Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1914 — Pitchfork Wound Is Fatal. [ARTICLE]

Pitchfork Wound Is Fatal.

Angola. Ross Heroy, seventeen years old, son of Frank Heroy, Is dead as a result of a peculiar accident. The boy threw a pitchfork In the haymow, handle upward. It struck a beam and bounded back, the tine striking him on the nose. As the handle fell the tine was forced upward through the nose, piercing a vein. He leaves a father, five brothers and five sisters.

Churches to Spend SIO,OOO, Columbus. —Most of the Christian churches in Brown county are reported inactive because of a lack of pastors and interest, and at a meeting of the Bartholomew county board of Christian churches held here It was decided to use a large part of a SIO,OOO endowment held by the board for the employment of pastors, the reestablishment of the churches and for other evangelistic work In the county. Kills Woman and Ends Own Life. Gary.—Repulsing his advances during her husband’s absCnce, Mrs. John Krusln, twenty-six years old, was shot and killed by John Salahma at her home here. Salahma then ended his own life by sending a bullet into his brain. The slayer was a boarder in the Krusln home. Mrs. Krusin’s five-year-old daughter was a witness of the tragedy. Parents Bee Son Drown. South Bend. —A small boat he had spent the winter In building proved faulty and cost the life of James Kirkwood of Mishawaka, age fourteen, soon after he had launched It In the St. Joseph river, fils father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Farnum Kirkwood, standing on the bank to witness the launching, saw their Bon drown. > Defeated Candidate Insane. Columbus. —At a lunacy invest held here Frank Rener, trustee of Union township and defeated candidate for the Democratic nomination for representative, whose insanity was caused by worry over his defeat, was found a fit person to be committed to a hospital for the Ipsane. , v Boy Killed by Colt’s Kick. Warsaw. —Disregarding his father’s warnings not to venture near the horseß, George Newcomber, twelve-year-old son of Charles Newcomber of near Princeton, m was killed by a kick from a colt. He was found on the stable floor with his skull crushed.