Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1914 — Hoosier News Briefly Told [ARTICLE]

Hoosier News Briefly Told

Evansville-—Grepn McQuay,~twenfyeight years old, who was shot by Charles White in a quarrel at Mt. Vernon, died in a hospital here, and White is under arrest, charged with first degree murder. Petersburg.—The coal tipple and outbuildings at the Winslow coal mines burned. The mines are owned by the Ingle Coal company and had been idle for some time. The fire was of unknown origin. Fortville.—A commercial club has been 1 organized here with W. P. Williams, president; F. E. Wright, vicepresident; Charles Shull, secretary; E. M. Whetsei, O. L. Morrow, &. F. Cohen; 11. S. Adams and Gus Stuart, executive committee. Versailles.—The board of county commissioners, acting on a petition for a local option election for this (Johns on) township, ordered an election June 2. Two years ago the township voted “dry” by a majority of two. South Bend.—Because Thomas Perkins admitted that he married her for a housekeeper and not because of any spirit of love, Mrs. Saffrona Perkins has asked for absolute divorce. The couple have been married less than six months. Knightstown.—A freight train on the Pennsylvania road was wrecked near here. Fourteen cars were derailed and traffic was tied up for six hours. A defective wheel caused the wreck. It happened at the same place where two men were killed by a fast train the day before. Sullivan.—Arthur Woodward was shot seriously when Dolph Solomon fired a shotgun In the direction of high school boys who were changing their clothes under the grandstand at Coffman’s park in preparation for track practise. Solomon was arrested and asserted that he was firing at some birds. Anderson. Joseph E. Hennings, president of the local chamber of commerce, gave a banquet at the Grand hotel for the newspaper men of the city. Speakers praised the work of the chamber of commerce and President Hennings w’as pledged support In his furtherance of the interests of the city.

Anderson.- —The organization of a Young Women’s Christian association was effected at a mass meeting when Mies Inez Kinney of Chicago was the principal speaker. The board of directors follows: Mrs. A, W. Brady, Mrs. W. J. Alford. Mrs. Carry O. Lilly, Mrs. Maude Branch, Mrs. Anna Hooven, Mrs. W. 11. 11. Quick, Mrs. H. B. Cook, Mrs. James Larmore, Mrs. 11. J. Blacklldge, Mrs. Earl Young, Mrs. W, S. Poling, Mrs. J. B. Pearcy, Mrs. Perry Remy, Miss' May Manning, Miss Mary Mulligan and Miss May Keltner. Lafayette.- When Janies Harvey was seen Iditerlng about, the home of the Sisters of Providence hero one of the sisters telephoned to Rev. .1. F. Byrne, rector of St. Anne’s Catholic church, who lives next door, and he captured the man. Rev. Father Byrne crept up behind Harvey, knocked him down and then chased him a square before he caught him. Harvey was turned over to the police. He is said to have been attempting to break into the home of the sisters. Harvey came here from Kentucky two weeks ago, and has been working for an ice company, Terre Haute.—Two hundred and twenty-five miners employed at Oak Hill mine No. 8, in the Clinton field, north of here, wont on strike because of the discharge of two drivers. According to reports to the district officials at headquarters here, the two drivers, Martin Lyons and Ora Woods, were discharged because wheji they unhitched their mules they failed to remove she harness from the animals, but. left them loose in the barnyard in their hurry to catch a train for home. Requests for board members to settle the dispute were not granted because of the convention of operators and miners in session here requiring the full time of the officials.

Wolf Lake.-—A train of empty freight cars was drawn up on a Biding at the ice plant near here. The cars had been brought from the Pennsylvania yards. In one of the cars vyas the body of a young man, dead only a few hours. There were severe contusions on the head and chest. P. J. Moyland, conductor, summoned a deputy coroner. He gave this description of the dead man: Twentyfive years old, 180 pounds, five feet ten inches; dark hair, blue eyes, fair complexion ; index finger on right hand missing; wore a gray English worsted suit made by a tailor at Tampa, Fla. In Ink was written J. J. Jennings, Tampa,* Fla.; tan oxford shoes, tan silk sox, white plaited shirt, linen collar and red necktie; silk underclothes. Lawrenceburg.—Shelton Morals, an elghteen-year-old boy living near Petersburg, Ky., has equipped a wireless telegraph, station at his home. Among the messages he has caught wa's the one announcing the seizure of Vera Cruz. . - Crawfordsville. Burglars robbed three stores in Linden, getting S3B at the hardware store of Moon, Leonard & Shanklin, $lO in the office of the Crabbs, Reynolds & Taylor Elevator company and $lO at the restaurant of Martin & Smith. In the hardware store the, burglars overlooked $175 in the safe.