Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1915 — HOOSIER NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD [ARTICLE]

HOOSIER NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD

Brazil. —The body of Harry Beatty, eleven-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Harrison Beatty of Coalmont, has been recovered from Eel river after two 'days’ search. Lawrenceburg.—Red Men’s hall was crowded at the district convention of i the Daughters of America. Lawrenceburg. Aurora and Rising Sun comprise the district. Gary.—The Gary police believe they . have a Black Hand mystery on i their hands as the result of the murj der of Charles Garger, twenty-flve years old, who died shortly after being shot in the head. Garger refused to make a statement before he died. Joe Venturino was arrested as a suspect. Rockport. Alonzo Deeds, who killed Edward Reel six years ago, was given sentence of life imprisonment, the jury having returned a verdict of second degree murder. It is said that both men were intoxicated when their long standing quarrel came to a climax. Indianapolis.—Governor Ralston appointed R. Voorhees Newton of Terre Haute to be judge of the city court of that city, to succeed Thomas Smith, who is serving a term in Leavenworth penitentiary for participation in the Terre Haute election conspiracy. New Albany.—Miss Susie B. Dowerman and Miss Marie J. Beaucond have filed suit for $227.30 each against William F. Ruoff, former county clerk, alleging that they were employed by him to index names of plaintiffs and defendants in the civil court records from 1898 to the present time, and that tjiey are entitled to half the price by which Ruoff was employed by the county commissioners to do the work. Gas City.—Fifty boys who have tended machines at the plant of the Illinois Glass company here went on strike because 15 of their number were discharged. They have worked 40 minutes and rested 20 minutes, the relief being given because of the extreme heat, but a new schedule provided for an hour and 20 minutes’ work without a rest, requiring the work of only $5 boys. Columbus.—At an annual Bartholomew county Sunday school convention held at Clifford for two days the following officers were elected: President, Pennington Newsom, Elizabethtown; vice-president, Charles F. McCalla, Newbern; secretary-treasurer, Mrs. Daisy Elliott, Grammar; assistant secretary, Miss Grace Ropp, Hope. It was decided to hold the next meeting at New Hope next fall. Bloomington.—Jack Stevens of Sanders was sentenced to ten to twenty years in the State prison for robbery and burglary. Stevens stole a horse and buggy from Jap Hainey at Harrodsburg, drove the rig to Harrodsburg and stole it. Before his departure from Sands he broke into the William Mercer general store and stole a revolver and several other articles. When Sheriff Walter Jones attempted to arrest Stevens the latter drew the revolver and would not submit until after a fight. Laporte.—Ruth Welsh, age seventeen, was fatally injured and Raymond Gangwer, Norman Kassbaum and Miss Brockett were badly cut and bruised when the rear tire of an auto in which they were pleasure riding collapsed. The driver of the car lost all control and the machine twice turned turtle. Miss Welsh was caught in the wreckage of the car. Both of her legs were broken and one arm fractured in addition to a compound fracture at the base of the skull.

Boonville. Deeds was placed on trial in the Spencer circuit court charged with killing Edward Rell the county when charged with murder. He traveled over all the northwestern states, displaying his caution by remaining only a short time at each place. Gradually Deeds worked back toward Indiana. He stopped on his way with relatives in Illinois, and was recognized, arrested and brought back for trial. Deed s plea is self-defense. The men had trouble before the day of the killing. The killing occurred when the men were riding in the same wagon with friends. A special venire of thirty men was drawn for the jury. Columbus. —Officials of the Bartholomew County Fishing and Hunting club have been notified by B. W. Downing, superintendent of a govi ernmeht fish hatchery at Put-in-Bay. 0., that 2,000,000 pike perch eggs will be sent here between May 1 and 5. He asks the club officers to be ready to take charge of the consignment when it arrives. White river is lower at this point than it ever has been at this time of year, old residents declare. The stream is almost as low as it was in the late summer of 1914. The water is so clear fishermen say the fish “see them first,’’ and as a result only few are being caught. Danville.—Lyther G. Butler, who was arrested here on a charge of attempting to vote illegally in the municipal election, entered a plea of guilty in the county court and was sentenced to six months in jail by Judge Allen. Butler came here a short time ago from Birmingham, Ala., I and tried to vote under another man’s name. The election judges called the police and he was arrested. William Hamm, who is charged with being a “repeater,” and who was released on bond, has disappeared, and the sheriff is seeking him. Other arrests may follow, it is said.