Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1914 — State News in Brief [ARTICLE]

State News in Brief

Indianapolis.—Nathan Shields, thir-Cy-seven, of Akron, 0.. had both feet cut off when he went to sleep on the railroad track near Plainfield and was run ■ over by Pennsylvania freight train No. 60. Shields was brought to Indianapolis. His condition is serious. Jeffersonville. Miss Marjorie Chandler, age nineteen, shot herself at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Chandler, Howard Park, west of this city. She is in a serious condition. The bullet, which was of small caliber, barely missed the heart. Darlington.—George Miller, fiftythree years old, of Indianapolis, Is dead of pneumonia at the home of his half-brother, William Lowrey. He came here a week ago. He is one of the survivors of the flood at lhdiahapolis in Marph, 1913, and was rescued from a floating horfsetop after he nearly perished. Columbus.—Rolla Devine of Indianapolis, who was serving a 110-day sentence in the county jail here for “bootlegging” at the receipt Bartholomew county fair, escaped by running while he was being taken by a guard to a stone pile to work. An unsuccessful effort was made a few days ago to effect the prisoner's release by a habeas corpss proceeding. Shelbyville.—The grain elevator at Lewis Creek, owned by the Nading Grain company of this city, was destroyed by fire with a loss of SIB,OOO. The insurance is $12,500. The fire is traced to spontaneous combustion in a cob pile. The elevator contained more than six thousand bushels of wheat and 1,800 bushels of oats.

Laporte.—'Wholesale vaccination is in .progress at Porter, a town of about fifteen hundred population, where, under instructions from the state board of health, men, women and children are being inoculated with virus to prevent what Is feared will be an epidemic of smallpox. Three eases have developed and hundreds of exposures are reported. Haftford.City.—Panhandle train No. 56 was nearly wrecked east of this city when it ran into a flock of sheep that had escaped from a pastured field on the Ed Armstrong farm. There were 400 sheep in the flock, and 24 of them were killed.