Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1912 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

&HELBYVILLE t)ra Bennett, by a decision of Judge Blair r has lost in his fight to gain a one-third interest in property left by Mrs. Elizabeth Strahl Bennett, who was burned to death last May by the explosion of a coal Oil lamp, and who left an estato valued in the neighborhood of $4,000. bar been her husband, but shefyhad obtained a divorce from him two years before her death. He learned that the court decree had never been entered in the order boo*, by the court clerk and at once brought suit against the woman’s four children for one-third of the estates An investigation revealed that the decree had - been left out of the order book inadvertently by the clerk and Judge Blair made an order for a nunc pro tunc entry to show that Bennett was divorced April 17, 1909.

GARY life of his wife, Dr. Theodore B. Ternplin of Gary gave up more than a quart of blood in a transfusion operation that nearly cost him his own life. Mrs. Templin suffered a hemorrhage following the birth of a baby boy several days ago. She lost almost every drop of her blood. Her husband, although warned that the operation might mean his own death;, demanded the transfusion of 1 his blood into his wife’s veins. The blood flowed slowly from orie to the other for three-quar-ters of an hour/ when Dr. TgaVplin became too faint for further risk. As neither is yet thirty-five years old and both have been strong until recently, the physicians are confident the operation will not end in the death of either.

KOKOMO While admitting the theft of tools from the planing mills of the Pinnell-Kemper' Lumber ' company, which was practically destroyed by fire, Fred Wholymouth, accused of arson -in firing the structure, refused to admit or deny his guilt. “I may have lit a match in hunting for the tools and I may not have. I won’t say,” lie told the officers examining him. The loss to the plant is about $2,000 with insurance of SSOO. Directly across the street a short time ago the Kokomo Cash Lumber company’s yard, burned, with a loss of s44,ooo.'Wholymouth was a discharged employe and in straitened'^ircumstances.

PORTLAND Charged with robbing James W. Daniels of Fort Wayne of SIOO in money and a certificate of deposit for S3OO, John Farber of this city is under arrest. Detective Sergeant Ward Hall of the Fort Wayne police came here after him. The crime is alleged to have been committed Ncv. 21, when Farber, one night when his wife was away from home, persuaded Daniels to spend the hours with him there. When Daniels, who was intoxicated, awakened, he found his certificate and roll both gone. Later the Certificate was found under Farber’s bed.

FORT WAYNE ■— Because his rival for the hand of the girl h 6 loved added $6.95 to the nickel he gave for the purchase of a 10-cent doll to present to his girl as a joke on Christmas day, and purchased instead of the doll a $7 set of furs for her, George VonLeiken shot and wounded Frederick Stellbrenck in this city, according to the police who have been investigating the attempted murder. VonLeiken has disappeared. His victim will recover. Stffibrenck, who framed the deal, permitted VonLeiken to present the supposed doll to the girl.

MARION —Two. hundred and twen-ty-five persons were thrown out of employment and damage to the extent of about $6,000 was incurred when a tank at the plant of the Standard Co-Operative Glass company, in this city, collapsed. No one was* injured when the sixty tons of moltert glass let go and the factory was not set on fire. The managers let the contract for the building of a new tank and for general repairs at the factory to be completed by March 1. The company was swamped with Orders when the accident occurred.

SOUTH BEND because, she alleges,' the conductor of a Southern Michigan railway car refused a worn half dollar she tendered for her fare, stopped the car and put her off in the snow, compelling her to walk a mile and a quarter through drifts against heavy, cold winds while the thermometer registered below zero, Mrs. Mamie Kintre filed suit in the circuit court against the Chicago, South Bend and Northern Indiana railway for $2,000 damages.

PRINCETON— LesIie Hunter, thirtytwo years old, a well known businessman and former flchool teacher, committed suicide by swallowing, a quantity of strychnine at his home in Owensville. The suicide folio ved disclosures brought to light recently in Hunter is alleged to have forged the name of his brother-in-law, Harry Pollard, a wealthy Montgomery .township farmer, to notes for $2,500 and $1,200.

LOGANSPORT Samuel Watkins and Edith Schroeder were instantly killed by electricity when wires .became crossed, and their bodies were burned almost beyond recognition at Watkins’ broom factory. Fred Bueksman, who pulled the bodies from the burning building, received severe burns and may die. Assistant fc"ii'e Chief Jacob Westerwelier wqb shocked by a live wire.