Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1911 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

BLOOMINGTON Several bloodhounds were used by local police officers to trace Stephen G Brown, insane, a Washington township farmer, I who escaped last week from the Southeastern Hospital for the Insane at Madison, and who walked the entire ; distance back, arriving at the home ' of his father, Douglas Brown, eight miles north of here. The insane man informed ' his father thuA the long I "hike" had made his feet sore and begged him to go to a store at Wayport, three miles away, to buy him some soothing ointment. When the I father returned his home and barn 1 were in asfles, at a loss of $4,500, and the son had fled. Sheriff Browning and two policemen, took the I hounds out in an automobile and searched for the incendiary, but were i unable to find him. As he had threatened to burn other houses, two of the , officers, with the dogs, spent the night in the neighborhood. I VINCENNEB—Mrs. A&rette Mabry, thirty-three years of age, wife of I Carl W. Mabry, a commission mep J chant, and the mother of several chili dren, wandered away from home and tried to drown herself in the Wabash river. The tower watchman of the I Baltimore and Ohio railroad bridge ' saw the woman walk Into the water 'and yelled a warning to some men just as she disappeared in deep water. One of the men swam out and res- ■ cued her, but disappeared before his > identity could be established. Affected jby ill health, Mrs. Mabry is Said to I have once done the same stunt in the | Ohio river at Evansville, where the | family lived until three years ago.

SOUTH BEND Greatly enraged because his adopted daughter paid no Feed to his remarks, but went ahead preparing to marry his nephew, Edward iMaillette interrupted the ceremony by giving the prospective bridegroom a beating. This did not prevent the marriage taking place, but after the rites he was arrested on complaint of the groom’s brother. The bride and groom are the chief witnesses to the affair.

COLU.MBUS Alonzo Petree, a wealthy farmer of Rock Creek township, committed suicide by shooting himself in the forehead revolver. He recently, madd ,repeated threats to take his own life if his wife continued to refuse to sell and remove to Indianapolis. This was the birth anniversary of his father, J. Petree, also a wealthy farmer. Two of the dead man’s uncles and two of his cousins committed suicide.

LAWRENCEBURG Mrs. Chacle J. York, twenty seven years old, when walking in her sleep, left the home of her mother-in-law on Burlington pike, and fell into a well in tb£ yard. The plunge awoke her, and her screams aroused her mother-in-law. The young woman held tightly to the rope attached to a bucket until rescued. She is in a serious condition from expo-, sure.

PORTLAND Joseph Landis, a Cincinnati, Bluffton and Chicago railroad brakeman, was killed in the Portland yards, when he fqll under the'*wheels’ of his train and both legs were ground off. He lived about one hour after the accident, dying on the operating table in the county hospital. His home was in Huntington, and his widow and parents live there. RICHMOND The entire student body and the members of the high school faculty here are working together to ascertain the persons guilty of painting the walls and statuary of the new high school building. The Greek letters, Beta Phi Sigma, and . pictures of playing cards were painted over the stage in the large auditorium and in other parts of the building. LAFAYETTE James Davidson, eighty-three years old, • and for thirty-five years an employe of the Wabash railroad as a flagman, was struck by a runaway horse at the Main street crossing and fatally injured. One of the shafts of the buggy caught the flagman’s coat and dragged him several hundred feet. He was unconscious when picked up. SOUTH BEND—A S2OO v (MM) home for Masonic widows and orphans, which is oson to be erected by the Grand Lodge of Indiana, may be located in South Bend. In casetHe officials of the Grand Lodge do decide to select this city for the home, the local Masonic fraternities are pared to provide the ground for the institution free of any cost. BURNS CITY Dexter Garrett, two "years old, son of Frank Garrett, was accidentally shot and killed by his brother, fifteen years old. The gun was discharged while the boy was putting it away under a bed. The child’s leg was blown off close up to the body, VINCENNES The Vanderburg county council, after a three minutes’ secret session, unanimously refused to grant Prosecutor. Shuler McCormick’s appeal for a $2,000 appropriation to prosecute murder case against Slater E. and Ray Stibbins. DUGGER —Elmer Bedwell shot and almost instantly killed Charles Parrs on the main street here. The shooting is said to have been the outcome of an old grudge. Bedwell is un- ' der arrest. Parrs was married.