Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1917 — HERE THERE and EVERYWHERE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HERE THERE and EVERYWHERE

The Lafayette lodge of Elks has bought the Hagenbeck-Wallace circus for June 2, when it will show in that city under the auspices of that order. The will of Henry Baughman of Monon has been filed for probate in the White circuit court. By the terms of the will the property is divided equally among his ten children, subject to the life estate of his wife, Sarah Baughman. Lee Baughman is appointed executor. Frank Rockefeller, younger brother of John D. and William A. Rockefeller, died Sunday at his Cleveland home. Frank became estranged. from the oil king over money matters in 1898, and since that time has steadfastly refused to have anything to do with his multi-millionaire brother.

A nitro-glycerine bomb, fastened to the rail in such a manner that the first train passing would have exploded it, was found Wednesday near Wellsboro, Indiana,, by section men of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad. Heavy -shipments of powder have .been passing over the line enroute to the East from the mills at Aetna. Samuel K. Vefrili; ope of the pioneer residents of Goodland, died Sunday. He tame to Goodland in 1869, when an elevator and a store composed the hamlet, and for several years was engaged in the coal business. He was born in Maine, and was a lineal descendant of John Alden, and Priscilla Mullen. He was a man of high character and superior intellect, but of few words. . „ ' Six persons are known to be dead and probably others as a result of a fire in the Colfax office and apartment building in Indianapolis Thursday night. The dead are: Df. Martha E. Keller, sHarfy Rowland, Leona Griffin, Robert Griffin, Mrs. Rose Griffin, <s®mother of the boy and girl, and an unidentified woman. The fire was caused by the explosion of picture films in a film exchange office. ’

The mass meeting of the farmers of the state, which was scheduled to be held in Indianapolis ’April 20 'for the purpose of selecting fifteen delegates-at-large to the constitu'tional convention and adopt some plan to put candidates in the field ,in the several legislative districts, I has been postponed until Friday, 'April 27, on account of Governor Goodrich being unable to attend. The governor will speak- at 1:30 p. m. | The-bank at Star City was burglarized early Tuesday morning and $4,500 taken. Tho bank safe was blown open with nitro-glycerine. The explosion was muffled and no ' one knew of the robbery until the J bank was opened for business i Tuesday morning. It is presumed the robbers made their escape in an automobile, although there is no evidence to substantiate this. W. L. Bott' of-this city was formerly cashier of the Star City banlc and' said the institution carried insurance against loss by theft. The safe and bank fixtures were damaged. by the explosion to the extent of $1,500.