Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1919 — CLEANED from the EXCHANGES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CLEANED from the EXCHANGES

Among the overseas casualties reported Saturday were: “Private William Gorman, Morocco, dead of diseash”; “Private Ora L. Hedrick, Kentland, killed In action (previously reported missing in action). The building trades 'council heads at New York city called a general strike for yesterday which would effect 250,000 workers in building trades in various parts of the country and paralyze construction. Woman s suffrage met its fourth? defeat In the U. S. senate Monday by one vote. Republicans voting against the measure totaled 11 and Democrats 18. For the measure were 31 Republicans and 24 Democrats. The trial of Theodore Hoss, postmaster at Fowler, charged with assault and battery on the person of Alva Kitterman, was concluded Sunday in the Benton circuit court, when the jury reported a disagreement. Kitterman was a drayman employed to haul mail. Among the bills passed by the upper house of the state legislature during the past few days is senate bill 74, prohibiting operation of motor vehicles including motorcycles, on public highways within the limits of any city, incorporate town or village with mufflers cut out: speedways set apart by law for racing excepted. The entire family of Jackson W. Carter of Indianapolis, consisting of himself, wife and their two children, were killed early Sunday morning when the .automobile in winch they were riding, was struck by a northbound interurban on the

Indianapolis-Frankfort branch of Terre Haute, Indiana and Eastern, on a grade crossing at Pike, five miles north of Lebanon. They were driving in a new closed car and did not see the traction car as a result. One hundred and forty persons are dead as a result of steam railroad, electric railroad and automobile accidents in Lake coointy in 1918. The number includes those .who were killed outright and those that died of their injuries. Statistics showing the total have been made public by J. A. Graham, county coroner. In addition the report shows there were twenty-five murder and manslaughter deaths, according to verdicts by Dr. Graham. v America’s largest manufacturfrt,; industry is. iron and stael. The pig i:on recove;eJ in snvlting iron ..ore amounts to about 2b per cent, rs the raw materials. The oqu'.valent of about 11 i 4 per ce;t r . 's driven off by vQlatiliiat.on in the cooking of coal; ip the procet of sn,o»tiug a further 40 per '¥•&. wstWpes iU. gas, f -"r.-. and du-t, and the remaining -1 per a-:’: rei r«< bta the slag.

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