Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1912 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

BLOOMINGTON After a chase and vigal whcih lasted until about 3 a. m., Deputy Sheriff Ira Robinson and City Police Officer James Stephens captured Stephen G. Brown, a Washington township farmer, who escaped last week from the Southeastern Hospital for the Insane at Madison, and who is accused of having burned the residence and barn of his father, Douglas Brown, last Tuesday -night. The officers found the insane man at the home of his sister and brought him to jail in this city, where he will be held awaiting the arrival of hospital officials, who will take him back to Madison.

VINCENNES With a most remarkable display of braveness Ambrose Dunkle, eighty-year-old son of Frank Dunkle, a printer, went to the rescue of seven-year-old Maurice Woodward, whb fell into eight feet of water in the “soaking tank” of a glass factory. Dunkle laid down and grasping the struggling Woodward boy by the hand, in imminent danger of being pulled into the tank himself, held Woodward’s head above water until men from the factory rescued both. City Fireman Alonzo Woodward, father of the rescued lad, presented Dunkle a gold ring for his heroism.

NEW ALBANY Suddenly awakened by a dense smoke, Dr. H H. McBride apd family discovered that their house was on fire, and Dr. Mcßride and his daughter, Miss Estella Mcßride, had a narrow escape from death. Suffocated by the smoke, they were taken from a second-story window by the firemen. Mrs. Mcßride managed to grope her way through the blinding smoke from the burning building and give an alarm. The fire, which originated in the kitchen, is believed to have been of incendiary origin. The house was badly damaged.

LOGANSPORT A suit for $5,000 for breach of promise has been filed by Pearly Myers against Samuel Frybarger. The case wab venued front Howard county, where the principals resident. Plaintiff alleges Frybarger asked her to marry him and she consented and set to preparing for housekeeping. In the bill of expenses which she incurred and which is filed with the complaint is $lB 50 for “time and material used in canning fruit intended for the defendant’s pleasure and comfort.”

ANDERSON Frank Myers, who is one of the oldest of the city firefighting force, is dangerously ill at hie home and his recovery is doubted by physicians. Mr. Myers is a brother of Captain W. It. Myers, who served as secretary, of state and Lieutenant Governor several years ago. Another brother, George Myers, a wealthy farmer living about ’six miles west of the city, is at the point of death as a result of a stroke of apoplexy.

COLUMBUS Alonzo Petree, a wealthy farmer of Rock Creek township, committed suicide by shooting himself in the forehead with a revolver. He recently made 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.

ANDERSON The city council at a special meeting fixed the salaries of the city officials for the ensuing year. City Attorney Charles Sansberry was given a raise from sl,000 to $1,500 per year and City Clerk Maurice Collins was given a raise of S2OO per year. The captains of the various fire stations were given a raise of $5 per month.

EVANSVILLE —Mrs. Emma Langj man. seventy years old, who stubbornly I refused to get up from ' her bed for f fifteen years, died at. the county infirmary. A reversal of her fortune® j which drove her to the county asylum caused her resolution never to leave her bed after she arrived there.

MOUNT VERNON—Raymond Raymond and a woman representing herself to he his wife were arrested at Cynthiana, this county, on orders of Prosecuting Attorney Sanford Trlppett, charged with bei/ig “white slave” agents. They wore bound ever to the circuit court under SI,OOO bail.

BROOKVILLe The four-story building of the Tbompson-Sorrin company was destroyed by fire. The loss is about $25,000, partly covered by insurance. The cause is not known. One hundred and twenty-five persons will bp out of employment until the plant can be rebuilt. HAMMOND - Bernard B*ennett, the youthful son of Mr. and Mrs. Bennett of Rolling Prairie, suffered fatal injuries when he fell frbm his Chair at the breakfast table. The lad lost his balance in reaching for food being passed by his mother. His neck was broken. INDIANAPOLIS Charles Bowman, a son of a Westfield, Indiana, farmer, was arrested near Nora, Ind., as the suspect in the murder of four persons on the Barn hard farm near Kansas City, Kan., the night of Dec. 9, , 1910. TERRE HAUTE While he was crossing a bridge S. J. Bueh, a mine worker, was struck by a train and his body cut in two.