Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1908 — FROM OVER INDIANA [ARTICLE]

FROM OVER INDIANA

Ed Ernston, a steel worker at Gary, fell from a scaffold and was instantly killed. .=8 X SZ Kosciusko county business men are warmly advocating the organization of a fair in that county. x ss The Indiana synod of the Presbyterian church, will meet at Richmond, October 12-14. Many of the leaders of the church in Indiana are to take part Raspberries in Northern Indiana late in September are a curiosity, but G. R. Valentine, of Warsaw, had several well filled bushes on his lot and the fruit is almost seedless. = x = Martin W. Mansfield, assistant chief engineer -of the Pennsylvania lines west, with headquarters in Pitsburg, Pa., is dead from the effects of cerebral hemorrhage. He had been ill ’for some time. = x = Caleb Powers, who spent eight years in a Kentucky penitentiary in connection with the Goebel assassihatjon case before being pardoned .by Gov. Wilson, was baptized in the Baptist church at Jellico Sunday night in the presence of 500 people, ’■ sb x as Thomas W. Beckner, a former cashier of the Vandalia railroad, indicted by the grand jury on a charge of embezzlement of $7,720.83 from the Vandalia, walked into Chief Schaefer’s 1 office at South Band, gave himtelf up and gave bond for $5,000. J. x ~ Wm. Francis, of Connersville, has found in East Fork eighteen pearls.' One of the pearls is the size of the end of a man’s finger and if perfect would be worth $1,500. As it is it is worth over SIOO. Some of the smaller stones are perfect and will | bring good prices. =s x = .'" Gov. Hanly, after a conference with 1 the republican state committee,' an- ; nounced he will speak for the re-1 publicans during the remainder of the 1 campaign, in places where they send him. He will devote as much of his time as is required for the benefit of the party.

ts x == Joseph Baker, a farmer living five miles south of Banta, a village eight miles east of Mooresville, died as the result of a peculiar accident. He was tying a shock of fodder, when the rope on which he was pulling broke and he fell backward upon stubs of the corn stalks which he had just cut. The stubs pierced bls body and he lived but a few days.

Believing that the local option law would cut off the whiskey supply Charles Thresper and Charles and William Lindley, pf Kokomo, on Sunday took, a jug of whiskey to a gravel pit to have a farewell drink. Thresper and William Lindley were found dead in the gravel pit, and Charles Lindley was found lying near the bodies In a dying condition. Teachers and pupils of the Greentown school, near the pit marched past the bodies to give the children an object lesson in temperance.

t SB X SS Mrs. Peters, U aged resident of LapOfte, has been missing since Friday and the police have been notified to search for' h*r. It was thought she might be at the home of Fred Walters, in Laporte, but she has not beenTthero. as x s W. B. Douglas, of Warsaw, has a -crab apple tree that is producing the second crop of fruit in one season. = x = straw vote was taken Wednesday among the men employed by Contractor U. 8. Lidguard, who is doing the grading work on the Winona line and it was found that nineteen out of the twenty men will vote for Taft = x as ' a Plans and- specifications for a $75,i 000 auditorium have just been completed by the Winona assembly association. The new building will seat 9,200 persona H. J. Heins, of Pittsburg, the millionaire pickle man, has donated $25,000 towards th* building fund. XS X SB Despite public opinion the South Bend common council has left on a j junket to Omaha to attend the annual meeting of the Municipal L* gu*. 'previously having appropria'ed S7OO to pay expense*. Th* objection to the trip was made bocaus* the city’s bonded indebtedness is now nearly up to the a per cent allotment. ■SB x w threatened milk famine in Bt. Joeeph county has been averted. The heavy rain* of this week cam* in time to save the cities of South Bend. Mishawaka, Walkerton and a dome small towns from experiencing a situation la which th* dairymen and farmer* would b* compelled to etas* the delivery of milk except on every other day.