Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1915 — INDIANA BREVITIES [ARTICLE]

INDIANA BREVITIES

Fort Wayne.—Dr. Lydia Allen De- ; Vilviss of this city departed for | Topeka, Kan., where she will take charge of the division of child hygiene of the Kansas state department of health. She is the first woman to be placed in charge of this division of the Kansas health department’s work. Princeton.—Henry Barnes, age j eight, was found in the Herriott Car- ! rithers hardware store. He was taken to the city hall for arraignment and many persons gathered about. A doctor observed Henry had a welldeveloped case of smallpox, and the boy was sent home. Several officers are quarantined and the hardware store and city hall are undergoing fumigation. Indianapolis. After a desperate battle with a policeman and two other men, George Roche, twenty-eight, alias George Thomas, of Kankakee, 111., was arrested and charged with having robbed Miss Olga Weilasher in the office of the C. & A. Potts mill machinery plant of six dollars and ! some jewelry in her handbag. At poi lice headquarters Roche said he was out of work and had to attempt robbery, Logansport.—The Epworth league of the Logansport district in its convention at the Anoka M. E. church elected the following officers: President, Rev. Leroy Meyers, Goldsmith; vice-president, D. O. Miner, Amboy; Bertha Richerick, Windfall; Esther Kenedy, Macy; Mabel Miller, Peru; i secretary, Marion Trittschdh, Tipton; treasurer, Lloyd Stough, Kokomo; superintendent Junior league, Marie Powlen, Logansport The 1916 convention was voted to Tipton. Hammond.—When a bolt on the steering gear of a maclrine driven by I George M. Bendell, 7943 Constance ; avenue, South Chicago, stripped its | threads as Bendell was turning out to I let another car pass near Cedar lake, , the car skidded over an embankment. Mr. and Mrs. Bendell and his father and mother were hurled over the wind shield and hood 20 feet away. Fred i Bendell, a son, was thrown through the wind shield. None of the victims will die though all were badly hurt and taken to their homes by train. Gary.—William Wirth has been re- | elected superintendent of the Gary schools for two years at a salary of ; $6,000 with the privilege of giving part j of his time to the New York schools. The Rockefeller foundation educational department will conduct a survey of the public schools and the city of Gary in the fall. Abraham Flexner, i secretary of the foundation, recently ! visited the city. The survey will be | made at the instance of the school j board. { Lafayette.—An inquest to determine the mental condition of Mrs. John Parent, known in the circus world as “Mammoth Amelia,” was held here and the finding of the physicians was that she was a person of unsound mind. The papers asked for admis- ! sion to the Central Hospital for the Insane at Indianapolis. She weighs 490 pounds, She arrived at her home here Wednesday from lowa (in a dazed condition, being unable to answer questions asked her in regard to her destination She was sent home by the manager of a circus, bearing a tag directing train conductors to take her to Lafayette. South Bend. —Unable to obtain work, and unwilling to return to a career of crime, John Meri, a former convict, who a short time ago completed a sentence of three years for robbery, is going back to Michigan City prison. He walked into the office of Capt. G. L. Bunker of the police department and asked to be taken back to Warden Fogarty. “I can’t get work,” he said, “and I must eat. Take me back to Warden Fogarty. If you don’t I’ll have to return to the bad.” Assured that the police could not return him to prison because he had served his time, Meri admitted a robbery at Whiting several years ago. He was locked up and will be turned over to the Whiting authorities. Laporte.—That the recluse so long known in Elkhart as John Gordon was in fact Jonathan Dustman of Mahoning county, Ohio, developed when Attorney C. Raymer was appointed administrator of his estate, the latter being principally represented by a library of more than 2,000 very valuable volumes. Facts as to the man’s real name had fiever been known, Gordon living In Elkhart where he was a devoted churchman with his lips sealed as to his past. He lived alone, sought no companions, giving all his time to reading. It has developed that Dustman became a recluse leaving Youngstown nearly twenty-five years ago when he was Jilted by a young woman to whom he was engaged. He then vowed he would only live for self and going to Elkhart he changed his name and buried his idenity. Chrisney.—Orval Masters, nineteen years old, gave his life to save John White, a boy, from drowning while they were bathing in a large pond near here. Masters took the boy to shore and then fell back into the water exhausted. Evansville. Webster Cline, age twenty, was found unconscious in the dark room of "Wallace’s studio where he was employed. When physicians arrived he was dead. The young man locked himself in the dark room and near his side was a half emptied bottle of ammonia. Coroner Neal Kerney thinks Cline committed suicide.