Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1917 — CLEANED from the EXCHANGES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CLEANED from the EXCHANGES

The school enumeration in White county shows a falling off of 252 over last year. Hogs sold in the Indianapolis market Monday at $16.60 per cwt., the highest price ever recorded in that market Since the declaration of war on Germany 125 foreign-born residents have been arrested in this country by government agents. A. S. Taylor of Danville, Illinois, a brakeman on the New York Central railroad, was almost instantly killed at Kentland Tuesday of last week when he stepped in front of a passing freight train. He was about 40 years old and unmarried. Herman J. Staeck, 36 years old, of Earl Park, enlisted in the United States army at the Lafayette recruiting office Saturday. He served y»ree years in the German army and has a son in the United States army and one in the United States navy. His father served in the German army in the Franco-Prussian war. Harold DeArmond, collector for his father, who is a business man at Wheatfield, has sworn out a warrant in Bozarth's court for the arrest of James Wickhizer, a farmer residing southeast of the city. DeArmond claims that he presented a bill, and Wickhizer denied tne account and then struck him in the eye.—Valparaiso Vidette-

The Rev. George M. Schramm, one of the best known priests in the Fort Wayne diocese, died Saturday evening at Laporte, where for twenty years he had been pastor of St. Peter's Catholic church. He was ordained a priest in 1893 and was first stationed at Reynolds, going from there to Francesville and later to Medaryville. Authorities estimate that there are nearly 300,000 men in Indiana between the ages of 21 and 30, all of whom are required to register under the draft law. Indian’s quota will be somewhere near 15,000 men, although this number will be reduced considerably by the number of Indianians already in the military service, so that the exact number of men to be drafted has not been determined. Constine Eggen, 16 years old, of northwest of Morocco, killed himself Tuesday of last week by placihg the muzzle of a .32 caliber rifle Hinder his chin and pulling the trigger. He had just before pointed 'the gun at some friends and they remonstrated, /when he replied that the safety was on and that he was not afraid to Rut the gun undgr his ' chin and pull the trigger. He did so-with the result above noted. Qhartes Fl - ". -r of Kentland died at the St. Eli rh hospital in - Lafayette Monday morning of diabetes. He was 4 2 years old and unmarried, and is survived by his mother, two -brothers and one sisi r. Fletcher was said to be a dope fiend and was arrested in Lafayette a ew months ago after he had brek n into a Fowler drug store and taken some morphine. Because of his apparent IO the gTitV-C.. ■ .ti'C V.'clS net : prosecuted.