Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1909 — STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

STATE NEWS.

Thieves looted the store of Max Landwlrth of Franklin street, Michigan City, Monday night, securing silks in the ’sum of $250. Entrance was effected through the windows at the rear of the building.

Prof. J. N. Study has been re-elected city school superintendent of the Fort Wayne schools for a term of three years. He has been superintendent since 1886, going to Fort Wayne from Richmond. J ■ . •

J. Frank Hanly, former governor of Indiana, announces that he will be a candidate for the United States senate against Senator A. J. Beveridge. Mr. Hanly will run on the anti-saloon platform.

The entire council of North Manchester was arrested yesterday, charged with illegally allowing the claims by not having them verified, and allowing them when not filed five days before the session. The penalty is a fine and removal from office.

Marlon Grey, of Benton Harbor, Mich., “Affinity Broker,” who leaped into fame a year ago by operation of the “Searchlight Matrimonial Club,” must serve a year in the bridewell. The federal court of appeals at Chicago upheld Judge Landis in the case and ordered the woman committed.

Dunkirk, Ind., is partly in Jay county, which recently voted "dry,” and partly in Blackford county, which voted “wet,” in option elections. Several keepers of saloons in the Jay county part of the town will apply to the commissioners of Blackford county for licenses. The temperance forces will fight the shift.

President Stone of Purdue university has called a meeting of students and faculty members this evening to discuss the county local option question. President Stone is a member of the Tippecanoe County Option League and a leader of the “dry” forces. Tippecanoe county will vote on the saloon question April 30.

A petition is being circulated in Indianapolis by Mrs. Louise Myers, for a pardon for her brother, Lon Henderson, who murdered John Tarpy of Haughville in 1892, and who is now in the prison in Michigan City. Mrs. Myers says her brother has reformed and that she wants to take him with her to the far western country.

The counties and dates for elections under the local option law now set are: Jackson and White, April 26; Delaware, April 27; Kosciusko and Starke, April 29; Martin and Jefferson, April 30; Clay, May 4, and Fulton May 5. Of these the leaguers expect the hardest battle in Delaware county, in which is located Muncie.

The Pennsylvania railroad has laid off all the section hands in this division excepting four for each division. These four in each section have received orders not to work on Mondays or Fridays. Five train crews have been laid off, running between Ft. Wayne and Chicago. No reason is given excepting the cutting down of expenses.