Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 212, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1916 — OWNER OF BEES IS SUED [ARTICLE]

OWNER OF BEES IS SUED

Neighbor of Indiana Man Says a Number of Them Stung Stock and . Children. Valparaiso, Ind. —E. S. Miller, a 'member of the National Association of Beekeepers and owner of several hundred stands of bees la this county, has

been sued because, it is alleged, some of his bees flew to the home of Haymond Austin, a farmer nearby, and stung the live stock, poultry and children in addition to usurping a water tank. It is asserted in the complaint that if the bees had been properly cared fotr they would not have done this. Austin asks a restraining order that will prevent Miller from keeping the bees so near to the former’s farm. Damages of SSOO also are asked.