Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1914 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts of the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in Distant and Nearby Cities and Towns.—Matters of Minor Mention From Many Places. Young Lawyer Dies of Wound. Hammond, Ind., Aug. 26. —In an effort to eject a shell from a pump gun, Attornely W. K. McAleer, former republican prosecutor of Lake county, accidently shot his nephew and junior law partner, Vernon McGirr, this morning. The accident occurred as they were about to step into their automobile south of Hammond, ■where they had beep f ar an early morning hunt. McGirr, wbo was 25 years old and unmarried, died four hours after the accident. 11c was a graduate of Valparaiso University and until recently was secretary of the Lake County Republican central committee.