Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 100, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1914 — Hoosier News Briefly Told [ARTICLE]

Hoosier News Briefly Told

Shelbyville,—Robert McGinnis was released from jail because his son is lying at the point of death of tuberculosis. - Boonville. —Rev. Gottlieb Viehe, pastor of the Newburg Zion Evangelical church at Newburg, this county, has disappeared and his wife and four children have gone to her brother’s home in Quincy, 111. Gary.—G. W. Swartz, formerly of Chippewa Falls, Wis., has'been appoimed assistant superintendent of schools at a salary of $4,000 a year. Rochester. —After a fourth attempt to get undesirable fish in Lake Manitou here the seiners gave up their job and the big nets will be shipped back to Wisconsin. Washington.—Jason Brown, flftyflve ’ years, old, father of seven children, was killed instantly in jumping from a buggy while his horse was running away. His head struck a rear axle and his neck was broken. Fort Wayne.—Capt. Ferd Schroeder of the city fire department was seriously hurt and four other men escaped with lesser injuries when a hose wagqn, in making a run to a fire, collided with an automobile driven by Bert Simcoe. The automobile was completely wrecked. Shelbyville—A jury in circuit court gave Dr. V. L. Hodges of this city a verdict for SSO in a claim case he had filed against the estate of the late John W. Vannoy, former may®r of .Shelbyville. The plaintiff had asked $lB7 for attention given the aged man during the last few weeks of his life. Mrs. Hodges has also filed a claim against the estate. West Lafayette.—The most successful winter course in agricultural and home economics ever given at Purdue has closed. One hundred and ninety-four students were enrolled for the eight weeks’ work, and this is quite an increase over the attendance last year. Since the winter work was begun at Purdue more than two thousand persons have availed themselves of the short term. Bedford. —Thirteen men in jail here following 7 the trouble at the Lehigh Portland Cement company’s plant at Mitchell, that resulted in the death of Harvey Hart, colored, are charged with murder, awaiting the finding of the inquiry now being made. The men are: Zack Wood, S. Brown, Dan Lewis, Dale Wainscott, J. Short, Silas Brown, E. Tincher, H. Cadell, J. Enochs, H. Jeffries, W. Watson, Sam Short and Jeff Reynolds. Terre Haute.—A. C. Blinn of Evansville was elected president of the Indiana Gas association in convention here. Other officers elected are: l J; H. Maxon, Muncie, vice-president; James W. Durbar, New Albany, secre-tary-treasurer: J. N. Moncrieff. Bloomington; O. O. Th wing, Fort Wayne; Robert A. Lawler. Noblesville; J. C. Vance. Greenfield; J. C. Silverthorn. Evansville, directors. Indianapolis was chosen as the next meeting place. Newcastle.—A jury in circuit court awarded Mary C. Schaeffer a ver diet of $267 against Peter Wagoner, former marshal of Knightstown. It was alleged that Wagoner allowed Earl Reiser to escape from custody while being brought here to face charges preferred by tile woman Judgment was given recently in a civil action against Reiser for $250 and Wagoner was made defendant to collect it. ’ Wabash.—Charles F. Wolfe, who has been in jail for three months awaiting trial for embezzlement, was found not guilty by a jury in less than half an hour. Wolfe was agent for the Wells Fargo Express company here when he was arrested on a charge of appropriating $1,300. Thp warrant was sworn out by an auditor of the express company, following an investigation of the records in the office. Unable to give bond. Wolfe went to jail.

Gary.—-Anthony T Baukus, ■ former Gary alderman, who was a fugitive from justice for two and a half years, following his arrest for bribery, is once more a free man. The charges against him were dismissed in the circuit court at Crown Point. In September, 1911, when he was arrested with several Gary officials for bribery, Baukus made a confession; the next day he disappeared. Two months ago he was captured in California and brought back to Gary; indianapolius David Rosenbaum, aged sixty-five. Big Four mail clebk of Cincinnati, was hurled beneath the wheels of an east-bound Panhandle engine in the Union station train shed and killed, when a west-bound Big FoUr switch engine pushing 20 empty passenger cars struck a large truck which was thrown completely, around and knocked the man beneath the engine on the adjacent track. Rosenbaum was well known among railroaders, having been in the government mail service for many years. Hammond—A defective stove flue caused a fire which destroyed four business houses at Cedar Lake, with a property loss of $15,000. The business houses were frame buildings clustered around the Monon railroad station. The village, which is a summer resort, has no modern fire protection. The Sigler hotel on the east side of the lake was destroyed recently by fire, entailing a loss of $25,000. A saloon destroyed was the property of the late John Mitch, for whose murder Glenn Jones and Roy Heilig of Lowell are under indictment of the Lake county grand jury.