The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-12-27


pital with minor injuries,
MINEOLA, N. Y.-Mrs. Edna
Dolan, 10, mother of 15-months' old
baby, drank shoe polish and died on
Christmas day. Police said she COM
mitted suicide to avoid meeting her
husband, who wrote from Detroit
that he was coming to spend Christ.
mas with her.
0SSINING, n. Y.-The sixteen
men IN the death cells at Sing
Sing, whose days are numbered,
were made happy on Christmas
day by special chicken dinner
and distribution of tobacco,
fruit and candy.
NEW YORK.--Mrs. Pauline Har-
gett of Steubenyille, Ohio, left q
Christmas dinner at the apartment
of q friend and leaped eleven stories
to death. She was suffering from
melancholia, It was said she had
been divorced recently.
MARSHALL, Mich.-In honor of
Mrs. Sarah May Williams one-hun-
dredth birthday, which fell on
Christmas day, ninety-two descend
ants paid her a yuletide visit, IN
Guiding three daughters, two sons,
thirty-two grandchildren, forty great
grandchildren and twelve great
great grandchildren ~ five-genera-
tons picture was taken.
NEW YORK.-The Rev. Gustav
Christensen, 76, who has retired as
pastor Of Holy Rood Church after
fifty years in the ministry, said he
hopes to take a forty-mile walk on
his seventy-seventh birthday next
June.
CHICAGO.-Traffic Officer Fred
Kilroy put out his right hand to
stop traffic. A limousine whisked
by and hit it. Kilroy was taken
to hospital, his hand severely
cut.
SACRAMENTO, Cal.-Mrs. Bea.
trice Seydel believes she has a right |
to kiss her poodle. In fact, she thinks
she should get a divorce from her
husband because he upbraided her
when she kissed the pet Extreme |
cruelty" she called it, in her divorce |
suit filed here.
OKLAHOMA CITY, OlsIa.-The
city dog catcher here was better
paid than the mayor i'm 1926. L. III.
Terrill collected S2,648.S0 on dog Ii.
cense fees, besides an additional
S1,l60.80 on fees paid directly TO
the city treasurer. He received
Sl,605.50 for dogs he destroyed,
bringing his income for the year
to S4,4l0.10. Mayor o. A. Can
gill's salary is $4,000. while the city
commissioners get $4,000 each.
NEW YORK.-Too much zeal in
trying up her cabin before she dis
embarked from the liner Arabic kept |
Mary Kalacek a prisoner on Ellis |
Island. She had thrown her pass |
port into the sea with litter from her
cabin.
DETROIT-Mino Grameno and |
Ait zenal are perhaps the most !
enthusiastic naturalized Americans
in forty-eight States. An official "in-
vitat,on" from Albania, their home |
land. to return and be shot as COM
munist plotters has been emphatical-
ly declined by both.
WLUSHING, L. I-While coast |
guard crews were out looking for
rum runners, two policemen manned
rowboat and turned coastguard to
pilot a ship in distress to a haven in
Long Island Sound and rescue her
crew Of 20. The steamer CASTOR
from Newark to Boston with a hole
stove in her bow was sinking when
the officers boarded her.
WASHINGTON - The body of
Horace H. Smith. prominent Depart
ment of Justice attorney, who was
found dead in his cellar with a
revolver beside him, was taken to-
day to Plainfield, N. j., for burial.
Associates of Smith indicated over
work had brought on nervous
trouble.
WASHINGTON - Mrs. Blanche
Long Clark, Al, formerly of Kent,
Ohio, committed suicide here Christ
mas day by taking poison. She was