South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-06-30
CARPENTER HURT IN
FALL. ASKS $1,000
Henry X. Wolfe Brings Suit
For Damages Against Val
entine Griner.

FLKHART, Ind, June 30.-Demand
fo= 5000 damages IS made in a su-
periOr court case hled by Attorney J.
s. Dodge for Henry Is Wolfe a Bris-
toll carpenter. against Valentine Griner
Of Bristol. formerly Of Middlebury.
Wolfe was injured Sept "a 1914.
when a scaffold al a house in Bristol
fell 20 feet with him. His left leg.
10 is averred was broken just above
the ankle. and this and other injuries
have IL IS charged. wholly and per
manentlv disabled" him. Wolfe who
IS g. years old. claims ne was earn
ing $3.50 per day at the time Of the
accident
Wolfe's complaint AYERS that he wac
hired 90 work for Grincr and report
cd 10 Frank Griner. brother Of the
defendant, who was foreman OF the
job. that when Frank Griner ordered
him 20 mount the sCaffOld he discuss
cd it's safety with Griner and the lat
ter told him il was safe.
The condition OF Herschel Guyer,
night clerk at the Depot hotel. who
was seriously wounded By william
Patterson. colOred. in a stabbing af-
fray Monday night. was so favorable
Tuesday afternoon that he started for
his home In North Manchester on the
$50 O'Clock train
Patterson is prisoner in the city
Jail charged with assault with a
deadly weapon. IT. has been proved
that both men were under the infu-
ence OF liquor.
Eugene Compton. aged Al years.
died in a hospital at LOgansport Mon
day, the body arriving here Tuesday.
Wednesday it will be taken to the
home OF his brother. Councilman r. ID.
Compton. 326 Middlebury ST
Mr. Compton. who as a member of
CO +. 157th Indiana, was sent to
Florida during the Spanish-American
war in 1885. contracted malaria while
in camp and never recovered his
health. He had been at Logansport
eight years.
T.. =. Compton received a dispatch
from hospital authorities at Logans-
port yesterday that his brother was
critically sick. Sut did not mention the
nature OF the final illness. While Mr..
Compton was preparing 10 go 20 Lo-
Eansport second dispatch was re-
ccived announcing the death OF his
brother
The only other near relative is a
brother, CHARLES Compton Of Denver.
All OF the former plant Of the Gar
den City Stationery Co. which was
partially destroyed by fire several
months ago. is 10 be occupied.
The Elkhart Stationery Co, which
rose from the ashes OF the Garden
City company. and which has been
using the three-story brick front" of
the plant. is preparing 10 occupy the
one-stOry burned portion the wall OF
which remain intact. a roof is now
being constructed. The Wheat Paper
co. is arranging 20 use the three
story front. which affords $4,000
square feet for storage purposes. The
F-Ikhart Stationery co. will have 25.-
600 square feet of space for all pUr-
poses of &c business.
The building belongs TO w. =. Bur
ris. who bought il OF the head of the
Garden City Co. II. +. Dayton OF
quincy, III.
Eden W. Munsel. aged 60. who was
we'll known 10 Lake Shore employees
when he was a telegraph operator at
kalamazoo, died at his home In Belle
Plains IA, yesterday afternoon, after
a long illness. He was the Youngest
brother OF Mrs. Mary Barney widow
OF George T. Barney Of this city. and
his wife is "a niece OF Mrs. Job Breeze.
also OF this city. Besides the widow.
daughter survives him. She lives in
Chicago.
Three Elkhart young men who UNI
dertOok 90 beat their way 20 Kendall
villc on a fast freight last night de-
clarcd Tuesday they had made their
first and last attempt az cumming
one of them fell off the top of a box
car just east of Goshen. and as his
al "a 6 =