Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1912 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

MARION Hollis Weaver, fifty-six years of age, of Sims, Grant county, was stabbed in the abdomen by Joseph Renfrow, aged forty-nine. Weaver was hurried to the Grant county hospital and it is feared death will result. Renfrow was Immediately arrested 1 by” Isaac W. Routh, deputy sheriff, brought to this city and placed in jail. The trouble between Weaver and Renfrow is said to have resulted from a remark made by Carroll Weaver, son of Hollis, concerning Renfrow’s daughter-in-law, Mrs. Samuel Renfrow. Both Weavers boarded at the Renfrow home, w here the trouble occurred. Renfrow says the father ahd son attacked him and he used a pocket’ knife in Self defense

EVANSVILLE Noble Stallings, living at New Harmony, has a dog that iihitates the crowing of a rooster so closely that it is hard to detect the difference. When the dog was only a few weeks old he began to take notice of the crowing of the roosters in the morning and began to imitate them. It is not uncommon to see Mr. Stallings’ dog go into the barnyard and rear back, on his hind legs and, pawing the air with his front feet, make a noise like a rooster. One passing" by. the house and not seeing the dog would think it was a real rooster crowing'. „ Mr. Stallings says his dog is a Democrat.

RENSSEALER A small stone which lay on the pavement in the street in front of the Republican office, of this city, was caught by the chain on the rear wheel of an automobi'e and thrown backward With suqh force that it crashed through a window at the entrance of the Republican office, scattering thq glass over Warren Robinson, who occupied a chair near the, damaged window. At first the publishers of the paper thought some one had shot through the window, but a hasty investigation left no doubt that the stone had been cast by a rear wheel of the automobile. LAFAYETTE ■— Patrick Tracy, seventy-three years oldi, who was a friend of every student and faculty member of Purdue university for the last thirty years, died of pneumonia at his home in West Lafayette. Pat Tracy, as he was familiarly known, had been the cihef janitor at Purdue university ever since 1882, and, up to the year 1900, he was personally and intimately acquainted with every student in the institution. Then the university began to grow so rapidly and he became so old that he was unable to keep in touch with the students as he did in former years.

BLOOMINGTON—Tobe Snoddy has teen found guilty of having been a member of a gang of fifteen ipen that whitecapped Harvey McFarland, a farmer of Van Buren township at midnight on May 4, 1911, and may serve a term of from two to ten years in the state prison at Michigan City, although sentence has not been passed, awaiting motions for an appealed to the supreme court. It is the first time in the history of the state of Indiana that anybody has ever been convicted of whitecapping, although there have been many trials.

GARY The Aetna Powder company, which manufactures dynamite, gun cotton and nitroglycerin, has purchased a 200 acre site on the Kankakee river marshes and will abandon the present plant at Aetna, which is within a mile of Gary. The cause for abandoning its present location is its close proximity to the Gary steel mills. Should a big explosion occur it would rock the expensive machinery and cripple the steel plant.

W NEWPORT—Eight men who were riding In the caboose of a Toledo, St. Louis and Southwestern freight train narrowly escaped death when twenty cars bf the train plunged into the Wabash river near Cayuga, Ind. The engine went over the bridge before the cars broke through. Tne caboose tipped, ready for the 170 foot plunge t when the coupling broke and the car settled back on the rails.

WARSAW Dynamite is being used at Milford to dig graves in the cemetery. The ground is frozen to a depth of four feet. The sexton of the Warsaw cemetery is thawing, out the ground for‘graved by using a ; plumber’s steam outfit. The earth is frozen so hard that a pick and spade make little impression.

EVANSVILLE Because a jury in the circuit court here refused to hang William Lee for killing his father, mother and brother, the state’s attorney, in the case of William Hester, charged with inurder, in impanel-' inj the jury, refused to ask the talesmen if they believed in capital punish* ment. DELPHI Lola Kitchen, four years of age, was burned to death when left alone in her home at Pittsburg, one mile north of here. The father and mother were absent at the time. The father was in the juvenile court here last week for failure to give his children proper care. SHELBYVILLE Elda Everroad, thirty-six years old, phot himself in the breast with a revolver, at Hope, and (died shortly afterward. He cried)' twice previously to commit suicide' but no cause for the act is known.