Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1920 — FROM AROUND ABOUT US [ARTICLE]

FROM AROUND ABOUT US

Four bandits Friday held up 1H 1 . S. Daugherty, cashier of the Farmers & Merchants’ bank, at Highlands, five miles south of Hammond, and escaped with SIO,OOO. They used a green touring car with white wire wheels in which to travel. William Jarka, engineer on the Monon, was painfully burned about the face Friday night while en route to Lafayette on extra southbound freight No. 501. Just north of Monon, while Mr. Jarka was engaged in thawing out the distributing valve on his engine, escaping steam struck him in the face. He will be kept from duty for a few days. William Hance, a shoemaker, 61 years of age, committed suicide at his home in Camden Thursday by shooting himself with a small calibre rifle. No motive for the deed has been discovered, but the fact that the rifle had been secreted in an outside shed points to a suicidal intention. The body'', was found soon after the New Year’s dinner, which the deceased had taken with his brothers and sistersThe federal trade commission Monday ruled that the selling of sugar in combination with other goods to force purchasers to buy other things in order to obtain sugar was an unfair method of competition and ordered the Cole-Con-rad company of Chicago to cease the practice. The Chicago case was one of many similar complaints which had been lodged with the commission.