The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1910-02-17
UP AND DOWN IN
INDIANA

MINI8TEU GOES TO JAIL.
The Rev. H p. Hslwig. of Fremont,
Neb., who was arrested in Evansville
Saturday for forging the name of D. c.
Thomas. OF Madisonville. KY. to al
check for $50, which he cashed at an
Evansville bank. was arraigned in po-
lice court Tuesday morning and bound
over to the vanderburg grand jury. n
default of q $500 bond the minister
went to jail
INDICTED ON SIX COUNTS.
Judge kirkpatrick. of the Howard
circuit court at Kolkoma, In the case
of William Merrill. charged with the
violation of the liquor law, found Mer-
rill guilty and fined him $50. Merrill
was indicted on six counts. covering
practically every phase of the liquor
law violation
POOL GAME STARTS ROW.
A row. which started over q pool
game, resulted In the shooting of
Charles c. Allen. colored. 1925 Maple
street. Indianapolis, by Casper Theisz.
white. proprietor of saloon at Ctpitol
avenue and Merrill street. Allen was
not seriously injured Theisx was ar
rested for shooting with intent to kill
and Allen was locked up for lettering.
Allen was In the saloon. and when VIII
liam Sanders desired to play pool Allen
agreed to play with him
SELL SHORT WEIGHT BUTTER.
H E. Barnard. state food and drug
commissioner will call the attention of
the city and county health officers of
the state to the action OF ]. Cooperider.
secretary OF the board Of health of
Madison, who has issued a warning to
butter dealers against selling by meas
| ure in pound molds which do not con-
tain sixteen ounces, or one pound
SCHOOL BOARD ENyoTNED.
| Now that the Lafayette school board
has announced its intention of erecting
a $250.ooo high school building on the
| block bounded by Ninth. Elizabeth.
Tenth and Cincinnati street, there is
talk OF injunction proceedings being in
stituted to stop the board from carry
| ing out its plan. q number OF taxpayers
Directing to the large expenditure Of
money. The proposed new high school
will be a large. up-to-date institution,
with manuel training and domestic
science laboratories.
RETURNS GO BY WIRELnss.
| That horse race betters have found
a way to get racing results without the
aid of the land telegraph or the long
distance telephone was made apparent
yesterday when wireless reports on
racing results were intercepted at An
derson by a wire expert
| NEVER RODE ON A TRAIN.
| Francis Juiff. age eighty-five. who
died at his home in Fort Wayne on
Tuesday after q residence in Allen
county OF sixty-three years, had never
ridden on railroad train, and he
rather prided himself on this noble
In Ero T.rfN "a
to America when a young man. landing
at New Orleans He made his way to
Fort Wayne without using q railroad,
travelling up the Mississippi and Ohio
rivers. and the Miami & Erie and Wa
bash & Erie canals, and located on a
farm q few miles north of the city,
where he lived until a few years ago.
LANDS WRITES A BOOK.
Much interest is manifested in Lo-
gansport and throughout the eleventh
Indiana district by the appearance OF
THE Glory OF His Country" by Fred
erick Lands, former republican member
of congress. The scene of the story
is laid in Indiana, and it ts believed that
much Of the material in the story has
been drawn from the authors own po-
J litical experiences.
LIQUOR IS EXCLUDED.
The sale OF liquor in disorderly
houses has been ordered stopped after
6 o'clock this evening, in accordance
with the wishes Of Mayor Shank, ex-
pressed to Superintendent of Police
Hyland. superintendent Hyland in
: structed the police accordingly.
TRACK ELEVATION BEGINS.
Decisive steps in the project for tn.
separation OF grades of the Wabash
and Pennsylvania tracks at prominen
streets in Fort Wayne will be take1
? on March 16, when the city will receive
bids for its portion of the work OF ira cl
. elevation. The campaign for the eleva
tion of the tracks has been in progress
Y at Fort Wayne more than four years
!. GOVERNOR MIsINFORMED.
If, as has been stated in the news
: papers. Governor Marshall has receive,
? reports that lead him to believe gam
bling has been resumed at the Hand
t over" poolroom, near Lawrenceburg, hi
t source of information Is not reliable
A visit to the poolroom shows that n
effort has been made to rebuild TIL
wrecked building since it was blown u
e with dynamite
u IN PERIL OF DEATH.
v Lying unconscious across an iro
q girder, thirty feet above the GROUND
while a strong electric current wa
passing through his body, John Flavir
age forty, astructural iron worker, wa
e rescued by three daring fellow-work
n men, who mounted a long ladder an
: lifted the unconscious man to tn
Il ground on Tuesday The accident oc
l. cured at the plant of the Muncie Elec
e trio Light company.