Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1911 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

INDIANAPOLIS—WiIIiam A. Gant, who declares he is a department store clerk, and who is said to have threatened the lives of the family of H. S Adams, a well to do mill owner of Fortville, Ind., was arrested when he was trapped by a decoy package. Later he is said to have confessed his intention to extort S6OO from Adams. A letter received by Adams, ten days ago threatened the lives of Adams, a son at Puraue university, a daughter at DePauv university and the destruction of the Adams mill and a summer cottage at Tippecanoe lake. Postoffice Inspector Ela of this city made the investigation. Gant was taken into custody a moment after he had picked up a decoy package which he had ordered Adams to leave on the counter of a restaurant. The police say that he admitted that he was, the author of the threatening leters, but denied that he had an accomplice.

GARY Two police officers of the Gary police department, J. A. Workus and John Schmidt, were discharged by the board of public safety, following a night of revelry in which they became intoxicated and were the cause of a free-for-all fight. Failing to report for duty, Chief of Police Martin ordered a search They were found in a saloon at Washington street and Seventeenth avenue, where a fight inside attracted the serachers’ attenion. Workus and Schmidt were found insisting that the woman bartender serve them with more free drinks. Tlwiy were brought to the police statimWand relieved of their stars and uniforms.

LAFAYETTE The funeral of the late Colonel Chester G. Thomson was held here, many persons of prominence from the state being present. The honorary pallbearers included Dr. W. E. Stone, president of Purdue university; James F. Fowler, president of the Fowler bank; Robert W. Sample, president of the First National bank; Richard P. De Hart, Colonel E. P. Hammond, Dr. J. C. Webster, Dr. Stanley Coulter of Purdue; Dr. George F. Beasley, Captain W P. Herron of Crawfordsville; S. D. Sutphin of Indianapolis, and Nelson Barnes of Chicago. Dr. John P. Hale preached the funeral sermon.

MARION—Irene Harrel, three years old, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Harrel, was burned to death in the home of her parents in the presence of three playmates. The child was throwing pieces of paper into a stove when her dress caught The other children left the house and summoned the girl’s mother, who was away from the house. The mother found her child literally baked,, and death quickly ensued.

KOKOMO The man who fell to his death while going down a stairway to the basemeiit beneath a poolroom has been identified as Joseph Creveston, seventy-eight years old, well known in several cities of the state, particularly Marion and Muncie. He was reared in Union City.

LAFAYETTE William A. Worman, who left Lafayette a short time ago, was shot and killed at Portland, Ore., by Bert Hicks, a manufacturer arid employing machinist. Worr.an was a striking machinist and the shooting followed insults and blow-, between the men.

TERRE HAUTE Fire, believed to have originated in the coreroom of the Eagle Iron and car works, caused a SIO,OOO damage. The erecting room, core room and car sheds were gutted by the flames, but the pattern room and the machine shops escaped the blaze.

PETERSBURG Scores of people searched in the blinding snow for S6OO in money and a diamond ring valued at S2OO, said to be buried by a man named Adams, who ' was found wandering aimlessly on the railroad track here Friday.

SHELBYVILLE— Injuries which he received when he w?as struck by an Indianapolis and Cincinnati traction car at Fairland will probably cause the death of Michell Hall, seventy-one years old, a prominent Civil War veteran. KOKOMO Taking offense at a a remark of Rev. J. H. Mavity because they stalked out of church during services, unknown young men wrecked the interior of the church. A court of inquiry is being held. KOUTS Leon Kouts, aged four, the son of Barney Kouts, founder of Kouts, Ind., was killed. He had left his house for a pail of wa k e* and a L J mb from a tree, torn off by the wind, struck him. SULLIVAN Robbers entered the store of James B. Nichols at Dugger, blew the safe and, obtained $45 in cash. There is no clue. This is the sixth time the store has been robbed this year. All the news in The Democra'