South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-08-13
STATE BRIEFS

SIAIE BKIEFS
BEDFORD, Ind.-Fire destroyed
three-room house occupied by Speck
Scott, a young mar, and his mother.
A lamp that had been burning eX-
ploded. Scott was sleeping and was
overcome by the heat and smoke.
which was afire.
GREENSBURG. Ind.-Struck by a
baseball bat which slipped from the
ands of Miss Helen ROszell, who
al Just Tanned out" Miss Myrtle
Keeling was seriously injured. A long
cash was cut in her forehead. she
was watching a team Of girls playing
a team of boys.
MARION. 1nd.-That she may en-
ter a college of medicine and surgery
at Chicago, Miss X. Marion Written
has resigned as superintendent of the
Grant county hospital.
r. WAYNE, Ind. G. Hughes,
of S-ott, O., is in Ft Wayne on
search for his daughter, Mrs. Alice
Hughes Dubois. who he says has fall
en- heir to a large estate by the death
of a relative in Miamisburg, o. Mrs.
Dubois was formerly employed in a
laundry here. and is believed TO have
gone to Muncie.
COLUMBUS, Ind.-Plans are being
made here for the combination of sew
eral bands in Bartholomew and Jack
son counties, thus making an organ
iZation of about $50 musicians. Among
the bands proposed for the combina-
ton are those of Columbus. Seymour.
ReddingtOn. Vallonia, Hope, Azalia,
Medora, FreetOwn, Dudleytown, Dark
Corner and Edinburg.
CONVICTION. Ind.-The resigna-
ton of Or. H. X. Fox, who has been
pasrCr of the Presbyterian church
here for eight years, has been ac-
copied. He will become the pastor
of the Presbyterian church at Day
ton, Ind.
WARSAW. Ind.-The annual re-
ception for southern people was held
at the Winona hotel Wednesday. and
100 or more from all parts of the
south attended. Miss Mamie Guthrie.
OF Anchorage, Ky, and Mrs. Bette
Rodeheaver. formerly of Knoxville,
Tenn, had charge.
FIT. WAYNE, Ind.-AIleging that
her compaionship with his daughter,
Eva. brought about her debauchery,
Manlius Swank brought suit against
Mrs. Helen Baker Wood for $40, 900.
Mrs. Wood recently obtained a di-
vOrce and $4,000 alimony from J. ].
Wood, a prominent manufacturer.
MUNCIE. Ind.@"Jitney' bus own
ers scored again when Mayor Bunch
refused to call a special council meet
ing to pass an ordinance calling for
an indemnity bond of $4,000 for
each car and prohibiting men under
Fl to operate jitneys. Muncie has
long been known as a safe harbor
for infant industries"
INDIANAPOLIS. Ind-The wards
Of the board of children's guardians
are TO be taken to the Marion. Ind.
home, pending the completion of a
new home 10 be erected in Irvington
on the same site as that destroyed by
fire Saturday. AS the result of the
refusal by the county council to ap-
propriate $50, 600 several months ago
for a modern freproof structure on
the grounds that the county council
did not have the money, a bond issue
will probably be necessary.
ANN ARBOR, Mich. - PARALYSIS
claimed the life OF Thomas J. Keech,
rs, for 81 years manager Of the Mich
igan State Telephone company's ex-
change here. Mr.. KeeCh organized
the first telephone service the city re-
ceived.
LANSING, Mich.-Attorney- Gener-
al Fellows has ruled that automobiles
owned and operated by municipalities
do not need to take out licenses under
the new law, but he recommends
that some definite sort OF identiica-
ton be placed on such cars TO make
ownership apparent.
SAGINAW, Mich.-POstmaste ".
+. Hemmeter Of the west side Office.
has started suit for $4,000 against the
Caledonia Coal company. charging
that the latter's mining operations
were conducted under his land and
that his buildings settled.
LANSING. Mich.-The 1915 Public
Acts are in the hands of the printer.
The volume viii be a record-breaker
for size when it appears.
FLINT. Mich.-Achilles and Al
phonse Van Wallenghem. child refu-
gees from Belgium. are safe in the
home Of their parents here. Many