Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 February 1914 — HAPPENINGS IN INDIANA [ARTICLE]

HAPPENINGS IN INDIANA

" abash—Twenty-eight indictments were returned by the grand jury, six alleging illegal sales. Mishawaka—lt is probable that a branch of the Y. W. C. A. will soon be established here. Valparaiso—Harry Coinrad, twentythree years old. fell dead of heart disease while walking through a cemetery. Tipton—More than 500 farmers attended the series of lectures on hog cholera given here by Purdue representatives. Muncje—The regular meeting of the Muncie district. Northern Indiana Methodist conference, will meet here March 4-6. Fort Wayne—lt Is announced at the local revenue office that 500 local persons will pay a government tax on their incomes. Jeffersonville—Residents are watching the river with anxiety, fearing repetitions of disastrous floods when the snow melts. Shelbyville The new Methodist church at Arlington was dedicated. Bishop Moore of Indianapolis having charge of the services. Sullivan —-William McPherson of Alexandria, charged with forgery, has been released on a suspended two-to-fourteen-year sentence. Madison —Bums received when a tank of tallow burst in a packing house, caused the r death of Albert Schilling, seventeen years old. Evansville—James Lewis of Cincinnati. caught In Loewenthal’s fur store, pleaded guilty to robbery and was sentenced to ten to twenty years. Terre Haute —Alfred Mall, thirtyseven years old, killed by a passenger train on the Southeastern line. Blinding snow precented him from seeing the train.

Albion —Democrats of Noble and Whitley counties will hold a love feast here Feb. 25. Senator Shively, Representative Cline and others are expected to be present. Oaktown—The farmers union has agreed to plant about sixty-five additional acres In cantaloupes the coming season. A selling agent will be appointed to care for the output. Bloomington—Prof. Warner Hite of Indiana university In a lecture before the Y. W. C. A. said that a woman should seek marriage and motherhood because it was the vocation best fitted to her. Vevay—Government engineers have filed a protest to the granting of saloon licenses in this place, saying they do not want men in their employ exposed to the temptations and influences they would have with saloons running. Richmond—George Bishop, seventysix years old. was signally honored at 5 the Whitewater lodge of Odd Fellows, being presented with a veteran’s jewel of gold. He has been a member of the lodge fifty years, an officer thirty-seven years and still serves. South Bend—After denying the charge for hours, Floyd Fifer eighteen years old, confessed to tho police here that he fired the shot which nearly killed Emanuel Fink, local druggist, in attempting to hold up his store the night of February 2. Fifer told the police that he got the revolver with which he shot the man from Joseph Smith, a man well knowxi to the authorities, who also is held. Logansport. Preliminary plans have been made for the state convention of the Indiana Christian Endeavor Union, which will be held here October 22-25. Rev. L. ET. Sellers was elected general chairman; Miss Bertha Harding, district secretary, is made general secretary, and R. R. Johnston, treasurer. The committee will soon meet with R. A. Walker, Indianapolis, who is field secretary.

Goshen. —Thieves entered W. C. Lehman’s general store at Wakarusa, scattered more than 200 pairs of shoes about the floor, disarranged stocks of clothing, rifled the safe of valuable papers and escaped with merchandise and the contents of four cash drawers. The loss has not been determined. Bloodhounds were sent from Elkhart, but the robbers have not been tracked. The store has been robbed four times in two years. Bloomington. Two persons were rescued in a fire that destroyed the boarding house of Mrs. Parmelia Stlmpson. A third was burned in saving one of the people. The year-old child of Fred Stuckey was rescued from an upstairs room by John Mor rison, after the lower floor of the house was in flames. Morrison’s face was severely burned when he ran through the lower hall, which was filled with flames. Mrs. Polly Cruse, age seventy-seven, blind, was led from the burning house by her nieqe, Mrs. Stlmpson. At that time the house was filled with smoke and flames. A livery stable owned by William Wood, adjacent to the boarding house, caught fire but was extinguished at a small loss.

Indainapolis.—Governor Ralston contributed a piece of Indianagrown hickory to be used In the construction of w*hat is to be known as the governor’s chair, which is to be exhibited at the Panama-Pacific exposition at San Francisco next year. The chair is to be made by L. S. Chasey of Red Bank, N. J., from pieces of wood to be supplied by the governors of the 48 states. The chair will be about five feet high. Each piece of wood will bear a silver plate on which will be inscribed the name of the contributing governor and bls state.