Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1916 — STATE NEWS IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

STATE NEWS IN BRIEF

Frankfort.—More than 600 teachers attended the meeting of the Ninth District Teachers’ association here. Kokomo was selected as the meeting place for next year. Greensburg.—Mrs. Samuel Jackson, wife of a farmer and stock raiser near Kingston, suffered a broken ankle when alighting from a buggy. Gosport.—Stones sliding on the Monon track in Kelley’s cut derailed five cars of coal and did considerable damage. Passenger and mail trains were detoured. V Indianapolis.—lvan Long of Beech Grove died in the city hospital from Injuries received when a Pennsylvania passenger train struck the buggy in' which he was riding. Hammond. - The $25,000 nysol plant at Aetna was destroyed by fire due to spontaneous combustion. Nysol product is a chemical used to prevent explosives from freezing. Terre Haute. —Mrs. Rhoda McQuillan had her son Burt, thirty-three, an armless cripple, arrested, charging he forged checks with her name by holding the pen in his teeth. Elkhart.—Roy Carpenter, fourteen-year-old son of A. B. Carpenter, was perhaps fatally injured when he fell under a freight train while trying to board a car. Indianapolis.—Henry Clay Tinney, Civil war veteran, probably one of the best known in Indiana, died suddenly at his home here of heart disease. He was seventy-seven years old. , Lafayette.—John Scott, contractor of Talbot, was killed when the buggy which he was riding in was struck by a Lake Erie and Western train near his home. The body was thrown a distance of 200 feet. Marlon. —During a family quarrel Mrs. Floyd Crawford thrust a revolver into the left eye of her husband, but the trigger failed to work. He may lose his eyesight, though. Fort Wayne.—Albert Smith, twentysix years old, who smashed the display window in a jewelry store, grasped a tray of rings and fled, was sentenced to the Indiana reformatory for two to fourteen years. Goshen. —Laura White, superintendent of the Goshen hospital, has resigned to go to California, in the hope of improving her health. Mrs. Georgia Boomer, assistant superintendent, will fill the vacancy. Terre Haute. —John Dowdy, thirtyfour, employed by a local packing company, was filled when his coat caught in a flywheel and his body was dashed to pieces. He leaves a wife and five small children. Mitchell. —When a fire drill was held at the South Side school building, 349 pupils left the building in one minute and five seconds. The North Side school building was emptied in one minute and ten seconds. Rochester. —Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Hoover, the former eightyfive and the latter eighty, Sunday celebrated their golden wedding anniversary here.’ They have always lived in Rochester and have many descendant's. Valparaiso.—Mrs. Pauline Gooley, one hundred years old last December, died here Monday night. She recently survived an attack of the grippe. She was born at Montreal, and came here 60 years ago. Indianapolis.—Police are looking for a bold robber who used a brick in smashing the window of the Philip Pelz hardware store, where he obtained a quantity of rings and two revolvers.

Garrett. —As Mrs. John Mitchell, fifty-four, passed the Baltimore & Ohio railroad yards she inhaled gas escaping from a locomotive and died in a few minutes after reaching home. Vincennes. —The body of Oliver Hazleton, fireman, who lost his life when a Big Four train crashed through the Wabash trestle here ten days ago, was found two hundred feet from the engine. Indianapolis.—'When E. E. Stillaj bower, local merchant, awoke Tuesday morning grasshoppers were hopping about the room. Last fall Stillabower dug up a plant and brought it inside for the winter, and the grasshoppers were hatched on it. Peru. —Henry Bishop and D. D. Slabaugh, the Clay township Amish fanners who objected to the law compelling them to send their children to school, and who refused to pay the fines assessed against them for violating it, finally decided to pay the fines and abide by the law. Delphi.—The Delphi Chautauqua association hps elected the following officers: President, W. S. Margo wski; vice-president, Judge J. P. Wason; secretary, Rev. Ray Heritage; treasurer, George O. Cartwright The association will manage Delphi’s first independent Chautauqua this coming summer. ' . * Fowler. —B. B. Barry, judge of the Benton circuit court, has decided in favor of the trustee and- advisory board of Gibson township in an Injunction suit filed by taxpayers of the township who opposed an expenditure of $30,000 for a new high school building at Gilboa Center. The state superintendent of public Instruction had informed the trustee that unless the necessary improvements were made he would have to revoke the certificate of the high school. Fort Wayne.—Fire which destroyed the storage house belonging to William Evert burned 7,000 bushels of onions.