Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1908 — FROM OVER INDIANA [ARTICLE]

FROM OVER INDIANA

The Bedford Stone and Construction company of Indianapolis in all probability will receive the contract for the erection of the Bedford public building. This company’s bld of 125,910 was the lowest of seven bids submitted, and the supervising architect has recommended to Acting Secretary Coolidge its acceptance, which recommendation, without doubt, will be followed. = x at . Charles Killen, 22 years of age, met death in a peculiar accident at Lafayette. He was driving a team and, when nearing Purdue university the flynet became unfastened and the driver stopped the team and walked out on the pole of the wagon to repair the break. The horses became frightened and ran away. Killen fell from the pole and the wagon passed over him, crushing his skull. = x =: Secretary Irwin Shephard of the National Educational association has announced that the department of superintendence will meet in Chicago Februray 23, 1909. The meeting was to have been held in Oklahoma City but the destruction of a leading hotel there by fire necessitated a change. Between 1,000 and 1,500 principals, superintendents and college presidents will attend the meeting. = x =

Government detectives have been in Hendricks county the last few days working on alleged counterfeiting cases and a violation of the postal laws. A few nights ago some one tore down the rural mail delivery box of John Kelley on Route No. 5 out of Danville and demolished it? The punishment for this offense is a fine of from |IOO to SI,OOO, to which may be added imprisonment for from one to three years. = x = Papers are being prepaired for the retirement of a large number of veteran railroad men on the Pennsylvania lines next month. Several of the men are shop men and train men who have reached the age limit of seventy years, and it is officially announced that the number of veterans to be retired this year will exceed that of any previous year. There Is a great deal of speculation as to which officials and employes will be given their places, as an unusually large number of promotions are to be made. —♦ — W. W. Phelps, a young farmer living near Noblesville, was perhaps fatally injured in an encounter with a bull. He was working in a field when the animal charged him. Phelps quickly seized a club and struck the animal, but slipped and fell. The bull tossed him twenty feet and was preparing for a second attack, when Phelps’ dog, by barking and snapping, attracted the animal’s attention. Phelps gained his feet and climbed a tree. His left leg was broken and he is injured internally.