The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-02-19
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IN d. A N A
MERELY JOKE on IL GIRLS.


While Miss Ruth A Donham and
twelve girl friends were having what
they called stag party" at Miss Dom
hams home one night last week, at
Terre Haute, all wearing male gar
ments, the police patrol arrived and a
man wearing a policeman's uniform
"raided'' the house and took the girls
to police headquarters. most OF the
girls believing il was a genuine arrest
After they had been slated" Gerhardt
Monninger. nephew Of Mayor Gerhardt
and himself city employe, and friends
of the girls appeared and explained the
joke he had planned.
LOSES VALUABLE HORSES.
Marcellus ]. Smith, proprietor of the
old Flatrock Stock Farm. near Iawr-
enceburg. has lost eight valuable
horses during the last winter. Six OF
the animals died from a peculiar
disease. said by the attending veteri-
narians to have been caused from feed
ing too much alfalfa hay. Two fns
stable horses got loose during the night
and both were killed after vicious
fight.
RAT NEARLY CAUSES DEATH.
| A hungry rat that gnawed a hole in
| the rubber pipe of gas heater was
responsible for the serious illness OF
| three persons Saturday In down town
| fiat. The supply of gas for a heater in
| the millinery store of Mrs. Clarinda
Brehm was suddenly shut off, and an
/ investigation proved that the rubber
| connecting pipe had been gnawed in
| two. evidently by rat.
The escaping gas found its way to
i the apartments Of Mrs. Sue Martin. on
the second floor, and she and her son.
roomer narrowly escaped death from
asphyxiation. They we're found in .
semi-conscious condition.
SIGNS DEED AT 10I.
David Fisher, age 1o1 years. Clinton
county's oldest resident, has just made
deed to his son, James s. Fisher. for
; an eighty acre tract of land lying east
of Frankfort Mr.. Fisher signed the
deed himself and notwithstanding his
extreme old age wrote his name az
. plainly as young man just out Of
school would have done.
MAKES GOOD HAUL.
, Reaching an upstairs window of tbs
r. B. Cooper home at Elwood by means
of a convenient tree, a thief entered
the house and after remaining hidden
in closet until the family had retired
rified the rooms. getting away with So
!, in money and silverware and jewelry
worth 5000.
! c. NJ Knick. william Ray, Jake
: Etchison and David Warner. living or
= adjoining farms northwest of Elwood
were robbed of 800 chickens by thieves
| thought to have been from Elwood
: The theft was the biggest of the kin,
pulled OF in that vicinity in years
! and the police believe they have clew
8 which will lead to the rounding up o
: the gang
e MEXICAN WAR VETERAN DEAD.
- John B. Lyon. of Rushviile. ag'
e eighty eight. who died Saturday at th
i home of his daughter. Mrs. Thomas Va
Il Camp, in New Salem, was the last o
II the Mexican war veterans In Rus
d county. He enlisted in the war in Ma,
y 1887. at his home in Owens count,
l. Kentucky. Ligon served fifteen month
d and was discharged in August, 1S4s
z He was the oldest Mason in that par
n of the state. having affiliatedwith tha
n order at AndeIsonville in March, $50;
: Lyon was a Democrat and never miss
ed voting at an election. He is surviv
ed by four children-Mrs. Van Cam
J, and Mrs. Riley Stevens. of Rush county
Mrs. Virginia Smith, of Muncie, an
n Mrs. Lewis Daley, of indianapolis
6 three brothers, one sister. ninetee
grandchildren and eight great-grand
r, children.
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