Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1916 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

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The eighteenth annual convention of the Tenth district Woman’s Relief Corps was held at Fowler yesterday.

Audrey Allen, 2 years old, died at a Terre Haute hospital Sunday as a result of injuries inflicted by a rooster at the home of the parents in Hymera. The rooster attacked the child Friday and drove its spure into the baby’s temples. An operation failed to save the child.

Sim Marion, living near Monon, was kicked by a mule at 6 o’clock Wednesday evening and sustained a broken nose. (He was taken to Dr. Reagan’s office where he was treated. He was attending to chores when ‘ the animal delivered the blow. The injury though painful Is not serious.

Howard Budge of Lafayette, a brakeman on the Monon, was killed in the yards at Lafayette Sunday night when a switch engine crashed into a box car on which Budge was hanging and hurled the car over again a steel coal car on the next track, crushing him to a shapeless r mass. A wife and two children survive him.

Crawfordsville lost one of her industries early Thursday morning in the burning of the Pioneer Box factory, causing a loss of about $40,000 and throwing forty men out of employment. The loss is covered by insurance and the factory will be rebuilt at once. The fire apparently originated in the office of the plant, but the cause fcould not be determined. It was discovered at 3:10 a. m. and there was much delay in getting connected with the fire department.

What might have been a serious automobile accident occurred on the pike just north of Lowell Friday night. A car driven by Ben McClatchey of Morocco went to pass another car in the road and in doing so got too close to the bank and was thrown into the ditch. Mr. McClatchey had three ribs broken and was otherwise bruised up. One lady was thrown about twenty feet, but luckily was not hurt. The injured man was taken to Lowell for medical treatment.

Several days ago Sheriff Hamilton of Benton county discovered some fresh cut shavings 'in one of the hot .air pipes at the jail w'hich is not in use any more. He immediately asked Oscar Borders, the man charged with taking the meat near Otterbein, about it. He informed the sheriff that they had been cut from an old mop stick by Boyd Slater with the idea of making a key to the big lock on the prison door. Sheriff Hamilton made a careful search and found a number of blank keys made from bed springs hidden in the air pipes. A wooden key, an exact duplicate of the key to the room, was found in the flush box of the toilet. Slater, wiho is being held for robbing the Messner & Son store at Oxford, said Borders was the man who was doing the work, and that the knife with which he was working would be found in his bed, and it was. A number of keys have been found in locked cells, which these two prisonerg have never been in. It will be hard to determine which is the guilty man, as both are suppposed to be crooks. A search through the cells and corridors was also made and a complete equipment for making a jail delivery was found, including a sling shot made of leather and filled with about a half pound of shot. An attempt to pry off one of the steel bars at a window with the iron trip lever of the flush box left fresh marks in the paint. Fowler item in Lafayette Journal.

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