Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 66, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1918 — STATE NEWS ITEMS [ARTICLE]

STATE NEWS ITEMS

The Doings of Hoosierdom Reported by Wire. DENIES POISON CHARGES C. F. Reed, Member of Food Firm, Says He Was Away a Week Before Four Decatur Residents Died —Blames Enemies. Indianapolis, Nov. 15. —C. Frank Reed, thirty-eight years old. a member of the Reed Food company, which has offices and plant at Spruce street and Southeastern avenue, will be taken to Decatur to face an indictment brought by the Adams county grand jury, charging him with the murder by poisoning of four persons, who died In Decatur last February and March. Reed was arrested by. detectives of the Indianapolis police department at his office on request of Edward Green, sheriff of Adams county. He is held at the city prison until Sheriff Green arrives. In a statement Reed denied any knowledge of the cause of the death of the four persons with whose murder he is charged, declaring that for a week prior to the time at which the persons partook of supposedly poisoned food at a hotel in Decatur, he was with his parents at Claypool, more than fifty miles distant from Decatur. The four persons whose deaths are charged to Reed in the Adams county indictment are: Russell Premer, forty-one years old, owner of the Madison house at Decatur, who died February 26; Viennla Burger, nineteen years old, a waitress at the Madison house, who died February 28; Robert Kalver, thirteen years old. a guest Of the Bremers on the day the supposedly polsohed food was served, he died March 1; Mrs. Myrtle Reed, thirty-seven years old, wife of C. Frank Reed, and a guest at the Madison house, who died March 3. Reed attributes the indictment to enemies at Decatur.

Farm Changes Discussed. Indianapolis, Nov. Io. — questions of vital interest to the fanner and the business man were discussed and preliminary plans laid to meet new conditions by the agricultural committee of the chamber of commerce. Samuel M. Ralston is I chairman of the committee. Among definite plans of action decided on was I the determination of the committee to : co-operate in every way with Purdue I university and oilier institutions. Much I stress will lie hud on the advantages i to soldiers in returning to farm life I after completing their service with the i government. The committee discussed ■ methods by which farmers cun be | shown the way to greater profits by . the production of greater meat sup- ■ plies and in the near future will develop plans for co-operation With government agencies in this direction. G. O. P. Head Makes Statement. Indianapolis, Nov. 15.—The Republican party as tiie result of its success in the election must now turn its attention to its increased responsibilities brought about by its increased opportunities, Will H. Hays, Republican national chairman, declared. Hays is here attending a convention of Republican state senators preliminary to the opening of the Indiana legislature. “I am very grateful, of course, over the result of the election,” Hays said. “By our* opportunities, however, are our responsibilities measured and it is about our responsibilities we must now think.”

Twenty-Six Enter Marine Corps. Indianapolis, Nbv. 15, —Twenty-six Indianapolis men were inducted into the Marine corps at the local mobilization station, 157 North Illinois street. The men departed in a special car on a through train for Atlanta, Ga„ their destination being I’aris, N. C. The local marine station has been authorized to induct a total of 161 men as the November quota of the Louisville district, and the impression prevails at headquarters that the marines are destined for police duty overseas when peace comes. Wants Heroes to See Sights. Shelbyville, Nov. 15. —A telegram has been forwarded to the secretary of war from the Shelbyville Chamber of Commerce and the Shelbyville Manufacturers’ association urging that all the American soldiers in France be given a chance to see the sights of the old world and that a trip be taken through Germany. Russia and- the other European countries, the return to be made to this country via Japan. K. of t. Hut Completed. —lndianapolis, Nov. 15. —Construction work on the Knights of Col umbus hut at the army training detachment No. 2 at the Indiana Stale School for the .Deaf has been completed arid the building will be opened Sunday. Richmond Man Lost on the Otranto. Washington, D. C., Nov. 15.—Names of 12 additional men who lost their lives in the sinking of the U. S. S. Otranto were announced by the war department. Sergt. Russell Smith of Richmond was among the dead. Lieutenant Killed in Action. Noblesville, Nov. 15. —Levi Huntsinger received a message from the war department announcing that his son, Lieut. Frank Huntsinger, was killed in action in France October 29. He was thirty-one years old.