Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 January 1919 — GLEANED from the EXCHANCES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GLEANED from the EXCHANCES

The supreme court handed down a decision Friday holding valid the Indiana highway law and reversing tthe circuit court of Noble county, which held the law unconstitutional. During the year just closed 4,028 marriage licenses were issued by the county clerk of Lake county. | A majority of the licenses were obtained by Chicago couples, who have made Crown Point a Gretna Green for the past several years, it toeing possible to be divorced in ! Illinois one day and married in Indiana the next. • . John Besser, a Lafayettte teamster, lost two horses Thursday night in a peculiar manner. The horses, which were heavy draft animals, had j just been sharp shod. During the night they became loose in their stalls and engaged in a fight to the death. When found next morning part of the stable had been kicked I away and the ribs of each animal had been caved in, their hides scraped and torn, off in iplaces and bloo<j covered everything. Besides •using their hpels in telling effect on each other they haa also user their teeth, and both animals were so badly crippled hat tbe owner was obliged to have them killed.

Train No. 11 on the New York Central railroad, known as " the “Southwestern Limited,” ran into the rear of train No. 17, the “Wolverine,” while the latter was at a standstill preparing to take on another engine near Batavia, New York, at 3:30 o’clock Sunday morning, demolishing the rear j steel Pullman of tfhe Wolverine and killing 21 ftersons. Thfe trains were both enruote west at - the time, the former from New York to St. Louis, and the latter from New York to Chicago. A disregard of signals by the engineer of the Limited is said to have been the cause of the accident.