Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1920 — ITEMS FROM AROUND ABOUT US [ARTICLE]

ITEMS FROM AROUND ABOUT US

A large barn about 2% to 3 miles south of Morocco was destroyed by fire about 11 o’clock Sunday night. The 1920 population of Chicago has been officially announced as 2,701,212, a gain of 515,929, or 23.6 per cent over the 1910 census. The Morocco Courier and Brook Reporter will each be $2 per year after July 1, they announce, because of the thribled expense of getting out a paper and the almost prohibitive price of print paper. Lake county will have two wet representatives In the state senate. At the recent primaries O. O. Holmes of Gary, dry, beat Frank B. Mcllroy of Hammond, a wet, by 20 votes. Mcllroy won a recount and the result announced today gives him a plurality, of 78 votes over Holmes. Mr. Hplmes will appeal. Two stretches of the Goshen-Mil-lersburg division of the Lincoln Highway and a part of the Goshen-La-grange road were badly damaged last week by the Intense heat. No expansion joints had been built in the roads, it is said, and under the hot sun the bricks expanded and an upheavel followed. The damaged roads are being repaired. Dr. Charles J. Brockway of Lafayette was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the Tippecanoe circuit court Saturday afternoon, the jury deliberating but 20 minutes. Dr. Brockway was charged with striking and beating his wife, from the effects of which she later died. Dr. Brockway is 32 years of age, and unless a new trial is granted or the case reversed, he must serve a sentence of from 2 to 21 years in the state prison.

Elmer E. Williamson, Vice-presi-dent *of the Swan-Williamson Co., wholesale druggists of Indianapolis, was killed near Logansport parly Friday morning when the automobile he was driving went over an embankment at Pipe Creek Falls. He had spent Thursday in Logansport that evening went to Perji with a party of young people. They were returning to Logansport duping early hours of the morning when the accept He 1® W' [vived by a' widow and two children.