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

FROM OVER INDIANA

Harley Smith, aged 26, a farmer of Frlchton, shot and killed himself in the woods because his sweetheart Jilted him. = x = Professor Cyrus Whodgin, head of the history department of Earlham college and the author of a number of text books, is in a critical state and is not expected to live. = x = Mary B. Zoller of Lafayette was yesterday elected superintendent of Reid Memorial hospital in "Richmond. Miss Zoller has been in hospital work at Lafayette for a number of years. Henry Struckman, a prominent resident of Indianapolis, who was well known over the state, killed his wife and himself yesterday. The murder and suicide was due to a Jalous rage on the part of Struckman. a X st Following a two months’ shut-down the United States cement plant resumed operations at Bedford yesterday, and is now running full capacity. The number of men employed during the day is 145 and at night 50. Fasset A. Cotton, state superintendent of public instruction, has sent out notices to city and town school superintendents, calling attention to the fact that under a new Indiana law they must employ music -anddrawing teachers. = x = Supervisors of the Seventh Indiana cavalry are preparing for their annual reunion, which will be held this year at Hartford City. The date chosen for the meeting is September 30th, and the members are being notified of the reunion and urged to attend. =: x = The popularity of the, good roads movement among the farmers living near Anderson was demonstrated by the favorable return received from the election in Green township on the proposal to build fourteen miles of new road at an estimated cost of |60,000.

Benjamin E. Wallace, general manager of the Hagenbeck-Wallaoe shows, is at his home in Peru for a short time. He says the shows are doing the best business in their history, notwithstanding the combination has been fighting him at almost every turn. The shows will close the season Oct. 19 in the south. = x = Arthur. Finnegan, 88 years old, held in the county jail at Logansport awaiting commitment to Michigan City prison, to which Institution he has been sentenced to from one to eight years for petit larceny, has not eaten a mouthful of food since a week ago yesterday and still refuses to eat He is determined that he will starve before he will go to prison, and all efforts to get him to eat has been futile. s= x =s A small boy loaded one of the large cannons that was recently rent to EvansvUle from the government barracks at San Antonio, Texas, and stationed In Sunset park, and touched off the fuse with a lighted cigarete. The explosion was terrific and was beard all over the city, and many people thought there had been an earthquake. The park was filled with women and children at the time and there was a rush in all directions.