Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1914 — INDIANA BREVITIES [ARTICLE]

INDIANA BREVITIES

Logansport.—A lemon weighing one pound and six ounces has been received from Bishop, Tex., by Charles Sells of this city. The lemon measures 13 inches in circumference and is 15 inches long. Princeton.—Mrs. Jesse Alvis of this city almost chokefi to death when she swallowed a fragment of bone scattered by shot while eating a fried rabbit. Physicians removed the bone from her windpipe.,. Warsaw —Florence Gillian, % five years old, who had been left alone wjth her baby brother, rescued the child from their home when it caught fire, but in her hurry slipped and fell and the baby’s leg was broken. Indianapolis.—Harry E. Merriam of Broad Ripple must remain on the outside of the penitentiary. He was brought into' police court here charged with issuing a fraudulent check. Judge Deery allowed him to go free after warning him that a visit to a saloon would mean a trip to the penitentiary as judgement in the case would be withheld pending his strict sobriety. Fort A. C. Gladieux has filed an affidavit charging larceny against Charles Harkenrider, a prisoner in the county jail, who is accused of taking 37 cents from a prisoner named Hoppe, under edict of the “kangaroo court,” which was recently ordered abolished by Judge Eggeman of the circuit court. Harkenrider and other prisoners deny Hoppe's story. Fort Wayne.—A week-old baby, thrust upon Mrs. Charles W. Heckler at her home under mysterious circumstances, probablywill be given a permanent home by the Heckler family. A woman took the baby to the home, hastily explained that its mother was an Indianapolis woman and that the child must be taken care of until it could be placed in an institution, and then departed before Mrs. Heckler recovered from her astonishment.

Plymouth.—Clarence P. Holloway was acquitted in the circuit court of the charge of murder in the second Holloway is deputy game warden. He shot and killed Clyde Jefferies, who resisted arrest for illegal fishing. Holloway testified that he shot in self-defense after Jefferies had fired twice at him. Deputy Warden Stonebreaker of Warsaw, who was with Holloway at the time of the shunting, gave similar testimony. Indianapolis.—Governor Ralston appointed Jph* O. Behymer, publisher of a Democratic newspaper in Tipton, as state oil inspector at a salary of $3,500 a year. On March 1 he will succeed James Henry Fry of Fort Wayne. It is understood that Fry will be made deputy auditor of state. Dan M. Link was appointed by the governor as circuit judge for Dekalb and Steuben counties succeeding Judge Powers, who becomes a member of the staje appellate court.

Wabash. —The new $50,00b schoolhouse at Largo, Wabash county, was entirely destroyed by fire. A coal oil stove, which was left in a pumphouse a few'feet from the building, to keep the water pipes from freezing, became overheated and set fire to the structure. The flames Communicated with the school building before they were discovered. Insurance amounting to $16,000 was carried .on the building. The loss on books and other property owned by the students and instructors is placfed at $5,000.

Michigan City,—The Michigan Central railroad station, a two-story brick structure, containing the offices of the chief train dispatcher and other employees, was destroyed by fire. The fire started in the basement furnace room and spread so rapidly that 12 employees upstairs were trapped in their rooms when fire filled the hall and stairway. They jumped out of the windows on a shed and slid down a signal post. All records were destroyed. The only jfroperty saved was that in the baggage, room at the west end of the building. Th.e building was constructed at a cost of $50,000 about thirty years ago.

Goshen. —Pleading guilty to a charge of forgery, Noble Bechtold, nineteen years old, was sentenced to the state reformatory to from one to eight years, and will be taken there. Bechtold, the son of a Granger business man, forged his father’s name to many checks on a bank here. Several merchants cashed them, and after getting about one hundred dollars Bechtold and his wife, a bride of last July, went to Chicago’ When they returned to the home of Mrs. Bechtold’s parents in Milford Bechtold was arrested. He told Judge Horman that when he had forged checks before his father had kept him from going to prison, and that he had expected him to do so again. Twelve of Bechtolds worthless checks were discovered here in one day.

Clay City.-—At. the farmers’- institute held at.this place the following officers were elected: President, Paul Mitchell: secretary, Paul Mitchell;' treasurer, Herbert Sutton. ' ’ Bloomington. A with seating capacity of 100, made n trip Thursday frpm Indianapolis to Bloomington in as good time as a steam train. The coach was being demonstrated for the Indiana Southern road, and the officers on the car included Superintendent L. E. McCabe, Trainmaster J. W. Bledsee and Roadmastef H. G. Arn, all of Mattoon, 111. » «’ ■»> ' • »