Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1912 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

RUSHVILLE—tfIe charred' body of Mrs. Minnie Harris, forty-five years old, was found in the ruins of her country home northeast of this city. Mrs. Harris was the wife of L. B. Harris, a stock dealer, and was alone in the house when the fire started in an upstairs room and it is supposed she was overcome while fighting the flames. Help came before the lower part of the house was on fire, but seeing nothing of Mrs. Harris! supposed she was not at home and no effort was made to save her. When her husband arrived it was first learned that she had perished. The charred body was found buried in the debris ahd could hardly be recognized. The origin of the fire will probably never be known.

LAFAYETTE John Thomas Robinson, who liked orphan asylum life so well that he refused to leave it when he reached manhood, died in the St. Joseph Catholic Orphanage at the age of forty-two years. He had been in the institution for thir-ty-six years. Robinson’s father and mother died when he was six years old. Many times after teaching majority he went away for a few days to Try life outside, but each time he came back. He was made prefect of the boys at the institution and was the great particular friend of all. Robinson is survived by one brother, James, in Logansport.

FRANKFORT Train No. 446 on the New York Central line was wrecked near Needham. The engineer and fireman were badly bruised, the engineer receiving a broken rib. The engine was thrown for in an adjoining field, together with several flat cars, which were loaded with logs. Tse passenger coaches remained on the track. More than 100 fee} of track was torn up. The train was in charge of O.» E. Kennedy, conductor, and E. Donald Wilson, engineer; W. E. Pauley, fireman. X COLUMBUS Mayor Charles 8. Barnaby of this city who is a florist and when neither “mayorlug” nor “flowering” is an ardent fisherman, has minnows for the season’s fishing thrust upon him. At his greenhouse there is a concrete tank, which is connected with a water main. The tank is not especially for minnows, but it has been filled with minnows, wtiich have flowed into it from White river, through the waterworks plant.

ANDERSON—The Madison county grand jury, which was convened to investigate the killing of Theodore Eckels by Guy Harmon, relieved Harmon of the responsibility for Eckel’s death and the young mas was imm’edlately and the young man was released. Eckels was killed by Harmon who used a shovel in a fight in an alley. Hannon asserted that Eckels first struck him with a wagon spoke and that he acted in self defense.

INDIANAPOLIS—H. Kennard Wasson, the president of the H. P. Wasson company, operating one of the city’s largest"department stores, was found dead in bed by-his mother, who had gone to his room to awaken him. Physicians after an examination said that death was due to heart diseast. Mr. Wasson was thirty years old and unmarried. He Inherited a large fortune on the death of his father, H. P. Wasson, a few years ago. HAMMOND—A woman has no right to beat a man ove* the head with a broomstick when he calls here a redheaded woodpecker. This ruling was made in the Grand' county circuit. Harvey Buzzber rode past Mrs. Estella Lang’s home on a bicycle. She has fiery red hair. Buzzber said: “Hello, you red-headed woodpecker.” The infuriated woman charged* on Duzzber with* a broom. Her arrest followed. She was fined sl.

1 JEFFERSONVILLE—Henry Kriellow, a young man who was sentenced to the reformatory here from Hammond, fatally stabbed John Lee, a guards with a pair qf, shears. The other inmates seized Kriellow and he broke away from them to finish his job. Guard Andrew Warren then shot Kriellow through the body fatally. Kriellow had been reprimanded for talking wljen he .was eating his dinner. LOGANSPORT—Within the space of ten minutes after he had stepped from an interurban car here, Charles Imbler, Kokomo merchant, was held up and robbed of twenty-five dollars. The hold-up occurred directly in front of the railroad Y. M. C. A. building on Canal street and was the work of a masked man, of whom Imbler gave the police a good description,' but as yet he has not been captured.

SHELBYVILLE—John Hines, forty years of age, of Indianapolis, the son of Mr. and Mrs. John Hines of this city, died of ptomaine poisoning frbm eating canned fruit a few days ago. His death occurred in a hospital at Louisville. He was a fright conductor for the Big Four arid is survived by his wife, two children and four brothers.

SPENCER Thomas C. Spangler, a local attorney,, expects to be the next corn king of Indiana. He has on exhibition eight ears of corn grown on one stalk, one ear forming the center and seven smalles ears growing around it like the petals of a flower. He expects a bumper crop next summer.

Frankfort News: The program was *a splendid one from beginning to end and well deserving their crowded, house. The choruses were given with a vim and spirit that quite won over tihe audience at .the first. The musical numbers given by the Mandolin Club were very vfell rendered and the Club was forced to respond to numerous encbres. At Presbyterian church Monday. March 25.

Engine No. 401 northbound on the Monon Wednesday afternoon while approaching the Monon stone crusher, south of Monon, at a speed of 40 miles an hour, pulling a heavy freight train, crashed Into engine No. 249, which was pulling a string of freight cars from a siding onto the 'main track. Both of the engines were badly damaged and a few of the cans derailed, blocking traffic for several hours. Passenger train Nq. 6, due here at 3:17 p. m., was sent around by the Wabash to Delphi. Except for a few minor injuries none of the crew suffered from the impact.