Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1915 — INDIANA BREVITIES [ARTICLE]

INDIANA BREVITIES

Brazil.—The, country home of Samuel D. Owens, six miles east of this city, was destroyed by fire, with $3,500 loss. The fire resulted from a defective flue. Marion.—David Tanpan, fifty-two years old, a laborer, killed himself because he had been out of work most of the wlftter. He isHsurvived by four sons and a daughter. Bloomington.—Bedford high school defeated the Bloomington high school in a dual debate. The subject was: "Resolved, That the United States Should Increase Its National Defensm” Madison.—Mayor Crozier turned the first spadeful of earth when work was started here on the new hospital of the King’s Daughters: of the state. Reverend Doctor Turner offered prayer and M. R, Sulzer delivered an address. Anderson.—The Anderson temple of Pythian Sisters fixed May 26 as the date for. the district meeting of the Pythian Sisters in Anderson. Twenty-three temples or local organizations in surrounding counties will be represented.

Evansville. Sydney Thompson, thirty-one years old, of St. Louts, Mo., was sentenced to the. state prison for two to fourteen years when he admitted entering St. Mark’s English Lutheran church here and stealing a cornet valued at $75. Terre Haute.—Justice of the Peace Gassowav at Brazil performed a marriage ceremony for Andrew Underwood and Mary Roberts, and a few minutes later Etta Underwood, daughter of the groom, called with Herbert Batchelor and was married to him. < Evansville—Dr. Paul Griffith of Indianapolis. a former local dentist, pleaded guilty in circuit court there to a charge of assault and battery for shooting Henry (Kid) Lemmel, local pugilist, last summer. He was fined S4OO. The jury disagreed when Griffith was tried in October for assault and battery with intent to kill. Vicksburg.—Fire caused a loss of about SB,OOO here when the storage building of the Coal Blast Mining company, the building occupied by Roy Brown's restaurant and J. S. Mitchell's building, in which were the post office and a„restaurant, were virtually destroyed. The fire is believed to have started in Brown’s restaurant. Jasonvilie. — The Holiness congregation of this city has just completed and dedicated a new church on East Main street. Although the population Qf the town is hot more than 4,500 there are eight churches here now, each having a pastor. Buraia rs bro.ke into the Stalcup & Hayes livery barn here and stole a number of automobile tires and hubs. Goshen. When three children

from nine to twelve years old »»i.;r«4n ihi' it Uldiny. the farmhouse of !William Antrlnjfiyer. north of Goshen, burned; to the ground. The children, who were popping corn, were rescued by John Pennington, who saw the fire as he rode by on his bicycle. The parents were ten miles away; attending a funeral: Mrs Catherine Leze of Goodland owned the dwelling. Bedford.—Mrs. W. H. Sitler, wife of the sheriff, was proclaimed a heroine because of her brave act of preventing a general jail delivery After two prisoners charged with automobile theft and forgery&had gained their freedom, during the fumigation hour, Mrs. Sitler grasped a revolver and droee seven others into the cells and locked the doors. Bloodhounds are on the trail of the escaped men Anderson.—Mrs. Addie Rosenfeld, age thirty-three, wife of Harry Rosenfeld, a local factory employee. attempted to commit suicide bv shooting because she was deprived of morphine, to which she had been addicted several months; Mrs. Rosenfeld was at the home of a neighbor when she inflicted a scalp wound on the left side, with a .22-caliber revolver. 'The bullet lodged deep betwee"n the scalp and scull and was not removed. Mrs. Rosenfeld was taken to the county jail for her own protection. About two weeks ago she was in jail a few days when violent from the morphine habit. ’ 1 „ Indianapolis. After devoting 18 years to the study and application of the X-rav and radium in the treatment of cancer and other baffling diseases, Dr. F. M. Eisenbeiss, fifty-two, is dead, a martyr to science Doctor Eisenbeiss, who was born in South Bend, had the first privately owned X-ray machine in Indiana and also possessed the first quantity of radium brought here. He was four times severely burned "While experimenting with his machine, and it is believed that his almost constant devotion to his laboratory and exposure to the influence of radium emanations impaired his health and hastened his death, the immediate cause of which was diabetic gangrene. Warsaw.—lll health, which fol4owed Injuries sustained while blasting stumps with dynamite 1 ten years ago, caused Julius Boss, sixty-five years old. a wealthy retired farmer, to commit suicide. He went to his-garage,-barricaded the door and shot himself, through the heart. He was found in a pool of blood by his wife. Franklin.—Millard Arnold, alias John Dorsey, ,has been arrested on the farm of Vanßyers near here and is to be returned to Rock Castle county, Kentucky, where he is charged with horse stealing. The man has relar lives in this county.