Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1916 — INDIANA BREVITIES [ARTICLE]

INDIANA BREVITIES

Tipton.—The home of Ira F. Crail, a half mile north of the city, was destroyed by fire. The loss is about $3,000 on the house and SSOO on the contents, partly covered by insurance. Knightstown The Knightstown Buggy company has almost entirely converted their factory for the building of automobile hearses, and have been compelled to build an addition to their buildings. , Indianapolis.—Officials and members of, • the Indiana National Guard are of the belief that they will be called to the front and are waiting anxiously for some word to that effect. ;• '""v

Biwood.—Elwood friends are raising money for Earl, the eight-year-old son of Henry Morris of Peru, whose legs were cut off when he was run over by a train. The family lived here for many years.

Logansport.—Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Gallon have just celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary. Mr. Galion served in company A, One Hundred and Thirtieth Indiana infantry, during the Civil war. Anderson. —The commissioners of Madison county have fixed April 10 as the date for a local option election in Jackson township. The township includes one town, Perkinsville, and the village of Pendleton Anderson. —Fifty persons are victims of a fever epidemic here, and healt’. officials are conducting an examination of water and milk used in the city The fever resembles typhoid.

Anderson.—Because of a remonstrance by a majority of property owners concerned, the board of works has abandoned the proposed resurfacing with asphalt of two brick paved streets in Anderson, Ohio avenue and South Meridian street. Bluffton. —A dream of easy money for the benefit of the bride he hoped to claim within a few weeks came to naught here for Archie Wells, twenty-one years old, of Fort Wayne, when lie was arrested, charged with forging checks for sums aggregating $4,414. Archie, who has been a hotel clerk i l Fort Wayne, made the checks payable to Chicago mail-order houses and expected to obtain bis purchases through the local post office He was arrested as he called for his mail, and did not realize a cent on his scheme. Valparaiso.—Fred W. Imme, said to he a student at the Chicago College of Medicine and Surgery, came to this city and soon after his arrival he had shot himself to death in thd room of C E. Gersinger, a friend whom he came to visit. He lay on a couch, drew a .32 revolver and before Gersinger could prevent it the bullet had passed clear through Imme’s head and imbedded itself in the couch. On Immes person was over a hundred dollars which he had just received from his father In Berlin, Germany Kokomo.—David Lewis, who is a deacon in the Christian church at Greentown, was assaulted by George Smith, another deacon, in the back room of a store In Greentown. Lewis is suffering from cuts and bruises about the-head and has been unconscious most of the time since he received the injuries. No arrests have been made, but the sheriff is keeping in touch with Lewis’ condition. Neither man will talk of the affair, but it has been known for some time there had been a controversy over the selection of a church janitor. Indianapolis.—James E. Watson will carry his candidacy for the Republican nomination for United States senator to the state convention and will seek his party's favor at the hands of the delegates. This announcement was authorized at the Watson headquarters in the Hotel Severin in a statement written and signed by the candidate. Watson bases his appeal on a mathematical calculation which shows that by eliminating the vote in Marion county Watson received a plurality of about 7,000 votes over Harry S. New, his closest opponent. He says he carried the “substantial and reliable Republican counties of the state" In last Tuesday's primary. South Ben ..—Edward P. Chapin, w-ealthy and one of the bestknown residents of South Bend, and Mrs. L. L. Wedell of Minneapolis, Minn , were married in Chicago. They left immediately after the ceremony for Brooklyn, N. Y., to attend the marriage of friends there. After an absence of about ten days they will come to South Bend to reside. Mrs. Chapin was Miss Leonora Lamont and was a niece of Mr. Chapin’s first wife. After Mrs. Chapin’s dehth she. remained in South Bend. Her home, however, for the last 25 years has been in Minneapolis. For the last 17 years she was principal of the Minnehaha school in Minneapolis, resigning a short time ago

Madison. John Pierce, fifty-one year* old, engineer at the plant of the Madison Fertilizing and Glue company, was burned probably fatally. He stepped into a pile of hot cinders and his feet, becoming caught, could not be extricated for several minutes. His rubber boots were burned from his limbs and the flesh waß cooked from the bones from bis ankles to bis knees. Laporte.—The county commissioners fixed March 30 as the date for the holding of the option election in Casa j county. In which is located the town of •Vanatah. which has five saloons.