Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1914 — Hoosier News Briefly Told [ARTICLE]

Hoosier News Briefly Told

Richmond.—John A. Willhite, twen-ty-twQ years old, killed himself by drinking poison in a local hotel. He left a note, asking that his father, J- O. Willhite of Pleasureville, Ky„ be notified. Hammond. —In the worst automobile accident happening in this district this year five prominent Indianapolis people, en route to Chicago to see the Chifed-Indianapolis game, were frightfully hurt in an auto accident south of here. Laporte—Mrs. Ethel Edwards, Three Oaks, Mich., was killed at that place when struck by a Chicago bound Michigan Central passenger train at a street crossing. Failing to observe the fast approaching train, she stepped directly in front of the locomotive I^afayette.—Charles Mackey and XMlliam Morris, working men employed in the Construction of the new seven-story building of the Lafayette Loan & Trust company, fell 60 feet when a scaffold on which they were working collapsed. Both men were seriously injured. They fell from the third floor to the basement of tne build, ing. Both men were unconscious when taken to the hospital. Anderson. —George Mathers, fifteen years old, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Mathers, and a member of the Anderson Boy Scouts, was carried in a litter from the flames which destroyed his parents’ home. He had been suffering for some time 1 from typhoid fever and was in a critical condition when the fire started. It is feared he will not survive. The Are originated in the attic and proceeded with great headway. Indianapolis.—An attendant at the Union station found the body of an unidentified man. apparently about fifty-five years old, propped up in a seat in the s%ioking room at the station. The man had been dead about twenty minutes, in the opinion of Coroner Durham. He had S2O and a small vial containing heart stimulant. Heart disease is believed to have caused the death. The body was taken to an undertaking establishment. Crawfordsville. J. Virgil Crews and Miss Mae Reed of near Ladoga eloped to this city and were married by Justice E. M. Brewer before the parents of the bride knew of their plans. While the parents were away from home the daughter slipped away and, with her lover, name to this oity in an automobile. Objection was made on account of the age of the bride

Hartford City.—A box containing ten big snakes was received at the office here of the American Express company from San Antonio, Tex. The shipment was consigned to a show. One rattlesnake, six feet long and containing 19 rattles, was found dead George A. Groom, a street vender of snake oil, was called to the express office to care lor the snakes. While handling the reptiles Groom was bitten twice by a huge brown snake of an unknown species. Groom made a tourniquet and tied it around his arm. applied some of his snake oil, took a drink of whisky and forgot the incident. Fort Wayne.—Dr. Charles Goheen was arrested and placed under ?2.;->OO bond on each of two charges of manslaughter preferred against him by Charles Lenz, chief of police, as the result of an investigation Into the death of Paul and Pauline Ullmer, five-year-old twin children of Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Ullmer. They died after an operation for the removal of tonsils. Goheen provided bail and was released. It is charged that Goheen administered large and dangerous quantities of hyoscine, a deadly poison, with wanton neglect and willful carelessness, with the result that he caused the death of the children. Warsaw.—At the annual meeting of the Interdenominational Association of Evangelists, held in connection with the Winona Bible conference, the following officers were elected: President. Rev. Herbert C. Hart of Madison, Wls.; vice-presidents, Rev. W. E. Biederwolf of Monticello; Rev. W. A. Sunday of Winona Lake; Rev. J. Wilbur Chapman of Jamaica, N. Y.; Rev. Milford H. Lyon of Wdnona Lake: Rev. Charles Reign Scoville of Chicago; secretary and treasurer, Rev. Charles T. Wheeler of Paoli, Kans.; directors. Rev. John F. Hamilton of Cleveland, O.; Rev. Charles G. Jordan of Volant, Pa.; Rev. O. A. Newlin of Winona Rev. Daniel Toy of South Bend; Rev. Oscar Lowry of Cedar Falls, la.; Rev. Arthur S. Magann of Madison, Wis.; Rev. William S. Rees of Rochester, N. Y.; Rev. M. B. Williams of Chicago, and Rev. MelVin E. Trotter of Grand Rapids, Mich. About hundred and fifty evangelists from al parts of the world attended the meeting, the greatest ever held here. Terre Haute.—David Fife, an undertaker at Palestine, 111., south of here, reported to the Terre Haute police that the body of an unidentified man had been found in the Wabash river. There was a bullet hole in the man’s head, and the body w’as weighted with iron and chain. Shelbyville.—Woman's Universalist Missionary society day was celebrated at the state convention of the Universalist church of Indiana, at Waldron. An address was delivered kr Mrs. Agnes R. Conklin, wife of the superintendent of the Universalist aburnhaa of MioV«*n. ...