Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1909 — NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

Here is a charming bit of obituary sentiment from a Kansas newspaper: “He had been married forty years and was prepared to die.” The annual meeting of the Indiana Associated Weeklies was held at Indianapolis. Mayor Bookwaiter welcomed the..editors, and among the speakers were W. E. Groves, of the Milford Mail; R. B. Wood, of the Wolf Lake Trolley; A. J. Heuring, of the Winslow Dispatch, and H. F. Harris, of the Pierceton Record, president of the association. A. J. Bunch, of Lakeville, St. Joseph county, has had the unusual experience of reading accounts of his own death. It was reported that he had been killed by falling beneath a train. Mr. Bunch, who is a civil war veteran, says he did not fall beneath a train as reported, but merely stepped down an embankment. He says he was not unconscious when found. A parole was granted to Hugh Mat tingly, sent up from South Bend to Jeffersonville prison for burglary on July 16, 1906. The petition for the parole was signed by the chief of police, sheriff, judge of the city court, county clerk, prosecutor, circuit judge and mayor. The paroie was granted because of the rapidly failing health of the boy’s mother and the belief that the boy has learned a lesson. The Ex-Soldiers and Sailors’ Association of Indiana, with headquarters in Elkhart, is sending indorsements to' the Indiana senators and representatives of the bill introduced in the house by Representative Cullop asking for a pension of $1 a day for all soldiers of the Mexican and civil wars who were honorably discharged. The James C. Veatch post, G. A. R. of Rockport, also passed resolutions on the subject and is soliciting the support of the Indiana senators and representatives for the bill. It is asserted that every G. A. R. post in Indiana intends doing likewise. In the trial of Leroy Ligon at Terre Haute for murder the defense has begun introducing testimony to show that Ligon acted in self-defense when he shot Fred Koch. The latter is alleged to have taunted Ligon because he had been converted at a revival. Women members of the -church where the revival was held at which Ligon was converted fill the court room and when opportunity offers they tell him to “be brave.” Announcement was made by -the Gary and Western railroad that the company would begin running shuttle trains over the new HammofidGary loop Monday. The trains will be twenty-four in number, and connections will be made with the Chicago, Indiana and Southern at Gibson for points south, making that road a direct competitor with the Monon for southern business. The body of an unknown man, who was killed by a Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern train 140 days ago, has just been buried at Mitchell. The body was held for two purposes, to identify the man if possible and to test the effect of a new embalming fluid made by a Mitchell undertaker. The body when buried was in good condition except that it had begun to shrivel away, the skin showing a slight tan color.. No odor was detected about the body. A boy, apparently sixteen years old, was picked up on the Pennsylvania tracks at Wooster, four miles east of Warsaw, at 5:30 Saturday morning by the crew of a west-bound freight. His body was badly mangled, the lower part being between the rails and the remainder outside. The boy was well-dressed, with nothing to indicate his identity. It is believed he fell from an early morning passenger train. John W. Bauman, who for years has been one of the leading prohibitionists of Spencer county, was ar.rested and fined at Rockport on the charge of selling liquor to minors. Thursday night the marshal caught several boys with a gallon of wine and they said they bought it from Bauman. When Bauman was arraigned in court he entered a plea of guilty and was fined's2o and costs. Baughman was the prohibition nominee for commissioner of Spencer county two years ago.