Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1916 — INDIANA AT A GLANCE [ARTICLE]

INDIANA AT A GLANCE

Interesting, Newsy Notes From All Sections of The State.

Herman F. Hoffman, for fifty years a cigar maker and dealer of Greencastle, died suddenly of heart trouble. John W. Ply, 76, who has been out of Wabash county only once in his life, and then to join the Union army, is dead. Dr. Hugh H. Elliott, aged sixty-six, a practitioner here for thirty years, dropped dead of heart disease on the streets, at Rushville. Voorhees N. Griffith, formerly city controller at Terre Haute, under Donn M. Roberts, committed suicide by taking carbolic acid. Mrs. Annis Halstead, ninety-two years old, a pioneer of South Bend, is, dead at her home here. She had been a widow for fifty-seven years.

The Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Protestant church of Anderson will have a state meeting in Anderson April 19 and 20. Despondent because of illness and financial reverses, Andrew Johnston, 52 years old, a prominent Montpelier merchant, killed himself by drinking poison. The new armory of Company E of the Third regiment, Indiana national guard at Elkhart, is to be dedicated by public exercises on the evening of Friday, May 5. E. R. Moore, aged sixty-five, president of the merchants’ bureau of Laporte and prominent Methodist churchman, died suddenly following a congestive chill. Bascom O’Hair, 79 years old, a wealthy pioneer resident of Putnam county, died at his rooms jn a Greencastle hotel following a long illness of a stomach disease.

No schoolboy in Kosciusko county | who smokes cigarettes, will be given a diploma or certificate of graduation?" according to a resolution passed by the county board of education. Workmen are engaged in attempt- I ifig to refloat the large dredge in Lick creek, southwest of Hartford City, ' which was suhk Sunday night. It is i thought the dredge was dynamited. The two G. A. R. posts in Warsaw, the Henry Chipman and Kosciusko posts, have united as Warsaw post. I charter has just been received, | and it bears the names of 108 Civil war veterans. James P. Goodrich, of Winchester, republican nominee for Governor, spent $18,515.50 in conducting his campaign, according to his itemized statement which was filed with the county clerk. Carl Catt and William Abbott, well drillers, were smoking pipes when gas was struck at a depth of 750 feet, three miles west of Petersburg. They were seriously burned in the explosion that followed.

Employes at the Ft. Wayne electric works are preparing to organize an independent battery of light artillery, and many have signed the roster, including a number of trained Indiana national guardsmen. Following a report of state examiners, who found that H. P. Schrer. Wayne township trustee, had used $4,073 of the township funds for his personal use, it is said that the grand jury will investigate. The Rev. U. G. Leazenby, of Crawfordsville, superintendent of the Crawfordsville district of the Methodist Episcopal church, was .elected president bf Moores Hill college by unanimous vote of the board of trustees of the institution. The largest judgment ever rendered by Judge Eichhorn was made of record at Hartford City in the case of H. Channon company vs. the Jackson Tool and Shovel company of Montpelier. The judgment was entered without contest in the sum of $140,206. Several old relics are now on exhibition at the old state capitol at Corydon, among them being dinner plates and a door lock owned by Indiana’s first Governor. The door lock from Governor Jennings’ mansion is six inches wide and a foot long. A wooden sausage grinder, more than 100 years old, was shown.

After a service of nine years as superintendent of the Franklin schools, Paul Vanßiper has resigned to become head of the Laporte city schools, succeeding Arthur Deemer, who goes to Fargo, N. D. Mr. Vanßiper is a graduate of Franklin college and has taken special work in Indiana and Columbia universities. He has been a leader in educational conferences in the state for years. George T. Jacobs, a brother of Mrs. Mary Frances Brookbanks, who was murdered in her home, at Jeffersonville, has qualified as administrator of the estate by filing bond for $40,000. Judge Hugh Wickens sustained the motion to quash the affidavit against Mayor James E. Mendenhall, of Greensburg, in which he was' charged with malfeasance and misconduct in office. Judge Wickens held that the action against the mayor did not come within the statute cited by the state’s attonreys.

Twenty years of service as manager of the Western Union telegraph ' office at Hartford City without a vacai tion was celebrated by George Brown, i The Eighth District Federation of Clubs _ held its annual meeting in Muncie. Mrs. J. H. Benton, of. Alexandria, gave an interesting talk on , “Value of Reciprocity." Jasper Cox, 38, a motorman for the Indiana Union Traction Company, was instantly killed at Muncie when he was caught between two freight cars at the Traction Terminal station. Announcement was made that Mrs. Charles B. Stuart has contributed SIO,OOO to the Home hospital of Lafayette, which is engaged in a campaign to raise SIOO,OOO to build a new main building.

John C. Morrison, age fifty-two, brother of Martin A. Morrison, Ninth district congressman, is dead. Death was due to tumor of the liver. Mr. Morrison was a swell-*known lawyer and philanthropist. Telling his wife when he arose that he would build a fire in the kitchen range, Gilbert McNab, a farmer, 40 years old, living at Leo, near Ft. Wayne, went to the kitchen and blew off his head with a shotgun. Deputy Prosecutor Gene Williams, who is charged in several indictments with accepting bribes and conspiring to solicit bribes, will go on trial before Judge Gause of Newcastle in the circuit court at Muncie, May 22. Word has been received at South Bend from twenty-seven Belgians, who left Mishawaka for the European war front several months ago, that none of -them has been wounded. They are with the French army in the trenches. Judge John W. Eggman, of the Wayne circuit court, has named W. A. Johnson, Clark Harrod and Albert T. Miller as commissioners to recount the ballots in the recent democratic primary balloting for the nomination for county recorder. The Commercial Club of Richmond announces that it is ready to take up its option on the real estate and buildings of the Richmond branch of the M. Rumely Company, and within the week the company’s receiver will be paid SIOO,OOO for the property. While sinking wells for the new waterworks system at Orleans, drillers, struck a 'powerful stream at a depth of thirty feet. The roar of the water could be heard for a considerable distance. It is thought to be a branch of the histone “Lost River." Clayton R. Gardiner and Victor Alexander, formerly residents of Kokomo, but who have been located at the Brooklyn navy yards, have received notice from the president of Haiti that they have been appointed second lieutenants in the Haitian army.

Mrs. Leahs F. Loudermilk, age ninety-two, who resides on a farm two miles south of Sullivan, fell against a chair Sunday evening while doing her housework, and severed an artery in her head. A physician closed the wound and it is believed she will recover. Howard Akridge, foreman in a railroad shop, at Madison, 111., was eating a bowl of soup in a restaurant at Petersburg when the top of a pepper box fell into his soup. He got the piece into his mouth and swallowed it. The lid'lodged in his throat, and physicians worked more than half an hour to extract it.

A mortgage on the holdings of the Indiana Coke and Gas Company of Terre Haute was filed in the office of the county recorder in Vigo countyin favor of the Guaranty Trust Company of New York and Henry W. Moore, trustee, for $1,000,000, to become effective April 1. Announcement of the engagement' of Miss Donna Regina Smith of South Bend to Lieutenant William Quigley, U. S. N., of Brooklyn, N. Y., has reached South Bend from the Philippines. Miss Smith is returning soon from the Philippines, where she has been visiting her brother-in-law, Guy Rohrer, Governor of the Province of Sulu.

The ordinarily quiet community around Hazelwood was thrown into a fever of excitement by the announcement that a “Zeppelin” had appeared in the town. The persuasion of cooler heads, -who argued that this village had not likely drawn the wrath of Germany, did not serve to lessen the excitement, for the “Zeppelin,” it was learned, is the property of Carl Labertew, a prosperous farmer near town.

At the twenty-seventh annual meeting of the Supreme Council of the Loyal Order of Moose, held in Andert?Tn, the following officers were elected: Supreme dictator, E. J. Henning, San Diego, Cal.; vice dictator, Hy D. Davis, Cleveland, 0.; supreme prelate, John W. Ford, Philadelphia, Pa. The charter of the lodge provides that all annual meetings of the council be held in Anderson, as that , city was made the national headquarters when the lodge was organized. Well No. 1, drilled by Heien & Sherman on the Albert Poe least, near Sullivan, was shot and will average seventy-five barrels a day. Hamill & Steele, of Terre Haute, are drilling in location No. 4 on the Clyde Alkire lease.

St. Elizabeth’s hospital in Lafayette, the mother house of the Sisters of St. Francis in the United Stites, honored the Rev. Clements Steinkamp on the fiftieth anniversary of his entrance into the order of friar minor. More than forty clergymen from Ohio and Indiana attended.