Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1912 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

LAFAYETTE Through the generosity of Professor Orser Archibald of the State School for the Deaf at Indianapolis, and a former resident of Lafayette, a state home for the aged and infirm deaf of Indiana will be established in White county, twelve miles north of Lafayette. Professor Archibald has given eighty acres of land for the home and the only condition imposed is that the only condition imposed is that SIO,OOO be raised as a maintenance fund. An association has been formed and has received a state charter and the money will be subscribed without delay. The incorporation members of the association are: Wilbur F. Severson of Lafayette, Orsen Archibald of Indianapolis, Henry Bierhaus of Indianapolis, Uthen E. Read of Indianapolis, Henry D. Miller of Middlebury, Philip Hasenslob oi Chicago, Daisy Soot of Michigan City, Ida Kinsley of Shelbyville and Evelyn Heiser of Indianapolis.

LAFAYETTE—Fred Hix, who was arrested here on the charge of robbing several railroad stations within the past few months, will be sent back to the Jeffersonville reformatory. He was sentenced from Crawfordsville ta a term of two to fourteen years for grand larceny, he having robbed an express office at New Ross. He had served three years and then paroled. In another month his parole would have expired and he would have been free. Hix admitted to the police that he was the man who broke loose from the marshal at Battle Ground the night the Monon stations at Battle Ground, Chalmers and Brookston were robbed. While not admitting committing the chain of railroad station robberies attached to him, the police say he is the man who also burglarized stations at Crawfordsville, Westpoint, Clark’s Hill. Hillsburg and other points.

BLOOMINGTON George Taylor, twenty-one years old, who same here two weeks ago to go out with a circus, was placed) in jail on a charge of attacking Lena Patton, eleven years old, daughter of Samuel H. Patton, a prominent farmer and leading churchman, who resides two miles east of the city. When the girl was taken with her parents to the jail in company with Prosecutor William M. Louden, Taylor was brought out with seven other prisoners and she Quickly identified him. The alleged attack occurred Feb. 22 near the child’s home, but her screams caused the man to run. The girl’s father had traced Taylor for several days. Hoping to escape arrest Taylor went to the Bundy hotel, and, after being assigned a room, went to bed, where he was found by Officer Henry Stevens, who served the warrant.

WASHINGTON One of the most brutal ihurders that has ever been committed in southern Indiana was that at Montgomery which snuffed out the life of Town Marshal Robert Walker, forty-two years old, married, and father of a girl three years old, and which later resulted) in the arrest of John Healy and his son, Harry Healy charged with the crime. The shooting took place in the “dry drink parlor,” after the marshal had made an effort to quell a disturbance. According to Wallace Parker and Berry Thompson, who are being held as witnesses. Walker and John Healy became involved in a dispute, resulting in a clinch which threw the men over the corner of a pool table and, while in this position, it is said that Harry Healy took the marshal’s pistol and fired one shot into his head.

JEFFERSONVILLE After managing an insane asylum for fourteen years, Sister Mary Regina Kerr, in charge of Mercy hospital, near here, suddenly became violent at the institution and attacked a woman attendant. The doors and windows were fastened and the combat was becoming serious when an attendana succeeded in unbolting the front door. Sister Mary 'Regina had ordered all. the attendants, out and when they returned with assistance they found the doors and windows barred. Sister Mary Ragina was taken to a sanitarium at Council Bluffs, la,

PETERSBURG— The rising White river has caught a number of farmers in a trap at the seven-mile bend and many of them have been building scaffolds on which to drive their live stock to save them from drowning. The big blizzard prevented them from driving their stock to the hills Saturday and Sunday and now the river has risen so that they can not reach the hills in the ordinary manner.

NOBLESVILLE—John Mason, fiftynine years of age, committed . suicide by cutting his throat with a razor. He was the father of five married children, all of whom came home at his special request, to make a visit. It is thought that he planned to take his life while his family was with him.

EVANSVILLE Several days ago when an epidemic of smallpox broke out at Winslow, Dr. John Miller said the disease was not smallpox. Now Dr. Miller has been removed to the pesthouse with a welldeveloped case of smallpox.

WARSAW William Sapington, fifty-five years of age, a farmer was instantly killed while hauling a load of corn fodder. His wagon was overturned andi his neck was broken in the fait