The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-11-30

at Washington. Fifty-eight candidates
were given the work. eight of these
from Vincennes. nine from Olney and
thirty-eight from Washington
MAN SHOT MAY DIE.
George w. Purcell. former state la
Dor commissioner, of Terre Haute. who
was shot by Taylor Suttles at Atlas.
Ind, is still in a critical condition. The
fact that he lived through the day has
prompted physicians to hold out some
hope for his recovery. He has not re-
covered sufficiently to give an intelli-
gent story of the trouble
FIND NEW OIL FIELD.
The attention of oil operators in
southern Indiana has been conferred this
week on the territory in the vicinity
of the well drilling on the KnightIy
farm, one mile south OF Hazelton. Ind.
and fourteen miles northwest of Oak
land City. A great force of leasers have
been busy during the week and thou
sands of acres of land near Hazelton
and on the line between that point and
the field have been leased.
OLD TEACHERS ORGANIZE.
Between twenty five and thirty of
the old school teachers Of Hamilton
county met yesterday at Noblesville to
form a permanent organization and
plan a yearly meeting.
CLAIMS FORCE is ROTTEN.
That the Indianapolis police force lis
rotten from the chief all the way up"
and that Mayor Bookwalter should be
impeached. were two of the opinions
voiced by the Rev. Harry G. Hill Of
the Third Christian church. And he
said more interesting things and ap-
piled them to Indianapolis in his ser
mon on The Carnival of Crime
is CHAMPION HUsKER.
In the matter of acres. Edward Sinks
north of Morocco, is perhaps entitled
to the belt as the champion corn husk
err OF Indiana, If not of the United
States Sinks husked fifty acres in a
day and half. the entire field yielding
little less than eight bushels. This
patch of corn furnished an example
of one OF the numerous freaks of the
frost in September, being practically
ruined while adjoining fields suffered
little or no damage.
SAYS STRIKE Is RIGHT.
President Evans of the striking Gen
eral Union Stone Cutters of Bedford
has issued a challenge to any or all of
the members of the National Cut Stone
| Contractors association to meet him
in public debate and prove before a
committee of disinterested citizens
whether the labor quarrel that has re-
suited in the general tieup Of quarry
and mill work in Lawrence county is
| Unsuitable
SHIP TURKEYS TO AUSTRALIA.
| Thomas Thompson. poultry dealer
Of Hope. has received an order from
C. f. Trevena Of Clear Creek, Victoria,
| Australia. for bronze turkey weigh
ing not less than fifty pounds and yes
terday he shipped a fifty -pound bird,
on which the express charges were $50
STABBED BY NEGRO.
Mistaken for another man, William
Enlow, water works employe OF
Evansville, was seriously stabbed by
a negro on his way home with his wife
and infant child at midnight Satur-
day. All that saved his life was the
fact that his raised arms. as he was
in the act Of handing the infant to hit
wife, warded off the knife blow from
his heart 1t struck him under the
arm.
INSECT IN EYE COSTS $1,000.
The presence of an insect in his ey'
cost w. o. Schanlaub of Kentland
county superintendent, between $1,000
and $1,000 About three months agC
he was riding in an automobile wheI
the insect flew into his eye, causing
severe pain and terminating in al
liberation. He has just been dis
missed from a Chicago hospital a
cured after being treated for more thar
two months and a half.
, 100 MEN FIGHT FIRE.
Fire. which was discovered in Lin
ton at o'clock Sunday morning in
+ pile Of oiled waste rope and infiam
mable materials and has since beel
T burning with a fierceness that defie
the best efforts for $50 men to subduC
t threatens to destroy Summit mine Nc
, 1. about a mile west of Linton. I
! is estimated that the damage alread
has reached $4,000