Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1915 — State Happenings [ARTICLE]

State Happenings

Marion.—The seventy-sixth annual convention of the Christian churches of Indiana opened at the First Christian church in this city. Officers of the State Ministerial association were elected as follows: President, Rev. Clay Trusty, Indianapolis; vice-president, Rev. W. H. Newlin, Noblesville; secretary-treas-urer, Rev. Rollin A. Bennett, Marion; executive committee, Revs. S. E. Murray, Richmond; O. E. Tomes, Fort Wayne, and Charles Filmore, Indianapolis. Three papers read were: “Modern Biblical Scholarship and the Ministry,” by .Prof. W. C. Morro, Indianapolis; “The Social Gospel," by Rev. David H. Shields, Kokomo, and “Young Men and the Ministry,” by Rev. Clay Trusty, Indianapolis. Hammond. —After an all-night vigil the Hammond police arrested George Nowracaj, “ten telephone poles south” from Ivan Krapac’s saloon in East Hammond, where Kra ; pac, according to instructions In a Black Hand letter, was to lay a package containing a SIOO bill. Krapac In the last month had received several letters and, with the aid of the police, laid a trap. Nowracaj came along at daybreak, sat down beside the telephone pole and, after tying his shoestrings, slipped the letter with the marked bills into his pocket. He says he was an innocent finder, but the police are holding him for further investigation. He was employed as a section hand. Terre Haute.—Life imprisonment was the jury’s verdict . in the case of Frank Torricelli, who was found guilty of murdering a policeman at .Linton when he was caught robbing a house. The police of Linton and other cities in this part of the state also suspected Torricelli of having dynamited the homes of several Italians who refused to comply with Black Hand demands. Lafayette.—William Shorr, sixtytwo years old, at one time owner qf a large store at Boswell and for many years in the livery business "In this city, was found dead in a local hotel. A gas jet was open and Shorr had been dead for several hours. Shorr, in the last few months, had suffered business reverses and the coroner is of the opinion that he committed suicide.

Attica. —Fremont McClure, the ten-year-old son of George McClure, a farmer, was caught under a log which he dislodged, and crushed to death when hunting rabbits near his home. He was alone at the time, and his older brother was attracted to the scene some time later by the barking of the boy’s pet dog, which refused to leave its master until help came. Terre Haute. —The will of Mrs. Catherine Eads of Paris, 111., gives $5,000 to the Edgar County Children’s home. $1,500 to the Episcopate of the diocese of Springfield, Ill.; SSOO to Rev. Mr. Rochsrath of Danville, minor bequests to servants, remainder of large estate to several sisters and one brother. -. Hammond. —Indiana has no pride in announcing that within her borderi Uves We meanest burgiar in fexlsiOnce. In his at Greenfield he stole the shroud eighty-year-old Mrs. Elizabeth Hendrickson had prepared for her burial. Recently the store of John Morrison, a blind man, was robbed there. Hammond. —With wives in Buffalo, Cleveland and Whiting, Harry Joyce is under arrest in Whiting on a charge of -bigamy. Cleveland police with extradition papers arrived for him. Joyce is employed at the Standard Oil plant.

Terre Haute.—Mrs. Mary Settele, seventy-four, who came here from Boston, Mass., to attend tlffe funeral of her brother, died suddenly. Her brother, Nicholas Fllbeck, sev-enty-two, had been a Republican leader in Indianapolis for many years. Terre Haute. —Mrs. W. O. Patton, many years a teacher in the city schools, was killed by an automobile driven by Thomas Johnson, who is an official of a local distilling company. He is in jail charged with manslaughter. Plymouth.—Henry Reinhart, seven-ty-five, a wealthy farmer of Marshall county, drove to the home of Henry Nash, a neighbor, went into the barn and hanged himself. He had been despondent on account of ill health. . Chrisney.—Cracksmen, thought to have been professionals, blew open the post office safe here, obtaining about $1,500 in stamps and SIOO in money. The robbers escaped. Boonville. —Alvah Lockyear, a mall carrier out of Boonville for several years, was adjudged insane and taken to Wookmere. Indianapolis,— David M. Parry, president of the National Manufacturers’ association, died at his home here of uraemic poisoning. He had been engaged in the manufacture of carriages and automobiles and later was president of an insurance company. He was sixty-three years old. Indianapolis.—Palestine Smith, serving two to fourteen years •in prison for forgery in Grant county, was paroled by Governor Ralston. It is understood that Smith, who claimed his alleged forgery consisted of in*' dorsing a bad check, has been promised a position at Marion.