Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1915 — STATE NEWS IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

STATE NEWS IN BRIEF

Peru.—Henry Holstein, sixty years old, a wealthy farmer, committed suicide by shooting. He is believed to have been insane. Columbus.—. Jesse Rouse* town clerk of Clifford and former marshal of the town, was elected county attendance officer by the Bartholomew county board of education. Valparaiso.—Rev. Walter Williamson has resigned the pastorate of St. Andrew's Episcopal church here and will engage in settlement work in New York city. Brookville.—The county commissioners have granted a petition of the drys for a local option election in Laurel township and set May 25 for the vote. There are three saloons in Laurel. ; . < Fort Wayne.—Fred Doenges, a ma--c-hinist’s-helper-^in—tlie, .Wabash shops, who was badly scalded when he fell into a vat of boiling water and lye, died at St. Joseph's hospital. He was conscious a large part of the time until his death. < ? New Albany.—George Brooks, who was shot by Richard E. Deputy at the latter’s saloon at 29 West First street, jufet before Deputy committed suicide by shooting himself, died in St. Edward's hospital. At first it was believed that Brooks was not dangerously wounded.

Shelbyville—Because of injuries suffered in a fall when ah iron grating, spanning a gutter, tilted with him, William Simmons, a carpenter, has sued the city for $3,000. He alleges an injury to his head caused an abscess that made him deaf'and subject tc dizzy spells so he can no longer work at his trade. Terre Haute. - It is learned that the wife of Mayor Donn Roberts, accompanied by Frank Fippen, an attorney, left for Leavenworth to try to obtain Roberts’ release from prison on a writ of habeas corpus based on the allegation that Judge Anderson, who sentenced him, had fixed a prohibitive amount of bail pending an appeal. Frankfort. —William McCoy, found guilty of manslaughter for the killing of John Byerly, appeared in court and declined to ask for a new' trial, telling the court that he had had a fair trial and that he was satisfied with the verdict. Judge Combs sentenced him to the state prison at Michigan City for from two to twentyone years, and he will be taken there. Lafayette.—-Walter Kissick, twentytwo years old, a farmer living near Shadeland, was kicked oh the head by a horse and was probably fatally injured. The front part of his head was crushed. The injured man was brought to a local hospital.