Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1912 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

ROCHESTER While hunting ducks in. the Tippecanoe river, one mile north of this city, Charles Bailey and' William Hanna, sportsmen of this city, had a narrow escape from drowning when their boat was capsized. Each man weighs more than two hundred and twenty-five pounds and they were unable to swim in the swift current, which tossed them about until they managed to grasp an overhanging tree limb, just as they were ready to give up the battle. With the icy water swirling around their legs, the men y ere compelled to wait more than half an hour before a passing boy, Edward Garber, heaxl their cries for help. The rescuer was on the opposide side of the river and it took him fifteen minutes to reach the drowning men’s side. Just as the boy arrived at the scene Bailey lost his hold once and slipped into the water. A rope was thrown him and he was dragged to safety. Both men were more dead than alive, and it was several hours before they were able to leave a farmhouse, to which they were taken. The hunters are lavish .in praise of the boy who v. orked his way across the swollen stream by swimming and wading.

KOKOMO Justice James DeHaven, the father of the late Senator Charles DeHaven, and former sheriff of Howard county, later serving sixteen years continuously as justice of peace is dead. He was in office in the days of the notorious Molihan gang, a time when Kokomo had much lawlessness to contend with and when passions ran high. The post of sheriff was fraught with much j work and real danger. It was in September, on the night of the eighteenth, 1881, that Mayor Henry C. Cole wae killed, probably the most exciting event of state history. Not long afterward a mob stormed the jail, took Howard Green and hanged him on the’ Main street bridge.

SOUTH BEND The Stephenson Underwear mills, a large corporation,i has been awarded a judgment of $15,000 against the city of South Bend by Judge W. A. Funk in the circuit court for damages accruing to its! manufacturing property as the result of the extension of East Washington! avenue. Damages had been assessed | by the board of public works at $3,600 i and benefits at SIOO. In the complaint: the plaintiff asked for $25,000 dam-! ages, but later this was amended andl $75,000 was asked. No appeal from! the decision of the court is possible | and the judgment will rest against the city. The council’s only recourse lies in abandoning its plans to open the street.

GARY A most unusual scene was witnessed here in Judge Lawrence Becker’s chambers of the Lake superipr court at Hammond, when Sheriff Thomas Grant brought in two prisoners handcuffed together, both charged with murder. They were the Rev. William Steele of the Nineteenth Baptist church of Gary and Yip Ham, a Chinese. Steele, accused of slaying his sister-in-law, Harriet Thompson, nineteen years old, by strangling her to death during a quarrel last February, was sentenced to life imprisonment in Michigan City. Yip Ham, who shot and killed Ixiy Lee, Nov. 9, in*a tong war at Gary, obtained a continuance until April 9.

SULLIVAN Mrs. John Watson of this city and several other Indiana people will receive bequests of $7,000 each from the estate of Burless Adkins, who owned much of the land where Kansas City, Mo., is now located. Adkins died several years ago and his wife recently passed away. His will provides various bequests to churches and institutions and that a residue should be divided at his wife’s death. Other people sharing in $50,600 are J. B. Corbin of Elnora, A. B. Corbin of Pleasantville, Walter Corbin of Terre Haute, Diala Hovddietz of Dugger, Sarah Wilson of Pleasantville and Alex Corbin of Linton.

BROWNSTOWN—Ezra Robertson, twelve-year-old son of Durham Rorertson, fell from a canoe and 'was dfrowned in a stream •within a feW feet of the Robertson home. The lad’s mother was standing in the doorway and Witnessed every detail of the tragedy. Because of the extreme depth of the water and an unusually swift current, it was impossible to rescue the boy. and his body has not yet been recovered. The victim was exceptionally brilliant in his studies,, having passed the examination in the eighth grade recently with the highest grade of any pupil in the township.

HUNTINGTON—In a fit of despondency, which was due, it is believed, to a mortgage upon her property maturing next fall, Mary E. Hite of Union township, committed suicide by throwing herself into a cistern at her home. Her husband and son met death about fiftee nyears ago as the result of being overcome by damp gas in a cistern. Mrs. Hite’s body was found by thb one surviving son, Clarence Hite, upon his return from a hunting trip.

COLUMBUS James Haywood, employed at the Caldwell & Drake Iron Works, was probably fatally stabbed with a knife by Raymond Warefild, twenty-two years old, color ed. Haywood is at the city hospital dnd his assailant has fled. LOGANSPORT Declaring . that her husband, John absolutely will not bathe and is otherwise unkempt, Mrs. Vera Zeider has rpplled for a divorca.