Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1914 — INDIANA BREVITIES [ARTICLE]

INDIANA BREVITIES

Lawrenceburg. Gustav Borgman, who recently returned to his home at Weisburg from Mexico, where he was Prospecting for gold, had a thrilling experience while Ln that country. He was seized by the constitutionalists and sentenced to serve 17 days in the army. On the tenth day he managed to escape and succeeded in crossing the border into Texas. South Bend.—-The North Indiana M. E. conference left >68,000 in banks here to be used for benevolent purpoeee, the money having been collected during conference sessions. Elwood.—-A large bulldog, showing every sign of being afflicted with fables, was killed here after four policemen had fired 26 shots at it. The animal had bitten the nine-year-old daughter of Abe Levi, a Junk dealer, and the women throughout that neighborhood were behind locked doors. The child was hurried to ..an Indianapolis hospital for treatment, Anderson.—As Ralph Busby and Daniel Wertz were riding on a motorcycle Wertz shot at a dog and the deflected bullet went through the window of a house and hit the back of a rocking chair in which Mrs. Clarence Keel was seated. Busby and Wertz were arrested. Wertz was fined for shooting within the city limits and Busby for exceeding the speed limit Anderson—The estate of Edward Brown has accepted |4OO in settlement of a suit for 110,000 against the Remy Electric company because Brown s death, it was alleged, was caused by inhaling dust from an unguarded emery wheel.

Crawfordsville.—~The country home of John H. Warner, south of here, was destroyed by fire. Logansport.—Charles Chapman, former policeman, who had been reported killed two months ago by persons who said they attended his funeral, has returned to Logansport and says he does not know how the report was started Linton.—Herman Hawkins of Brazil, sixty-four years old, committed suicide here by swallowing poison. The cause is unknown. Crawfordsville.—H. Merle Cochran, son of L. W. Cochran of this city, has been appointed by President Wilson as vice consul at Mannheim, Germany. LVed L Heron, who was recently named vice consul at Colon, left Sunday for Panama Madison.—After four years’ service, the Rev. Stewart I. Long resigned as pastor of the First Baptist church to take up lecture work.

Goshen.—William Berkey, eighty-sev-en years old, who celebrated his birthday here, is defendant in divorce proceedings filed a short time ago. Mr. Berkey is the only living resident in this section who went to California in 1849 lor gold. Newcastle. Luther O Neil of Knightstown was found guilty by a jury on a charge of operating a gambling house He was fined $lO and costs. Evansville. —After waiting 36 years for her husband, who has not been heard from in that time, Mrs. Eliza Mclntyre has filed suit for divorce, so that she may obtain a pension as the widow of her first husband, John Stinthfield. Evansville —The Nevada Street Baptist congregation has voted to erect a new church. > Jeffersonville.—The Rev. Henry C. Powell, who had been assigned to the Park M. E. ehufch in Port Fulton, has been transferred to the North Indiana

conference and appointed to a church in Huntertown, Allen county. Shelbyville.—Charles Miller, thirtyeight years old, of SC Paul, was given a suspended sentence on a charge of petit larceny, the sentence being 90! days in jail and a fine of |5. He, pleaded guilty. He was charged with, the theft of a hog from James Meal tn 1911. Bloomington—The home of W. L. Bryan, president of Indiana university, was damaged to the extent of >3OO by fire and water, the fire starting from a defective flue. South Bend.—Joseph M. Sullivan was fined >SO and sentenced to 30 days in jail when a jury found him guilty of running a "blind tiger." He will appeal. Sullivan is awaiting trial on a charge of attempting to bribe a police officer to have the "blind tiger" case dropped. • Hartford City.-—A forger passed a >LO check at the Upland State bank and disappeared before his work waa discovered. He signed the name of Herman Kotch. who is a Taylor university student, and drew against an account of J. D. Dreshei, another student. /

Worthington. James McCormick has resigned as deputy marshal and the town board has elected Charles Spangler to the position. Ms. McCormick will go to St. Louis. Franklin< Mrs. Rena Jefferies, a young woman arrested k at Columbus, was before the grand jury, and that body returned an indictment of forgery. She was brought before Judge Dupree and entered a plea of: guilty. She was sentenced to thej woman’s prison for from two to fourteen years and was fined SSO. Shat was paroled pending good behavior. With her in the courtroom were her! ' mother, Mrs. Weir, who resides at! Middlefork; her husband and fifteen-! months-old child, Mrs. Jefferies, passed three forged checks on three of the banks of this city. An armload of old papers for a nickel at The Democrat office.