Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1912 — Fur Fashions. [ARTICLE]

Fur Fashions.

In looking through the furriers’ fashions one sees about as many heads and tails as formerly. The mode seems to be for the heads to be used In the making of the muff and the tails In the collar.

Wishes to Prove Innocence. Laporte, Dec. 5. —“If I am given my liberty on parole or pardon, I will prove my innocence,” was the appeal made by John Wilson, a life man in Michigan City, who wrote to Harry B. Darling, secretary of the state board of pardons. Wilson was sent to prison from Connersville, where a jury found him guilty of killing his wife. Found Dead In His Room. Lafayette, Dec. 5. —Charles Emory Davis, sixty-six years old, a wealthy retired farmer, was found dead in his apartments in West Lafayette. Coroner Van Reed, who is investigating the case, says Davis had been dead twenty-four hours when his room was broken into by Marshal McCowan of West Lafayette. Pretty Window Curtains. For the home where guests are always arriving and departing there is nothing quite so nice for the windows as white cotton crepe. This can be Bimply hemmed or trimmed with ball fringe. For the dressers and bureaus covers of fleece lined pique will be found very satisfactory. This can be cut into the required sizes and the edges buttonholed in scallops. Two sets of curtains and covers Bhould be kept on hand, one in use and a clean one besides. In this way there is always a fresh set awaiting the incoming guest j ■w -«r m “Not guilty” was the verdict of th* Jury in the case of Joseph J. Ettor, Arturo Giovannitti and Joseph Caruso, on trial at Salem, Mass., for the murder of Anna Lopizzo, who was killed in a Lawrence textile strike riot last winter. When the three men heard the words freeing them from the charge they embraced and kissed each «ther.