Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1918 — CLEANED from the EXCHANGES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CLEANED from the EXCHANGES

Up to March 3, forty-three American soldiers had been killed in action in France while 252 had been wounded, and tbirty-five captured and missing, according to war department information. The committee in charge of the arrangements for the state G. A. R. encampment has announced that the dates for the encampment have been changed from May 15. Isl and 17 to June 5, 6 and 7. The change was made in order to have O. A. Sommers, national commander of the G. A. R., present at the encampment. Oliver Henry, a prominent farmer of near Chalmers, aged about forty years, committed suicide Wednesday afternoon by shooting himself through the head with a rifle. He had been in poor health for the past two or three years, and it is supposed that this fact prompted him to take his life. He leaves a wife and sixteen-year-old daughter. After an investigation of the finding of three boxes of percussion caps in a car load of oats, federal agents have decided that the caps were left in the oats by yeggmen, rather than by Geramn agents. It is well known that yeggemn like to travel in grain cars, upon which fact the officers base their theory. The grain was consigned to the Urmston Grain company of Indianapolis.—Lafayette Journal. Robert Harris was taken into custody at Monon Tuesday and turned over to the county sheriff as a German alien who failed to register. Harris is sixty-eight years of age and came to this country in 1857. 'He says he served in the regular army from 1872 to 1 884. At the time of registration he was at Laporte and claims he did not know he had to register. Sheriff Williams notified United States Marshal Storen of his arrest.—'Monticello- Herald.