Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1913 — Collins Could Not Remember Who Sold Him the Whiskey. [ARTICLE]

Collins Could Not Remember Who Sold Him the Whiskey.

Charles Collins, the laborer, who was found in a beastly state of intoxication in the Baptist churcn yard last Friday night and taken to jail, on Saturday swore to an affidavit that he bought the “ski” of George Hopkins, at Larsh & Hopkins’ drugstore. On tie Strength of the affidavit Mr. Hop kins was arrested. He stated that he had not sold any intoxicant to Collins and when the hearing came up this Monday afternoon Collins decided that he was not certain where he got it and Mr. Hopkins was released with complete exoneration

.Half of the members of President Wilson’s cabinet will spend the week end or longer at their homes, driven from Washington for rest after ten arduous days in office, or by the necessity of arranging personal affairs preparatory to an extended stay at the capital. Office seekers have worried some of the cabinet officers to a point where relief was demanded.

One-half million dollars will be surrendered by the federal treasury to corporations which during the last three years have been penalized for failure to make corporation tax returns within the limit of time prescribed by law. Congress authorized the refunding of such penalties in excess of SIOO provided the delay in submitting returns was due solely to neglect.

Chicago men smoke one million cigars a day and the cost a man averages $22 a year, according to the report of the cigars and tobacco subdivision committee of the Chicago Association of Commerce. The total investment In Chicago in tobacco is estimated to be somewhere In excess of $10,000,000. The report says that in 1912 more than 232,000,000 cigars were manufactured there. 'Mrs. Lydia Hunter, 66 years old, a reeluse who resided in the <?buntry near Warsaw, was found dead by neighbors Thursday. It is believed she died Monday night, and that heart trouble was the cause. She was last seen on Sunday. A son and daughter survive.

Acting on the information of Burton Cassidy, secretary of the state board of pharmacy; Sheriff Kelley, of Sullivan count, confiscated liquor found at the stores of W. L. Hunt and T. A. Combes, of Sullivan. It is said that charges of Illegal sale will be preferred.

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