The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-03-15
INDIANA
n Briefs

INDIANAPOLIS-A colored woman
| tried to mail a letter in a fire alarm
/ box. Firemen of half a dozen COM
| panies answered. She got her letter
mailed
! FRANKFORT-C A. Johnson, jew
| eler of Kirklin, has been missing for
ten days. Everything was found in
/ god order when the town marshal,
| thinking Johnson might be dead in the
store, broke it open.
FIT. WAYNE-A dozen spoons stolen
from hotel in Button nine years
ago have been received by Dayton
Abbott, chief of police, who was then
owner of the BlufftOn hotel. A note,
signed by woman, came with them,
saying she didn't want stolen spoons
| to keep her out of heaven.
FRANKFORT-Clin county is
again in the grip of an influenza. cpl
demic. Twelve deaths have been re-
ported in five days, whole families
have been stricken, and in the home
The emergency hospital is filled.
This epidemic is worse than the one
last fall.
SOUTH BEND - Liquor, which,
when it was taken from J. c. Barrett,
ten cent whiskey, had turned into
colored sweetened water when pre-
scented in superior court here during
his trial. The case was dismissed.
BLOOMINGTON - Jealousy which
prompted him to attack Roy Tate, In
diana University student, with a
knife, has earned Denter Pryor a term
of two to fourteen years in the state
reformatroy. Tate was escorting
home young woman, to whom Pryor
| had shown attentions, when the at
tack occurred.
| NEWCASTLE-The end of the
rainbow has been found by Henry
Johnson in an old shack which he
| bought on condition that he would
| tear it down. He is firmly convinced
that man who died in the house sew
eral years ago left $1,000 hidden some
| where in its walls.
SHELBYVILLE-Six persons were
| indicted for perjury here by the Shell
by county grand jury, as a result of
testimony given in the case of Ray
mond Heck and Jesse Wolfe, acquit-
ted on charges of grand larceny. The
six indicted are relatives of the two
men.
HARTFORD CITY-Window of the
North Ward school were so clean that
Carlton Wright, ten years old, thought
! there wasn't any glass in one of them
and ran his knee and head through
the glass. He was cut about the
head
HAMMOND-Miss Josephine Pario,
| modiste, was awarded $500 heart
balm in a suit for breach, of promise
against Tullio Laguara, a Gary wine
merchant. The two had entered into
a trial marriage, which was not salts
| factory to Laguara.
FRANKFORT-Eighteen years ago
a young man received almost Sc in
change from So bill at the Cushwa
bakery here, and took the money.
| est SIUdy ne euleISU The STORE anu
paid it back.
| INDIANAPOLIS-J w. Talbot,
of South Bend, president of the Order
| of Owls, was fined 5000 for sending
through the mails printed matter cal
! culated to incite assassination. The
| article on which he was fined was
| printed in The OWL" and advocated
| the hanging of two New York men
because they had caused citizens to be
fined for keeping Chinese ringnecked
| pheasants.
EVANSVILLE-Afte % years the
| mysterious disappearance Of Henry
Elijah Webb from the state prison of
Jeffersonville has been explained. He
has been a respected citizen of Ma
kanda, ILL.,, was postmaster six years,
and was never identified as the es-
capped prisoner until after his death.
NEWCASTLE-Wil Mullen, As
years old, killed his wife and probably
fatally wounded himself. He was
jealous of his wife, say relatives.
KOKOMO-The Republic of France
has been awarded $55,8441S against
the Kokomo Steel and Wire company
in the federal court at Indianapolis,
for breach of contract in failing to
deliver barbed wire.
One of the bitterest things of life
lies in the discovery that things never
come to us SO easily as when we have