The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-06-12
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The auditing committee named by
the commissioners of Starke county to
audit the books Of former Sheriff Lar
more, under the belief that he was shor.
in his accounts, reported today the ind
ing Of a shortage Of $2.506. The amount
will be made good by the former Of
ficials bondsmen
TO RAISE TEACHERS SALARIES.
The board of school commissioners
meeting Thursday night in executive
session at the University club. adopted
a schedule which will provide an in
crease to Indianapolis teachers amount
ing in the total to $4,000 a year. The
increase Will not make necessary an in
crease in the tax levy but viii be taken
care OF out of the present levy for
school purposes.
NORTH JUDSoN BOOMING.
The Business Mems association of
North Judson announced that contracts
had been signed with a glass plant at
/ Cicero, Ind, to locate in that town.
| Employment will be given ten months
| in the year to $50 men and extensive
! factory buildings viii be erected. The
| factory was secured by the sale of sew
eral hundred lots. The town has taken
on a genuine boom and an effort win
| be made to secure other industries.
STRIKERS ARE DISAPPOINTED.
Striking carmen of the Evansville &
Southern Indiana Traction company
were disappointed today when Judge
Debruler in circuit court refused their
request for an advancement to some
! of Ha haa ri nF na
temporary injunction now pending
against the strikers.
100 EDITORS ATTEND.
The summer session of the Indiana
| Democratic association opened at
| Bloomington today with 100 editors
! from various parts of the state in at
tendance. When the visiting seribes
arrived they were met al the trains by
representatives of the local newspapers
and the university and members of The
University Press club.
GRAND JURY TO INVESTIGATE.
Believing that there is no intention
by the Indianapolis authorities to learr
whether Chief of Police Metzger free
the shot Tuesday night which wounded
Samuel W. Dowden, friends of the in.
jured man are preparing to present th'
matter to the grand jury. Neither
Mayor Bookwalter nor the board Of
safety took any official notice of th'
affair The mayor became angry wher
a newspaper man insisted on asking the
question.
ACQUITTED OF MURDER.
Joseph Milburn, charged with man
slaughter for killing Vincent Herman
was acquitted by a Logansport jury
last night, the verdict being returned
after two hours elaboration. This wa
the second trial for Milburn, the jur.
at his former trial having disagreed
Milburn was charged with having kill
ed Vincent Herman, head callboy at tn
Panhandle yard office on the night o
November 80, 1908.
GOULD IN AUTO CRASH.
An automobile driven by Jesse 1
Gould OF the Central Rubber and Sup
ply company OF Indianapolis. crashe
into a buggy occupied by Charles F
Wells in Terre Haute, Friday and tn
two women companions of Gould wer
4 badly injured Gould, attired in a dres
o suit was taken to the police station
but was release late at night on hi
own recognizance.
r QUEER SNAKE BITES BOY.
= Playful rolling on the lawn at tn
County Orphan Home in Princeton, yes
terday, the children were thrown int
Y Mysteries by James Carter, aged S. cry
- ing. I'm snake bit" and jumping Il
| with a yellow and black reptile nearl
four feet long clinging to his HAND
Pulled off once. the snake struck tn
childs hand a second time and tough
hard as Matron Boren killed it. TIL
! child was hurried to a physician an
probably will recover. The species c
the snake is not known.
hoy DROWNED IN RIVER.
III Wilbur Dunleavy. IS years old, eldes
son of James l. Dunleavy chief of tn
Evansville fire department, was drown
!, ed while bathing in the Ohio river nea
= the Kentucky shore, opposite this cit
>, late yesterday afternoon
GENERAL SYNOD CLOSES.
. The session of the General Synod c
u the Evangelical Lutheran church in tn
! United States. which closed in Rich
mond this afternoon, was marked by
determination to stand firm in the faitl
= but at the same time to show a tolel
ant spirit towards other denomination
)" to be brotherly to give encoura gemeI
to every good work and to promote
universal lutheranism. There will /
IN no breaks in the ranks if il remaiI