The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1910-12-29
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VALPARAISO GIRL MAY DIE.

VALPARAISO GIRL MAY DIE.
Miss Marguerite Coplin of Valparaiso, |
Ind. probably was fatally injured, and |
Miss Grace Morrow, Is years old, 42l |
North Illinois street, received severe |
bruises about the body when run down |
by an outbound Indiana Union Trac- |
tion freight car while crossing the !
street to board a city car at Twenty !
Fourth street and College avenue at 10
o'clock last night Miss Coplin suffer
ed compound fractures of one leg and
was injured about the head and face.
Miss Morrow was bruised and scratch
ed and suffered from the shock Both
young women were taken TO the
Methodist Episcopal Hospital. where. II
was said, Miss Coplin may die.
RAISE EMPLOYEES WAGES.
| Bulletins were issued by the Fort
Wayne & wabash Valley Traction
Company yesterday announcing a gen.
eral raise in wages over the entire sys-
tenn, effective Jan. /. The raise affects
employees on the interurban system and
the city lines in Fort Wayne, Logan
sport. wabash Lafayette and Peru
To TRY EDITOR FOR LIBEL.
/ The transcripts in the four cases OF
criminal libel against Charles A.
Reeves. editor of the Hartford City
Evening Journal were filed yesterday
afternoon in the Circuit Court. They
will be tried during the January term.
The suits are the outcome of a print
ed attack on Oficers Saunaer and Hunt
following the trial of Reeves a
statutory offense.
FAILS TO INDICT.
The Delaware County Grand Jury.
which has for ten days been investigat-
ing the murder of Norman E. Black, a
prominent Muncie business man who
was mysteriously shot through the
head Sept. 22 has adjourned without
returning an Indictment.
TO DECIDE ESTATE.
1t rests with the Superior Court in
Michigan City to decide whether Hold
Maxwell is the son of the late John
Maxwell and entitled to estate of
$4,000. John Maxwell died intestate
. Sept. 1 last. According to complaint
; filed here yesterday by Hold Maxwell
against Bertha Cannon and nine other
persons named Cannon. the plaitif.
who was born out of wedloek. was
: recognized as the decedent's son and his
. only heir at law.
{ CHASEs RABBIT; STRAINS HEART
Adam Housour, 20 years old. is lying
at his home in the northwest part OF
Kosciusko county in a critical condi-
tion with what the attending physi-
: clans diagnose as strained heart. The
, organ was injured while the young
man was overexerting himself in chas
| ing a rabbit across a long field.
WANTS $4,000 DAMAGES.
Alleging that she has been made
l permanent cripple while alighting from
| Of dafa n
? Mrs Mary Roswog has brought sui
s for $4,000 against the Kokomo, Marion
: & Western Traction company. She as
serted the car was started before sh'
, | safely reached the ground.
< FEAR RABIES IN DOG.
4 The Michigan City board of health i
), | examining the head OF dog to ascer
tain whether the animal affecte'
with rabies, and Mrs. Ignatz Sobesk
: is anxiously awaiting the result. tn
dog after 1t had snapped several othe
: dogs in Mrs Sobeskfs neighborhood
3 invaded her chicken house and kille
i twelve chickens before she was able t
n drag it out by the hind legs
Q URGE JUDICIAL REFORM.
, The agitation by the Indianapoi
= Bar association looking to reforms i
Il iudicial procedure that will do ava
with the present evil or the law 5 dc
Law" has found a response in three o
q the Marion county courts. Judge 10
= seph Collier of superior court, room
= Judge Charles Remster of the circui
: court. and Judge Frank B. Ross of tn
:. probate court. have decided that the
u can expedite justice without waitin
o for changes in the law.
COMMISSION AT HEBRON
Commissioner John F. Mcclure of tn
Railroad Commission of Indiana went t
Hebron md. yesterday to investigat
the needs at that place for gates a
n the crossing of the Pennsylvania Rail
road. The town trustees of Hebron re
10 GENTLY passed an ordinance requirin
the construction of the gates but tn
20 railroad company appealed to the com
. mission for relief from the ordinance
r PORTER GETS A FORTUNE.
BENJAMIN Morrison, coloTed porte
n at a Hartford City cigar store unit
n. several weeks ago when he received
letter from his mother in Macon, GA
- Informing him that oil mad been struc
n ION his forty acre farm near Tuls
Okla. writes from Macon that he ha
- leased his land for i've years at $4,000
year. Morrison. in his letter. state
that he has leased his farm of fort
acres to the Standard Oil Company II
states that the well drilled in on h
land is one OF the largest in easter
of Oklahoma.