Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1912 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

SOUTH BEND The prosecution here of Stanley J. Drejer on a charge of embezzlement and a suit against the United States Fidelity and Guarantee company of Baltimore, Md., to recover Drejer’s bond of $15,000 are expected developments in the tangled financial affairs of the ‘Kosciusko Building and Loan association. The developments have been promised' as a result of a meeting of the stockholders, when an offer to settle the alleged $24,000 shortage, which is laid to Drejer, was rejected. The bonding company offered to pay $7,500, onehalf of the amount of Drejer’s bond. The stockholders rejected the offer, on the belief that the entire amount of the bond can be secured by a suit in court. ■

MUNCIE A motion for a new trial has been filed in the case of •Charles McGalliard, Jr., the young painter and decorator who several ’ weeks ago was found guilty of murder i ! n the second degree for the killing on last Halloween night of his sweetI heai t, Alta Haworth. McGilliard shot i the girl during a dance after she had ■ refused to leave the hall apd go home . with him. Attorneys charge the court erred in instructions to the jury and in permitting the state to introduce certain evidence. The attorneys have J alleged that if granted a new trial they ; will show that McGilliard did hot fire the shot which killed the girl. ihe motion likely will be argued this week.

BLOOMINGTON —At an early hour in the morning the beautiful home of J. H. Nolan, a stone operator, was damaged by fire, the blaze having its origin from a defective flue. The cold weather caused the firemen to suffer considerably, and to show his gratitude Mr. Nolan entertained them after their work with hot coffee and lunch. In the explosion Flory was thrown across the cellar, but was able to escape and call the fire department. The firemen could not extinguish the blaze until the gas company had sent men to dig down to a frozen valve in the street to turn off the gas. The residence was practically gutted. Flory’s injuries were not serious.

EVANSVILLE Noble Stallings, living at New Harmony, has a dog that imitates the crowing of a rooster so closely that it is hard to detect the difference. When tjie 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 automo«bi’e and thrown backward with such force that it crashed through a window at the entrance of the Republican office, scattering the 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.

NEW ALBANY Two men held UP the little town of Creenville, Ind., in the most approved wild western style during the afternoon, and for two hours not a citizen showed himself out of doors while Charles Lee and Louis Morgan passed up and down the length of the main street with drawn revolvers, uttering threats and whoops of defiance. Sheriff Anthony Fisher arrived in answer to telephone calls and put the men under arrest. They offered no resistance to the officer, who brought them here and put them in the county jail.

PRINCETON Lucius Armstrong was attacked and dangerously injured by a vicious bulldog at his home near Hazleton. The animal attacked him in the house and Armstrong, being crippled in the right arm from a recent Injury, was unable to defend himself. Mrs. Armstrong came to his recue with a club, but the dog refused to release Its grip until It was beaten into insensibility. Armstrong suffered severe lacerations about the body, but it is believed will recover.

SHELBYVILLE Harry H. Whitcomb, sixty-seven years old, one of this city’s wealthiest residents, died at his home here, the result of a stroke of paralysis. He leaves a 5500,000 estate to his widow and son, David', twen-ty-four years old. Mr. Whitcomb was one of the trustees of DePauw university and was one of the most prominent Methodist laymen in the state. He has given freely to DePauw university, and at one time maintained a missionary in China.

LOGANSPORT When a water pipe In an upper story of her home burst, Mrs. Frank Bender ran out into the street and called the first man she saw to come to her assists ance. The nian was D. M. Flory, a‘ .farmer. Armed with a hand lamp Flory, to be accommodating, went to the cellar to turn off the water. By mistake he got hold of a gas connection and opened the valve at the end of a pipe.