Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1915 — BIBLE CHAIR HALL DESTROYED BY FIRE [ARTICLE]

BIBLE CHAIR HALL DESTROYED BY FIRE

Christian Building at Indiana University Burns. LOSS ESTIMATED AT $9,000 None of the Household Goods Are Saved —Library Owned by Rev. Joseph C. Todd Is Lost, Bloomington.—Fire destroyed the two-story building at Indiana avenue and Third " street, owned by the Christian churches of Indiana, in which the Christian Church Bible Chair of Indiana university was established last September and for y'hich $9,000 was paid. Insurance ot $6,000 was carried. The house was formerly occupied by the Delta Zeta sorority. None of the household goods was saved, the loss including the library of Rev. Joseph C. Todd, dean of the BL ble chair. Besides the manuscript of the forthcoming book of Rev. Mr. Todd on the New Testament, the loss also Included all the papers and records of the Bible chair except the financial record, ■which was in the hands of Dr. Rodney Smith of this city, one of the local trustees. Rev. Mr. Todd -was at Poseyville when the house burned. Temporary quarters will be obtained for the chair until the matter of rebuilding can be taken up by the trustees. - Woman Dead of Burris. Brazil. Mrs. Nat Hillman of Knightsville died and her husband, a miner, is expected to succumb, as a result of bufns sustained when the husband attempted to start a fire with gasoline, mistaken for coal oil. The flaming oil was thrown over the clothing of both Hillman and his wife. They ran from the house and rolled in the snow’, but the flames were not extinguished until neighbors wrapped them in rugs. The couple has several, children. t

18 Alleged Gamblers Taken. Lafayette.—The lid was placed on all kinds gs gambling when police raided two places, where it is alleged games of chance were being played. The places visited were t'he second floor of the Johnson hotel, where six men were found playing rhum, .and the White Front club room on Main street, where a dozen men were arrested for playing poker. The men were taken to police headquarters in the police patrol wagon. Factory Fire Costs $35,000. Goshen. —The George L. Lamb novelty factory, one of the principal industries at Nappanee, was destroyed by fire. Estimates place the total loss at $35,000, with Insurance of $22,000. Originating from the blower in the engine room, the flames spread to the finishing department, and in ten minutes the whole structure was doomed. Forty men and 20 women are out of employment as a result of the fire.

Havoc Caused by Dynamite. Hymera.—Three buildings, including two saloons and a meat market, were demolished here by dynamite. A fourth building, across the street from one of the saloons, was wrecked. Flames broke out after the blast. The police were without a definite clue, but were working on the theory that enemies of Walker Wilson, a saloonkeeper, were responsible. The loss is estimated at $20,000.

Thorntown Man Is Suicide. , Thorntown. —Al Griffin, eixty-seven years old, a” carriage painter, committed suicide in the K. of P. hall by shooting himself with a revolver. His body was found by‘Arthur Taylor. Griffin was a bachelor. It is said financial matters caused the suicide. Surviving are two male sisters, Mrs. Belle Hendrickson of Wheeling, W. Va., and Mrs. Herbert Hammond of Jackson, Miss. < Woman Guilty of Bigamy. Williamsport.—Mrs. Emma Erickson, who a few days ago was arrested at Lafayette, charged with bigamy, was sentenced to one to five years in the womap’s the sentence was suspended. Lawrence J. Farrell, with whom she contracted a bigamous marriage in this county, is in jail here .while the authorities investigate to learn whether he has another wife. Polson Tablets Kill Baby. Shelbyville.—Curtis Cowin, six-months-old baby of Frank Cowin, is dead of morphine poisoning, the result of being given medicinal tablets by his four-year-old sister. Laporte Pastor to New Orleans. Laporte.—Rev. W. H. Allen, who has filled a number of Indiana pastorates, has accepted a call to a large New Orleans church. Doctor Allen has been for several years pas tor of the Swanson Street Christian church at Melbourne, Australia. Some time ago, because of the war conditions, which made travel dangerous, he received a communication from the Melbourne church granting him an indefinite vacation, which made it possible for him to accept the pastorate at New Orleans.