The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1922-05-12
INDIANA
State News

four years old. shot and killed Mrs.
Stella Bradburn. forty-three years old.
because she refused to marry him.
After shooting Mrs. Bradburn John
son then turned the gun on himself
and committed suicide. Johnson called
at the home OF Mrs. Bradburn's moth
r. with whom she had been living. and
when she opened the door Johnson
shot her twice. He then shot him
self in the head and died almost In
stantly. Johnson was employed In a
local paper mill.
AndersOn.-Special agents from the
office of the state fire marshal have be-
gun an investigation of the destruc-
ton of the Lafayette Township Mer-
camille Exchange. a cooperative gem
eral store, maintained by Lafayette
township farmers AT the village of
Florida. II Is understood that officials
OF the farmers organization in Lafay-
cite township suspected the fire,
which destroyed the general store. two
cottages and a barn. was OF incen-
diary origin. The loss on the stock
NH TNtA'AAh-H Nv Ul IAE VI EHAAAEEfA
farmers. was estimated at $500.
with insurance of $4,000.
Terre Haute-Burial services Cor
MRS. Otela Grace Snyder Of Brazil,
who was killed March 2S at Shanghai,
Chicago. by two Koreans attempting
to assassinate Gen. Gilchi Tanaka,
former Japanese minister of war.
were held ar Highland Lawn Gene
terry here. Mrs. Synder was the wife of
w. j. Snyder, an official of a Brazil
1nd.) coal mining company. She was
leaving a boat at Shanghai with her
husband when she was shot. As MI.
and Mrs. Snyder stepped from the
gang plank, they were followed close
~ by General Tanaka. Two Koreans
fired at the officer and the bullets
struck Mrs. Snyder.
LOgansport.-Charles W. Camp, In
diana state bank commissioner. i'm a
statement said the White River bank
here, which was closed recently, is
insOlvent. He said $4,000 i'm capital
stock, $4,000 insurplus, and $4,000
in building fund of the bank had not
been accounted for. In addition, $14,-
600 in bonds, which had beer left i'm
the bank for safe keeping and for
which the bank is liable, is missing.
the examiner said. The actual as
sets. Mr.. Camp calculated. including
notes, are S444, 723. OF this amount
$412, 756 is in notes, $4,000 of which
are regarded as bad. OF the total
liabilities of SAB, 300, S336,010 was
in the form of deposits. Notes call
ing for $45,227 were deposited il the
city banks in the last 30 days.
Terre HaLte.-L. n. Hines, presi-
dent of the Indiana State Normal
school. in an address here before the
Terre Haute Ministerial association on
education and what was being done
along educational lines i'm Indiana.
told of some of the ~present-day eco
noEic needs. Some people, he said,
were criticising the efforts being made
for better conditions and more wages
for the teachers. These efforts. he said.
were necessary in order To induce
teachers to remain with their employ
ment. 1--WE IA about 10000 teachers
in the public schools of Indiana. and
Of this number about nne-fifth leave
each year Mr.. Hines said. THAT
a that each year we have about
1000 new teachers. The school syS-
tenn cannot be maintained as it should
be under such conditions. This is one
of our biggest problems"
Washington.-The Department Of
Commerce ia "A bulletin. announces
that the total mortgage debt on owned
homes and farms in the state of In
diana. according to the census of 1920.
was S227, 1J2, 105 and the total value of
these m0rtgaged homes and farms was
$500, 12S,279 the mortgage debt thus
representing 299 per cent of the total
value. Rented homes, tenant farms.
and farms that are partly owned and
partly rented, IL should be noted. are
not Included in this report. The total
number Of homes in the state other
than farm homes was 520.676 Of which
by the occupants and of these owned
homes 96,376 or 36.7 per cent were
mortgaged. Information regarding the
value Of the home and the mount of
mortgage debt was secured fcom 60
701 or 72.3 per cent of these mortgaged
homes. The average mortgage debt of
the homes for which mortgage reports
were secured was $1,265 and the
average value was $3.50: and on the
basis of these averages the total mort
gage debt on TIE mortgaged homes not
on farms is estimated rs $12l. SQ5.SG6
and the total value OF such homes as
S520,973.TT2. The ratio of mortgage
debt to value is $50 per cent. on
owned farms the total mortgage debt.
rs reported in the census of agricul-
ture. was S105,256.239. while the total
value Of these mortgaged farms was
! S439.152.507. the ratio OF debt TO value
being 24.0 per cent.
New York.-Wnl II. Hays. former
postmaster general. was elected a di-
rector OF the Chicago & Eastern Hi.
uoiS railroad.
IlammOnd.-GIs Raasch OF this CITY
VAS KILLED. and Paul RObinSki received
"a f-nrfura1 sinh ..bor tbo