Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1914 — Tree Saves Auto Driver's Life. [ARTICLE]

Tree Saves Auto Driver's Life.

A.urora. —Patrick K. Vahey, age thirty-seven, Democratic city chairman, was painfully Injured when his automobile skidded down an embankment and turned over in a ditch near the Riverview cemetery. Vahey was under the machine, but a tree to death. Three ribs were broken, hla right arm was fractured, and he was injured about the head. Vahey lost his right leg a few years ago in a railroad accident. Three companions escaped uninjured. South Bend Women to Use Cotton.. South Bend.—Plans for the “back to cotton” movement on the part of South Bend clubwomen in an ■effort to assist in relieving the financial distress in the South, as a result of the war in Europe, were taken up at the meeting of the Progress club. Every member of the club had, before the meeting, promised to use cotton exclusively for their garments la the future, and were anxious to assist in any other way the movement which is spreading throughout the country. State Suffragists Meet. Laporte.—The state convention of the Indiana Equal Suffrage association began its sessions in this city. The opening session was known as “Voters’ night.” Dr. Frank T. Stockton of Indiana university delivered an address on “Does Indiana Need a New Constitution?" Miss Laura C lav of Lexington spoke on woman suffrage. Woman Hangs Herself. Aurora.—Mrs. Anna M. Marshall, age sixty-one, wife of Thomas j’ Marshall, living in Clay township, committed suicide by hanging herself. Mrs. Marshall had gone to the poultry house to gather eggs. When she did not return Mr. Marshall began a search, apd found her lifeless body suspended from a rafter by a piece of clothesline: Retired Farmer Is Suicide. Anderson.-—James Broosier, sixtyfive years old. a wealthy retired farmer living at Lapel, ended his life by drinking poison which he had purchased last spring with the intention pf killing potato bugs. Several weeks ago Brosier’s wife died suddenly and it is believed that grief over her death was the cause of his act. Poison Placed in School. Delphi.—School officials are investigating the poisoning of Edith Harmon, Deloris Tinkle, Audra Collins And Mary Timmons, whose respective ages range from ten to thirteen years, at the Burlington schoolhouse, last week, by eating strychnine tablets found by the Harmon girl in her pencil box. Supposing the tablets candy, she ate one and gave the Remainder to the other children. All became ill, two critically. The Harmon and the Tinkle girl suffered convulsions, although they recovered.