Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1914 — Hoosier News Briefly Told [ARTICLE]

Hoosier News Briefly Told

BlufTton.—Congressman John A. M. Adair of Portland was renominated by the Democrats of the Eighth district in convention here. Terre Haute.—There was no opposition to the renomination of Congressman Ralph E. Moss by the Democrats of the Fifth district here. Tipton.—Motorman DeMott of the Indianapolis division of the traction line fell from his car at the station here and his right arm was broken. DeMott was assisting in unloading a casket when he slipped and fell. Indianapolis.—D. D. Alsden, a fireman. and M. F. Pelance, a brakeman. both of Indianapolis, were killed and five men injured when a Big Four freight train was derailed here. The engine and nine cars were overturned. South Bend. —Placing his head on a rail as fast Lake Shore pa ■ senger train No. 14 approached, a man believed to be Henry S. Eprey of Detroit, Mich., committed suicide here. The engineer saw the man prostrate himself on the track when aTnindred feet away, but too late to stop the train. North Vernon.-—As a result of being run down at the Oakdale crossing by a B. & O. freight train while returning to their home at Butlerville from this city, Hiram Collins and Miss Lplu Kibbler, a teacher In the Butlerville high school, were severely Injured. The horse was killed and the buggy demolished. Collins received a scalp wound, broken collar bone, several dislocated fingers. He will probably die. Washington.—ln a complaint filed in the circuit court, George W. Dougherty charges that his wife was not divorced from a former husband when they were married January 8, this year. Dougherty is a baker. He charges that his wife falsely represented to him that she was free from any matrimony entanglements. Dougherty alleges that he now has sufficient evidence and information to convince him that his wife was not divorced from her first husband when she married him.

Marlon.—Engineer William Jackson of Anderson was seriously injured when southbound Big Four train No. 33 was derailed b*- >ve,m this City and Jonesboro. Jack .on was caught beWath the overturned engine, suffering a broken arm, two broken ribs and a severe scalp wound. He was hurried to the hospital here. Surgeons say he will survive. The fireman escaped with slight bruises, ■'and none of the passengers was hurt, as only the mail and baggage cars lef£ the track. Kokomo. —William Crumbaiigh, a member of the local fire department, died of Injuries sustained when the chief’s buggy, in which Crumbaugh was the driver, collided with a wagin in front of a livery barn on a run to a fire. Crumbaugh’s skull was fractured and three ribs were broken. He was in a semi-conscious condition until his death. The ribs were knitting after an accident a few weeks ago, and were broken again when Crumbaugh was thrown from the light buggy. Mitchell. —The Mitchell high school had its first oratorical primary for the discussion of the subject of a new constitution, in which the final contest Is to be held at Bloomington May .29. Twelve were in the contest. Three were selected for another contest, the winner of which will go to Salem to represent Mitchell In the Third district contest. The persons who talked were Gordon Batman, George Head, Gladys Hall, Josephine Marley, Allen James, Marie Doman, Will Quigley, Maude Collier, Ruby Kern, James Robertson, Howard Love and L. Martin. The .three selected were Gordon Batman, Allen James and Maude Collier. The next contest will be held April 3 here. Evansville.—The towboat Old Reliable sank in the Ohio river near Golconda, 111., a few miles below here, and Capt. Arch Hollerbach of the contracting firm of May & Hollerbach lost his life and the crew narrowly escaped death by drowning. The Old Reliable was towing a barge of stone to Mound City, 111., to be used In the government work there. The barge, which was chained to the steamer, sprang a leak and the watchman got the crew to unloosen the barge from the boat. Captain Hollerbach, after the crew had Jumped Into skiffs ta pull for the shore, went back Into the cabin to get his shoes. The barge swung round and. striking the steamer, sank her in a few seconds and Captain Hollerbach went down with the boat. All efforts to find his body have failed. Captain Hollerbach was about sixty years of age and one of the best khoym government engineers in the west, and he had built several of the Ohio river dams. He built the water works plant here. - > Goshen. —Gilbert Swartzlander of Goshen and his stepfather, Irving Monette of Sterling, Colo., are two o? six men convicted in the federal court at Denver of wrecking the possessions of James T. Scott, seventy years old, a homesteader, residing near Steling. , They are deprived of their right to hold any position of trust under the constitution and are subject to fines of not tp exceed $5,000 each or imprisonment for ten years. Swartzlander and Monette became associated with Eugene 'Buchanan, rich Colorado cattleman, who led the raid.