The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-01-17
Mss GlRn. MlLae
Up and Down in
IN d. A N A
WISHES TO SELL BODY.

WISHES III SELL BOD1.
Poorly dressed for zero wea Their, VIII
liam Tecumseh Sherman Welch. of
Muncie. age twenty-three, yesterday
applied to the county coroner. DIR. John
| C. Coffman. and asked to sell his body
for any price that the coroner might
name
Whats the use of living unless you
have money!" asked the young man.
II can't even borrow money, because
have no security. and / have no work.
must eat, and I'd rather sell my body
than to steal in order to live. What's
your price?"
| The coroner told him that his body
was not a marketable product in the
| flesh.
COAL SCARCE AT BLOOMINGTON.
| Bloomington Is in imminent danger
| of coal famine. The Indiana unfver-
sity heating plant, which uses forty
tons of coal a day. is running with
barely enough from day to day and as
son as a single shipment fails to arrive
the university will have to close down
until fuel is received. The city heat
| ing plant, which uses sixty tons day,
has barely enough to keep the plant
going All coal dealers in the city are
running very short
DANGER AT WOLF CREEK AGAIN.
| Ice in the river at Jeffersonville and
at points above is hardly moving. and
! at Six Mile island it was actually froz-
en- over, but has broken loose again.
Reports from down river say the Ohio
is frozen over at Wolf creek. near
where the great gorge formed two
Years ago, and the use of dynamite to
break it quickly is under considers ton.
lit was degrees below at JeffersonvilIe
on the official thermometer, but read
ligs in the open registered as low as is
CITIES RECEIVE LEGACIEs.
The city of Greenfield is made bene-
hciary in the will of p. C. Sullivan. or
Toronto. Canada. Sullivan left an
lestate of about $4,000 and directed
THAT 800 be given to his sister AM
brother n-law and that the remainder
Ishould be divided into three funds. one
Ito go to the city of Toronto. Canada
lanother to Minneapolis. MINI. and the
third to the city of Greenfield. a
rust fund, the income to be used for
the relief OF the INDECENT poor. Sulii-
van never lived at Greenfield, but his
wife. who was Miss Susan Atkinson
was born and reared in that city. The
Toronto Trust Company was named as
executor of the will
TOO HASTY TO WED AGAIN.
Alonzo Mount, OF Sheibyville, OBJ
tanned divorce from Willie Mount
now in Macon, Ca. about noon Satur-
day. and two hours later applied for 9
marriage license to wed Florence Nc
| Gibbons Mount is twenty-six and
his intended wife fifty. he license was
refused because Judge Blair had no
signed the divorce decree. Mount hai
been married twice and his intended
bride is a widow with three children
She obtaine. a divorce three years ago
ROBBINS EAT CEDAR SEEDS.
w. F. swan who lives near Craw
lfordsville says: "A flock of robins. es
Minated at more than one hundred. +
feeding on cedar seeds in my grove
The birds arrived yesterday while thu
mercury. was 2 degrees below ezro, an,
: lappeared TO be as lively they are fl
summer 1 am seventy five years old
and had never seen the like before"
RISKS LIFE TO SAVE CHILD.
Joseph f. Frazer, former city clerk
lof Lawrenceburg, who has but on
\ arm, received serious injury to the re
r naming one yesterday. when he saw
n ed the life of child at walnut an
= William streets The little girl wa
| crossing the Baltimore s Ohio Soutf