Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1915 — AUTO BRAKES FAILED TO WORK [ARTICLE]

AUTO BRAKES FAILED TO WORK

Cartersburg Man Meets With Fatal Accident. KILLED BY PASSENGER TRAIN Frank Selch Is the Second Man to Lose Life at the Same Railroad Crossing Within Two Weeks.

Cartersburg.—Frank Selch, age fiftytwo, of Cartersburg, was killed by a passenger train on the Pennsylvania railroad, when the brakes on his automobile failed to work. Mr. Selch had lived here for some time. This is the second man killed at the same crossing in two weeks. "Mother” Jones Addresses Union Men. Terre Haute. —Accusing her audience of being a “bunch of cowards,” “Mother” Jones, the mine workers’ angel, addressing union men gathered to protest against the life sentence imposed upon John R. Lawson, the Colorado labor leader, declared that if the men were too cowardly to stop the sending of working men to prison the women will have to do IL Mrs. Jones characterized the judiciary of the United States an insult to civilization, and used other fiery language to express her contempt for “corporation-controlled prosecution.” Steal Fifty Tubs of Butter. South Bend.—-Four men stole fifty tubs of butter, valued at S6OO, from the refrigerator car of a Michigan Central freight train. The theft occurred while the train was going thirty miles an hour near Barron lake, northeast of South Bend. The' gang boarded the train at Niles, Mich. Just before Barron lake was reached the men began throwing the tubs from the car. The theft was not found out until the train arrived in Three Rivers, Mich. The Niles police found forty-two tubs along the right-of-way. The thieves had been able to remove only eight tubs before daylight interfered with their operations.

Watson to Address Rally. Indianapolis.—James E. Watson of Rushville will be the speaker at a Republican rally to held at Noblesville Labor day, September 6. The meeting will be one of Hamilton county Republicans and will be held at the Noblesville Chautauqua grounds Announcement of the meeting comes from the Republican headquart r- in the Hotel Severin. E S Philipr s, governor of. Wisconsin, has been invited to make the speech at the Third district love feast, to be hel at West Bad giist 12. Governor Philipps has sent word that on account of the Wisconsin legislature being in session it is uncertain whether he can accept the invitation.

Desired to Be “Bad” Men. Shelbyville. Harry Smith, age and Wesley Smith, age sixteen, wtere taken to the reformatory at Jeffersonville, to begin their sentences of two to fourteen years, given them when they pleaded guilty to the charge of burglary in’ the~secend degree. Indictments were returned against them by the grand jury, which was in session Tlin boys admitted they entered a pawW=hop here a week ago The boys said dime novels and moving pictures were the causes of their trouble. They said they desired to emulate some of the “bad men” they had seen in pictures apd had read about

Woman Dies While Wading in River. Shelbyville.—Mrs. Elizabeth Smith, twenty-eight years old, who came here ten days ago from Peoria, 111., to visit her uncle, Thomas C. Smith, was drowned in the’Tllue river at the Twin Tree club, west of here She was wading with Miss Violet Worden, Mrs. Nora Stretch and others in a picnic crowd, and stepped into a deep hole. The body has not been recovered. Mrs. Smith intended to go to Chicago to live after her visit here. She had been married twice. She is survived by a son, William Lambert, who was recently placed in an orphans’ home in Indianapolis.

400 Bottles of Beer Seized. Rochester.—The second raid on alleged “blind tigers” at Lake Manitou was staged here when Sheriff Coplen and Marshal Havens arrested C. G. Frazee of Marion, charged with selling liquor without a license. Four hundred bottles of beer and two jugs of whisky were seized. Frazee was released on S3OO bond. His trial will not take place until the October term of circuit court. Kokomo men were recently convicted and sent to the penal farm for running a “blind tiger.’’

Killed in Auto Accident. Gary-—Albert Johnson and Joseph Zaleski are dead as the result of auto accidents and Andrew Pasco Is dead from injuries received in an industrial accident. Patrolman Charles Ernest was injured while engaged in rescue work. Joseph Spletich was Injured by a motorcycle, Paul Patrnoc and Daniels Mitchell were stabbed by an unknown man, and Frank Kirkwood was probably fatally injured by accidentally stabbing himself.