Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1912 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports from Many Parts of the Country SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in Distant and Near* by (Titles and Towns—Matters <K 511 nor Mention from Many Places. Father Messmann Dead. .Laporte, Ind. May 20.—Father Anthony Meeemann, 73. who Was a classmate of Archbishop Moeller, and whose boyhood days were Spent in Cincinnati, where his father lived, died in this city this afternoon. The body will be taken to Cincinnati for burial. Father Messinann was ordained in 1870 by Bishop Luers of the Diocese of Ft. Wayne. After ordination he * was priest of parishes in Logansport, Ft. Wayne and Kentland, coining to this city in 1896. Hfs work here was marked by the erection of a 17 5,000 hospital and a new parochial school building. He was greatly beloved by all people, irrespective of religious affllliation.