Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 November 1914 — HOOSIER NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD [ARTICLE]

HOOSIER NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD

Patoka. Nov. 24.—J. W. Bruner and his daughter Louise, were killed and three other members of the family are suffering from serious injuries as the result of an auto driven by Bruner being struck here by a passenger train Logansport-—Fire on Fourth street between Market and Broadway, destroyed .a quarter of a block in the heart of the business section with a loss estimated at from seventy-five to one hundred thousand dollars. Huntington. H E Steele, age twenty-eight, a former Erie conductor, attempted suicide by shooting himself. He pointed a revolver at his left breast and fired. He fell to the floor at his home and the family called the coroner, believing him dead. When the coroner arrived Steele was sitting up. Greensburg—The Garland Milling company of this city started a car load Of flour to Christiania, Norway, the second shipment to that place within the last few weeks. Th* klgnmant v of 700 sacks of 140 pounds each, a total of 98,000 pounds. This is the largest shipment the local company has ever made abroad. Laporte.—The body of a woman, apparently about fifty-five years old, well dressed,, with evidence of having been in Lake Michigan for several days, was buried in the pauper field at New Buffalo. The body was found on the beach a mile west of the town, having evidently been washed up. The coroner ordered Immediate. burial. Greensburg—Mrs William Smith, seventy-nine years old, died of asphyxiation at Clarksburg, near this city, and her husband, seventy-five years old, is in a critical condition. Neighbors found the couple in bed after forcing a door. Mr. Smith, who was unconscious, lay beside the body of his wife. A gas stove near the bed was red hot and deadly fumes were pouring from a rent in the stovepipe. New Albany.—Harry Mukes, age eighteen, recently released from the boys’ reformatory at Plainfield, was arrested when cracking a safe In the office of the flour store of Louis Hartman & Sons. He had knocked off the handle and combination knob of the safe with a hatchet when arrested. A drawer In a desk had been broken open and a small amount of money taken. North Vernon —The farm of Lase Davidson, in Spencer township, has been quarantined by order of Dr. W. E. Hopkins, county veterinarian, resulting from hog cholera found to have affected 16 hogs. The report was circulated that the foot-and-mouth disease had appeared. Doctor Hepklns, who was appointed by the governor to inspect the stock in Jennings county, was summoned and found that the hogs were affected with cholera

Laporte.—-The body of a woman, apparently about fifty-five years of age, well-dressed, with hair turning gray and with bones of arms broken, was found on the beach one mile west of New Buffalo, Mich. The village undertaker, without holding the body for identification, buried it in the pauper field. The body gave evidence of having been in the water for several days. The town authorities advance the theory that the body is that of a suicide, though unable to explain why her arms should have been broken. Orleans.—Fire that started in a garage here quickly spread to the buildings of the Orleans Hardware company and a two-story brick block belonging to J. A. Clouds, and all were soon burned. As the town is witbout fire protection. excepL=a chemical extinguisher, and as a high wind was blowing, it seemed, for a time that the flames would reacly across the street, threatening to burn a way clear through to the outskirts. The Knights of Pythias hall was somewhat damaged. Men on the toofs kept the fire back. The store building of Bennett Cdhen, adjoining the hardware store, escaped, but he suffered loss in the removal of his merchandise. Insurance was carried on the hardware stock. A conservative estimate of the total loss is $35,000. Kokomo. —With her long curls shorn and dressed Ui boy’s clothes, fouryearold Grace Howard, who was kidnaped from her home in this city September 14. has been restored to her mother, the parent and child returning to Kokomo from Urich. Mo., where the girl was found. Charles C. Howard, defendant in divorce proceedings, drove ua to his wife’s home here in an automobile September 14, and took his daughter away. Mrs. Howard had a court order granting her custody of the child, and a w ide search was made for Howard Relatives of Howard in Alton, 111. wrote Mrs. Howard, saying that the man had taken the child to Missouri. The Kansas City detective department located Howard Marlon.—William Nelson, father of Roy Nelson, nine years old, run down and killed by Bernard Johnson, local contractor, driving an automobile, has sueef Mr. Johnson for $5,000. The boy was driving in a buggy at the time he met death. Logansport.—Mrs Anna Logan of Oakland, Cal., saw her first snowfall In 40 years, when she came here this week to visit her sister, Mrs. Harriet Lamboume. Mrs. Logan left Cass county 40 years ago, and has never been back until this week. She is familiar with earthquakes, however.