Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1914 — HAPPENINGS IN INDIANA [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HAPPENINGS IN INDIANA

Shirley.—Samuel Hadley committed suicide by shooting himself. Kendallville.—D. A. G. Coyner, board of health secretary, has held the office for 23 years. Springport.—An election will be held here soon to determine the question of incorporating as a town. Nashville. —Brown county Democrats will hold their primary to name a county ticket January 24. Evansville. —Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Schu have celebrated l their golden wedding anniversary. Bedford. —A committee has been named to draft a constitution and bylaws. for the Lawrence County Historical association. Bedford.—Leroy Stevens has sped the Ohio & Western Lime company for SIO,OOO, alleging Injuries while in Its employ. Terre Haute. —Oswald Deßossy, a Porto Rican student at a veterinary college, homesick, shot and killed himself in his room here. Waynetown.—Walter Harvey has suer the T. H., I. & E. Traction company for SIO,OOO, alleging injuries when run down by a car last summer. Petersburg.—Hurley Cleman, twenty years old, who has disappeared from his home here, is said to have passed a number of worthless checks. Nashville. —James M. Moore, sixtyeight years old, is in jail on complaint of his wife, who says he attempted to shoot her. Cromwell.—James Burwell,'Jr., has filed suit for SIO,OOO for injuries sustained when he was run down by an auto driven by Albert Addis. Evansville.—-First District Progressives will hold their convention here January 20. Charles Finley Smith ■will probably be re-elected chairman. Petersburg.—Pike county commissioners have elected Will Chew road superintendent; Dr. E. Bell of Winslow, health board secretary, aqd S. W. Dillin, attorney. Sullivan. —Numerous robberies have caused the employment of a night patrolman. Merchants hive been ordered to maintain a light in the rear of their stores. Evansville.—Friends of William Wilson, serving a penitentiary term for shooting William Walters of Paducah, Ky., will ask his pardon at the next meeting of the board. Covington.—The Fountain county commissioners have appointed former Commissioner James A. Copeland road superintendent, the position paying five dollars a day. Terre Haute.—Sales of Red Cross seals in Vigo county aggregated sl,550, according to the report of Helen Renbridge. who had charge of the distribution. > Bluffton.—Wells county commissioners have chosen John E. Markley road superintendent and George Mock as county attorney to succeed Frank C. Dailey, appointed United States district attorney. Brazil.—Lewis McNutt entertained the Clay County Bar association at a banquet in honor of his father, Judge James A. McNutt, celebrating the latter’s seventy-fifth birth anniversary, and fortieth year as a member of the bar.

Goshen.—Harvey. Swoveland, for-ty-five years old, a well-to-do farmer, for the second time defeated efforts of his wife to send him to Longcliffe asylum. He was given into the care of his brother and sister. Up to date Swoveland has had three guardians. Terre Haute —William Locke, aged seventy, for ‘a third of a century cashier of the local branch of the American Distilling company, married Miss RgyJJonkling at the res idence of his daughter. Mrs. Jane Johnson, in Connersville. The first Mrs. Locke was a sister of the bride, who is sixty-three. South Bend. —Announcement was made of the founding of scholarships at the University of Notre Dame and at St. Mary’s college in memory of the late Patrick O’Brien of this city. The foundation amounts to $15,000 and becomes available immediately. The scholarships . were awarded to Frank Mulcahy and Emil Reldman of Rochester, N. Y., seniors. Marlon. —Crist Miste, twenty-sev-en years old, was struck by a Pennsylvania train near Sweetzer, six miles west of here, receiving Injuries to his head and spine which caused death shortly after he was brought to the .city hospital here. He had been working for the railroad company and evidently had started to walk to this city. His pockets contained $l2B and papers which disclosed his name and that he had a wife and two children tn Macedonia. Evansville. —Bertis E. Capel, twenty years old, of Shawneetown, 111., champion typist and former secretary to Governor Deneen of Illinois, was arraigned here in city court on a charge of passing fraudulent checks aggregating $43. Marlon. —Miss Freda Prall, nineteen years old, was found by a neighbor on the floor of her home unconscious and suffering from chloroform poisoning. It is thought the poison was taken with intent to commit suicide, but the physician says she will recover. Shelbyville.—For hunting on the farms of William Pollard and Mrs. Agnes Sykes without permission, fines were assessed here against three men, as follows: Alvin Bush, sls; Cecil Borders, sl6; and William Fouth, $26. The men entered pleas of sulltv.