Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1915 — PLANNING FOR THREE MEETINGS [ARTICLE]

PLANNING FOR THREE MEETINGS

Indiana Post Office Employees to Hold Conventions. PROGRAM NOT ANNOUNCED Sessions Will Open in the City of South Bend on July 4 and Continue Three Days —Large Attendance Expected. South Bend. Arrangements for the entertainment of delegates to the three conventions of Indiana post office employees in. South Bend July 4,: 5 and 6, are under way. The local members of the Indiana Letter Carriers’ association, the Indiana Post Of : flee Clerks’ ■ association, and the Indiana Hural Letter Carriers’ association have named the following officers and committees to serve for the convention: President, W. S. T. Bassett; secretary, Reuben L. Grove; treasurer, John 11. Alward; reception committee, W. E. Livengood, A. J. Heston, William C. Row; entertainment, W. 11. Heinrich, C. W. Stamm, W. S. T. Bassett; arrangements, John 11. Alward, R. L. Grove, J. H. Mishawaka; publicity, M. E. Remley, George A. Auls, W. S. T. Bassett. The program of the convention will be announced soon.

Safeblower Pleads Guilty. Fort Wayne.—The mystery of the robberies of the Rurode and Woolworth stores here recently was cleared tip by a confession made to Chief of Police Lenz by Clarence Strom, who was arrested in Indianapolis. Strom pleaded guilty to a charge of blowing the Rurode safe and was sentenced to two to 'Spurteen years in prison. Chief Lenz departed for Indianapolis to bring back Ray Bowman, who is under arrest there for burglary. Bowman is said to have been an accomplice of Strom. A woman, Mattie Loftus, is in Des Moines, la., and will be apprehended. Strom said that the Woolworth safe, which was blown in the same manner as that in the Rurode store, was robbed by Bowman ; and two brothers named . Williams, ’ who are now in the Ohio state penitentiary for a similar job. A suit is now pending against the city of Fort Wayne for false arrest by an Indiana man who was falsely arrested on the ' charge of blowing the Rurode safe. j Verdict Against Bank Cashier. Jeffersonville.- Att> r being out six hours, the jury that tried the ease of Francis Adams against J. L. Magruder in the Clark circuit court returned a sealed verdict for the plaintiff for s*_’49 and S4O 35 interest. Magruder was cashier of the New .'Washington State bank and was sued > by Adams personally for the sum named, in cash and Cheeks, which was alleged to have been given him on Washington’s birthday in Adams’ : store to 'deposit the next day to the latter’s account at the ■ bank. Apparently the money was lost. Magruder did not deny the transaction, but disputed the . amount, and denied there was $175 cash included in the total and wished Adams to specify what checks were included in the $74 alleged to be in checks, but Adams could not give any particulars as to the checks.

Suicide's Victim Dead. Now Albany.--George Brooks. age sixty-four years, who was shoi in the. head by Richard E. Deputy, age forty; who then committed suicide by sending a bullet through his heart at his home, died at the city hospital. Brooks was not thought to be seriously wounded until just before his death. It was found that he bullet had injured the spinal eord in the neck, where it emerged Brooks was shot in Deputy's saloon, where he was employed as bartender, and he said there was no provocation except that Deputy had been drinking and was quarrelsome. Deputy's wife said he had been despondent on account of illness from Bright’s disease and had threatened self-destruction for several days. Charged With Fraudulent Enlistment. Indianapolis.—Guy Powell, one of the Terre Haute election conspirators Who escaped being sentenced to Leavenworth prison by joining the United States army, is to face a charge of fraudulent enlistment, according to an announcement made public by Capt. Thomas C. Ryan, recruiting officer. Six months’ imprisonment and a dishonorable discharge is the penalty for the offense. An investigation revealed the fact that Powell enlisted under the name “James G. Powell” and failed to tell the recruitihg«officer that he had pleaded guilty to a felony. Grafts From Own Armt Evansville. —"With the aid of nurses at St. Mary’s hospital, Dr. H. M. Gottman of this city grafted skin from his own arm to the back of Mrs. Benjamin Bussman, age sixty-eight. For two years Mrs. Bussman had been suffering from the effects of an X-ray burn, and the physician was unable to get anyone to provide the skin. It required two hours to perform the operation. Doctor Gottman says the :c< 3 for recovery are good. It will - time before Doctor Gottman iatve the free use of his left arm.