Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1911 — MOMMA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

MOMMA STATE NEWS.

BEDFORD Mrs. Ida Payton of this city made an attempt to . commit suicide by jumping off a thirty-five-foot ledge into an abandoned quarry beneath. Miss Inez Prather, a sii-teen-year-old girl, who was with her and who attempted to hold her back, was dragged over the side of the ledge. The two women fell forty feet into about four feet of water, which broke the foice of the fall and saved them from instant death. Both are badly hurt No reason is given for the attempt at suicide, except that Mrs. Payton had been suffering from mental trouble, and, fearing that she would, make just such etfi attempt, Miss Prather had been employed to watch her. LAPORTE Special Agent Primmer, who is representing the United States government, has teen spending several days in Laporte county investigating the records of foreigners, many of them saloon keepers, who are applicants for naturalization paper*, He found a number of the foreigners to be holders of liquor licenses in Michigan City, and he also found that they were running wide o[>en on Sunday. They will not only be refused naturalization papers, but other charges will be preferred. FORT WAYNE Anderson haa been chosen as the entertaining city for next year’s meeting of the Indiana Reunion association of the benevolent protective order of Elk*. The association elected the following officers: President, Alvin Padgett, Washington; vice president, Fred T. Barber, Anderson; secretary, T. C. Hedland, Indianapolis; treasurer, Joseph H. Milspaugh, Anderson; esquire, David Carlton, Elwood'; inside guard, Charles G. Foresman, Muncie; trustee, Robert A. Scott, Linton. NORTH WEBSTER Fire almost wiped out the business section of this town with a loss of between $15,000 snd $20,000. The fire started in the Garber general store and spread so rapidly the entire town would have been destroyed had not Warsaw responded to an appeal for help. Among the buildings destroyed were Garber’s general store, the Warner livery, Jenkins’ stable, the Stronbeck hardware ‘ore and the Anderson case. r.XHIGAN CITY Willie Bilskl, eleven-year-old son of John Blibki. was drowned by falling from one of the piers near the harbor entrance. Aftei attending a church service he and another boy went fishing. While seated on the pier young Bilskl felt that his prayer book was about to drop from his pocket and when he grabbed at it he lost his balance and fell. His body was recovered twenty’ minutes afterward. SHELBYVILLE Daniel C. A. Rivers, a shoe and harness mender of St. Paul has received an anonymous ’letter through the United States maiL It is composed principally of slurs and signed “Half Breed." Mr. Rivers has posted in one of the windows of bis place of business a tetter in reply, cu'.<,enging the anonymous letter writer to meet him at any time and any place for a fight INDIANAPOLIS—With a current of 2,300 volts courlng through his body, Clarence Y. Loop, city lineman, was saved from death by his companion, John Moke, who knocked Loop’s hand from the wire which he could not release. Both were work- ' ing on a pole. A life belt saved the unconscious man (rom dropping, i Physicians revived Loop after hours of work. 4f