The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-08
Indiana Notes.

PERU.-The case of w. s. Sttt VS.. the
wabash Water Company for arrearages in
salary was compromised to-day for Sl,s2o
MIR Stitt was awarded $500 by previous
jury In this court. United States Marshal
Petit, OF indianapolis, is one of his attor-
neys. The business men of the city
have started a movement for securing the
Z. X. * NJ. shops for the city and Tor get
ting some redress from the Lake Erie &
Western Railroad Company for violation OF
agreements by reducing the forces OF the
repair shops about 81 per cent.
RICHMOND.-The Richmond Lodge of
Elks opened its new quarters on Thursday
night with degree work on several candl-
dates. followed by a banquet The rooms
are said TO be the finest of the kind in the
State. About 5000 was spent IN their
equipment The Wayne County
Medical Society met in this city on Thurs
day. Papers were read by DR.. Fouts, OF
CenterV1lle; DR.. Stottiemeyer, OF HageTs-
town. and DR.. S. c. Markley, Of this city.
Centerville gets the next meeting.
KOKOMO.-Charles NJ. Williams, night
Waterman at the Brookside canning works,
had battle with robbers Wednesday night.
Two men were discovered loading coal into
a wagon at the factory. On seeing Will
liams the thieves attacked him with chunks
of coal Williams drew a revolver and nred
several shots, wounding one Of the thieves.
After a struggle the men fed leaving g;
trail of blood along the highway. VIII
liams was painfully wounded in the chest.
The thieves escaped.
WINDFALL.-Prof. Oscar II. Williams,
principal and superintendent of the Wind
fall public school. and his assistant, Miss
Estella Schrader, who resigned their posi-
lions on Monday morning and LETT the
school, resumed their positions on Wednes-
day at the wages fixed by the board at the
time of their resignation, and the school is
now progressing as smoothly as though
there had been no hitch.
MUNCIE.-A large party of Muncie iron
workers will leave for Terre Haute on Sun
day to begin work in the new Highlands
iron works in that city. Muncie Will lose
about thirty families as a result. The new
mill, just completed, was built by the
efforts of John l.. Smith and VIII r. Myers,
formerly associated with the Indiana Iron
Company, of this city.
ANDERSON.-Truant officer J. G.. Haas,
or the Anderson city schools, reports a new
phase of the divorce evil in this city. The
officer is unusually busy and reported some
twenty-five cases of truancy. Many of the
cases were found to be the children of
divorced parents, and in almost every case
where wife had been left with children to
maintain
LAPORTE.-On the ground that her hus-
band is a convict, Mrs. Belle Clemens de-
sres a divorce from him. In May. 190O
William l.. Clemens was convicted in the
Miami Circuit Court for assault with intent
to commit rape and sent lced TO term IN
the State Prison. The wife has filed her
suit in the Daporte County Superior Court
ELWOOD-AIfred johnson, now residing
at Richmond, is visiting relatives here this
week He is prominently known in Repub-
lican circles in the eastern part of the
State, and was one of the eight Republic
ans who voted for Abraham Lincoln for
President in 1864 at polling place in Duck
Creek township, north of this city.
SHELBYVILLE.-Cn Wednesday night a
man who has been identified as Pat Dow
dell, of Middletown, o., was arrested while
trying TO secure an express package con-
tanning revOlvers supposed TO have been
stolen from Stroebel at Hamilton, y. He is
being held to await Identification of the
goods.
FERSONVILLE.-The dead body of
Newell C.. Rathburn was found in his room
at the Falls City Hotel in this city Thurs
day afternoon. Rathburn registered at the
Hotel Wednesday afternoon and gave his
address as St. Louis. Heart failure was
ascribed as the cause.
UNION CITY.-The City Council on
Thursday night, in special session. granted
the franchise asked for by the Richmond,
Union City & Portland Interurban Railway.
The members were evenly divided on the
question and Mayor c. S. Pierce cast the
deciding vote.