Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1918 — GLEANED from the EXCHANCES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

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Smallpox is prevalent in. Lake county, Hammond, Crown Point and Lowell reporting cases of the disease. Charles Casto of Reynolds was arrested Wednesday on an affidavit sworn to by Mrs. Sarah Swisher, who charged that Casto gave whisky to Charles Robinson, a minor. An ordinance prohibiting the raising of pigs within the corporate limits df Monticello, was repealed by the city council Tuesday evening for the duration of the war. Y. C. Vosborg, aged about seventyfive years and an old settler of Lowell, died at his home in that place Sunday night. He was a veteran of the civil war and at one time was a member of the Lowell town council. Frank Warner of Wolcott, who fired his barn, set fire to his house and then fired upon the volunteer fire department last November, has been committed to the criminal insane ward df the state prison at Michigan City, and was taken there last Saturday. A Starke county woman has found a way to circumvent the Hoover edict against killing hens. She goes to the chicken coop at night and selects a fat hen for dinner next day, acting entirely within the zone of safety upon the simple, fact that all hens are roost-ers at night. Smallpox has been reported from a number of Indiana towns, and at Bicknell the disease is quite prevalent. The Lowell Tribune states that there have been but two cases in that place, one of which has recovered and the other removed to Crown Point to the home of his parents. Hammond s new Pythian temple, a building costing fifty thousand dollars and one of the finest pieces oif architecture among that region’s fraternal homes, was dedicated Tuesday night with appropriate ceremonial and Knights from all over Lake county were present at the dedication.

The mysterious murder, August 24, 1915, of the Rev. A. H. Kayser, in Tolleston, a suburb of Gary, is cleared up by the confession of Michael Schramm, according to the police of Bridgeport, Conn., where Schramm was arrested Wednesday. Acting Chief Forbis of Gary was informed that Schramm also confessed several crimes in Chicago

and the murder of a police chief of a small village near Chicago. He declared the motive in the Kayser murder was robbery.