The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-01-04
UP AND DOWN IN INDIANA
GETS BIGGEST PENSION.

GETS BIGGEST PENSION.
Russell D. Warner of Danville, less
than 40 years old and a soldier in the
Spanish-American war. has been al
lowed a pension of 500 a month with
back pay. So far as is known this is
the largest pension drawn by any
soldier in Henricks county and pos
sibly in the state. While in the serv-
ice he was stricken with locomotor
ataxia and after his return home be-
came totally blind.
ELECTION CONTEST ENDED.
The evidence in the Williams
contest has been completed, certified
and sent to be filed with the secretary
of state. He will file with the speaker
of the house and he in turn viii refer
it to the committee on election returns
and decide whether w. E. Williams,
republican, or Joseph H. Madden, dem
ocrat, was elected representative from
Warrick county.
BAD FAMILY MIX-UP.
Because Henry Kruse of Columbus
had John Ault arrested for paying too
much attention to his wife. Retta
Kruse, Ault filed an affidavit charging
Kruse with insanity. The affidavit is
also signed by Mrs. Kruse and the in
quest will be held in Justice E. H. Kin
ney's Office Tuesday. Ault gave bond
for his appearance.
JEALOUSY CAUSES TROUBLE.
Jealous because his sweetheart had
gone to a dance with another man,
Ed Strickland of Boonville. shot and
killed the girl, fatally wounded her es-
cort and then committed suicide The
girl was Miss Oda Williamson, IS years
old. Her escort was Almond Timmons,
Fl, son of a minister at Chandler
ORGANIZED LABOR STRONG.
Statistics on the strength of or
ganized labor in Indiana compiled by
the state bureau of statistics, for its
report for the year 1908, to be issued
within the newt few weeks, show that
Indiana i some of the leading states.
now having seventy seven international
unions, with 1,043 locals and a total
membership of 66152
KOSCINSKO COUNTY DRY.
The filing of a remonstrance against
saloons in the Third Ward of Warsaw
places Kosciusko county in the dry
list. During the last six months
twenty liquor houses in the county
have suspended.
HOOSIER DEMOCRATS GATHER.
Democrats from all parts of Indiana
will visit Lafayette Thursday, Jan. 7,
to attend the annual Jackson club feast
in honor of the memory of Andrew
Jackson, the patron saint of democracy.
The banquet will be held at the Hotel
Lahr and covers will be laid for 500.
GUsHER ACTS aUEERLY.
glycerin was placed in the oil well re-
Gently drilled in by the Cox & Gibson
company a Oakland City, Thursday af-
ternoon. but on account of some fault
of the firing apparatus the shot failed
to go. Yesterday the drilIers succeeded
in discharging it. and the greatest
phenomena of the oil development
here was the result For five minutes
after the shot was fired nothing came
from the well. Then the oil came in
great volume. The column assembled
30 feet. which was sixty. feet above
the drilling rig, and continued flowing
to this height for twenty minutes.
LID Is on LAFAYETTE.
After allowing an open town for
months. Lafayette police authorities
clamped down the lid tight Saturday
and not only were the liquor dispensers
affected. but the cigar dealers as well.
Every slot machine disappeared as if
by magic.
TO END SALOON AGITATION.
Investigation made by Senator Nc
Cullough of Anderson on the question
of liquor legislation at the coming ses-