Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1916 — CHILDREN'S HONE NEAR DESTRUCTION [ARTICLE]

CHILDREN'S HONE NEAR DESTRUCTION

Flames Attack Indianapolis Refuge for Homeless Tots. RESCUE BABIES FROM FLAMES Tots Are Safely Thrown From SecondStory Window of Boarding House at Indianapolis—Nurses Jump to Safety. : Indianapolis.—Six- babies and one Tour-year-old boy were dropped from thb second-story window of the baby boarding house on North Capitol avenue, when the lower floor caught fire. The babies were caught safely, and two woman nurses, Miss Bessie Finerty and, Mrs. Marie Cade, jumped to safety. Two other nurses, Miss Hope Gauntt and Mrs. Florence Bitts climbed to the roof and were rescued by firemen. Miss May Gresh, who arrived at the scene of the fire first, caught the babies one by one as they were dropped from the windows by the nurses. The house was almost destroyed. The fire Is thought to have started from a defective furnace.

Aid the Temperance Forces. Fort Wayne.—The Fort Wayne Licensed Liquor Dealers’ association bought for cash two saloons and closed the doors. The saloons were situated in a ward where a blanket remonstrance has been in circulation, and one of them was the direct cause of the remonstrance move by the temperance forces. The liquor dealers say they will remove still other daloons by the purchase method in ordlr to aid in the “clean up" campaign in progress here. / Mrs. McDonald’s Will. /Indianapolis.—ln the will of the late Jfosephlne F. McDonald, widow of /he late Joseph E. McDonald, for- ’ mer United Stater senator, the Flower mission, Home for Aged Women and the Second Presbyterian church each receives SI,OOO. She left her library to the Y. W. C. A and S4OO to the Summer mission for the erection of a cottage at Fairview Park. Ballplayer's Body Found. Sullivan.—The body < f Isaac Durrett, forty, former ballplayer, was found near Graysville. On the night of February 2, during the ticod stage of the Wabash river, Durrett started to cross the river in a rowboat. It was the last seen of him. The boat was found near the body and Durrett’s cap was in the bottom of Depauw Students Suspended, Greencastle.- F. r participatiot. in a ' dance not sanctioned by the i school authorities, unehnpervin d, 50 Depauw university students wended their way homeward for a week’s \ a cation, with a note to their parents, explaining. The dance was given in ; one of the frat houses The action was taken by President Grose. • Vorhis’ Home Opened. Winchester—The N; ttie K. Vorhis ’"Tldme for ),:• d \\ on . c wis' opened Tuesday. Mrs. Vorhis. wh> contributed $56,000 for: Hie .construe- ! tion of the building herself, occupier. , two rooms and private bath in a sunny ( corner. The building resembles a country mansion more than a charita ble institution.

Mangled by a Train. Indi-polis.—F.du'aritmith, forty-: s&ver, lull f>r huur- alMig the Menon tracks, with hi - 'right fort crushed ff and .';cver';y bruised about the body. At St. Vincent's hospital it was said he had little chance to recover He was hit by 3 train, but the crew did not see him. Red Eagle Has Son. Lafayette.—Red Eagle, twenty-two, and Sky Arrow; twenty, full-blood-ed Sioux Indians, passing through the city, are parents of- a sen. He has been named Jii I Little EaglZ and is the first Indian barn in this part of the state since the famous battle of Tipi»ecanoe. Freak Lightning. Lafayette.—A freak bolt of lightning accompanied by a rainstorm did heavy damage in Lafayette Wednesday morning. The home of J. Walter Wilstach was wrecked by the «strftke of lightning. Several school buildings and mhny residences were badly damaged. Youth III; Attempts Suicide. Columbus.—Fred Ahlbrandt,. eighteen, son of Frank Ahlbrandt, despondent over ill health, cut his throat with a razor with suicidal intent It is not. thought he can recover. Cattle Have Lockjaw. Bicknell.—Two hundred head of cattle on a stock farm owned by George Seirp and William Lett are suffering from lockjaw. Surrounding farms have been quarantined in an effort to stamp out the disease. Adjudged Insane. Winchester. Henry Hofkeincyer, age sixty-four, a retired merchant of Parker City, has been adjudged insane, worry ovht the loss of . his stare by fire being given as the ,* cause i