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Hoosier Briefs Mixed Local Odds and Accidents
A tramp using the name Guy Sullivan worked two days at the Wabash Canning Company and then moved on. The National hotel room saw a clothing and shoe theft. Accidents and incidents include two boys injured in Bluffton area, heat exhaustion for Jacob Myers, a strongman from Wawaka, a Portland car dash with a bridge rail, and a broken halter injuring a farmer. Fifteen thousand fish placed in a Brown County lake. seven acres flooded and thirty cottages built. Mrs. Jesse Crabbe, 85, Kosciusko County pioneer, died at Clunette. Al King injured in auto rollover near Peru. Wren Jackson, 49, near Clinton, died by poison. Wheat harvest under way in Jay County. crop described as average by agent H. S. Heckard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guy Sullivan
Wabash Canning Company
National Hotel