Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 February 1914 — HAPPENINGS IN INDIANA [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HAPPENINGS IN INDIANA

Columbus. —William Jolliffe, twen-ty-four years old, a barber of this city, is recovering from a surgU cal operation performed at the city hospital here and in which a part of one of his shin bones was removed and grafted oh his spine, which is tubercular. Kendallville.—John A. Douglas ot Bejlplaln, Kan., aged seventy-three, and Miss Harriet Ramsby, aged seventy-three, procured a marriage license at Lagrange. It is the first matrimonial venture for the bride and the third for the bridegroom. Bloomington.—Eleven cars of freight train No. 750, on the Indianapolis division of the Illinois Central railroad, were wrecked at Helmsburg. No one was injured. A broken brake beam on one of the cars caused the wreck. Traffic was delayed for several hours. Hartford City.—Six members of the Emshwiller family, living east of the city, are seriously ill from ptomaine poisoning caused from eating candy. The mother and five children are affected, and a physician, called early, had a hard time to save their lives.

Hammond.—Four people narrowly •scaped death in East Chicago when an east-bound Wabash railroad flyer struck the automobile in which they were riding and demolished it Two women were carried on the engine pilot, one of whom was prevented from falling under the locomotive by her husband, who was dragged 100 feet at the wheel of the shattered car. Connersville. George Hicks of Richmond is in trouble because a coon skin, said to have been stolen by him and sold at Connersville, was Identified at Rushville as the one missing from Nolan’s Fork clubhouse, near Catnbridge City. The coon skin was identified by members of Nolan’s Fork club because it had 46 nail holes in the edge of it. A revolver, two shotguns and other property were taken from the clubhouse. Hicks is under arrest.

Lafayette.—A dozen children were burned, one seriously, when gasoline in a school hack caught fire on the road between here and Dayton. The team became frightened and ran away. A can of gasoline on the seat beside the driver was upset and the fluid ran to the little stove in the hack. Instantly the interior was a mass of flames. The children sprang for the back, where Harvey Mills, an older boy, and his brother, Roscoe, assisted them to the ground. Indianapolis.—The public service commission, in making its second award as a board of arbitration, declined to grant an increase in v?ages to the 55 trainmen employed by the Indianapolis & Cincinnati Traction company, which operates two lines out of Indianapolis, one to Greensburg and the other to Rushville. The men had asked for a flat scale of 35 cents an hour. Their present wages are based on a graduated scale, ranging from 21 to 80 cents an hour.

Marlon. Wesley Draper, motorman of the Goldthewalte Park car, hi collision with an M., B. & E. Interurban in which four people were killed and 70 Injured July 7, 1912, filed »ult in circuit court here against the Union Savings company of Bluffton, receiver for the Marion & Eastern Traction company, demanding $25,000 damages for personal injuries received In the wreck. Draper alleges the wreck was due to faulty air brakes, which he had reported to the train dispatcher, who ordered him to continue running the car. Indianapolis.—The Indiana State Poultry association now has fully organized and adopted its constitution. A feature of the organization will be the Interest it will take in the breeders of'utility stock. The officers elected are: S. A. Nortfzger, North Manchester, president; A. G. Phillips, Lafayette, vice-president; C. E. Spaugh, Rugby, second vice-president; Lloyd C. Mishler, North Manchester, secretary-treasurer; executive committee, Harry A. Axtell, Bloomington; U. R. Fishel, Hope; B. O. Swain, Zionsville; L. J. Demberger, Stewartsville; Ben H. Scranton, Rising Sun; D. D. Sheerin, Culver.

Noblesville.—Citizens of this city at a mass meeting took Initial steps toward the formation of a commercial club. Addresses were made by Judge Vestal, C. B. Jenkins, Revs. L. C. Howe, Frink Miller and F. A. Hall and by F. H. Lewis, secretary of the Indianapolis chamber. The following directors were chosen to organize the club: C. B. Jenkins, George Deck, E. E. Cloe, R. H. Lawlor, Jesse Hussey, E. M. Hare, George Evans, Will Hayes and Dr. H. H. Thompson. Two hundred citizens signed the lists as members. Judge Vestal announced that the Masonic lodge had voted to build a $25,000 temple next summer. <

Kokomo—The plant of the Greentown Canning company was completely destroyed by fire with a loss to building and stock estimated at $20,000. The company carried SIO,OOO Insurance. The fire started from an overheated stove and was discovered by a man passing the building. An adjoining Ice plant owned by the same company was saved by velunteer firemen. Shelbyville. here that Verne Riser and Miss Pearl Gordon, prominent young people of this city, were married secretly at Indianapolis November 2, 1913.