Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1915 — THREE ESCAPE DEATH IN FIRE [ARTICLE]

THREE ESCAPE DEATH IN FIRE

Mother and Two Daughters Flee Flames. * LEAP FROM BURNING HOUSE Two Houses Are Destroyed by Blaze in Town of Summitsviile —Loss Is Estimated to Be About $3,000. Anderson. —In a fire at Summitsviile, in which two houses were destroyed, Mrs. George Pointer and two daughters escaped with their lives only by leaping from a secondstory window. The loss on the Pointer house was $2,000, without insurance. The Dennis Spitzmesser house, adjacent, was destroyed, entailing a loss of SI,OOO, partly covered by insurance. Couple Married 66 Years. Hartford City.— Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Owens of this city recently celebrated their sixty-sixth marriage anniversary. Mr. Owens is nearing his eighty-seventh birthday, and Mrs. Owens is eighty-six years old. “Of all the sixty-six years of our married life pa and I never had a quarrel," Mrs. Owens said during a recent interview. Mr. end Mrs. Owens were married in Randolph county in 1849. Both rode horseback to the church for the ceremony. Their acquaintance began in early childhood. They lived only four miles apart and attended school together. Mrs. Owens is very active and recently made a trip to the southern part of the state unaccompanied.

Victim of Renaud’s Disease; Laporte.—Mrs. Paul Cole of this city is one of the twenty victims of Renaud’s disease in the United States, and has just passed passed through her fifteenth operation. Mrs. Cole's case began with the swelling of the small toe of one foot, then the toes of her other foot began to swell. The physicians then began to operate, in hopes of arresting the progress of the disease, until now both of her feet have been removed above the ankle. It is said that in cases which have been reported, and only twenty are known, the disease progresses until the body frequently becomes almost dismembered, legs and arms being amputated, until death finally results Masonry Inspector Asked. Fort Wayne.—The twelfth annual conference of the Indiana Association of Bricklayers, Masons and Plasterers was held here, with sixtyfive delegates from fifty-three locals present. The conference indorsed the movement to create the office of state' inspector of masonry, the incumbent to be a mason of long experience. Officers were elected as follows: President, Harry D. Kendrick. Port Wayne (fourth time V; vice-president. Charles E. Cosatt. Indianapolis; secretary, Harry Bone. Kokomo (twelfth year); treasurer, Charles E. Blood. Terre Haute. The conference settled seventy-five disputes and appeals. No Trouble at Huntington. Huntington. Although suffrage workers here, who are preparing for the Eleventh District Equal Suffrage league convention, to be held Thursday, are sorry that friction has come to the surface in the state or-. ganizatipn on the eve of the. district meeting, they believe there will be none at the Huntington meeting. Mrs. W. 11. Piatt, district chairman, has expressed herself as an admirer of both Mrs. Clark Fairbank and Mrs. U. O .Cox, and the convention here is expected to avoid any subject that may bring the state board's trouble to the surface. | Body of MissinqMaTPPiii*|*^^ Michigan City.—Week’s search for Carl Moore, 1334 West Madison street. Chicago, ended when his body was found floating in the harbor here. Moore was a steel structural worker in the local plant of the Haskell and Barker Car company. He disappeared the night of Hallowe'en. When last seen he intoxicated. Mrs. Moore of above address had asked the police to institute search for her husband. Meeting Planned for Suffragists. Laporte,- That Indiana woman suffrage leaders have determined to fight developed with the calling of conferences to be held in thirteen congressional districts of the state. Meetings to urge the ballot for women will be planned to be held in every city and town in the state during the next year. Police Chief Goes to Jgil, Goshen.—Before Judge Drake in the circuit court here Edgar J. Vesey. chief of police, pleaded guilty to extortion in the levying and collection of fees in police courts and was fined $25 and costs and sent to Jail for five days. Married After Sixty Years. Hammond. —James Thorington of Romeo, Mich., eighty years old, and Mrs. Ametia Bailey of Lowell, seventy-five, were friends sixty years ago. A quarrel separated them