Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 80, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1915 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts of the Country. _ —■ SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in Distant and Nearby Cities and Towns.—Matters of Minor Mention From Many Places! Thieves Steal a Whole Carload of Sugar at Hammond. An entire carload of over 15,000 pounds of sugar was stolen from a C. & O. car in the Hammond yards last Tuesday night. The sugar was in 125 pound bags and was carried entirely away by the thieves. The Hammond News states that a railroad watchman counted nineteen men leaving the car at one time, each with a sack of sugar. Just wfiiy the watchman did not attempt to stop the thievery is not slated. in a round-up of a bunch of car robbers and chicken thieves in Hammond Wednesday night, eight men were taken, and when arraigned in court plead guilty to, the charges against them and each was sentenced to from one to eight years in the penitentiary. All the men were married and most of. them had families.