Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 February 1914 — BIG FIRE VISITS INDIANA HARBOR [ARTICLE]

BIG FIRE VISITS INDIANA HARBOR

Blaze Causes $50,000 Damage to Stephen Block. DRUG COMPANY IS THE LOSER Occupants of Flatt In the Third Btory Escape In Night Clothing—John Halley, a Fireman, Injured by Falling Wall. - •> Hammond. vlaited by fire which wrought $50,000 damage to the Stephens block. Occupants of flats in the third story escaped with their lives In night clothing. The first floor was occupied by the Central Drug company. Their loss Is $20,000. John Halley, a fireman, was Injured by falling wall.

Meet After 35 Years. Winchester.—Eugene Tracey, car Inspector, employed by the New York Central lines in the Union City yards, met his son, Charles Tracey, for the first time in 35 years, while at his dally vocation. The father and son were separated at Cedarrille, O„ 35 years ago, and each thought the other dead. One year ago the son went to work on a farm near Union City, and has since been employed there. In that time he has visited the city often and, no doubt, had passed his father on the street. One morning the son brought a wagon loaded with tobacco to the Big. Four freighthouse for shipment, and while there heard a railroad man address the father by name. This led to the Identification. Earlham Receives Property. Bedford.—Earlham college, Richmond, came into possession of the property recently Inherited by the will of Miss Antoinette Fell, consisting of the Fell block of 12 business and office rooms on the public square, the Fell residenoe and other real estate. The value of the property is fully $75,000. With the transfer of the property two Lawrence county boys and girls will receive scholarships from year to year perpetually from Earlham. The administrator, Moses F. Dunn, handed the deeds to Doctor Kelly, president, and Mr. McPherson, financial agent of Earlham, who came here to receive them.

Man Found Frozen to Death. Marion. Eli Beckman, seventyseven years old, was found frozen to death in a snowdrift midway between his house and barn on his farm near Banquo. Beckman, although in a feeble condition, started for the barn to do the milking, and failed to return. His daughter, snowbound with her sick mother, was unable, despite frantic efforts, to obtain assistance until when, by ringing a cowbell and screaming, she summoned neighbors, who found the body. Indiana’s Finest Baby. Terre 1 Haute. Dr. F. 11. Jett, county coroner, has been notified by Dr. J. N. Hurty, secretary of the state, board of health, that his baby son has been selected as the most perfectly formed baby, and the child shows the most perfect health in the state. The selection was made from a large number of photographs sent from all parts of the state.

Husband and Wife Killed. Valparaiso. George R. Wilson, aged twenty-seven, and his wife. Age nineteen, of Boone Grove, were killed when a buggy in which they were riding was struck by a train. They had been at Hebron to attend a party. Will Receive Radium Treatment. Greencastle. —L. A. Dobbs, a farmer, living near Belle Union, Is the first resident of Putnam county who will receive radium treatment for cancer. He is in the St. Vincent hospital in Belleville, Til., where he will take the treatment. Short Course at Connersville Opens. Connersville. —The farmers' short course was opened here with lectures on orchards, fertilizers and hog raising by J. W. Schwab, J. C. Beavers and C. B. Durham of the Purdue university Extension departmentKilled by Live Wire. Petersburg.-—Martin Condor, age thirty-eight, motorman in No. 7 mine, at Ayrshire, met death when a live wire dropped and struck him on the head. He leaves a widow and eight children.

New Baptist Church for Warsaw. Warsaw. —The trustees of the Warsaw Baptist church have bought a building site in the business district and a new church, costing $40,000, will be erected this summer. Falls Under Locomotive. Richmond. —Virgil Porterfield, twen-ty-one years old, a brakemen on the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad, was killed at Boston, five miles south of Richmond, when he fell from the running board of a locomotive and was run over. Falls Dead at Lodge. New Albany.—William H. Rinebarger, age thirty-seven, a member of the Manzanita tribe of Red Men, fell dead of heart disease at the wigwam of the Pawnee tribe.