Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1914 — CROWN POINT MAN LOSES HIS LIFE [ARTICLE]

CROWN POINT MAN LOSES HIS LIFE

Son of Lake County Commissioner Is Killed. DIES UNDER TRAIN WHEELS Youth Runs Into Monon Passenger Train on the Ridge Road at Hammond—Was Near End of Auto Endurance Run. Hammond, With a perfect score, but a half minute late at the last checking station, Harry Brown, twenty-three years old, second son of Lake County Commissioner Mather Brown, of Crown Point, ran into a Monofi passenger train, No. 88, pn the Ridge road at Hammond and was Instantly killed. Brown and thirteen friends had started out in the morning from Crown Point for a two hundred mile endurance run via South- Bend and Hammond. It is thought that Brown had lost his way as he was going in the wrong direction when he collided with the baggage car of the train. He was caught under the wheels and was rolled a hundred feet. His body was badly mangled. It was picked up by three eye witnesses. William Golden, a Hammond business man, is in a local hospital in a critical condition because of Injuries received when his auto carrying five passengers turned turtle. The accident occurred when he attempted to pass a buggy. The other four occupants escaped with minor injuries.

Paroled Cohvict Again Arrested. Lafayette.—William C. Ell of Indianapolis, government inspector In the postal department, is responsible for the detention of John Ballard, a paroled convict, who was sentenced for from ten to twenty years for robbing a drug store at Indianapolis. The drug store was a postal substation, and it was because of this fact that Ballard came into contact with Inspector Eli. Ballard was arrested when the police raided a camp that had been established by tramps south of the city. Eli was passing through the police office and Ballard took it for granted that the inspector was after him. Ballard walked up to Superintendent of Police Powell and admitted that he was a paroled convict and told about the robbery at Indianapolis. .

Fears Insanity May Ruin Nation. Kokomo. —“If something is not done by the American people to reduce the enormous increase, of Insanity In the country there need be no worry about peace or war,” declared Gov. Samuel M. Ralston in an address at the opening of the Chautauqua. ‘ All of us will become insane and cut each other’s throats.” Presumably as an answer to criticisms against the present administration of penal institutions for the insane, the governor said: ‘‘The boards of these institutions are nonpartisan. Politics has nothing to do with the selection of the men. and, as long as I am governor politics will have nothing to do with the institutions.”

Father Who Disappeared Returns. Lafayette.—A\ illiain F. Wainwright, one of the largest land-owners in Tippecanoe county, who disappeared mysteriously from his home south of this city last April, has returned. His family had given him up for dead and was of the opinion that he met with foul play. He had a large sum of money when he left here and he did not Inform his family he was going. He could give no explanation why he left home. He said he spent the time In Colorado. The wife and daughter were overcome with jpy when he returned. They spent a large amount of money in trying to locate him. . I Farmers Fight Marsh Fires. Laporte.— Hundreds of farmers in the Kankakee country, which extends across four northern Indiana counties, worked heroically ! in the fields plowing up thousands of acres of land to prevent the spread of marsh fires which are threatening to sweep everything in their path, causing loss of crops, .homes and other buildings. Rain has not fallen in this valley for/ five weeks and conditions are beginning to beggar description.

Gary Men Held in Russia. Gary.—Mrs. Margaret Falvey of Gary, who has been touring Europe, cabled that she had sailed from Liverpool on the Philadelphia. Gary officials are acting in behalf of Charles Baron and Walter Hlsarkl, local business men who went on a visit to Russia several weeks ago. It is feared they have been drafted into army service. Buildings Wrecked by Wind. Nashville. —A severe wind and electrical storm visited the southen part of Brown county. Several large barns were blown down, the house of Jesse Sims was struck by lightning and destroyed, and at Belmont telephone poles for two miles were blown down. Much corn was leveled and streams are all over the bottom land. The two-montha’ drought at Nashville was broken with a steady rain of three hours. Farmers believe that the early corn was too jnuih burned to be saved.