Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1917 — SHORT STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

SHORT STATE NEWS

Work has again begun on the double tracking of the Vandalia between Bicknell and Edwardsjmrt. The Fort Wayne unit of the American? 1 Red Cross Society is actively at Work perfecting its organization, in preparation for war. The Richmond chapter of the American Red Cross society just organized is actively recruiting new members preparatory to forming first-aid classes. The Hammond distillery has offered its plant to Uncle Sam in the event of war for the making ol alcohol. Extra precautions are being taken to guard the* extensive plants in the Calumet district around Gary manufacturing munitions of war from explosions. Hard: coal Is selling at Goshen for sll a ton following the blizzard. * Two Rochester women were baptized in the river although the zero weather prevented the few watchers from singing. A remarkable patriotic demonstration was given at Whiting by 500 for-eign-born citizens of Austrian, Hungarian and Slavic nationalities, when Father Benedict Racjany, a noted Catholic priest, in whose honor the banquet was given, said: “We have no country but America.” The 500 men rose enthusiastically and waved the American flags with which each was provided. Strychnine tablets which had been prescribed for the child’s mother were left iti reach of two-year-old Kathleen Hulce of Marion and efforts to save her life were futile.

John R. Williams, veteran of the Civil war, is dead at Ellettsville. Henry Clay Powell, Civil wai* veteran, age eighty-seven, is dead at’ his home at Newcastle. The annual midwinter banquet of. the Indiana Republican Editorial association was held at Indianapolis with ex-Gov. Frank B. Willis of Ohio ps speaker. ' . The trial of William Ride, charged with the murder of Ora Anderson, near Guthrie, Lawrence county, has begun’ at Bloomington, On change of venue from Law rence county. Rockville high school has won the Wabash valley basketball championship by defeating the Garfield high School team of Terre Haute. Score, _’s-10. Patrick Brady, aged fifty-five, superinrendent’ of the .Northern Indiana Traction line, dropped dead* at his home at Elkhart from heart disease. Tip Miami university basketball tern 'will play a game with the Wabash college train fit Indiaijapblik the mid-; die of March. In' the dual athletic meet at Lafayettei Van Aken of Purdue university l<‘featod the Maroon contestant of Chicago in 2 :02. Overcoat thieves at the statehouse it Indianapolis are rendering many of he state’s representatives coatless days. _ -