The Syracuse Journal, Volume 6, Number 49, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 2 April 1914 — Page 1

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AT LAST VILLA TAKES TORREON Report of Capture Is Confirmed by U. S. Consuls. FIGHT LASTS TWELVE DAYS Reports Reaching Juarez State That Part of Federal Garrison Es c aped— Huerta’s Son Reported from Another S°urce to Be Among Slain—Few Details of Fighting. Juarez, April !.• —Torreon fell into the hands of Pancho Villa and his rebel army at 1:30 Tuesday. The confirmation came in the afternoon to Juarez, officially from the front and , also in messages from American Con- ' suls Hamm at Durango and Letcher at ’ Chihuahua. The consular messages ! were directed to Secretary of State Pryan. When they were received in Juarez for transfer to El Paso, th< rebel officials announced their con* tents. The reports reaching Juarez state ■ that part of the federal garrison at Torreon escaped. It took Villa twelve days to cauture the town. Huerta’s son Reported Dead. A tale of rebel reverses and rebel luck was brought here from the front by John Reed, a newspaper correspondent, and Robert Dorman, a photographer. Their stories are the first unbiased accounts of eyewitnesse since the attack on Gcmez Palacio, Lerdo and Torreon began. They left the front late Saturday, at which time they estimated that the rebel loss was 2,000 in killed and wounded. Dorman brought back a report that Colonel Victor Huerta, son of President. Huerta, was among the federal dead. RUN CAUSES BANK TO CLOSE New Institution Said to Be Partly Responsible for Trouble. Paw Paw, Mich., April I.—Farmers and Merchants Bank of Lawrence, Van Buren county, a private institution managed by James L. Welch has closed its doors and gone- into the hands of receivers. A new organization, the New Heme State bank is'alleged to have been partially responsible for a run cn the Welch bank which was unable to meet liabilities of SIO,OOO. The as sets are about the same. It is believed the depositors will be paid in fuu. GOVERNOR IS EXONERATED O’Neal of Alabama Is Cleared In SIOO,OOO Defalcation. Montgomery, Ala., April 1. —Governor Emmet O’Neal was cleared of connection with the defalcations of Theodore Lacy, convicted of embezzling $5,000 of state funds, in a report by the Montgomery county grand jury. Lacy, whose peculations as chief clerk of the state convict department are alleged to have been SIOO,OOO, recently charged that he gave the governor $27,500 es the missing funds. DISCHARGED .HAND HOLDS POSSESSION Uses Firearms to Force Stay on Joliet Earm. Joliet, 111., April I—Heavily armed, a posse’ of deputy sheriffs from Joliet is in the Town of Goodenow, where John Clyne, a farm laborer, is entrenched on the farm or Dr. James Whitney Hall, offices Ashland Block, Chicago. Clyne is armed and threatens to kill anyone who attempts to dislodge him. Clyne wa» employed on the farm and resigned his job- After a successor was hired he refused to leave and instead drove off everyone else. He threatened to kill Dr. Hall and has repulsed several attempts on the part of men sent down by Hall to dislodge him. ACCUSED OF $20,000 THEFT Postal Clerk Is Arrested for Two slo,< 000 Missing Packages. Harrisburg, Pa., April I.—William D. Baum, a mail clerk in the Harrisburg postoffice, was arrested charged with having stolen $20,000 from the mails. It is believed that two packages, each containing SIO,OOO in currency, were taken July 5, 1912. The money was being sent from St. Paul to a l ank in New York. Alabama Congressman Dead. Atlantic City, N. J., April I.—Representative William Richardson, of Alabama, died at Galen Hall. He came to this resort some time ago to regain bis health. J

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, I HENRY SIEGEL Is Sued for Divorce, Wife Naming Two Other Women. j I ’ I Bk x SSSI NEW YORK. — A divorce ' suit against Henry Siegel, who is out ion $25,000 bond with his partner, | Frank E. Vogel, on three indictments growing out of the failure of the Sie- : gel enterprises last December, will be tiled in the supreme court today by attornys for Mrs. Marie Siegel, his wife who recently came to New York from Paris to bring the action against her husband. The attorneys gave the papers into the hands of process ser vers. In her complaint Mrs. Siegel charges, according to her ’ay v - misconduct on the part, of Henry Siegel with a Miss Smith, said to be a trained nurse of this city and with another woman named in the core plaint. Mrs. Eddy of Dorchester. Mass FLAYS CARNEGIE IN DEBATE Chamberlain Thinks It Treason to Inculcate Good Feeling with Britain. WASHINGTON. — “If AndrewCarnegie, who continually asserts the cause of Great Britain, were the Citizen of any other nation, he would be charged with treason,” declared Senator Chamberlain, tn the course of the Panama tells debate. “He has never hesitated to spend his millions in en deaverirug to inculcate a reciprocal feeling -for Great Britain in the minds of the people cf the United States.” Mr. Chamberlin’s attack on Mr. Carnegie came as a climax to an hour of hot argument, during which Senator Jones, who also opposed a repeal of the tolls exemption, had read, under protest, several letters attacking the contention of President Wilson. JUSSERAND STORY IS DENIED It Is Believed Generally, However, French Ambassador Is to Retire. WASHINGTON. — Despite denial from the French embassy, reports of the prospective transfer of Ambassador Jusserand from his post at, Washington found general acceptance here. The ambassador authorized the statement that he had not been informed by his government of any intention to transfer him and Secretary Bryan said that the state department had not been informed of the change. PASSES CONVICT GOODS ACT House Refuses to Amend Measure With Child Labor Clause. WASHINGTON. — The house passed the Hensley bill forbidding importation of convict or paupermade goods. Efforts were made by Republicans and Progressives to amend the measure so as to include in its inhibitions the admission of the products of child labor. The amendment was finally defeated when Speaker Clark ruled that it was not germane to the measure. ATTACK ULSTER VOLUNTEERS Crowd of Nationalists Jump on Three of Their Opponents. BELFAST. — There was a fight here between Irish nationalists and unionists which was started by a crowd of the nationalists attacking three uniformed Ulster volunteers. One of the volunteers was severely Injured and was taken to a hospital. The other two escaped. The police drove off the crowd which attacked them. PARDONED AND THEN KILLED Slayer Is Electrocuted When Freed of 115-Year Prison TermLITTLE ROCK, ARK. — After receiving from Governor Hayes a parreleased him from a 115year sentence, Fred Pelton, negro, was electrocuted at the penitentiary for killing Melvina Hatton, negress. He had insisted that he could not be executed until he had served the long term. Jiftge Kirby Leads Clarke. LITTLE ROCK, ARK. — Analy sis of a total vote of 135,558 shows Judge W. F. Kirby to be exactly 102 votes ahead of United States Senator James P. Clarke in the contest as the latter’s successor. Later returns may change thia lead.

READCLAVRECORO 11 i Relics Reveal Mebuchadnezzar’s Own Story ot Lite. TOLD IN CYLINDER DECIPHERED Inscription Relates Rebuilding of Babel—Potentate Speaks Os Ancestor of 3,000 Years Earlier —Subdued Nine Armies in Year— Translated at Yale UniversityNEW HAVEN, CONN.’ — In rcriptions bn clay cylinders in the Babylonian collection at Yale university have been deciphered, it is announced and much information for students of bibical chronology has been obtained. One cylinder inscribed for Nebuch adnezzar, who reigned B. C. 605 to 561, recounts his deeds with reference to' the restoration and enlargement of the walls and moats of Babylon and of temples and sanctuaries thereabouts. He records the rebuild Ing of Mferchuk, recognized as the an ; cient tower of Babel of the Book ot Genesis. Nebuchadnezzar Tells Story. Nebuchadnezzar adds, according to the translation: “I sought and found the foundation stone of the temple of Lugal-Marada, my diety, and laid it upon the foundation stoneof NaramSin, king, my ancient ancestor.” This ancestor presumably lived 3,000 years before Nebuchadnezzar. Naram-Sin was the builder of Babylon and perhaps the greatest builder of all history. The nebuchadnezzar cylinaer was found near Nippur, on the Euphrates. Another cylinder, found by Arabs at the same site, bears an inscription of Naram-Sin, and is probably one of the actual foundation stones of the tem pie of Lugal-Marada in Murad. Subdued Nine Armies in Year. The inscription says that Naram sin subdued nine hostile armies in a 5 ear and carried three of their kings hound before the god Imlil. The rec ord ends: “Whoever alters this Inscribed stone, may the gods. Shamash an” Lugal-Marada destroy his estate and exterminate his seed.” BEATS CRAWFORD IN DAKOTA Congressman Burke Nominated at South Dakota Statewide Primary. PIERRE, S. D. — Senator Coe I. Crawford, the Republican ma jority faction candidate, went down to defeat before Congressman Charles P Burke, minority candidate, who was nominated for United States senator in the statewide primary election. Although the minority Republicans do not concede the defeat of their candidate for governor, H. B. Anderson, returns indicate the renomina tion of Governor Byrne, the majority state ticket leader. P. O. Richards, the independent Republican candidate for governor, polled a surprisingly large vote. ONLY TWO SCHOONERS LEFT Sailing Vessels on Lake Disappear from Traffic. CHICAGO. — The fact that sailing vessels have all but disappeared from traffic service on the Great lakes was called to public attention by the conversion of the Schooner Carrier into a clubhouse for the Lincoln Park Yacht club. Only two big schooners now carry freight from the port of Chicago. The Carrier will be anchored in the harbor at Lincoln Park and fitted as a clubhouse. MAC BRIDE UNIVERSITY HEAD Chosen to Succeed J. G. Bowman in lowa State Institution. IOWA CITY, IOWA. — Proses ter Thomas R. Macßride, head of tut botany department, was elected acting president of the lowa State university by the state board of education. The board previously had formally accepted the resignation of President Jchn G., Bowman. Mr. Macßride will duties April 1. WEALTHY FARMER TO PRISON Man Convicted of Crime Against Woman Guest Must Pgy Penalty. s CHARLESTON, W. VA. — That E. Graham Wilson, a wealthy farmer of Charles Town, must serve fourteen years in the West Virginia penitentiary was decided by the supreme court of apueals here. Wilson was convicted of a crime against Miss Kate Tunner, who was a guest a this country home. FIRE JINX PURSUES~JOHN D. Unoc c upied Building at Pocantico Said to Be Destroyed by Incendiary. ! TARRYTOWN, N. Y. — John D. Rockefeller’s fire hoodoo is still following him. At midnight the large cairy owned by him was completely destroyed-by fire. The firemen say the fire was of incendiary origin. The building was unoccupied and had been used as a carpenter shop.

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I INDIANA STATE NEWS Didn’t Think of Uncle Sam. SHAMMONA IND.—Lake county hunters were awakened to the force of the federal law enacted last year, which establishes a closed sea- | sou from Dec. 15 to Sept. Lfcr migra-1 lory birds. Five Gary hunters were I arrested by deputy state fish and game commissioners. Frank Essmeier, a professional Gary ‘ hunter, after waiving arraign-' f ment, was held to the federal grand g jury by United States Commissioner Charles Surprise of Hammend under, r SI,OOO bond. Lacking sufficient cvi- ’ dence, the deputies did not file charges against the other four. In extenua- ‘ tion the defendants pleaded that they J h had county licenses which they ® thought protected them The arrests are the first in this part of the state. r —r s - Prison for Woman Driver. MARION, IND.—Mrs. Mae Knipp, ( woh, with ter race horse, Black i, Lad, is known on nearly every > race course in Indiana, was found ~ guilty in circuit court of the theft. .. of a set of harness aud was sentenced a to from one to eight years in ihe I state woman’s :prison. The woman’s divorced husband, j Merie Knipp, from whom she has ' been separated for some time, was in- j jointly with her, as the re- ■ 0 celver of the stolen property, but was i i fiund not guilty, the jury holding he t thought the harness belonged to the t woman. Mrs. Knipp is in jail, but ext. pects to give bond and will appeal the case. 1 r Smart Yo»ing People Wed. ! LAFAYETTE, IND.—Pretty Miss 1 Mary Walter Glover of Oklahoma City, Okla., and Carl L. Gunning ot s Rushville were married here at the home of Miss Glover’s aunt, Mrs. J. t T. Priest. f Mrs. Gunning’is the daughter of Mrs. Mary G. Chinning of Oklahoma City. Mr. Gunning is national president of the Kaj>pa Alpha Phi fraternity and is well known over the state. He is the present city clerk of i Rushville, having been elected last 3 fall. Following a short trip, Mr. and Sirs. Gunning will be at home in Rushville. j —— Methodiets Meet April 1. 1 SOUTH BEND, IND—The seven-ty-first session of the North In- i diana Methodist conference will con- | i vene at Mishawaka April 1 and re- ' main in .its days, ddishop f William F. McDowell of Chicago will preside over the conference, which will be attended by from 1,200 to 1,500 i r Methodist ministers and laymen. The evangelistic addresses are to , ■> be delivered by Bishop Theodore S. j Henderson, and the lectures by the , ’ Rev. s. Parkes Cadman of the Cen- I r tral Congregational church of Brooklyn, N. Y. 5 ■ ■■ I 11. Churches to Spend SIO,OOO. COLUMBUS, IND.—The majority of the Christian churches in Brown county ar3 reported inactive because • of a lack of pastors and interest and at a meeting of the Bartholomew County Board of Christian Churches held here it was decided to use a large part of the SIO,OOO endowment [ held by the board for the employment of pastors, the re-establishment r of ’ the churches and for other evan- > gelistic work in the county. t * * Big Stone Goes by Express. t BLOOMINGTON, IND. — An un- , usually lajfee piece of expressage . out of Bloomington was a stone from one of the Bloomington mills which r weighed 1.600 pounds, a rush order > needed in the building of the Church f»f St. Gerurd at Buffalo. , Several men loaded the block into t a baggage car of the fast Chicago express on the Monon. The train was delayed five minutes while the stone was being loaded. Farmer Killed at Crossing. ’ BEDFORD, IND. — Cyrus i T<: ikburn, sixty years old, one of the most widely known farmers in La a- j rence county, was struck on the L - street crossing of the Southeastern - line by a fast passenger train and - was instantly kiled. I He was driving a team, whicu hes came unmanageable, and his death ret suited. Mr. Blackburn was a premi--1 nent Democrat To Make Two Blades Grow. 1 KNOX, IND. — An organisation having as its object the reclama-' tion of thousands of acres in the Kan- j kakee marsh lands will be formed at I a meeting of land owners here. t At a recent meeting in Chicago, the " work of arranging a permanent or- ‘ ganization was placed in the hands of a committee composed of R. D. Kline, 5 O. H. Swigart and R. W. Sherman. . “Tiger” Operator to Jail. 1 MARION, IND.—Miss Lilly Meeks, who recently was convicted by a jury in police court on a “blind tiger” charge, fines SSO and sentenced to ! tnirty days in jail, withdrew her no- , lice of appeal to the circuit court and - will pay the fine and serve the sentence. i Golden Wedding Anniversary. * NASHVILLE, IND.—Dr. and Mrs. r J. G. Ward celebrated their golden wedding anniversary at their home near Needmore. Mr. Ward is seven- * ty years old and his wife 68. They 1 have lived in Brown county forty-fire years.

FEAR CLARK’S IRE Democratic Harmony Involved In Speaker’s Attitude. SPEECH CAREFULLY PREPARED Notwithstanding Conciliatory Message from White House, Factionalism Has Crept into Democratic Organization Is Belief—“ Second Tier" Statesmen to the Fore. WASHINGTON. — Democratic leaders, who are anxious to compose the differences that have been aroused in the party organization in congress I over the Panama canal tolls bill, look I forward with concern to the address 1 on the question that will be delivered . in the house on Tuesday by Speaker Clark. Fear is expresed that if Mr. Clark attempts a vigorous arraignment of President Wilson for his espousal of the repeal bill that the administration will at once be forced to declare war on the Missourian. It will be for Mr. Clark to deter--1 mine on Tuesday whether the party ■ fight now brewing shall break out ! early or late. Despite the concilia- ■ tory message sent out from the White House it is generally conceded that factionalism has crept into the Democratic organization and that the time is not far distant when an antiadministration group will be found doing business within the majority in congress. Clark Has Been Advised. So far Speaker Clark has taken none but his intimates into his confidence concerning the tenor of the address that he will make on Tuesday. It is known that he has sought counsel and advice on this particular speech. There is good reason to believe that he has conferred with former Senator Fred T. Dubois of Idaho and former Senator Frank R. Pettigrew of South Dakota, who managed the Clark candidacy in the Baltimore Iconvention. Messrs. Dubois and Pettigrew, sored by their defeat at Baltimore, are regarded as enemies of the administration. To the blunders committed by Dubois and Pettigrew at Baltimore was attributed in part at least the defeat of Mr. Clark by Mr. i Wilson. A good deal of significance is attached to the recent arrival here of Mr. Pettigrew who saw the speaker and Mr. Dubois shortly after he reached Washington. j Friends of Mr. Clark who would re- | gret a break with the administration take some comfort from the fact that the speaker is carefully preparing his address on the tolls question. I There is a group of administration h aders in the house who are in a rather churlish mood over the peace talk that came from the White House Saturday. These are the “second tier” ! leaders such as Palmer of Pennsylvania, Sherley of Kentucky, Adamson of Georgia, Covington of Maryland and Sims of Tennessee. Some of these members insist that whatever happens now, Speaker Clark’s head must, be put on the "block in the next congress. The speech will have no effect on the measure itself. The bill is assured of a -majority of from 50 to 90 votes. EX-U. S. MARSHAL ARRESTED William Richards, Just Out of Penitentiary, Is Taken Again. DES MOINES, IOWA. — William Richards, popularly known as “Big Bill Richards,” who for twenty i years was a deputy United States ' marshal for the southern district of lowa, is in jail here facing possible return to the penitentiary at Fort Madison as the result of a charge of j attempted robbery. Richards, who is fifty-nine years old, recently was released from an eighteen year term on I a parole. I Richards was arrested on the charge of Mrs. H. B. LaFore, that he ; was one of three masked men who entered her home and at the point of a pistol compelled her to be silent while his two companions searched the ' place. Mrs. LaFore broke away and notified the police and Richards was captured as he was trying to get away. U. S. TREATY STAND AROUSES Failure of Senate to Ratify Pact Causes Comment in DenmarkI COPENHAGEN, DENMARK.— The refusal of the United States senate to ratify the Danish-American arbitration treaty, of which the rigsdag has already beeh notified, has made a bad impression here. The objection that the Danish West : Indian islands might be sold to some ' great power is regarded as being en tirely without force, such sale being out of the question. The failure of the treaty is deeply regretted. PAROLED CONVICT RETURNED GeorSe Voss Re’umes Old Trade of Forcibly Relieving People of Cash. JOLIET, ILL. — George Voss, a paroled convict, was arrested at Romeo and will be returned to the penitentiary here. He is charged with robbing William O’Connell, a Lockport merchant, of SIBO, holding off officers with a gun . until he made his escape. :v

i AUGUST BELMONT f — . Aids Son in Suit Brought Against • Boy by Ethel Lorraine Belmont. J ieMr JK 1 Hk A Bgjk NEW YORK. — August Belmont took the stand to aid the case r of his son Raymond, who is being 1 sued for separation by Ethel Lor- } raine Belmont, a woman well known ( in the tenderloin. Mr. Belmont testi- } fled that his hon has spent $13,836 s since his marriage in November, 1912. He said emphatically that there was - nothing the matter with his son’s ini tellect. He has been in the habit of paying all of Raymond’s bills, he added, but the amounts paid out were i charged up to Raymond’s account. ! ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ i | SHORT CUTS TO THE NEWS | ■ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ > Danny Maher, noted jockey, has - quit racing on account of his health. I Miss Eleanor Wilson, daughter of » the president, is in New’ York to buy - her trousseau. Ambassador Page received the de- » gree of doctor of literature at the - Aberdeen university. t United States soldiers fired on Hut ertaists who crossed the American . line. Five of the Mexicans were killed. President Wilson declares he will t veto the immigration (Amendment bill r should, the “literacy test” not be • omitted. Vogel and Siegel, involved in the ■ failure of the Siegel department i stores, must stand trial on the charges 1 of fraud brought by New York state. I Queen Eleonora of Bulgaria, who Is to visit the United States with an exi tensive suite, will sail from Hamburg i on May 21 or May 27 for New York. 1 The deputy sheriff of Laporte, Ind., 1 upon arrival in Canada, declared the ’ woman thought to be Mrs. Belle Gun- ■ ness another person. He returned to Laporte. Miss Dora Orleans, con- ’ victed of slaying her alleged betrayer, ’ must serve a four-year sentence. It 1 is the first conviction of the kind in ' the south. By a vote of 200 to 172 the house passed the administration bill for re- ’ peal of the section of the canal tolls • law, which exempted American coastwise ships. Lady Richardson, the sensational I :barefoot cabaret dancer suddenly broke off her engagements with New York managers and sailed for England on the Lusitania. Former president Zelaya, or Nicaruuga, an exile in London, was the victim of an assassin. The man’s aim was bad however, and none of . his shots took effect. Edward Hines, Chicago lumber--man, has won his famous fight with > the state of Mississippi involving timber holdings in the southern counties, valued at about $15,000,000. The Supreme court of New York has declared the venerable prize , fighter, “Bob” Fitzsimmons too old and forbids him the right to appear in the boxing arenas of the state. A cc ording to advices received from Torreon, where Villa has been eni gaged in a nine-day conflict with Mexican federal troops three generals—- , Pena, Reyna and Anaya, all federals, have been killed. Two hundred lives were imperiled when the Burlington’s Overland Limited ran into an open switch at Haw- • thorne, 111. Five coaches nearly turned over, the steel cars saving the lives of the passengers. Colonel Seeley, British minister of war resigns. Premier Asquith has refused to accept the resignation, declaring the entire cabinet will stand or fall together. Affairs in Ulster brought the break. ' A petition for executive clemency in the case of the four young men • now under sentence to' die during Easter week for the murder of Her : man Rosenthal of New York, has been presented to Governor Glynn. After three years of experiment and observation a specific serum for the ' I treatment of lobar pneumonia cases has been offered to the public by the 1 Rockefeller Institute of Medical Re ' search. It is declared a success. ' Gifford PlnchoL Progressiwr candi- ■ date for United States senator, when he declared the only way for 1 the small business man to get justice "was to line him and his fellows up against big business and then fight. Severpl in his audience' protested but the candidate held to his . | views. lllilill ■ !iyi HUTY* '

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FORT BUILT IN 1810 MAY BE TORN DOWN Petersburg, Ind., Citizens Givan Chance to Save It. PETERSBURG, IND. — The old Indian fort which has s’ood at the White Oak Springs since early in the eighteenth century, will be razed to the ground within the next few weeks unless the citizens of Petersburg raise money to have it removed to the Hornady Park. The fort is located on the farm of Wirt King, who will raze the old building to make room for more modern buildings. ‘He has offered to present the fort to the City of Petersburg with the understanding that it is removed at once. The building was erected in 1810 by Woolsey Pride and was surrounded by a stockade. In the second story are port holes from which the early settlers took shots at Indians as they endeavored to surround the building. Just west of the fort is the old Indian mound that for centuries before had been used as a lookout by different bands of Indians. It was one ot the points along the old Louisville and Kaskaskia trail and is memorable in history as one of the points where the Lincoln party rested while on the way from Spencer county to Illinois. In the war of 1812 the fort was used as one of the outposts of Fort Vincennes and at numerous times it sheltered refugees who took sb niter there from the hostile tribes of Indians that infected this part of the country. The citizens here will endeavor to raise a fund to move the old fort and preserve it in Hornady Park. CRIME PENALTY HITS HOME Embezzler’s Wife Becomes Insane from Brooding Over 3ase. SOUTH BEND, IND. - Brooding over the imprisonment ol her husband, Albert G. Harlin, in the state prison at Michigan City foi a term of from two to fourteen yea \s for embezzlement and worrying b cause she would be required to vacat V the family homestead this week, i rs. NaYlin has become violently insar-a. She is now in the padded cell in he county jail. A sanity commission will prob- 1 ably order her sent to tt s Logansport Hospital for the Insar e. .. Harlin, up to a few me iths Ago, was supposed to be worth 250,000. A petition in bankruptcy folio red by an investigation, showed that he was a defaulter to the extent of $ 50,000. BOY DROWNSIN~POST HOLE Hell In Head First After F ain Filled Four-Foot Excavatic nLOGANSPORT, IND.—Lttle John Ramer, four years old, sor of Harry Ramer, a wealthy farmer II ing south of this city was diowned in a post hole which his father had ug in the front yard of his home. Mr. Romer had just finishod digging the hole, which was four feet deep. A heavy rain came up and th ’ hole, from a spout at the corner of the house, was filled with water. The child crept too near the hole and fell into it head first. Some time later the parent came to place the post in the hole and found the body of his son. FIRE HASTENS NEW SCHOOL Blaze Destroys High School Building As New One Is Planned. KOKOMO, IND. — Fire starting in the basement of the high school here destroyed the building, causing a loss estimated at $55,000. The school board already had sold bonds for a new building to cost $150,000. The fire; which is believed to have been caused by the ignition of escaping gas, was discovered at 3 o’clock, after it had gained great headway. Firemen with difficulty saved the grade school a few feet away. The high school was erected seventeen years ago. . ■ FOUR STUNNED BY LIGHTNING One Man Has Shoes Ripped from His FeetGARY, IND. — Four persons were stunned by lightning in a storm here. Thomas Williams was rendered unconscious and had his shoes ripped from his feet. Mrs. Eva Wesley and three children were knocked senseless when their home was struck. The family dog and all of theli chickens were killed. PASTOR OUT FOR COiGRESS Progressives Spring Sutorise In Crawfordsville, Ind., Di itrict. CRAWFORDSVILLE, IND.—A surprise in political circles in the Ninth district was sprung when Progressive leaders announc d that it was highly probable that the Rev. Barney E. Antrobus, pastoi of the First Baptist church of his city, wound make the race for the nomination for Representative in congress. Caught in Shaft and K’lled. BOURBON, INND. -- Arthur Smith was killed at the D Ip grain transfer when his clothes were caught on a high-speed shaft.

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