Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1916 — STATE NEWS IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

STATE NEWS IN BRIEF

Wabash. — Failing to commit suicide by a leap through a glass window, Albert Hiatt cut his throat with a piece of glass. He will die. Gary.—Bert Ballard, twenty-three, was killed and Frank Wolfe was injured seriously when a motorcycle on which they were riding was struck by an automobile. Tipton.—During an electrical storm a team of horses driven by Tony Murphy, a farmer, was killed by lightning. John Murphy, his son, was shocked severely. Marion. —An operation performed on William Tinder, seventy-two years old, a Civil war veteran, who has been blind for 25 years, resulted in the restoration of his sight. Vincennes. Wilbur C. Kelley, freight agent for the Baltimore & Ohio railroad here, and Miss Hannah M. Smith, were married by Rev. Fr. James Gregorie of the St. Francis Xavier church. Shelbyville.—Hannibal Arnold was pulled out of the mow of his bam onto the cement floor by one of his horses, when handling some hay, and was injured severely when he became entangled in a rope. Laporte.—An invitation was tendered Vice-President Marshall to deliver the address in this city upon the occasion of the state centennial Wednesday, Augupt 30, when the biggest celebration in northern Indiana is planned. Sullivan.—The trial of the Curry township election conspiracy cases has been set in the Sullivan circuit court, for July 5. Charles E. Henderson of Indianapolis, former judge of the Sullivan circuit court, will hear the cases.

Fortville. —Earl Roudebush, assistant cashier of the First National bank, was shot in the arm when he attacked a would-be robber who had forced Cashier Morrow to hold up his hands,but the robber was caught and rushed to Greenfield to prevent threatened lynching. Richmond. —Two men were killed by railroad trains near here. Thurman Radford was cut to pieces when he went to sleep on the Pennsylvania track near Paris, 0., and Clayton Miller, a farmer, was killed when a G. R. & I. train hit his automobile at a crossing.

Muncie—Mrs. Sarah Deatley shot Roy Eppards in the face when he entered her home and followed her as she ran to call assistance. She was not arrested. Self-de-fense is given by the woman as her cause for shooting. Indianapolis.—Judge Anderson of the federal court extended the receivership of Charles Davidson, receiver of the Gary & Interurban Railroad company, to include the East Chicago Street Railway company. The action was taken in the case of the Baltimore Trust company, which sought foreclosure of a mortgage. Dillsboro. —Lillie M. Wilson, wife of Robert P. Wilson, has been missing from her home here since May 1, when she left her home to visit her mother. Nothing has been heard of her since, and an effort is being made to trace her. She is five feet four inches tall, weighs 150 pounds, has blue eyes and dark auburn, hair. There are three children in the family. Gary.—The editors of Gary's three daily and one weekly newspapers are on the verge of nervous prostration because they are getting no exchanges. Since last Friday only a few pieces of second class mail have been received in the city. It is claimed that a congestion in the Chicago post office is responsible for the nonarrival of newspapers. Gary.—Despondent because her husband refused to come heme from a saluon Mrs. Leona Grannis, tw’enty-four, wife of William Grannis, ended her life by hanging. She leaves two children. Elizabeth Cabarello, wife of Tony Cabarello and a member of one of the oldest families in Hammond, drank poison and died a few minutes later.

Greenfield. George Doyle, the youthful bandit, who attempted to rob the First National bank at Fortville, has confessed that he locked Assistant Cashier Bailey of the Citizens State bank of Carmel in a vault and robbed the bank of $1,200 six weeks ago. Doyle was sentenced to the Jeffersonville reformatory within six hours after he tried the Fortville robbery.

Gary.—Mrs. Anna Turney’s effort to save the life of her brother, Dr. Joseph Mercer Avann, Methodist minister for 50 years and pastor of the First Methodist church in Gary for the last five years, was in vain. She submitted to an operation three days ago whereby a pint of her blood was transfused to her brother. She recovered, but the pastor died in the Mercy hospital. Rev. Avann was past seventy years old, his w sister is more than seventy. Hammond.—*The mystery of the disappearance of Frank Schultz of Hammond was cleared when his body was found hanging to a small tree on Sheffield avenue, bidden only from thousands of passing autos by a screen of leaves. Boonville. —The petitioners for the Improvement of the system of roads in Boone township, which was voted on last March and carried by a large majority, have filed a motion in the circuit court to dismiss the appeal taken by the remonstrators. The case was argued, but Judge Roberts has not announced his finding.