Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1915 — HOOSIER NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD [ARTICLE]

HOOSIER NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD

Brookville.—Joseph Kuntz, a farmer, living about five miles west of here, was kicked by a mui and instantly killed. Indianapolis.—O. O. Tucker of the Cates Marble team of Indianapolis Commercial Bowling league was hailed as the champion bowler of Indiana for having made the perfect score of 30b in a regularly scheduled match. Tucker'3 feat entitles him to a gold medal from the American bowling congress. Indianapolis.—Wanted in Wichita, Kan., for the robbery and assault on Mrs. Cora Wheeler, Arthur Hauser, alias “Buck” Weaver, who confessed to a series of local holdups involving loot aggregating $2,000, was arrested. South Bend. —Health officers of the Thirteenth district will meet here November 17 to discuss Indiana health laws and bring about a higher state of sanitation in the district. Besides the officials, it is expected that not less than one hundred physicians and undertakers will be present. Huntington.—Sentences were pronounced, two days after capture, on automobile and clever seed thieves as follows: Henry L. Watt, twenty-two years old, one to fourteen years; William O. Overstreet, nineteen, one to eight years; Robert Aker, twenty-seven, one to eight years in the state reformatory. Wabash. Mrs. Francis Hinkle, sixty years old, an extensive land owner, Is occupying a cell In the county Jail at her own request, declaring that such protection is necessary. Mrs. Hinkle will remain in her cell until Tuesday, when her daughter-in-law, a tenant on one of her farms, will move from the state. Laporte.—Northern Indiana racetrack owners have been invited to attend a meeting to be held at Grand Rapids early in December to organize a racing circuit, to be composed of the principal cities in Michigan and Kendallville, Goshen, South Bend, La Porte, Valparaiso, Rochester and Crown Point in Indiana. South Bend. —County agents are closely watching farms along the border of St. Joseph and Laporte counties, following the discovery of a strange disease, believed by veterinarians to be typhoid fever, but having a resemblance to cholera, In Thomas Jackson’s herd of 200 Poland China hogs, near here. Anderson. About 200 delegates from Delaware, Henry, Tipton, Miami, Hamilton and Madison counties attended the second annual district convention of the Royal Neighbors here. The principal speakers were Miss Fannie Voitz of Indianapolis, state auditor of the order, and Mrs. Rex Winkle of Terre Haute, deputy supervisor of the state organization. Tipton.—Because of lack of evidence, Mrs. Viola Allen Baugh was freed in circuit court on a charge of complicity in the murder of Walter Varner of Greenfield last July, on the motion of Prosecuting Attorney Clinton Brown and C. W. Mount, his assistant. Mrs. Albert Robinson is still in jail, charged with murder, but it is reported she, too, may be acquitted.

Logansport.—.Mrs. Ella Brockman, fifty years old, was found unconscious on the floor of her home here by her nephew and is believed to have been attacked by an unidentified man while asleep. She was gagged with a handkerchief and bound hand and foot. She is in a critical condition. Her nephew, George Long, says he has no idea what the motive of the assailant was. - Hammond. Two minutes before Riley Lane, the oldest business man in Petersburg, died, watchers at heard a noise at the door, and when it was opened in walked Mr. Lane’s old horse, Dobbins, which stood at the bedside of its master until led away by friends. How the horse got out of the stable and to the house no one knows. Baltimore.--Gen. Clinton L. Riggs of this city, a member of the Philippine commission and secretary of commerce and police, announced that he had.resigned his post and that his resignation had been accepted by the president General Riggs said that he took this step because he “found it impossible to submit my views and actions to the apparent wishes of the administration, as expressed by the governor general.” Fort Wayne.—Ten persons were injured, five seriously, when two heavily loaded jitney busses crashed into each other here. The busses were loaded with passengers on their way to work in factories. Charlotte Doenges, Fred Bickness, William Firke and Sophie and Mary Huesner were taken to hospitals, where it is expected they will recover. Scores of jitney busses have been in operation ; during the street railway strike here. Terre William Huffman, convicted of participation in the election crookedness in connection with the muriicipal election here in November, 19\3, was taken to Michigan City by Jack Beattie, a member of the police force, and a deputy sheriff. Beattie is an old friend of Huffman’s, and it was at the request of the latter that he accompanied Huffman to prison. Greenwood.—Rev. H. Randal Dookabill, pastor of the Christian church here during the last four years, has tendered his resignation. He intends to take up evangelistic work.