Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1914 — INDIANA BREVITIES [ARTICLE]

INDIANA BREVITIES

Peru.—Earl Grover, Jr., is said to be the smallest baby • In the world. At the age of four days he weighs 20 ounces. He Is growing In an incubator.

Mitchell.—Porter Bowman, thirty years old, met death 4vhile ' clearing land on the farm owned by the Lehigh Portland Cement company, three miles northeast of this city. Bowman thought a fuse had gone out and returned to the stump and his head was blown off. Wabash. —T. S. Keller suffered a broken collar bone and two broken Tibs and Mrs Keller and son and Mrs. Ira Suowbarger were slightly hurt when their auto turned over after running into a ditch. The occupants were all pinned beneath the car.

Bloomington —Merle Decker, fourteen years old, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ross Decker, southwest of Elletsville, was drowned while fishing in the Dennis Summitt pond. With his brother, George, the youth Was on an improvised raft, which overturned in 12 feet of water.

Hartford City—Merrill Williams, six years old, shot and killed his brother, John, four, with a revolver. The weapon was loaded with a shot shell and had been used by the father, John £Villiams. to kill rats. The load entered the boy’s forehead above the right eye. Mitchell.—The farmers of Lawrence county went In automobiles provided by merchants of this city to inspect the alfalfa fields of the county. They were accompanied by several Purdue experts and the county agent, C. Jones. A lecture was given here by Doctor Beaver of Purdue university.

Goshen.—The Bristol post offic. was broken into when the panels of the back doors were removed. Only a small sum of change was obtained. No attempt was made to blow the safe. The robbers escaped by stealing a horse and buggy belonging to Philip Smith, which were abandoned later on the road. Sullivan.—While Rev. Cleve McGuire was preaching a sermon on hell? the gasoline lights of the church sprung a leak. When Newton Brewer, janitor, started to correct the flow the gasoline became Ignited and a stream of fire enveloped him. The minister assisted in putting out the Are and then resumed his sermon. Brewer was badly burned. 1 j Culver.—Logansport citizens came 4,000 strong to dedicate the' memorial i gateway which they have »j erected at Culver Military academy as recognition of the rescue work of Culver cadets in the floods of March, 1913. j A bottle of Wabash water was used to christen the gate by Miss Helen Fickle, daughter of Logansport’s mayor during the flood. Evansville. —At the field day exercises here a special grand stand collapsed and 300 women and children were seriously hurt. The fire department and police rushed every man available to the rescue work. Men fought to get their wives and children into the ambulances. The band kept playing lively airs while the rescue work went on. I Bedford. —Mrs. Charles Holland was i

Instantly killed here.ln a runaway accident and her husband so seriously Injured that his recovery is doubtful. Mr. and Mrs. Holland, who live at Erie, drove here to attend the Memorial day services at the First Baptist church. Their horses became frightened at a passing automobile when a short distance from the church and bolted. Both occupants were thrown out, Mrs. Holland alighting on her head, breaking her neck. She was dead when picked up. Her husband received Internal injuries. Indianapolis —Children playing with matches caused a lire at Morris and Reisner streets which burned a barn and shed, damaged a grocery, a drug store, a physician's office and a dwelling and for a time threatened to spread to other structures. The losses in most cases were’nominal, but only quick work by the' fire department, prevented a serious blaze. The fire originated in a barn at 1621 West Morris stret, belpuglng to Mrs. Fred Mertz. A small quantity of hay was stored in the building. The loss was $l2O. The flames communicated to a shed at 1615 West Morris street, owned by John Hallond. Damage there amounted to S3O. The sparks from these fires ignited roofs of the following buildings: Frame grocery of B. L. Janies, 1623 Morris street; drug store of T. J. Welsh, 1625 West Morris street; . frame dwelling occupied by W. T. Gobal, 1626 West Morris street; office of Dr. S. O. Leak, 1211 Reisner street, and frame dwelling occupied by George Garrison, 1217 Reisner street. Garrison's cottage was damaged to the extent of S2O, but the other losses ranged from $5 to $lO. Fort Wayne.—Goldie Arclibold, aged fifteen, is dead at a hospital as the result of taking bichloride of mercury tablets while In jail in Bryan, 0., ten days ago. The Arclibold girl and Emma Freeland, both of this efty, were being held at the Ohio city charged with the theft of a horse and buggy. The Arclibold girl's father, a railroad conductor, obtained their release after his daughter had attempted suicide. Bloomington. T. B. Ritter, age fifty-nine, a retired farmer, died of concussion of the brain, suffered In a fall downstairs at his home.

As the Greek government is of bpltion that the British soldi i is the. best dressed fighting ilia n in Europe they have instructed a well known London military tailor to design new uniforms for all their olTb-ers and men. Hereafter the I tars in the province of Quebec will not be allowed to open until 7:30 a. in., half an hour later than at-present. This is to prevent the workingmen of the province from taking a drink on the way to work. A machine has been devised for imi .fating the noise of an aeroplane cn gine\with the object of alarming bos tile troops. The Servian and Montenegrin troops used a rattle during the Balkan war to imitate machine gun tire.

A Scottish woman who lias just died left a will in which she instructed the executor to erect statues of herself, her parents, her brothers and tier sisters—twelve statues in all— and to spend annually the sum of $ 10,000 upon the same.

Complaints are made in Paris thnt tomatoes, melons, cucumbers, squashes —nearly everything except potatoeshave become so high priced that they are beyond the reach of working people whose daily earnings do not exceed SO cents or $1 - Ghent, Belgium, furnishes practically all of the potted specimens of the symmetrical Araucaria, or Norfolk island pine, used as an ornamental so tiage house plant In Europe and America. The United States imports at east 250,000 of these plants in small pots each year.

in one of the camps on the sliore of Lake Rehago, Me., there is a fireplace containing sixty rocks, every one of which bears the likeness of the face of a man or animal. The rocks have been collected from many miles around, and the effect Is heightened by glass eyes whirl) have been adder!.