The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1910-11-21
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BURY YOUNG SUICIDE.

BURY YOUNG SUICIDE.
The funeral of Miss Katherine Gen
try, who died. Thursday, from the eff
fects of carbolic acid taken with sui
cidal intent, while at the home of her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Harrison Gentry,
at Monrovia, was held at Stilesville
yesterday. The services were conduct
ed by the Rev. Jason Tudor. pastor of |
the Christian church of Monrovia.
WANT HIGH SCHOOL SITE.
The South Bend school board is try
ing to decide on a site for a new high |
school building. The board has been
deadlocked on the question, each mem |
Der having different property in view. |
The building is regarded as an i'm
mediate necessity. as the enrolment in
the schools is now almost seven thous-
and. The present high school has sew
en- hundred students.
BRAKEMAN IS KILLED.
| A rear-end collision between two Sec
tions of a vadalia freight train, two
miles east of Marshall, H., today, re-
suited in the death of A. @. Coffmann,
of Terre Haute. a brakeman on the
first section.
LAWYER WAS TRICKY.
That a. n. Grant. lawyer of Indi-
annapolis who has large divorce bust
ness, practiced fraud and an imposi-
ton on the court, when without the
knowledge of the woman who purport-
ed to be the plaintiff, he filed suit for
divorce to which was attached a forg-
ed affidavit of residence, was found by
Judge Bartholomew in superior court
1 yesterday. Judge Bartholomew in pass
ing on the case, expressed regret that
he did not have the legal power to deal
lsummarily with Grant. He said it was
clear Grant is not such man should
be permitted to practice law in a court
of justice.
STANDARD LEASES GROUND.
In the last few weeks the Standard
Oil Company has obtained leases on five
thousand acres of land between Shines
Vile and Eilettsville, and will shortly
put down number of test wells. The
leases have been obtained by three
Standard agents who made their head
quarters as Gosport, in owen county.
HAS BIG SHORTAGE.
: r. W. Wyli. trustee of Rochester
township, Fulton county. has been
/. charged with a total of $5,12461 as al
, legged shortage for his administration
during 1909, in a report filed by field
examiners in the employ of the state
amount of s4S6.s0 are allowed. making
a balance held due of s4.655.71. IA de-
plorable state of affairs" is the
language used by the examiners ir
summing up the conditions found il
the township.
TO CONTEST ELECTION.
John Clamme, sheriff of Blackfort
county. served notice on Jacob G. Mad
hoha Of n Of hi
. city. contesting his election for join
representative of Blackford and Gran
counties. Maddox is a Republican an,
> Fleming is a Democrat. Each has serv
!: ed term In the legislature.
q TEN HAVE SORE FEET.
Many pupils of the Haley publ
schools are i'll with strange ailment
. that is diagnosed by health board off
y GERS as merely sore feet An investi
9 cation was made, but nothing to War
t rant the closing of school was found
Physicians are of the opinion that tn
: children were poisoned by going bare
r foot in the late fall. Ten children ar
+ known to bet sick in bed with the dis
|. ease.
10 AMY AN EXPERT.
Mrs. Amy Bracken of Terre Haute de
+ sired her testimony in the divorce sui
:. started by her husband, Deloss Brack
>, en-. accepted by the court as that of a
= expert. l guess 1 ought to know how
- husband should conduct himself, for
'. have had six of them she said
BURGLARIZE LIBRARY.
y Burglars broke into four houses an
e. the Carnegie library in Crawfordsvill
DIT last night and obtained FIVE gol
watches, two or three suits of cloths
and about $40 in money. The house
entered were the Kappa Sigma fra
ternity house, and the homes of Charlie
Glascock. Councilman NJ L. Claypo
and Wiley Runyan. Oscar L. Barr,
n Wabash college football player, Twin
d. at the Kappa Sigma house, lost h
ed trousers and 81 in money. The polio
have no clew although they suspe
at local talent.
of MAY PARALLEL RAILROAD.
ed That All interurban railroad has IL
right to parallel a steam road al
he operate its high voltage wires eve
though they interfere with and rend
of useless the telegraph system of Il
steam road, was the effect of decisit
ed by the supreme court the case of Il
tn Lake Shore G. Michigan Southern RAJ
way Company against the Lake Sho
o & South Bend Railway Company, t
ht, case having been appealed from L
lporte county