffet’*. The Eagles two years ago put a ban on liquor in the lodge roo*n, and as a result of a violation of this order, ene Indiana lodge, that at Newcastle, was recently disbanded.