Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1909 — STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

STATE NEWS.

The Anti-Saloon League of Benton county will become a Good Order league and will hunt for blind tigers. A reward of $25 has been offered for information leading to the conviction Of any -bootleggers. Emanuel Trask, of Kempton, will probably lose one foot on account of wearing shoes that were too tight. An abrasion led to blood poisoning and a surgeon says amputation of the foot may be necessary. - M. B. Stults, who represented Huntington county in the state legislature in 1905 and 1807, fell down a flight of stairs at his furniture store in Huntington Friday and suffered a fracture of the humerus of the right arm near the shoulder. Ferdinand Vollmer, sheriff of Dubois county, is suffering from an unusual accident. While -posting legal notices he was holding tacks between his lips when one of the tacks went down his throat The accident is causing him much pain. Asserting that all the milliners in Hartford City favored the “wets” in the recent local option election, several women from that place visited the millinery stores of Upland Thursday to buy Easter hats. Grant county voted “dry.” The Masonic order will convey the famous traveling trowel from Los Angeles to the city of Mexico and back by special train, leaving Los Angeles May 5. The trowel will be started on its trip to all of .the Masonic lodges of the world by the Justino Masonic lodge of New York City. Frank Cotton, son of G. W. Cotton, of Elkhart, is a prisoner in the Huntington county jail, charged with passing a check on a Huntington merchant bearing the forged signature of his father. The check was taken up by the father, who but the State of Indiana has stepped in. -.".t--

The most favorable report ever issued by the South Bend postoffice is that for the quarter ending April 1. The total receipts for the three months were $50,238.72. For the same three months last year the total was $39,773.94, showing a gain for the quarter this year of $10,465.78. The village of Bethlehem, this state, has been without a saloon for the one hundred years of its history. Sixty years ago it was a larger town than it is today, for before the days of railroads it was on the water highway, whereas now it is twenty miles from a railroad and the river is still its chief means of transportation. Dr. Joshua J. Keen, 82 years old, a pioneer physician of Tippecanoe county, died Saturday morning. He was a son of a revolutionary soldier and came to Indiana from Pennsylvania in 1853. For fourteen years he was postmaster at Buck Creek and was also a licensed preacher. He served as lieutenant in a volunteer regftnent in the civil war.

Henry Evans, a farmer living a few miles southwest of Jasper, has filed a $2,000 damage suit against Michael J. Scheurick, a former saloon keeper of that place, and the United Stater Fidelity and Guaranty company, of Baltimore, Md., which is security on his bond. He alleges that while drunk, by reason of unlawful sales of liquor made by Scheurick, that he received a permanent injury.

An old negro was asleep on Conductor Avey’s train out of Michigan City the other day, mouth open and snoring, when a drummer emptied a quinine capsule on his tongue. The old darkey awakening, began to spit around and called for the conductor saying: “Boss, is dere a doctor on dis here train?” “I don’t know,” said the conductor. "Are you sick?” “Yes, sir, I sho’ is sick, I sho’ is sick.” “What is the matter with you?” “I dunno, sir, but It taste like I busted my gall."—Francesville Tribune.