Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1912 — YOUNG BOY SHOOTS AND KILLS AUNT [ARTICLE]

YOUNG BOY SHOOTS AND KILLS AUNT

Shot Takes Effect in Left Breast and Pierces Heart. WOMAN DIES INSTANTLY Edward Smiley of Bloomington, Twelve Years Old, Accidentally Discharges Rifle and Mrs. Charles Eads Drops Dead. Bloomington.—While playing with a .22-caliber rifle, which he did not know was loaded, Edward Smiley, aged twelve, son of William Smiley of this city, shot and instantly killed his aunt, Mrs. Charles Eads, aged eighteen. The shot took effect in the left breast and pierced the heart. She died almost instantly as she cried, “I am shot.” Seeks Wife in Anderson. Anderson. —Otto Turner, whoM wife mysteriously disappeared from a park in Springfield, 0., on the night of July 4, returned from that city without having round any trace of the missing woman. Turner is of the opinion that when his wife excused herself to go to a spring to get a drink of water her real intention was to meet some other man with whom, he believes, she has gone away. Mrs. Turner has had a checkered career in this city, having been arrested many times for intoxication, Her friends fear that she may have committed suicide, as they say she had frequently threatened to do so.

Warsaw Electrician Killed. Warsaw.—Claude Melville, twentyseven. an electrician employed by the Winona Interurban company, met instant death while working on an electric light pole at Winona lake. Two thousand three hundred volts passed through his body. Melville was married a few years ago to Miss Edna Thompson, a niece of the Rev. J. Wilbur Chapman, the evangelist. Orange Deaton, another electrician, who was working with Melville and who took the body from the pole, is in a serious condition as the result of a nervous shock caused by the accident. Girl Determined to Elope. Terre Haute. —Romantic dreams of Harry Kananoy, seventeen years old, and Ethel Brown, fifteen years old, were shattered when the couple were arrested on complaint of the girl’s mother, who said they had eloped from the girl’s home in Bedford. Kananoy had lost his rigtit hand and it is said that the affection between the couple developed from the nursing he received at Miss Brown's hands. The girl declared she would again elope as soon as she got home. Butter Causes Divorce. Muncie.—Because, as charged in the. complaint, Amos Akers, a wealthy farmer, threw a plate of butter into his wife’s face when she told him she intended to plant a good many beans in the home garden this spring, a divorce was granted Mrs. Akers, the court holding that the planting of beans by a wife is not sufficient provocation for assault by the husband, even though soft butter be the only weapon of offense, as in this case.

Alleged Horse Thieves Arrested. Anderson. —Joseph and William Jordan, brothers, of Alexandria, are in jail here awaiting an officer from Fremont, Wyo., who will take them to Wyoming to answer charges of grand larceny. It is alleged that on June 5 they stole two horses and left. They were traced to Alexandria. Warrants for their arrest were telegraphed to the Madison county sheriff by Sheriff Johnson of Fremont Charged With Selling Cocaine. Indianapolis.—The state medical board began a hearing in the case of Doctor Nlswonger of Fort Wayne, who Is charged with selling cocaine to a number of persons In violation of the law. The case Is being bitterly fought. Some of the victime of the cocaine habit to whom Doctor Nlswonger is alleged to have sold the drug, have been confined in jail at Fort Wayne. Prefer Music to Sermons. Richmond.—Preaching and music In the public parks of Richmond clashed at a meeting of the board of works and music won. The Ministerial association of the city, which had planned a series' of outdoor sermons for the summer at Glen Miller park, was ordered to hold its services at some other time than when the Richmond City band is having its concert. ■ i Hiccoughs Cause Death. Logansport.—After hiccoughing for five days. James McGowan, fortyeight years old, is dead in Bt. Joseph’s hospital. When he began hiccoughing electricity and every other known means were resorted to to end the convulsions, but without avail Physicians Anally, in the hope of curing him by fright, exploded a giant firecracker under his chair. There was instant relief, but it was only temporary and he died within a few hours. ,i