Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1908 — FROM OVER INDIANA [ARTICLE]

FROM OVER INDIANA

The trial of Harry Green, who was one of the two fellows arrested the latter Dart of last June for stealing a horse from Fred Jacobs, a Porter county farmer, in which Officer Gill and Rose from here and several Lake Station citizens figured prominently, place in the circuit court on Monday and the jury, after being out all night, stood 11 for conviction and 1 for acquittal. Green will be given a new trial. It will be remembered that Chas. Warkovich, the other fellow associated with Green and said to be the\ most guilty, mysteriously disappeared from the Gary officers soon after the preliminary hearing.—Hobart Gazette.*, It is current report that a deal is in progress for the purchase of the crime-famed Gunness farm; that it is to be purchased by a sister of Mattie Altic, who once reigned as mistress of the house in which Belle Gunness lured her victims to death. Moses Over holder, a bachelor, aged 80, was H.’Jed by a mad cow west of Goshen. He had attended a sale, bought the cow and was leading It home. Occti/.s said tL- 1 he would recover and bis nephew started for the house with hm. He was seized with convu}3Lus aid died in. awful agony. Dairymen in Bartholomew county are unable to supply but half of their customers with. milk. The long drought has caused the pastures to dry up and the cattle are fed on corn. That all of the customers may receive a small quantity of milk the dairymen have divided their usual supply about one-third. In order that the saloonkeepers of Gary will not be compelled to pay for a city license for a year, when they have only a few months more to >un on their county license, City Attorney Bomberger has been requested by the town board to draw up a special ordinance which provides for the issuance of a city license for an indefinite length of time. Dispatches state that many western Indiana farmers are holding their grain for future market, claiming that prices will advance rapidly as soon as the actual condition of the present corn crop is generally Ln'iwn. A movement is said to be on foot among the farmers of various localities looking to the control, of grain until what is believed to he the limit in price is reached. C. J. Harris, of Morocco, a large land owner, recently sold 2,000 acres of land In the Beaver Lake county in northern Newton county, for SIOO an acre. This land, which could have been bought twenty years ago at $5 to $lO an acre, and which at that time was practically worthless except for grazing, purposes, has de"vePlped under drainage into the richest} farm and hay land iq the county. John W. Qtt, of Lawrenceburg, was attending a card party at the home of a friend, and during a game of seven-up he caught his opponent’s jack and won the game. He became excited and struck the table so hard with his right fist that he broke the middle finger near the second joint. Blood poison is developing and his attending physl-’ cians think that the finger and probably the hand will have to be amputated to save his life.