Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1914 — STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

STATE NEWS

Anderson.—A kerosene stove at the home of Ora Poole, on South Brown street, exploded and for a time it was thought the home would be destroyed. The fire department, however, kept the loss down to S4OO. Crawfordsville.—Harry Warren Anderson, professor of botany In Wabash college, and Miss, Elsie Eleanor Osborne were married at the home of the bride’s parents. Prof. R. A. King of the Wabash college faculty performed the ceremony. The bride is a daughter of James H. Osborne of Wabash college. New Albany.—Miss Georgia White, sixteen, and Clarence Cleveland, eighteen, have gone together on a “hobo” trip. It Is surmised the girl wore boy’s clothing, as a complete outfit of feminine garments worn by the girl was found in a shed near the B. & O. railway yards. It has been learned from their friends that the trip was contemplated Warsaw.—R. L. Shelby, a lawyer of Lebanon, with his daughter and Miss Ixtis Campbell, who are spending the summer at Winona lake, were severely injured in an auto accident. Mr. Shelby, driving a coupe, sent his machien into a telephone pole w'hen going at high speed to avoid a collision with another machine. The coupe was wrecked and the occupants thrown with great force to the pavement Goshen.—A jail delivery was prevented here by Mrs. B. Frank Leader, wife of the sheriff who, when she heard unusual noises, called her husband. It was found that Eugene Evan and J. Johnson, Elkhart prisoners held for assault, had constructed a key out of a broom handle and used it successfully in a six-lever lock with which an unused cell was fastened. Taking a heavy bar from a bunk they tried to remove a patch in the wait placei_jßter a former delivery. Bend. —Rains during the past week, according to Henry Swain, government observer for St. Joseph county, ha*ve greatly benefited late crops, including sweet corn and potatoes. As a result of a fall of nearly one and one-half Inches of rain within three days, the production of crops will run practically 50 per cent of normal. The rains, however, came too late to help field corn, except In the low lands. Realizing the condition, the farmers have for more than two weeks been cutting the crop and placing it in silos. As a grain crop, however, corn, according to Mr. Swain, is a failure. Aurora. —Daily B. Driver, aged twen-ty-six, a farmer and stock raiser, was shot through the thigh of the right leg in an unusual accident. He is in a serious condition. Driver was returning to his home after spending an evening with friends at the Rising Sun centennial. While driving past a graveyard a white cow, that had been grazing near the entrance of the burying ground, started toward hia horse. Driver instantly thought of graveyard ghosts and drew his revolver and commenced shooting, and during the exlcitement a .32-caliber ball passed through his leg, another tore a hole in his horse's ear and the third hit the cow in the neck. Driver is also suffering with nervous prostration.