Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1910 — Indiana State News [ARTICLE]

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BOY BURIED IN HOT SLACK. Suffern Serioun Burns While Plnyinff on ••Gob Pile’’ nt Mine, < Ndah McGinnis, the 13-year-o d son of Mr. and Mrs. S. L. McGinnis, of near Dugger, was playing with a half dozen companions on the "gob pile” at the Superior mine when a portion of the heap suddenly gave way and he was enveloped in seething slack waist deep. His companions heard his screams and looked on in terror until 10-year-old Chester Ferguson finally picked up courage enough to go to his rescue in spite of the danger of falling in the place and saved young McGinnis from probable death by assisting him from the hole by means of a long rope, with which the boys had been playing. Young McGinnis was carried to his home, where he received medical attention. Hope is entertained for his recovery. although the boy is badly burned about the lower limbs. WOMAN SOLVES A MYSTERY. Confra»e» She Wouuded Two Men tn Sjelf-Defenne. The mystery of the shooting of Turner Hulls and William Hedrick near Alfordsville the other night was solved with the confession of Mrs. Mae Edwards that it was she who wounded the two farmers. The woman says the men were crossing her premises, and when she ordered them away Hulls threatened her with a revolver. Then, she says, she procured a shotgun and shot the men. Hulls is believed to be fatally wounded. Mrs. Edwards is in jail in Washington, charged with assault with intent to kill.. TWO DROWN; PACT SEEN. Letter on Beaeh May Be Clew to Hammond Myntery. The well-dressed body of an unidentified woman, about 30 years old, Was washed ashore on the Lake Michigan beach between Miller's and Gary. The bodj- of a man was washed ashore a few miles west of the spot where the woman s body was found, and the police suspect a suicide pact. Significance is attached to a letter found on the beach two weeks ago reading: “We hope when you find this little note in this bottle you won’t be surprised. Companions in life, we will die together.—F. Roy and D. Barnes.” GEN. STREIGHT'S WIDOW DIES. Woman Wa« Captured. Duriiyk Cixll War While Acting as Spy. Mrs. Lovina Streight, widow of the late General A. D. Streight, known as the mother of the Fifty-first Indiana Volunteers, died the other day and was buried with military honors. During the civil war, while acting as a Federal spy, she was captured by the Confederates and succeeded rn shielding herself and the message she carried by professing friendship. To make her sham good she became a nurse in the Confederate hospital, where she was known as the “northern angel.” ELOPING GIRL ASKS DIVORCE. Wife Aged 16 Seeks Separation from Her Chicago Husband. Mildred Sievert, of Porter, aged 16. who eloped with Walther Nallenweg, aged 18, of Chicago, to St. Joe, Mich., on May 26 and was married, has applied in the Circuit Court in Valparaiso for a divorce. They gave wrong ages in obtaining the license. The couple did not live -together as husband and wife, the young bride returning to her home immediately after the ceremonv. ■ - » Want Marshall President. The Democrats of the first Indiana Congressional District met in Evansville, and after indorsing Governor Marshall for president renominated Congressman John W. Boehne of that city by acclamation. The Democrats of Vanderburg. Warrick and Spencer Counties also met and nominated W. B. Carleton for Senator... - Child Takes Poison. A 2-year-old son of Dr. J. W. McFarlan, a prominent physician of Bedford, toddled, into his father’s office during the latter's temporary absence, and, reaching up to a table, got hold of a vial of carbolic acid and drank it with fatal effects. The father had been using the acid on a patient Noted Quaker Minister Dead. Rev. Allen Jay, one of the best known Quaker ministers in the world, died in Richmond ALL OVER THE STATE. Mrs. Elizabeth Pillow, aged 74 years, was killed by falling down the stairs at her home. She moved to Evansville a few days ago from Shawneetown, 111. It has been discovered .that Laura Thompson, married to Alexander Fisher, aged 30, was 12 instead of 17, as stated by her parents when the license was procured at Rockville. Revenue Officer Lee destroyed $2,500 worth of Weber’s union brewery beer in Madison by running it into a creek Mr. Weber had stopped manufacturing it, finding it unprofitable to ship and reship the product. Rather than, undergo an operation, necessary to prolong her life, Frank Scheffler, of East Chicago, overpowered her nurses and hurled herself through the skylight on the fourth floor of a hospital. She died a few hours afterward