Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 66, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1916 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts of tbi Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL • Happenings in the Nearby Cities and Towns—-Matters of Minor Mention from Many Places. ' ■ ■■ SHOOTS FATHER FOR SPANKING Five-Yeer-Old Boy Fires Revolver After Being Chastised. Columbus, November 12.—Because John Todd, a laborer, spanked his 5-year-old son Virgil today the boy procured a revolver tfraf was in the home and shot his father in the back. The father prevented the boy from firing a second shot. As he jerked the revolver from the boy, Todd (all to the floor. His condition is serious.