The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1910-11-07
UP AND DOWN IN
INDIANA
BOY FAILS UNDER WAGON.

BOY FAILS UNDER WAGON.
Hopping on a wagon which passed
just as school was out, William Trant.
8 years old, son of City Clerk James
T. Trant, of Hartford City was instant
ly killed this evening when he slipped
and fell under the wheels.
TO INSPECT MONoN.
The new general officers of the Mo-
non line today will inspect the road.
The party will consist of President
Harrison. General Manager Westfall.
Superintendent Wasbon and Judge
Field. announcement was made that
William b. Jones, superintendent of
transportation of the Monon Railway,
would retire and the office be abolished.
GIRL PROVIDES MYSTERY.
The police are endeavoring to prove
that Florence Moore, % years old, who
is now in st. Joseph Hospital, in Fort
Wayne, did not receive her injuries at
the hands of a man attempting to as
sault her. DR.. A. H. Macbeth, the at
tending physician, on the other hand,
declares that it would have been utter
ly impossible for the girl to have in
hicted the injuries upon herself. The
police declare that she was suffering
from a bad case of emotional insanity
when she declared that she was at
tackled.
UPHoLDS CLOSING LAW.
The Sunday closing law for barber
shops was upheld in a decision handed
down by Mayor Foster in Anderson Po-
lice Court today. John Anderson a
%nonunion barber, who held that in
shaving a customer on the Sabbath he
performed a work Of necessity, for the
-aocor thu r HE orcfopaov ~ 20 q
tend church. was fined s11 and costs for
violating the closing law.
FINDS HUSBAND DEAD.
After getting up and preparing
breakfast yesterday morning Mrs. Mar
tin Vancleave of returned to
awaken her husband, but found him
dead. he having died sometime in the
night. He was &c years old. and re-
tired in apparently good health.
JOS. f. DEAD.
Joseph E. Taboo of South Bend SUI
preme officer and one of the organizers
Of the order of Owls, died in a hospital
at Kenosha. Wis, where he was aking
treatment for a mental disorder due to
a breakdown following his acquittal of
a charge OF Irregularities in the office
of states attorney, which he filled for
two years.
STOCKHOLDERS ACT.
Minority stockholdersof the Indiana
Industrial Life Insurance Company
Friday night at Terre Haute appointed
John Shelby, J. J. Somers, E. McCool,
Charles Davis and ]. w. Stanton a COM
mittee to secure counsel and TAX such
action as is necessary to thwart the
merger of the Indiana Industrial with
the Public Savings Company of Indi-
annapolis.
UAR CHILDREN'S HEALTH.
That the schools of Indiana owe at
~tention to the health of the children
within their walls, especially if the
children come into the schools with
sound bodies, was the substance of a
discussion Friday at the afternoon ses-
sion of the Indiana State Association
of City and Town superintendent held
in the assembly hall of the Claypool
Hotel.
kILLED BY
Albert Lee. 80 years old, and Samuel
Watson, so years old, were killed and
Jefferson Davis was seriously injured
when the boiler of a traction engine
exploded Saturday afternoon at Green
; castle.
{ CRIES FOR WHOLE YEAR.
Declaring that she had spent one
fourth of her time during the past FIVE
!. years in crying because of the abuse
| to which she had been subjected by her
husband. Emeline Cagley of Kokomo
has brought suit for a divorce from
William Cagley.
TRUSTEES OFFICERS.
At the last session of the Indiana
2 State Association of school Boards, held
in the Claypool Hotel Friday afternoon.
4 the following officers were elected:
1 President-Dr H. c. Thomas, Koko-
mo.
secretary-wiuiam D. Davis, Koko-
mo.
: Treasurer-Maj. A. c. Rosencranz,
Evansville.
ISSSES ONE Def.
7 say to you, you might as well
know il now. as the interests already
: have had proof of it, that as long as l
1 occupy the seat of oliver P. Morton in
the Senate of the United States / will
take orders from nobody except the
people," This defiant declaration from
the lips of senator Beveridge Friday
: night brought a roar of demonstrative
approval from the 1900 or more Con-
y nersville persons who packed the
~