The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-01-06
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ACCUSED OF ATTACKING TEACHER.

ACCUSED OF ATTACKING TEACHER.
Otto Griffith. of Terre Haute. age
sixteen. was brought to Jail from
Seeleyville. He Is accused of attempt
ing an assault on Bernice Laughlin, a
teacher he found alone in the school
ROOM She escaped after most of the
clothing had been torn from her Grit
fifth was found last night and his arrest
kept secret from Seeieyville people un-
til he was on way to Terre Haute.
MANY PLANTS CLOSE.
/ The order of the court dissolving the
Imperial Window Glass Company,
which was the selling agency of the
hand operated window glass plants in
| the United States. is fast driving the
old-time makers of glass out of bust
ness. Word has been received in Hart
ford City. that six more plants, repre-
senting a capacity of 26s pots. have
been closed.
ONE BOY SHOOTS ANOTHER.
While Cash Johnson, age seventeen.
and Abner McLain, age sixteen. We're in
the formers home in Muncie late We'd
neSday, Johnson shot McLain through
the top of the forehead with a 32-cali-
Der revolver McLain died in a hospital
last night Johnson and his mother say
the shot was wholly accidental and
happened while the boys were cleaning
the revolver. Johnson is being detain-
ed at the police station pending an in
vestigation.
BINGHAM HAS ONE REGRET.
The chief regret experienced by
James Bingham. who has TURNED over
the Office of attorney general to
Thomas NJ. Honan, was that he was
| unable to obtain a ruling.sn the Orange
county court on his motion for new
| trial in the case of the state against
poration. OF which Tagart is president
the French Lick Springs Hotel Com
pany in the action to dissolve that cor
pora ton, of which Thomas Taggart is
president
Is OLDEST TEACHER.
| Theodore Rumbaugh, age seventy
one who is visiting his son, c. L. Rum
baugh, of Columbus, says he is one OF
| the oldest teachers in the United States
He lives in Constantine. Mich. and is
| teaching there this winter. He has
taught school for ffty-three years and
stopped only long enough to serve in
the civil war He says he has pupils
in his school who are grandchildren
a daughter who has been teaching for
| eighteen years.
| EIGHT OF TROUP SICK.
When the company presenting the
musical comedy. Miss Nobody From
Star Land left Lafayette Wednesday
after a performance at the Dreyfus
| theater Tuesday evening. eight of its
| members were unable to go. All are
nj Of
monia.
DUEL ENDS SERIOUSLY.
| One man Will die and another was
seriously injured in a revolver duel
over a woman in a South Bend saloon
Wednesday morning. The police say
the tragedy was due to a bartender
paving too much attention to his en-
ployer's wife. The bartender who will
die from his wounds, is steven Koles-
Ear.
FINDS RIG MAsTODON.
Guy Fisher, brother of John Fisher.
sheriff elect of Tippecanoe county. has
found a fine speciment of mastodon
skeleton in the Tippecanoe river bot
toms near Battle Ground. The skele-
ton is lodged in clay on overlooked
ground. at a spot seldom visited John
| Fewell. a local geologist says the
ground in the vicinity of the place was
deposited there during the glacial
| period.
/ FARMER BREAKS NECK.
! Sherman Manning. prosperous
farmer of Fulton county. WAS acci-
dentally killed at his home east of
Rochester. yesterday. by falling from
a scaffold. His neck was broken. He
was on platform thirty-five feet high
working around a silo, when he lost
/ his balance, fell and struck on his head
and shoulders. He died twenty minutes
later Mr.. Manning was forty-one
years old and leaves his parents. five
sisters and three brothers.
DRIVEN TO CORRIDORS
! Members of the state board OF tax
commissioners and the county assessors
OF the state. were compelled to take
to the statehouse corridors for their
annual meeting because of the number
present, and the lack of a room large
enough to accommodate them.
TO ENDORSE HILLS.
At the meeting of the executive board
of the Indiana State Federation of
Labor Monday at the office of the sec
rotary. Clarence Gaumer. in the Lemcke
building. various bills to be presented
at the coming session of the legislature
were indorsed-