Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1911 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

INDIANAPOLIS—Indictments were returned by the grand jury charging two officers and two employes of the Browji-Ketchham Iron works, one of the largest structural iron and steel concerns in the middle west, with em-,= bezzlement. W. H. Brown, J. L. Ketcham, secretary and treasurer; F. J. Vinson, auditor, and H. Holliday, paymaster, are the men indicted. Vinson and Halliday had been arrested on affidavits. Brown and Ketcham were indicted after the receiver for the corporation had made a report that its funds had been depleted to the extent of $50,000 through overdrafts by some of its officials. INDIANAPOLIS The epidemic of diphtheria in the state has spread to virtually every county, according to J. P. Simonds, head of the pathological laboratory of the state board of health. All the test tubes the laboratory had on hand have been made use of, and ? additional help has been procured to aid in the handing of the cultures. The state board authorities are bending every effort to handle the cultures, as they believe early action in this respect is responsible for the small death rate that has characterized the epidemic thus far.

SOUTH BEND—The limit in holdups of ’ the many that have been reported to the police during the epidemic of crime that has been rampant in South Bend during the last four weeks took place when a masked man entered the office of the Staples, Hildebrand, Mason company, and, pointing a revolver at Miss Grace Bowerman, cashier, forced her to turn over to him S3O. A few minutes before an official of the concern had taken the day’s receipts to a bank. The man escaped. HAMMOND—Robert Burnett, aged nine years, is in a critical condition as a result of attempting a flight from the roof of a barn in an aeroplane, which he had made for himself. Robert made a flying machine of pieces of board walk, his mother’s clothes line and sheets. The steering wheel was part of his mother’s washing machine. In his mother’s absence he got the apparatus on top of a barn, seated himself in it arid pushed off. He was found unconscious in the debris. LOGANSPORT—A wire which was stretched across a road on the property of the Gasparis Stone company broke the glass wind shield of a machine driven by O. H. Binns, general manager, caught him in the mouth and lifted him out of the automobile. His teeth were loosened, his mouth split at the corners and he was badly bruised and shocked.

PORTLAND The Rev. James W. Kerr, pastor of the Methodist Salamonia circuit, is missing from his home in Salamonia. He disappeared the first of last week. The Rev. Kerr has been a resident of Salamonia since last April. He was formerly stationed at Forest, Ind. His family consists of his wife and one son about fourteen years old. NEWCASTLE Jacob Cole, twen-ty-one years old, the son of Andrew Cole of this city, was killed while working with a haybaler on the John Harlan farm, northwest of here. A piece of heavy iron broke loose and struck him in the breast, crushing him and causing instant death He was unmarried. WABASH William Wallace a dealer in automobiles, was fined SBO, including costs, in the circuit court on a charge of having assaulted Prosecuting Attorney Walter Bent. The assault was made after Bent had thrice prosecuted Wallace for exceeding the speed limit while driving. EVANSVILLE William C. Hogan, a lineman in the employ of the Cumberland Telephone and Telegraph company, while working on top of a telephone pole here, lost his footing and fell to the sidewalk, a distance of forty feet He was instantly killed. The deceased was single.

MONON While she was crossing a street on her way to school, Minnie Dahnke, seven years old, daughter of a merchant, was run down by an automobile, sustaining injuries which resulted in her death. The machine was driven by Olney Goble, owner of a local garage. EVANSVILLE—After having been out two days the jury trying John W. Blauth for embezzling J43,000 from the Evansville Trust company reported its inability to agree The jurors stood 7 to 5 for acquittal. The case will not be up for retrial until next year. INDIANAPOLIS Judge Markey of the criminal. court sentenced John H. H. Demar, colored, to life imprisonment after a jury had found him guilty of murder in the first degree. Demar shot and killed his wire, Lizzie Demar, March 9. BLOOMFIELD While he was working in the Eph Cassidy sawmill, William Arthur, aged twenty, fell across a ripsaw and was instantly killed, his body being cut almost in two. i LAFAYETTE Gilbert McGuire aged four years, son of George McGuire, fell into a boiler full of boiling water and was so badly scalded that b« died three hours later.

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