Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1915 — HERE THERE and EVERYWHERE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HERE THERE and EVERYWHERE

Brook is considering the putting in of a waterworks system similar to the systems recently installed at Goodland and Wolcott. Such a plant is now being put in at Morocco. Great wealth has its disadvantages. The Republicans novV want to hominate Henry Ford for vice-presi-dent. The vice-president, you know, on the Republican ticket, is supposed to furnish the “barl.” Charles Lawson of Lafayette, who is said to have fired the shot that killed Nightwatchman Scallon at Delphi several weeks ago, has been arrested at Sinton, Texas, and the officers have gone there to bring him to Delphi. Former President of Mexico, Purfirio Diaz, died in Paris, France, last Friday, where he had been an exile for the past four years, following the Madero Insurrection. Diaz ruled Mexico with an iron hand for 34 years, and gave that country Its most noted staple government. His age Y’as 85 years.

In a semi-annual report from the office of the secretary of state on the operation of y the automobile licensing department, it was shown that the total number of licenses issued for the first six months of this year was 81,608, representing a gain of 26,608 licenses over the same period last year. The flgurfe also represents a gain of 15,108 over the entire total for 1914. The total receipts of the department for the first six months of this year were $535,049.

J. P. Morgan was dangerously wounded Saturday morning by shots from a revolver in the hands of Frank Holt, a crazy crank German professor of Cornell University, who entered his country home at Glen Cove, N. Y., while the family was at the breakfast table. Holt placed a dynamite bomb in the public reception room on the senate side of the national capitol Friday night, the explosion of which done quite a little damage to the room, but did not injure the building outside* of this.

F. W.. Brandt, a retired manufacturer of Indianapolis, aged 60 years, w r as crushed to death against the steering wheel of his auto at Donaldsonville, seven miles north of Plymouth, Sunday morning, when the machine went into t>he ditch. Brandt was accompanied by his son-in-law, Harold Tolles, and his two daughters. They left Indianapolis Saturday on an extensive tour of the Great Lakes. The accident was caused from his turning out to avoid a deep mudpuddle. The car skidded and went into the ditch. Nonu of the occupants were thrown out, but Brandt was crushed to death by the steering wheel, while Tolles’ ear was nearly severed. The women escaped with a few bruises.