Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1914 — ELKHART VISITED BY COSTLY BLAZE [ARTICLE]

ELKHART VISITED BY COSTLY BLAZE

Plant of Garden City Tablet Company Destroyed. PAPER FIRM AlJsO DAMAGED b Sparks Blown Through Window Believed to Have Ignited Pile of Scrap Paper—Loss Estimated at SIOO,OOO. Elkhart. —Fire practically destroyed the plant of the Garden City Tablet company In this city, causing a loss of SIOO,OOO. The fire originated in a pile of scrap paper In the manufacturing room. Employes say they believe sparks, blown in through a window ignited the paper. The plant had closed for the day a half hour before the blaze was discovered. The office part of the structure was saved. The plant of ths Elkhart Paper company, adjoining the tablet works, was damaged to the extent of $2,000. " -<V' ■■ ; Kills Wife and Self. Richmond.—Williamsburg, which for a quarter of a century has had no justice of the peace or marshal, was the scene of one of the most grew'some crimes in the history of Wayne county. Wilson Shields, a prominent resident of the village, believed to be insane, although adjudged sane at an Inquest held in Richmond about three weeks ago, killed his wife and then himself. While Mrs. Shields was starting a fire in the kitchen range her husband evidently quarreled with her and is believed first to have knocked her down with a piece of stove wood, although there were no witnesses to the crime. He then killed her by firing birdshot into the side of her head. Clell Shields, the son. who was aroused by the discharge of the gun, rushed to the rear of the house and almost stumbled over the body of his mother in the kitchen doorway. He saw his father sitting on the kitchen floor with the butt of the shotgun between his feet and the muzzle against his forehead. When the insane man prepared to pull the trigger young Shields turned his head. The charge tore off the top of the man’s head. Merchant Killed by Burglar. Rushville. Milton Wagner, fortythree years old, who ran a grocery Jn the north w est part of the city, was fatally wounded by a burglar and died six hours later. Two men. who have not been identified, entered the house and awakened Sallie Colvin, a sfster-in-lav. of Wagner. Pointing a revolver at her one of the men threatened to kill her if she did not keep quiet., but her screams aroused Mr. and Mrs. Wagner. Mrs. Wagner appeared first but was forced back into her room by the ntan with the gun. The robVr returned to the room where his confederate stood guard over Miss Colvin: Just as Mr. Wagner rushed downstairs the burglar with the gun commanded Wagner to throw up his hands. When Wagner failed to heed the command, the burglar shot and the two intruders ® p d. The bullet entered Wagner’s back, struck- a rib and coursed down Into the spinal column, penetrating a vertebra. Eoy Killed Under Wagon. Shelby ville.—Arthur Cook, twelve years old. met death near St. Paul when his head was crushed beneath the wheels of a farm wagon in which he was hauling bonedust for his brother, Harr-. Cook, a farmer. He was a son of Mrs. Ann Cook of Adams. His father. Herman Cook, Was found dead in a carriage a few years ago. The boy’s death resulted when the tongue came out of the wagon as the lad was driving down a hill. He held to the lines as the horses made a dash, and was dragged to the ground. Auto Hits Telegraph Pole. Bloomington.—While on the wav to Paragon, a seven-passenger automobile, driven by William Whisenand, a farmer living west of this city, was wrecked when it skidded into a telegraph pole on the North pike. Mrs. Farr and children, Annetta, twelve years old, and Elizabeth, five, were badly bruised about the face and arms. The family was brought to this city in the car of Bert G. Hoadley. The front wheels, windshield and top were torn from the Whisenand car. Brother Fatally Injures Sister. Evansville—Esther, the five-year-old daughter of Joseph Dean, was shot and killed by her seven-year-old brother, Joseph, who Was playing with an old revolver that his father had been cleaning. The ball entered the girl’s head and she died in an ambulance when being taken to a hospital. Band Lured Him to Officer. Indianapolis, Ind., Sept. 22.— “ You ah 'sure robbin’ me of some day of pleasur,” exploded Munch Dickey, a Kentucky negro, when arrested by T\ illiam C. Ely, post office inspector. The arrest was made at Guthrie, Ky., soon after Dickey had crossed the Kentucky-Tennessee boundary, and it was only the playing of a band that brought Dickey from the Tennessee part of the own. “I just had to see that band.” Dickey afterward told the inspector. The negro is charged with robbing the parcel post at Evansville.