Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1916 — INDIANA AT A GLANCE [ARTICLE]

INDIANA AT A GLANCE

interesting. Newsy Notes From All Sections of The State.

Mrs. James Rober, 63 years old, was burned to death while burning grass on her farm near Hobart, Henry A. Martin, age sixty-two, was trampled to death by horses in his barn on his farm near Lebanon. George Teetsel, 45, superintehdent of the strawboard factory at Wabash, was instantly killed when his automobile turned over. The Federation of Women’s Clubs, of the Eleventh district of Indiana, will hold its seventh annual convention in Peru, Wednesday May 3. Donald Mcßride, three-year-old son of George Mcßride, city engineer, is dead of injuries he received when his father’s automobile overturned. Thomas C. W renick, 77’ years old, is dead at Morristown. He operated a drug store and a farm implement store in Morristown for thirty-five years. Emory R. Forst, age fifty-six, a prominent Sullivan merchant, is dead of heart disease. The body was sent to his former home in Bluffton for burial. t ( When the wife of Wi’liajn Dill, 58 years old, of East Columbus, returned home after a brief absence she found her husband kneeling in prayer beside his bed. Mrs. Dill learned that he had swallowed poison with suicidal intent. He died a few minutes later. Jeannette Briggs Reynolds, eigthynine years old, one of South Bend’s pioneer women, is dead in Albuquerque, N. M. She leaves an estate valued at $1,000,000. She was known as the “good angel” of practically all the charitable organizations and institutions in South Bend. Capt. H. L. Brown, commander of the Third Ambulance Company and Gen. Pershing’s personal physician on the expedition, died at the base hospital at El Paso. With him at the time of his death were his Wife and two children. He was a native of Indiana, having been born in Indianapolis in 1873. As Miss Leora Cross, whose father fell dead at Elwood, was in an undertaking establishment selecting a coffin for her father, the body of Donald Powell, 32 years old, her fiance, was brought into the place. Powell, a brick mason, was killed instantly in the collapse of the walls of a cupola he had just completed. The “tree house,” celebrated as a curiosity near Bluffton, is no more. The massive jthree-rooin structure, built by a dozen boys a year ago from lumber salvaged from a railroad wreck, caught fire mysteriously and was destroyed. The house was in the top branches of a high tree on the banks of the Wabash river and could be seen for miles.

Guy C. Hart, 28 years old, a rural mail carrier, will be the next postmaster.of Kendallville at a salary of $2,800 a year. Hart was chosen for the office in the first popular election of a postmaster ever held in an Indiana town. There were fifteen other applicants for the place. The election was arranged by Congressman Cyrus Cline, |vho said he would nominate for the Bffice the winner in the election. What it means to govern a city of 300,000 persons and what it takes to govern it with, was shown in Indianapolis Saturday when thousands of taxpayers stood on the sidewalks and watched the three-mile municipal parade pass in review. For nearly two hours Mayor Bell and more than 1,000 city employes placed themselves on exhibition, with the sole purpose of showing the public what is being done with its money. The wage agreement adopted at a conference of the officials of the United Mine Workers of America and representatives of the coal mine owners in New York has been ratified by a referendum vote of the members of the miners’ organization, according to an announcement made by William Green, international secre-tary-treasurer of the union. The vote was 84,498% in favor of the agreement and 42,820 against it. Joseph Long, Muncie restaurant keeper, was putting up an awning when he heard something fall to the sidewalk. “Well, what do you think of that?” he exclaimed, when he looked down and saw a finger lying on the w’alk, “some one has lost a finger.” Long kicked the finger into the gutter and started back to work, when he noticed his own finger missing. I had been pinched off between two “scissor irons” of the awning frame. Samuel Robinson was indicted at Bedford, for first degree murder. He killed Frank Quakenbush, a quarry superintendent, and entered a plea of not guilty. It is said that insanity will be the defense. The case has been set for trial May 1. J , An air craft company, of Anderson, will, within a few days, make a test of a 300 horse-power triplane, capable of carrying twelve passengers for twenty-four hours at a maximum speed of ninety-eight miles an hour, according to builders of the aeroplane and officials of the company.