Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1914 — ENDS OWN LIFE AT WINCHESTER [ARTICLE]

ENDS OWN LIFE AT WINCHESTER

Farmer Commits Suicide by Shooting Himself. HEAD TORN OFF BY SHOTGUN Follard Howell is Said to Have Been Demented for Several Years— Headless Body Found by Mother.

Winchester. —Pollard Howell, age forty-four, single, a farmer, who lived south of Winchester, committed suicide by placing the muzzle of a 12gauge shotgun in his mouth and pushing the trigger with his toe. His mother found his headless body a moment after the gun report was heard. Howell had been demented, it is said, for several years. Excessive drinking during the last month is given as the cause for his act.

Brother of Famous General Dead. Marion. —L. A. Wallace, sixty-five years old, pioneer publisher and printer and cousin of Gen. Lew Wallace, died, the result of a stroke of apolplexy. Mrs. Mary Weeks-Wal-lace, his’Tnother, survives him at the age of ninety-one years. Mr. Wallace for number of years published the Grant County Democrat, which became valuable property and of which the Leader-Tribune is the successor. The family to which the deceased belonged probably was as famous as any in all the middle West. The father, Judge John M. Wallace, was one of seven sons; David Wallace was governor of Indiana at one time. A brother was a United States senator from a Western state; another was secretary of the state of Iowa; another was a distinguished military officer.

Cattle Quarantine Expected. South Bend.—All cattle in St. Joseph and Laporte counties will be placed under quarantine within the week, according to a statement made by C. K. Small, special agent of the department of animal industry at Washington. Mr. Small said that cattle in the vicinity of Niles, Mich., were placed under quarantine. Governor Ferris is expected to issue a general quarantine for Berrien county, Michigan. Man and Wife Indicted. Columbus.—The Bartholomew county grand jury indicted Mr. and Mrs. John Hubbard of near Taylorsville, charging the man with receiving stolen goods. A few days ago goods were dug from the ground at the Hubbard home bv deputy state fire marshals, who charged that it had been in a house in the neighborhood which burned a few months ago. U. S. River Boat Burns. Vevav—The government towboat Uncle Sam was destroyed by fire at Dam 29, entailing a loss of $lO,000. The boat had only recently been built and had steam up for the first time. The fire started in the pilot house and when discovered was beyond control. The government steamer M. D. Wayman. lashed to the Uncle Sam. was cut loose just as it also caught fire, but this vessel was saved.

Stork Delays Train. Laporte.—Lake _ Shore train No. 3 was delayed nearly an hour at Elkhart while the stork made lvis advent. A physician ail'd a nurse rushed to the station and white several hundred passengers wondered at the cause of the long delay, a woman passenger whose name was not learned, gave birth to a ten-pound boy i " Girl Ends Life on Street. Anderson. —Dorothy Wicker, sixteen years old. daughter .of* Mr. and Mrs. Edward Wicker, committed suicide by swallowing acid while standing in front of a grocery in Park place. She died before a physician arrived. She had been employed in a local factory, and a disappointment in a love affair is believed to have been the reason she ended her life.

Alleged Burglars Held. Evansville. Fred Hart, twentyeight years old. of Fort Wayne, and John Baker, twenty-one years old, of Indianapolis, who are said to have confessed burglaries in’ Sullivan. Terre Haute and Fort Wayne, were arrested by local police. Church Corner Stone Laid. Evansville. —The corner stone for the new Linwood Avenue Evangelical church and Bible school was laid. The speakers included Mayor Benjamin Bosse, E. L. Mogge, secretary of the Y. M. C. A., and Elder J. J. Wise, Indianapolis. Doctor Wins SB,OOO Damages. Shelbyville.—The case in which Dr. Charles S. Gore of Indianapolis demanded $50,000 from the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati & st. Louis Railway company for personal injuries, has been compromised, Gore accepting SB,OOO. Doctor Gore, who la one of the physicians of the State School for the Deaf at Indianapolis, was struck by a train while he and two young women were crossing the railway track near the asylum In a closed automobile.