Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1915 — INDIANA BREVITIES [ARTICLE]

INDIANA BREVITIES

Marion. —Six special game wardens have been appointed to put a stop to the violations of the fish and game laws in this county. Nashville. —John Bowden, nine-year-old son of James Bowden, a farmer, was kicked on the head by a horse and was instantly killed. The boy and his sister were riding the horses to water, when they began kicking. The boy fell off backward. ___ Lawrenceburg.—For forty-two years conductors and brakemen on accommodation trains have called out “Cold Spring’ as they neared a picturesque hamlet on the B. & O. Southwestern, sixteen miles west of this city. Now Cold Spring has been ruthlessly blotted off the railroad map. Richmond. —clarence Druley, farmer near Kitchel, was run down and instantly killed by his team. Druley was unloading gravel from a railway car at Kitchel when his team became frightened at a passing engine. Druley seized their bridles in an effort to fluitt them. He was trampled under foot.

Sullivan. —An infant child of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Hoseman went into the yard while its mother was at work in the kitchen. Th 6 mother heard the child scream and rushed out of the house to find it covered with bees. r he child was stung in more than fifty places about its face and body. It will recover. Newcastle.—The case against J. Leb Watkins, mayor of Newcastle, charged with malconduct in office, has been set for June 3. Motions to quash the indictments were overruled. They were made on the ground that the indictments charged no crime in Henry county, but alleged only that Watkins “agreed” to shield Ollie Skinner, a gambler. Washington. Glenn McCrosson, who was arrested several days ago in Troy, 0., on a charge of assault and battery with intent to commit a felony, growing out of the robbing of Harry Clements, a local pool room proprietor, entered a plea of guilty to a grand larceny charge and was sentenced to from one to eight years in the state reformatory. Elwood. —Saying he regretted seeding a seventeen-year-old boy to prison, but could see no other course open to him, Judge Ellis has denied the petition for a new trial for Elmer Bogue of this city, recently convicted of arson. The judge sentenced the boy to the state reformatory for two to fourteen years, but granted him sixty days in jvhich to file an appeal. Frankfort. —Clarence Hufford, nineteeri years old, an employee of the Schlosser Creamery here, was found crushed to death in the elevator shaft of the plant. He was employed as an operator on the electric elevator and became entangled in weighted cables in the shaft. He was carried to the third floor of the building, where he was crushed between the shaft and the elevator.

Valparaiso.—The mutilated body of an unidentified man found on the Lake Shore railroad right of way at Chesterton indicates a possible murder mystery. A fractured skull is taken to indicate that the man was robbed and murdered and the body thrown on the track. The victim apparently was forty-five years old. His pockets appeared to have been rifled and gave no clue to the man’s identity.

Indianapolis.—-A resolution pledging support of President Wilson and any course he may pursue in the European war crisis was forwarded to Washington by the board of directors of the Indianapolis chamber of commerce. “We recognize in our president the one authorized to speak in behalf of the United States,’’ the resolution says, “and we have full faith in his integrity, wisdom and patriotism.” Goshen. —Declaring that the liquor laws must be enforced to the letter, following the going out of eleven saloons here July 31, as the result of the local option election May 3, Mayor Spohn has announced that starting June 1 he will hold city court each day at a stated time. The Federated Bible Classes of the city will aid in strict enforcement of the laws. Warning has been given druggists, and several of them have announced they will not sell liquor in any quantities. Aurora. —James B. Cox, chief of police, arrested Harrison B. Smalley, age nineteen, a farm laborer bo lives in Hogan township, on a trge of kidnaping the nineteen-

onths-old son of Mr. and Mrs. James M. Van Steiner, farmers living near Hogan Creek. It is alleged that Smalley, who was employed by Van Steiner, took the baby from its crib and carried it down the creek nearly three miles and hid it in the trunk of a large sycamore tree, covering it with twigs and leaves. The baby was found after six hours’ search by a posse of farmers. South Bend. —Four hundred members of the Ancient Order of Gleaners from all parts of the state attended the Indiana rally here. Michigan was also represented by a delegation of fifty. Among the prominent officials of the order present were H. G. Slocum, supreme secretary, Detroit, Mich.; F. C. Goodyear, supreme counsel, St. Louis, Mich.; E. J. McClain, manager clearing house, Detroit, Mich. The address of welcome was delivered by Mayor Fred W. Keller. Work of the order was conferred on a class of 100 candidates by tho two arbors of St. Joseph county.