The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-05-15

that 1t has been his practice when not
on such trips to spend every Sunday in
Chicago.
AUTOMOBILE CRUsHEs OUT A LIFE.
Il want to show them something"
said Harold Morgan. of indianapolis.
thirteen-ye ar-old son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Ernest Morgan. 900 West drive Wood
ruff Place, just before he was run down
and fatally injured Saturday evening
near his home by an automobile driven
by DIR. Albert r. Sterne. 1890 East
Tenth street The remark was made
to boy friend Harold started to run
across the street to where two little
girls we're sitting. The boy died on the
oerating table fifteen minutes after tho
accident, his skull having been frac-
tured.
When a report of the accident reach
ed police headquarters. Captain Coffin
went to the place in the emergency
automobile to assist bicyclemen Okey
and Todd in making an investigation.
Seven witnesses besides DR. Sterne told
the police that the accident was un-
avoidable, and the physician was not
arrested
ACCIDENT WHILE ASLEEP.
| Edward Schooley of Bedford. was the
victim of an odd accident that will lay
him up for few weeks. During the
night in his sleep he raised his arms
over his head and in some manner dis
located his shoulder
TO TEST THICK TONGUES.
| Difficulty in convicting arrested for
intoxication has resulted in the sug-
gestion of a fixed rule for the guidance
of Rushviile police and there is now an
interesting argument over the prac-
| ticability of asking all persons suspect
ed of intoxication to say truly rural"
If the person under suspicion fails to
enunciate the words properly, it is sug-
gested that he be slated for intoxica-
ton.
CHILD PLEADS DON'T CRY PAPA
PAPA, don't cry" said little Louise
Scoville of Indiana polls, six years old.
in sympathetic appeal to her father,
Benton Scoville, who was called to his
home, 254 Beauty avenue, Saturday af-
ternoon on account of fatal burns she
had received while playing near a pile
of blazing paper.
The father broke down when he saw
his beautiful daughter with terrible
burns all over her body. Soon after she
had told her papa not to cry. she smii-
ingly fell into the sleep from wnlCn
she did not waken. A hood which she
| wore had saved her wealth of curls
from the fire and her pretty face was
lunscorched. The funeral was held yes
lterday afternoon.
TO STOP SPREAD OF RABIES.
| The secretary of the Delaware county
board of health has ordered that all
dogs running at large without muzzies
be killed.
The head of a dog killed at Muncie
Saturday has ben found by the bac-
Theological laboratory of the state
board of health to have been that of. a
rabid dog. A child living north OF
town was bitten Saturday by a dog
believed to have had rabies, and the
head of that animal was sent to the
AND WHERE WAS BosCo.
While blowing In the Wabash river
bottoms, west of Owensville, Fin Jones
| and two sons killed seventy-fve chick
en- snakes. Nearly all of the reptiles
measured FIVE feet Jones says the
ground was literally covered with
snakes. He and the boys. In the alb
sence of "Bosco, who eats EN- alive,
killed the snakes with fence rails.
: LARGE PLANT is DESTROYED.
The Greenwood Lumber Company a
Greenwood lost between SIS, 900 anC
$40 600 Friday night when fire of un
; known origin destroyed the planning mil
5 lumber yard and coal yard. The own
5 ers of the plant are A. L. Carson, o
: Greenwood, and A. J. Engler, of Frank