Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1915 — FLYER DERAILED NEAR VINCENNES [ARTICLE]

FLYER DERAILED NEAR VINCENNES

Wrecked While Speeding at the Rate of 60 Miles an Hour. : & 1 <&, |; ' . . ' . *§. 'Wjjfc NO PASSENGERS INJURED One Hundred Yards of Track Torn Up and Empty Coach Overturned —Track Repaired After Eight • Hours. Vincennes. Speeding southward at the rate of 60 miles an hour, the Chicago-Nashville C. & E. I. flyer was derailed two miles south of Vincennes. One hundred yards of track was torn up, six coaches bumped along the ties and an empty coach turned over. Not a passenger was hurt and after eight hours of hard work the track was repaired. The C. & E. I. train was detoured over the Big Four to Mount Carmel, 111., thence to Princeton over the Southern. Quarantine is Violated. Jeffersonville. While w r atchmen appointed by Sheriff Isaac G. Phipps are stationed at the ferry crossing here to prevent the importation of live stock or other forbidden commodities from Kentucky, the quarantine is being almost daily violated, according to Sheriff Phipps, by shipments over interurban and steam roads. He has received tags showing numerous shipments of onions, etc., in sacks (which are forbidden) to the eastern part of the county, having been sent out over the Baltimore & Ohio through New Albany. He has been instructed not to place watchmen at the interurban express depot or steam roads because they are supposed to be guarded on the Louisville side of the river. A number of calves were sent to the western part of the county through New Albany, but that road bridge is now being guarded. Oil Supervisor Makes Appointments. Indianapolis. Among the 27 new deputy inspectors appointed by State Supervisor of-Oil John O. Behymer in the reorganization of his staff are James Croniij, Hartford City; John Reilly, Logansport; William A. Hatfield, Richmond; George L. Saund ers, Bluffton; David M. Murphy, Marion; Fred L. Feick, Garrett; William Hangley, Cambridge City; Verl Myers, Newcastle; Adam H. Felker, Lebanon; J. H. Jenkins, Peru; George Goetz, South Bend, and Glen B. Ralston, Indianapolis. The latter is a nephew of the governor. There were about one thousand applicants for the “pl#ms,” 15 of which were vacancies and the others added positions. Thirty-one of the old staff were re-appointed, including Fred A. Palmer of Elkhart and Edward Bresnahan, Fort Wayne. Tablets 4,400 Years Old Bought. Earlham. Dr. Allen D. Hole, curator of the Joseph Moore museum at Earlham college, has purchased for the museum a number of ancient Babylonian tablets. The largest is about four inches square. Some of the tablets date as far back as 2500 B. C., most of them having been found near the old city of Babylon. Translations have revealed that they are receipts, contracts, temple records and the like. One of them bears a long list of names of animals used in some sort of business transaction, and another bears the name of Nebuchadnezzar, and is dated in the twenty-second year of his reign. Still another bears the name of Nabonidus, the last of the Semitic kings of Babylon. The tablets will soon be placed on display in the museum.

Freight Cars Go in Ditch. Grieencastle. Southbound extra Monon freight. No. 504, was wrecked at the Limedale junction. Eight cars went into the ditch wheil the train was heading through the passing track. The wrecked cars blocked the main line of the Vandalia and Monon for about four hours, causing some of the through Vandalia trains to be detoured around the wreck. The wrecker from Bloomington was called out to clear the tracks; No one’'was injured. ■' i : Interest in R. E. Lee Highway. Bedford. —The proposed Robert E. Lee highway, from Chicago to Miami, Fla., is ; causing much interest among leading citizens of Bedford. At the meeting gt French Lick this city was represented by J. D. Martin of the Merchants’, association, W. E. Clark of the Industrial association, Mayor Albert J. Field and a number of the stone operators, who were in the line of “boosters” for Bedford to be one of the cities on the route to he selected. • > ’ Man Stabbed Four Times. Vincennes.—Bob Conners, age fifty, was stabbed in the back four times by John »Combs. Conners’ wounds are thought to be serious. Both men are employed on the W- H. Brevoort farms, Conners being foreman. It is thought an ill feeling has [ been existing for some time between the two men. Both are married and have families. Combs used a barlow knife in stabbing Conners and drove the knife to the hilt three times. Combs asserts he was defending himself. :