The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-08-14
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FINDS LIVING TOO HIGH.

FINDS LIVING TOO HIGH.
The Rev. f. T. G~reenleaf of Lebanon
has resigned the pastorate of a Metho-
dist Protestant circuit consisting of
three churches. He gives as a reason
that he can not support his family on
the salary of 5000 paid for his labors
while the cost of living is SO high. He
promises to remain in the service If
the conference arranges his duties so
that he can take up some secular work
that will increase his income.
INDIAN ENLIsTs IN ARMY.
Henry s. Cotticippen of indianapolis.
a Miami Indian. entered the local army
recruiting station yesterday and de-
clared his intention to enlist in the
regular army. He passed the medical
examination and found little difficulty
in convincing the officials tha he will
make an excellent soldier His grand
father and great grandfather were
prominent chiefs when their tribes were
lighting the whites. Cotticfppen has
lived near Marion, Ind. for a number
of years and has been employed at a
paper mill Thirty sailors stationed al
the indianapolis navy recruiting sta
tion yesterday made ngem 10.
a ball game to be played between the
employees of the multigraph department
and the filing department. The gas.e
will be played at Brookside Park.
OBTAIN FOURTEEN CENTS.
Fourteen cents were obtained by a
gang of robbers who broken into a
number of stores after midnight at
Bloomington. The thieves used a
Jimmy" to pry open a rear door of the
Kahn Clothing Company store, and af-
ter getting the money drawer open,
took il pennies. The O'Harrow drug
store was also entered. but nothing was
taken. AT the real estate office of Sim
mons & Faris the safe was damaged.
CUTS TREE LIMB AND Is KILLED.
When a branch he cut from a tree
pressed an electric wire down on his
head. Albert Easely. lineman for the
Evansville Electric Light ompanv at
Greencastle, vas almost instantly
killed Friday. Easely, with other work
man, was cutting branches which in
terfered with wires in the western part
of the city. EASILY fell about forty
feet. John Cobb, a fellow-workman
standing below, caught him In his arms
LIkE VOICE FROM THE GRAVE.
1t was as If a voice from the grave
spoke today when relatives heard from
I. ]. Cortright formerly of Hartford City
who had been mourned as dead fol
many years. The communicates was q
letter date Nome. Alaska. July Il. Il
was addressed to Hiram cortrfght, al
uncle, who has been cead for three
years. Cortright went to the Klondikt
in the gold rush @ 1897 with Johr
S~hambarger, former city marshall
Shambarger returned, leaving Cortrighi
III with scurvy. AS no word was re.
ceived from him, he was though to b,
dead. In his letter Cortright, now g.
years old. tells of his failure to strik'
It rich. He is also possessed of a de
{ sire to return home, and voices a drea'
of dying in that desolate country, ava.
from friends and relatives. Friends
here will start a subscription to brin;
him back. He was once a ~proninen
hardware merchant here. and served a
county clerk and recorder.
GETS TERN IN STATE PRISON.
Timothy Sorghum Mccoy, know
2 as King of the box car thieves" wa
Friday sentenced to a term Of five t
t fourteen years in the States Prison. fol
flowing his conviction at Muncie Of be
ing the bandit who held up a Big Fou
Q passenger train in that city April