The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1910-03-21
UP AND DOWN IN
INDIANA
GIRLS BECoMrr sTAGEsTRUCK.

GIRLS BECOME sTAGEsTRUCK.
Stagestruck and believing promises
made to them by members of the Ford
Vaudeville company, Miss Helen Ems
ley. q pretty stencgrapher. 20 years
old. and Miss Hazel Lahnum, IT years
old. from two of the fam
lilies of Auburn. ran away with the
actors.
E FIXTURE CONTRACT.
Members of the IdianapoIis board of
public works at the conclusion of a con-
ference lasting almost to midnight de-
cided to let the contract for electric
fixtures at the new City Hall building
to the Sanborn Electric compan of
that city. which bid on samples and
drawings furnished by the wahle-
Phillips company. The bid was at a
figure of $17.245 and was not the low
est of the eight bids received. although
Judged to be the lowest and best.
SHIP DISEASED CATTLE.
fragrant violation of the law govern
ing shipping OF live stock into the state
without a clean bill OF health or mott
hcation OF the state veterinarian as
soon as the shipment is made is going
on in many parts of Indiana. according
to the statement Of State Veterinarian
w. z. Coover and though some in
stances are detected and the shippers
made to conform to the law they are
but an innnftesimal part of the viola
lions.
SCHOOL KILLS CHILDREN.
That three times as many children
die and four time as many are sick
during tho months OF the year schools
are In session as during the vacation
months Ia the announcement of DR.. ]. N.
Hurry OF the board OF health OF Tndi-
annapolis. THE compulsory school age
II 7 to ~ years" he says. 1T may be
said that practically all OF the children
of that age go TO school, 80 the figures
deal with school children alone.
REPRDsENTAT7vE RACEY HURT.
Representative william g. Racey of
the 'shoestring" district in vincennes
and present democratic nominee for
representative from Knox county. was
taken home suffering internal injuries
and severe bruises. Raccy was in the
act of hanging a bunch of bananas at
his store when the chair slipped from
under him.
LOOK For NEGRO HUBBLE.
With her face and hands blacked to
an ebony hue. and with an old shawl
draping her shoulders. Mrs. LueIIa
Goodman, 507 North West street, Indi-
annapolis, was interrupted in the role of
detective which she had assumed to
find her husband, John Goodman, a
mulatto. She was arrested at dia
avenue and Blackford street by Bicycle
mon Barrows and Kitzmiller. where she
believed she would find her husband.
Her conversation gave her away.
STRIKE NOT IMMINENT.
The New York Central. the Lake
Shore. the Michigan Central, Boston &
Albany and the Big Four. after an all
day conference with the brotherhood
OF Railway Trainmen and the Order of
Railway Conductors, reached a tactic
understanding that there would be no
strike because of the lack of conces-
sions. In the negotiations for an in
crease in wages and change In the
working schedule both sides made lib
eral concessions, and when the con-
ference was concluded both sides were
In good humor and stated that there
was not the least likelihood of a strike.
TAGGARTs' WILL PROBATED.
The will OF the late Edwin d. Bryant,
father of Mrs. Thomas Taggart, who
died at French Lick on March IL, was
admitted to probate before Judge Ross
Saturday. Mr.. and Mrs. Taggart are
made the sole bene1ciaries in the will,
which disposes OF an estate valued al
$4,000. The property at 220 West Mich
igan street. Indianapolis, consisting OF
one lot. is given to the and
two other lots, one in North I~ndianapo-
lis and one in Brightwood, are given
to Mr.. Taggart.
!, TELLS OF PLOT TO KILL.
With a calm composure and a com
%placent manner Rae Krauss of Marion
convicted slayer of her stepdaughter
Crystal Krauss. feeling that her hus-
band is slipping away. told a story oil
her past on the witness stand in the
superior court in her efforts to deny
, him a divorce. Without one flush, her
r life with william r. Krauss, once q
= prosperous and leading business mar
: of Hartford City, leading up to hel
wedding was wildly depicted, and ther
followed she said was the plotting
of Krauss and herself to end the days
of his daughter.
TUBERCULOSIS Is COSTLY.
Tuberculosis costs the people Of In.
: diana $40, 900, 900 annually" said DR.. j
N. Hurry in a lecture before an audi
Z ence in the Young women's Christian
association Saturday night. More thar
Z 4,500 persons die annually in indiana
from tuberculosis" he said, and thu
disease kills more than 500 young wo.
men and more than 400 young men eaef
:. year. their ages ranging from Is to A
o years. tuberculosis produces NOR,
thar 2.40o orphans annually in thi.
t state and invades more than 1905
e homes"
FAMILY RENT ASSUNDER.
Ac a razu1f of the atfarnnt Of Mrs
Samuel Trainor to have a codicil of tn,
will of her mother, Mrs. Minerva Good
set aside one of South Bends oldest am
y best-known families is shown to b.
y divided against itself. Mrs. Trainor, ii
attempting to obtain the fortune o
$500. 900, charges her aunt Mrs. W. Z
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