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

STATE NEWS.

The plans of Alfred Grindle, an Indianapolis architect, have been accepted for the new Holy Trinity Episcopal church in Bloomington, to cost about $30,000. State Superintendent of Public Instruction Robert J. Aley has been invited to deliver the address in Laporte upon the occasion of the graduating exercises of the county schools. Billy Sullivan, it was officially announced yesterday, is the new manager of the Chicago American league baseball club. Sullivan is a catcher and succeeds Fielder Jones as the head of the team. '}

The 3-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Welker, eight miles from Warsaw, attempted to imitate her parents and gave medicine to her baby brother, Franklin, aged 16 months. The bottle contained laudanum instead of cough medicine and the child died the next morning.

iJap Guhl, signed at the close of last season by Manager Carr, of the Indianapolis American association team, as a member of Its pitching staff, has returned to Laporte, and will leave this week for Eau Claire, Wls., where he has been farmed for the season. There are over 100 applications before Governor Marshall for appointment as accountants under the new public accounting law. Governor Marshall will complete his appointments within a short time. He has announced that the appointments under this law will be for fitness alone.

Six working girls of Elkhart hare filed claim* aggregating S2BO against the Lake Shore railroad for alleged damage to Easter suits and hats by a discharge of oily water from a locomotive, inflicted upon them as they stood on the platform of the station Sunday to see a train pass.

Easter Sunday was celebrated in Gary with more drunks than any other Sunday during the last three months, according to Chief of Police Joseph Martin. Many imbibers were discovered lying in the streets and alleys. William L. Taylor, a former state attorney-general, is talked of a great amount now as the next republican candidate for mayor of Indianapolis. He denies that he will be a candidate but it is probable that before the convention meets he will “permit” the use of his name. He is an able man and there were a great many in this county who favored his nomination for governor last year. Walter S. Ratcliff, a member of the Indiana legislature, who was denied a master’s degree by Earlham college because of his attitude on the liquor question, has received notice that he has been made a member of the National Geographic society, which is considered no small honor, as it includes many men of science, literature and high official position.

The wonderful grasp of details possessed by the late James Oliver, plow manufacturer and philanthropist of South Bend, is shown by the settlement of his estate, estimated to be worth $60,000,000. Notwithstanding the size of the fortune, not a. single claim was filed against it, and the executor, Joseph D. Oliver, son of the dead man, has been discharged.

Governor Thomas R. Marshall has sent several dozen great American Beauties to Judge Allen Zollars, of Fort Wayne, who is recovering from a severe illness at Hope hospital, the two being life long friends. Judge Zollars’ room was a veritable bower of beauty owing to the flowers sent him by distinguished members of the bar from all parts of the state. His recovery is now assured.

A movement is now on foot to join Fort Wayne and Chicago by electric service before the end of the present year. J. J. Burns of Goshen, who built the Goshen-Elkhart line, is promoting the line.- Chicago capitalists are also interested and sufficient funds have been raised to finance the proposition. Negotiations are In progress for the acquisition of the Huntington & Goshen line, recently purchased by J. P. Dolan. It is the intention of the promoters to run the line from Fort Wayne via Churubusco, Vawter Park, Bentbn and Goshen.