Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1912 — STATE HAPPENINGS RECORDED IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

STATE HAPPENINGS RECORDED IN BRIEF

NEWS ITEMS FROM ALL OVER INDIANA. MASONS LAY CORNERSTONE - Lodges From Three States Attend Ceremonies Held at Evansville Over New Home to Cost SIOO,OOO. Evansville, Nov. 29.—Masons from southern Indiana, southern Illinois and western Kentucky attended, the services at the laying of the cornerstone of the new Masonic home, which will bp completed about the first of the year at a cost of SIOO,OOO. The services were conducted by J. W. Dunbar of New Albany, past grand master of Indiana, assisted by S. W. Douglass of this city, another past grand master. The address of the day was made by Rev. John Roden, rector of St. Paul's Episcopal church of this city. The Knight Templars and members of other 'Masonic bodies of this city officiated at the services.

Pleads Self-Defense. Greencastle, Nov. 29—The trial of Thomas Howard, charged with killing Roscoe Yopp. a paroled inmate of the Indiana state reformatory, September 7, began in the Putnam circuit court. Howard's plea is self-defense. Yopp’s parents have employed an attorney to assist the county prosecutor. Howard. Yopp and Roscoe Boone had been drinking op the night of the fight. About midnight Howard and Boone started home, and met Yopp. Howard and Boone both say that they were attacked by Yopp; that Yopp struck them, and finally knocked Boone down. Defending himself against a second attack by Yopp, Howard says, he struck at Yopp with a pocket knife. Yopp fell, and Howard and Boone left, ignorant of the fatal injury to Yopp. The knife blade penetrated the heart Orphans' Home Work Ends. Marion, Nov. 29.—The Grant County Orphans’ Home association, after twenty-six years of service, will soon disband. Notices signed by Mrs. Emma C. Hutchison, president, and Mary T. Buchanan, secretary of the association, were mailed to the board of county commissioners and to the Grant county board of children’s guardians, saying the Orphans’ Home association will surrender all wards to the board of children’s guardians and. the DEonertr to the county on De-

ceinber 7... The notice to the county commissioners states the Orphans’" Home association has been shorn of all its supervision <*f the wards by the board of children’s guardians. The dissolution of the Orphans’ Home association follows criticism by the board of children’s guardians and the board of charities. Death Caused by Poison. Frankfort, Nov. 29—The filing of the report of Coroner Marion Carter in the case of George Allison, an old soldier of Colfax, who died under peculiar circumstances, October 26, gives authorities • a murder mystery to. solve. The coroner holds that Allison came to his death through chloral hydrate, known as “knockout drops." On the morning of October 26, Mrs. Allison was awakened by the 'oud breathing of her husband. He was dead before a physician could reach the house. The contents of the stpmach were analyzed, and chloral hydrate was found In sufficient quantity to cause death. The grand jury may be asked to investigate. Missing Boy Found. Columbus, Nov. 29.—Balford Weighoff, fifteen years old, son of Harry E. Weighoff, a piano dealer, who has been missing since the night of November 4, was heard from in Portland, Ore. Detectives of Chicago, Seattle and Portland have been searching for the boy since the night of his .isappearance. The father was notied of the lad’s whereabouts by a i telegram from Henry Northrop of Portland, who is the husband of Weighoff’s divorced wife, and the boy’s mother. The father will make an effort to haVe the boy return to this city and remain (here’ He says he cannot live without his son. Music Teachers to Meet. Indianapolis, Nov. 29.—Indianapolis musip teachers have received dopies of the program for the next meeting of the Music Teachers’ National association, which will be held at Vassar college, New York, from December 30, 1912, to January 2, 1913. Among the Indiana musicians who have a place in the program is Fritz Krull of Indianapolis, who will speak at the meeting of the American branch of the International Musical society. The convention will take, action on a proposition to rename the association, so that it will be known hereafter as the National Musical association. Aged Couple Loses All in Fire. South Bend, Nov. 29.—1 n the SIO,OOO fire at Lakeville, ten miles south of here, Philip Ducomb, age eighty, and his wife lost their general store, their home and everything they possessed. The volunteer bucket brigade rescued the old people, but could not prevent destruction of their property. It was only after a hard fight th*t the town was saved.