The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-12-05
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PERFORM DIFFICULT TRICK.

A turnip dropped from the window |
of an Office on the eleventh floor of the !
Lemske Annex at Indianapolis at noon |
yesterday was caught on a fork clencn- |
ed in the teeth of a man standing on
low platform on the sidewalk below. |
This was done to demonstrate the
dexterity, with a fork of Jean Bedini.
juggler, who is one of the attractions
at B. F. Keith's theater this week.
Two trunips were first thrown to
get the range; a third was muffed by
Bedini. but the fourth he speared, al
though a piece was broken from the
wooden handle of the fork by the force
Of the blow. Bedini staggered back,
but said the only inconvenience he
suffered was the loss of some of the
membrane from the roof of his mouth
by reason of the broken handle.
WRECK TIES Up BIG -FOUR.
Southbound extra freight No. e752 on
the Big Four, running twenty miles an
hour, jumped the track three miles
north of Knightstown last night. 4
defective rail is held responsible.
Eleven cars and the engine went into
the ditch and wreckage from the dam
aged cars was scattered about so that
traffic was delayed all night and much
of today. The engine turned COM
pletely over, and Engineer Hegg of
Wabash, Fireman Miller of wabash
and Head Brakeman Clark of Cincin-
natl. who were riding on the engine
when the crash came, escaped withou,
a scratch The train was in charge of
Condutor Childers of Cininnati.
| SAYS POOLE is INSANE
! William w. Poole, of Lafayette, Wa
bash county. brother OF John w. Poole
charged with the murder of Joseph
Kemperer, told the jury yesterday thaz
all through life his brother had ex-
Inhibited symptoms of insanity which led
all his relatives to regard him as a
person of unsound mind and not re-
lsponsible for many of his acts
/ The story was interrupted at one
lpoint by the defendants illness, it be-
ing feared for time that the trial
Iwould have to stop.
WOMEN DoUBLY DIVORCED.
That Mrs. George Leach, of Terre
IHaute obtained a divorce from her
Husband after he was dead is indicat-
led in the first word from him since his
disappearance two years ago. The
news comes from Springfield Mo-. and
is to the effect that he died there last
summer. Mr.. Leach obtained her di-
vorce in the September term of courr.
COMPROMISE ON $4,000.
| An entry of dismissal was put or
record in the circuit court yesterday al
Washington in the suit of Laura
Poueher. of indianapolis, against w
r. Meredith, OF Washington, com
promise having been affected at a con
ference of attorneys for both sides. The
plaintiff brought suit for the entire
estate of Edward +. Meredith, broth
; er of the defendant. valued a 100000
on he ground ha he plainin E. i. Mer-
edih's common law wife. The case hac
been set for trial December Z before
. Special Judge r. w Miers, of Bloom
lington. BY the terms of settlement
the plaintiff received $4,000. The
( money was paid to her attorney. Eph
/ RAIN Inman. of Indianapolis, yesterdal
Afternoon. w. r. Meredith was made
defendant because he was executor 0
his brothers estate.
DEATH CHANGES PLANS.
The recent death of Howard Pyi
. will make a change in the plans o
s Miss Olive Rush of Paramount, VIII
: has been member of his colony @
artists in Wilmington. Del, for tel
lyears. At present Miss Rush and he
friend. Miss Ethel Brown, are occupy
:, ing the Pyle studio in Wilmington
When Mr.. Pyle went abroad last yea
, The leased the studio. with all its arts
l. tic appointments. to the two youni
women until he should return
In Mr. Pyle's colony were Away
lseveral young men but few women. tn
;, iartist declaring that the average gin
with artistic ideas was not in earnes
/ and that she would aba don her wor
latter a temporary squirt OF enthusiasm