Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1916 — HERE THERE and EVERYWHERE [ARTICLE]

HERE THERE and EVERYWHERE

The Mexican situation has again become quite tense, occasioned by a bunch of alleged Villa bandits having crossed the border last Friday night and attacked Glenn Springs, Boquillas and Deemers. Three American soldiers, a civilian and a 10-year-old boy were killed and two American citizens were carried south lo the border. Articles of incorporation have been filed in the recorder’s office by the Thayer Oil and Gas company, together with 10 land leases in Lincoln tp. The company is capitalized at $25,000, and the incorporators are Geo. A. Johnson, Frank A. Canfield and Albert R. Pudewa of Chicago and George J. and Charles Cumings of Thayer.—Newton County Enterprise.

Clyde Budd, age 13, who shot and killed Robert Smith, age 11, when playing Indian at Silver Lake, March 28, was arrested Thursday and is now in the Kosciusko county jail awaiting trial for manslaughter. The arrest was made on an affidavit filed bv Earl ('. Smith, father of the victim. The revolver which the lads thought was unloaded contained one cartridge and the bullet passed through the Smith boy’s heart.

Joseph Belden, a bellboy in a Lafayette hotel, who was arrested two weeks ago charged with the murder of Joseph Paskiewich of Reynolds, pleaded guilty to a charge of manslaughter in the circuit court a few days ago and received a sentence of two to 21 yehrs in the state reformatory. He is 23 years old. Paskiewich was injured fatally by being struck on the jaw after he had refused to give Belden and several other youths some whiskey that he had.

B. F. Davis is the hero of Lake tp. Ned Barker must surrender the belt as a wolf hunter. Mr. Davis the other day killed the largest woif ever sefin in Lake tp., and brought the pelt down' Monday to show the hoys around the court house. The wolf stood nearly three feet tall, and was hoary with age. Be was making the rounds of Mr. Davis’ hog pens when discovered, and a bullet from the trusty rifle of Lake township’s trustee brought the beast to the ground. By reason of his ferocious looks Mr. Davis gave his victim the name of Villa.—Kentland Enterprise.

The lighthouse service bulletin publishes a compilation of the number of hours of fog or thick weather observed a year at 508 fog signal stations during the period of 1885 to 1915. As such stations are maintained in all coastal regions of the country, including the Great Lakes, which are subject to fog, their records are a valuable indication of the extent of this danger to navigation. The highest annual average is 1,691 hours a year at Petit Manan, Me., while the highest record for an individual year and place is 2,734 hours in 1907 at Seguin, Me., or about 30 per cent of the entire year. Calumet harbor near Chicago, had 2,269 hours of fog in 1913. This and other lake stations are affected somewhat by smoke. On the Pacific

coast the highest annual average is 1,337 hours, at Point Reyes, but in the year 1915 there were 2,145 houi-s of fog at San Francisco light-