Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1912 — STATE HAPPENINGS RECORDED IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

STATE HAPPENINGS RECORDED IN BRIEF

NEWS ITEMS FROM ALL OVER INDIANA. G. 0. P. COMMITTEE IN SESSION Party Affairs Are Discussed and Plans Laid to Keep State Organization Active During Next Two Years.

Indianapolis, Dec. 27—The Republican state committee is holding a meeting this afternoon for the purpose of discussing party affairs and laying plans to keep the organization active during the next two years. All of the members are present. It rVas given out before the meeting that one subject to be considered was Whether a Republican lorve feast Bhould J>e called, and It was understood that the committee would decide that question at this meeting. If a love feast is held It Is said it will be some time in the spring, after the adjournment of the legislature.

Arrest Teacher in Church. Bloomington, Dec 27.—While attending church services in Polk township, in the extreme southern end of this county, Ira Burge, a school teacher of Terre Haute, was arrested on a Charge of wife and child desertion, and was brought to jail in this city. Burge formerly lived in this county, and during a session of the Monroe County Teachers’ institute attained considerable notoriety because of his alleged obnoxious attention to girls on the street. His wife and three children have been receiving aid from the township trustee of Polk township, but were sent to relatives of Mrs. Burge in Winchester this week. Mrs. Burge made out the affidavits against her husband.

Interurban Car Kills Boy. Columbus, Dec. 27. —Earle Owens, thirteen years old, son of William Owens, a farmer living near Amity, was struck by a Seymour limited car on the Indianapolis, Columbus & Southern traction line, and died an hour and a half later from his injuries. The boy was lighting fire crackers in front of the Amity station and throwing them on the interurban track. When he was struck he was stooping with his back toward the approaching car. peering at a cracker to see why it had not exploded. The car hurled the boy a considerable distance, breaking one of his legs and crashing his breast.

Farmer Shqots Wildcat. Nashville, Dec. 27. —While returning from a coon hunt, Porter Deckard, a farmer living south of here, killed a large wildcat. His dogs, which had been ahead of him, returned and refused to leave his side. He looked ahead and saw the cat about to spring from the limb of a tree. He fired twice, the second load of shot hitting the animal in the head. There are indications of several of the animals in the neighborhood.

Three Hurt in South Bend. South Bend, Dec. 27.—While driving an automobile Christopher Reese and Elmer Geyer, both of Buchanan, Mich., were given an impromptu bath, in which they also sustained serious injuries. Their machine became unmanageable and plunged down a forty foot embankment int othe St. Joseph river. When her electric collided with a street car, Mrs. S. D. Rider was thrown to the pavement and severely bruised. United After 39 Years. Laporte, Dec. 27. —Joseph Stape of Redfield, la., was re-united at Plymouth with his sister, Mrs. Martha, J. Kelly, each having mourned the other as dead for thirty-nine years, though on each Christmas day for many years the sister had not failed to pray that she might find her brother. They became separated ip childhood and both are now heads of families and in affluent circumstances. Takes Dose of Chloroform. Anderson, Dec. 27.—While returning home after spending an evening with his fiance, Roy Hoppes, twenty-one years old, swallowed a quantity of chloroform, anjl is in a precarious condition at St. John’s hospital. A passerby happened to see Hoppes stagger and fall along West Sixth street and hurriedly called an ambulance. No reason is known for the act. .- i • Quarrel Leads to Murder. Sullivan, Dec. #7.— Homer Shepherd was instantly killed by Lee Vanj dergriff, in a saloon at Caldenia, a mining camp three miles east of this city. Vandergriff escaped after the shooting and has not been located. Both men are married and are about thirty years of age. The shooting is said to haVe been the result of a quarrel while drinking. Family Away; Home Burns. Vincennes, Dec. 27. —While A. C. Bell and family were visiting relatives in another part of the city, their home caught fire from an overheated stove,and house and contents were burned to the ground. The home of Jacob Kraft, next door, was damaged SSOO. Beil’s loss is $2,500, with $1,200 insurance.