Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1908 — FROM OVER INDIANA [ARTICLE]

FROM OVER INDIANA

The city water plant of Bloomington shut down Wednesday night because of a water famine. ' S=‘ X = Officers of the New York-Chicago Air line, which is being built from Laporte to Gary, say that the road will be finished by June, and that the schedule time will be 30 minutes. =S X =5 Hartford City police believe the nitroglycerin stolen from the DuPont magazine there about a week ago. 3 was obtained by the South Bend postoffice robbers. In nearly every instance nitroglycerin stolen from the Hartford City magazine is followed by a safe blowing-. = x s After ’ thirty-five years’ continuous service at the Trinity Methodist church in Lafayette, during which time “he missed one Sunday, George L. Bruce has tendered his resignation as organist to the trustees. His record is said to be without a precedent- Mr. Brucg has served under ten pastors. as - X =s Asle K. Helgelein has ordered a tombstone for the grave of his brother, Andrew H., in Patton’s cemetery at LaPorte. This inscription will be chiseled on the stone: “Andrew H. Helgelein, 1859-1908. The last victim of the Gunness horror. Remains found by his brother,. Asle K. Helgelein, May 5, 1908. Rest in Peace.”

= X = Fifty-three licenses to practice medi-’ cine were granted by the State Board of Medical Examination and Registration Wednesday at its meeting in the State House. Those who received licenses stood the test as given by the board several weeks ago. They are all graduates of medical colleges throughout the state. SS X s Superior Court Judge Vernon Van Fleet, at Elkhart yesterday, dismissed the case against former Township Trustee George Cobb, of Goshen, on the ground that he hjid been tried and acquitted on the same charge in the circuit court. Cobb, as trustee, misappropriated public funds, but his bondsman, who is his uncle. Major J. B. Cobb, made good the amount = X = Following the rejection of his traction ideas by the city of Cleveland comes the announcement that Tom L. Johnson, who was supposed to be a millionaire, is so nearly bankrupt that he is forced to sell his residence and automobiles. In an interview he says his fortune has been lost in an effort to save the estate of his brother for the widow. = x The Kalamazoo, Elkhart & South Rend electric railway, it is announced will be built’ and in operation within a year. A canvass of the proposed route shows a population of 2,114 to the mile, while the electric railway bonds now on the market require only 750 population to the mile. The line will be 73 miles long and the larger portion of the right of way is already bought. = x ss The board of trustees of the Indiana Reformatory, at Jeffersonville, at a meeting to consider the situation growing out of the disastrous fire of Sunday, decided to arrange, if possible, for temporary aid through the governor in order to start enough work to employ the idle inmates until the legislature meets. The amount required at once will be about $15,000.

= x = A huge mirror weighing six and one-half tons, valued at $60,000, said to be the most valuable single article of merchandise ever carried across the Atlantic ocean, has arrived at New York on the steamer St. Andrew. The mirror will be used in the Mt. Wilson Solar Observatory at Pasadena, Cal. It will be shipped by boat to New Orleans, and thence overland to Pasadena. ’ cis Representative Thomas W. Brolley, of North Vernon, it is said, is going to Indianapolis at the next session of the legislature armed again with his bill to repeal the law which prohibits the playing of Sunday baseball for admission fees. Brolley led the fight for the repeal of the law at the session in 1907. It is his Intention, it is said, not to legalize the charging of admissions for Sunday games, but to repeal the law which prohibits it.

SB X = The thirty-ninth annual session of the Indiana Y. M. C. A. convened in South Bend yesterday with delegates from every important city in the state present. The speakers Include Dr. F. W. Gunsaulus and Arthur Elliott, of Chicago, and Bishop E. H. Hughes, of San Francisco. The first session was held at the First Presbyteran church. Walter J. Lewis, of Evansville, having charge, ijist night a reception to the dele* gates was held at the Y. M. C. A. building. The election of officers will take place today.