Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1911 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

RICHMOND—Mrs Mary Me- Laughliri seventy-seven yeers olu. the vidow of Dennis McLaughlin, formerly a prominent resident, was killed bv a city street car in charge of Motorman Stewart Taylor at Main and ThlrJ streets. J. McLaughlin, conductor oh an interurban car of the Terre Haute, Indianapolis ansTEastern company. wi3 one of the first men to arrive on the scene of the accident, his car approaching ai the time. He turned the body of the woman over to find it was his mother. He was so enraged upon making the discovery that other employes of the company had to restrain him from doing bodily harm to Taylor.

TERRE HAUTE Frederick Hunt <jf Indianapolis stole up the stairway at 311 North Fifth street, and entered a room occupied by his wife and daughter, fourteen years old, and a man by the name of Henry Fryman, and before Fryman had time to escape cut him twice across the back. Fryman leaped from the room, but was forced to hold the door to prevent Hunt from following him Hunt, it is said, cut Fryman’s clothes into ribbons. Before the police arrived Hunt, his wife and daughter had left the house, and are said to have gone to Indianapolis on an interurban.

MOORESVILLE— The sudden bursting of the 6,090 pound fly wheel on the ice machine wrecked the plant of the Mooresville, Water, Light, Heat and Powet- company and caused damage estimated at several thousand dollars. The ammonia tank cracked and the escaping fumes were so pungent that people living near had to flee from their homes in their night clothes to avoid suffocation. Night Engineer Kesley Smitherson was slightly injured. The plant was owned by Chicago capitalists. SOUTH BEND— The Oliver chilled plow works of South Bend, Ind., and Hamilton, Ont., the largest plant of its kind in the world, has not been sold to the International Harvester company. This statement was made by Joseph D. Oliver of this city in reply to rumors that have been adrift in South Bend and other cities during the last several days. According to the statement made by Mr. Oliver every share of stock in the Oliver corporation is held by members of his family.

OCONOMOWOC Miss Pauline Alexander, nineteen-year-old daughter of L. M. Alexander, Milwaukee banker and paper manufacturer, was drowned when she leaped into Oconomowoc lake to escape the flames after an explosion of the engine of the Alexan der power boat named in her honor. John Alexander, her brother, was a mass of flames as he dived into the water. He is seriously but not fatally burned.

GREENFIELD— WhiIe he was driving a mower on his farm near this city, Qeorge Russell had an experience with a big blue racer which wrapped itself around his leg, presumably in escaping from the sickle. The snake appeared to be as frightened as the man and escaped into the uncut hay. Russell was so frightened he could not proceed with his work for several minutes.

SOUTH BEND The policy authorities throughout northern Indiana have been enlisted in the search for Mark Du Bois, the South Bend 1 boy, who made a sensational escape on the way to the Plainfield reformatory. His picture and description have been sent broadcast. The was last seen at Kokomo, where he eluded his guard and -urnped from a moving train. 80UTH BEND Joseph Douglass, thirty-eight years of age, who was convicted of the murder of James Wilson in South Bend seven years ago and who was pardoned after serving five years of a term for manslaughter, is again under arrest, having been captured in the saloon of Benjamin Rose while in the act of rifling the cash register. ANDERSON Mrs. Sabra Long’s husband traded “sight unseen” with Purl Dean, Summittville. Dean got a SI,OOO stallion, and Long a mule which, when it arrived at Summittville, had to be hauled to the Long farm It was too weak to walk. Mrs. Loqg, it is rumored, was hopping mad. She has invoked the law to bring Dean to time.

MARION— Mr. and Mrs. J. Wood Wilson have returned to this city, their home after a , six months’ wedding trip abroad. They visited Europe, the Holy Land and Asia. In Italy Mr. Wilson’s chauffeur met them with his touring car, and they traveled over the continent.

CONNERBVILLE While at work digging a grave in the Lick Creek cemetery,, Charles D. Stamm of Harrisburg, was stunned by lightning, which struck a tree nearby. Stamm was found half conscious in the bottom of the grave ten minutes later. He will recover.

INDIANAUOLIS L, W. Elder, was drowned in Fall Creek above Hammond’s Grove. Elder’s son, while wading, got in beyond his depth. When the father tried to get him out, he stepped into a deep hole and drowned. The body was recovered in a short time.

LOGANSPORT Joseph Vivian, ten years old, touched a match to his father’s window’ display of fireworks. In (he general explosions that followed the" window was blown out and other damage done. ,The boy escaped injury.

INDIANAPOLIS George W. McCoy, adjutant general of the Indiana national guard, has issued the concentration order for the state guard companies for the encampment to be held at Fort Benjamin Harrison July 17-26.