Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1914 — INDIANA BREVITIES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

INDIANA BREVITIES

Noblesville. —Mrs. Thomas Henderson, seventy years old, Is dead at her home near this city. She was a pastor tn the Friends’ church and for many years occupied pulpits in central Indiana. Evansville.—Wayne W. Cordell has been appointed United States pension examiner for this district, and this city will be his headquarters. His district embraces 16 counties in southern Indiana and 16 counties in western Kentucky. Evansville. —Herman Kinman, age thirty, of Petersburg, who was slashed with a razor by William Markley, a salesman of this city, Is dead. Markley and his wife are held by the police. Kinman comes from a well-known family at Petersburg, and his body will be sent there for burial. Anderson.—Prosecutor Shuman of Madison county has announced that as long as he Is in office he will not permit Sunday theater business. The attorney’s statement followed the arrest and fining of the Swain brothers of Elwood, who opened their picture theater last Sunday. They did not sell tickets, but left a box for cash donations at the door. Hartford City.—Frank Buonslgnore, twenty-four years old, an Italian laborer, was fatally shot in a revolver duel between several Americans and Italians on the South side. The cause of the trouble is not known to the police. After the shooting the Americans boarded an interurban car out of the city. They are believed to be from Eaton or Shldelen. and officers have gone there to search for them. Greensburg.—Elmer Sweezy of this city fell under a freight train near Newpoint, struck the bumpers and then fell between the rails. Several cars passed over him. The brake rods almost tore all his clothing from his body and bruised him considerably. Sweezy walked to Newpoint after the accident and came home on a passenger train, but says he remembers nothing of what happened after falling until he arrived home.

Lafayette.—The body of an unidentified man was found beneath the high Wabash railroad bridge over Wild Cat creek, east of the city. The body is that of a man about thirty-five years, arid there is a bruise on his hoad. Evidently the man either fell from a train or a trestle, or was walking across and was struck by a train. He had in his pockets some poolroom checks from an establishment in Kokomo. Indianapolis. The fifth annual picnic of the Commercial Travelers of Indianapolis will be given August 8 at Germania park and a long program of activities has been arranged, Among the athletic contests will be a baseball game between the U. C. T. and the T. P. A. teams, shot put, horseshoe pitching, a fat man’s race and several other contests. Women will take part in a ball throwing contest and an orange race. Boys and girls will run short dashes. Oakland City. With the water works lake almost exhausted, Oakland City faces a water famine. A large force of men and teams is engaged in enlarging the lake, and the city will be prepared to keep the water when rains do come. Corn is drying up in the fields in this vicinity. Shade trees are dying in many places. Sprinkling of lawns has been prohibited by the water works authorities, and last Sunday notice was given the churches that the pipe organs must not be played.

Evansville—Herman Kinman, thir-ty-five years old, of Petersburg, died here of knife wounds said to have been Inflicted by William Markley when the latter learned his wife, from whom he is separated, and Kinman contemplated an elopement. Ktmnan and Mrs. Markley, it is said, had gone to her home to get clothes preparatory to leaving the city. Markley lay in wait for Kinman, and when he left the house assaulted him with a knife, inflicting ten wounds. Markley surrendered to the police. Greensburg. Nelson Mowrey, Greensburg's wealthiest citizen, gave 1100,000 as an endowment fund for the erection of a Y. M. C. A. building in this city. The donation is in two parts. Section 1 provides that $60,000 shall be expended for the purchase of a site and the erection of the building. Section 2 provides that $40,000 shall be Invested. the ( income therefrom to go toward the maintenance and furnishing, from time to time, of the building. In case the Y. M. C. A. is dissolved, the property, or the equivalent, shall be divided among the Evangelical churches and the Masonic lodges of Decatur. Mr. Mowrey recently gave $4,000 to the public schools of this city, the interest from this sum being divided into prizes for the best grades in manual training, domestic science and English. , Shelbyville —The grand lodge, colored Knights of Pythias, at Its closing session here picked South Bend as the 1915 meeting place. A warm fight for the honor was waged by the French Lick delegation and the vote was close. Memebers of the uniform rank, who have been in Camp Tidrington at the fair grounds, broke camp. Charleston.—Mrs. George Buchanan, age sixty, of Newmarket, fell dead across a stove, of heart failure, while getting breakfast. The body Was horribly bifrned before it wm fouftd by relatives.