Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1911 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports from Many Parts of the Country SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in Distant and Nearby Cities and Towns—Matters of Minor Mention from Many Places. STABBED IN FIGHT. Young Baseball Player Took Up Another Man’s Quarrel. Lafayette, Ind,, June 2.—Edward Farrell, age twenty-two, who came to Lafayette from his home in Otterbein recently to try a position on the Lafayette League baseball team, is dying at St. Elizabeth’s hospital from stabs received in a fight last night on the Main street bridge. After an all night search the police succeeded in capturing Amos Watts, who is charged with the assault. Farrell is a son of Robert Farrell, of Benton county. , He was playing pool last night with Watts, when the tatter quarreled with another young man. Farrell took up the quarrel and he and Watts went to the bridge to fight it out. The knife penetrated Farrell’s lungs and the doctors say he can not recover. Watts is twenty-seven years old and is married.