Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1914 — HAPPENINGS IN INDIANA [ARTICLE]

HAPPENINGS IN INDIANA

Spencer—Owen county Progressives will hold their convention April 18. Milton —A ban has been placed on all machines and other gambling devices. Oakland City—The Christian church plans the erection of a new building to cost $6,500. » Oakland City—Kellar Tisdale, eighteen years old, is under arrest charged with bootlegging. Portland —Democrats of Jay county have selected Feb. 28 as the date of their county convention. Elwood —Raymond Roberts, a musician, is under arrest on charges of issuing fraudulent checks. Seymour—Fire damaged the plant of the Central Pharmacal company to the extent of $4,000. Petersburg—Agnes Way, fifteen years old, was shot by a stray bullet while watching some skaters. The wound is not serious. Fort Wayne—There are sixty persons awaiting admission to the School for Feeble Minded here. The plant will be enlarged shortly. Winchester —William Shires, „ restaurant keeper, pleaded guilty to illegal liquor selling, was fined SSO and costs and given thirty days in jail. Vincennes —About 400 are expected at the Democratic banquet and love feast to be held here Feb. 3. Governor Ralston will be the chief speaker. Hazleton—Annoyed by . school children playfully calling in German for mail, Postmaster De Priest has put up a sign announcing that that language is not spoken in the office. Columbia City—D. V. Whiteleather, who had been considered as seeking the nomination for congress at the Democratic convention, has announced that he is not a candidate. Franklin —Local corn growers who took championship prizes at Purdue will probably enter their prize winning ears at the national show' in Dallas, Tex., early in February. Tipton.—O. S. Akers, arrested on charges of forgery, pleaded guilty and was fined SIOO and costs and sentenced to from two to 14 years at Michigan City. The prison sentence was suspended upon Akers’ promise to take up his worthless paper as fast as possible. Bloomfield.—Post Office Inspector William T. Fletcher arrested Ernest Kidd; sixteen years old, on a charge of stealing mail. It is charged that the boy learned the combination of the lock box of the county clerk and stole letters containing money orders and money amounting to from SSO to SIOO. He was trapped by a decoy” letter. Vincennes.—Claude Sullivan, twen-ty-two years old. and George Redden, twenty years old. under arrest here, were identified as the robbers of the McClure & Son store at Oaktown. Five hundred dollars’ worth of jewelry and hardware were recovered from a trunk they had checked to Princeton. Sullivan lives at Oaktown, while Redden hails from Corydon.

Columbus.—Although he worked as a construction laborer for the Big Four when the line was built here from Greenburg and as a switchman for the Pennsylvania lines in the local yards for nine years, Joseph Osborne, who died, had never been more than 20 miles away from his birthplace. He was sixty-five years old. Osborne was born in Sandcreek township, Bartholomew county, and came here when a young man. For the last 13 years he had been employed by a local Factory. His death was caused by heart disease, and his wife found him dead in his chair where he had been reading. Hartford City—The old threestory Dick Block, destroyed 15 years ago by a gas explosion, in which four people lost their lives, was gutted by fire, with a loss of SII,OOO. The blaze is believed to have caught on the second floor from an ash box. The occupants of the building and their losses are: Mrs. Effie Cronin, owner of building, $6,000; Jajnes Cronin shoe store, $2,000; Burns Sprague, lawyers, $1,700; J. L. McGeath, implement dealer, $700; Red Men’s lodge, $500; Al. Radabaugh, picture show, SBOO. Fireman Ed. Fulten was painfully hurt in a fall from a ladder to the second story. Logansport.—Delegates from every Protestant church in the city made final plans for “golng-to church” Sunday which is to be observed here February 1. Among the plans devised to have as many as possible attend church on that day is an arrangement with the telephone company which is to call every person i haying a phone early on that morning and suggest that the subscriber go to church. Another plan is to place in the window of every home a placard bearing, in large type, “I am going to church Sunday.” Local ministers are enthusiastic over the interest aroused among! the laymen in the movement. Logansport—Mrs. Lucy Brown sues the Pennsylvania road for SIO,OOO for the death of her husband, who was a conductor and who died from Injuries received while on duty. Frankfort—Harvey Beachman has been sentenced to two to fourteen years for wife and child desertion. Monterey—--Mrs. Eliza Hartz sues the Vandalia road for $5,000 for the death of her son Sherman, killed while repairing a bridge. Gary—Joseph Matcheck, 22 years old. was killed while at work in the steel mills. A bride of four months survives.