Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1912 — THIEF KILLED OPENING SAFE [ARTICLE]

THIEF KILLED OPENING SAFE

Officers Find Body in the Wreckage After Robbery. OTHERS ESCAPE WITH MONEY " ~ - ' u Burglar Is Crushed to Death by Heavy Iron Door When He and Aids Set Off Explosive. Howe- —Burglary at the post office safe in this town resulted in the death of one of the burglars, who was crushed by the heavy iron door when the explosion occurred. Officers found his body in the wreckage when the robbery was discovered. The other burglars escaped with a large %.mount of money, it is said. Obtains School for Chefs. Muncie.—Announcement has been made by M. D. Kelly, president of the Muncie • Normal institute, that the International Stewards’ association, in session at Toronto. Can., has decided to establish its training school for chefs at Muncie, in connection with the Normal institute. The association, which is composed largely of hotel and case proprietors, voted an appropriation of $250,000, with which to erect six buildings, and also a fund of $250,000 for the maintenance of this school. The buildings will be on the Normal school campus, and work will begin at once. The main building will be seven hundred feet long by four hundred feet wide. Gives Houses and Crops. Laporte—Judge F. J. Vurpillat of the Starke county court practically made Mayor Lemuel Darrow of this city a present of fifteen houses when he ruled that squatters on a section of land In Starke county, owned by the mayor, had to move, and further, that they could not disturb anything now on the farm. The squatters settled there In the spring without permission from any one and Mayor Darrow got out an order of court to get them off the land. There are crops covering several acres that the mayor will harvest as rent for the land, which is part of the reclaimed marsh bottoms of the Kankakee district

Flatrock Sessions Close. Shelbyville.—The next annual meeting of the Flatrock Baptist aswhich closed its ninetieth session at the Lewis Creek Baptist church, will be held at Greensburg. Officers elected for the coming year are: Moderator, the Rev O. A Cook of Franklin; clerk-treasurer, Ezra Quick of Coltimbus; assistant clerk, the Rev. Shelby Lee of Shelbyville Among the speakers were Miss Myrtle Huckleberry of Seymour, the Rev. D. Heitmeyer of Columbus, Miss Bertha Davis of Mandalay, Burmah; Mrs. Lena Templeton of Hope and the Rot. C. F. Dame of Connersville. Indiana M. E. Pastor Missing. New Albany. - The disappearance of Rev. Charles S. Mundell, pastor of the Methodißt church at Fredericksburg, and his wife, has been reported to Dr. W. N. Whitaitt, superintendent of the New Albany district. Neither Rev. Mr. Munsell nor his wife, so far as is known, has communicated with any one in Fredericksburg since their disappearance. The minister was said to be dissatisfied with his charge. About $l2O salary was due him when he disappeared. Saloon Men Begin Crusade. Wabash.—Elza Jones, Jehu Burdon, Sterling McClone and Arthur Allen, all married are In jail here on charges of illegal liquor selling, and warrants for other men, two of whom are said to be local merchants, were served. The men are charged with having illegally disposed of liquor July 4. The arrests are the result of a crusade started by local saloon keepers who have been adhering strictly to the state laws governing the closing of their places. Falls Dead at Poker Game. El wood. Suffering from a nervous shock caused by losing heavily in a poker game In a room over the Bell cigar store, Tomas Bower, fiftyfive years old, fell to the floor unconscious and died before a physician arrived. The police have issued orders that every gambling den in the dty must close. i Lightning Bolt Kills Horse. Lafayette.—A horse hitched to a buggy and beingj driven along the road near here by George Hines of Frankfort was struck and killed by lightning. Hines, who was alone in the buggy, was stunned, but escaped uninjured. Start Sanitarium Fund. Lafayette.—At a meeting held by the local veterans of the Span-ish-American war, a campaign was started to build a tuberculosis sanitarium at the Indiana state soldiers’ home. The sanitarium is to cost about SIO,OOO and the local veterans have subscribed SSOO. The legislature will be asked for an appropriation for the project, as well as the sixty Spanish war veteran camps in Indiana. There is no place in the state for the eare of soldiers suffer Ing from tuberculosis.