Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1901 — $450-00 and Costs. [ARTICLE]

$450-00 and Costs.

The above is the verdict in the case of W. B. Burford vs board of commissioners of Jasper county, tried in White circuit court this week. This case, it will be remembered, was brought by Mr. Burford nearly two years ago t 6 recover pay for books and stationery furnished this county on order of certain county officers, to wit: J. C. Gwin, N. J. Reed, H. B Murray and L. H. Hamilton. These supplies were ordered and received by the said officers, according to Mr. Harford’s complaint, during the year of 1898, when the county had a contract with Wilson, Humphries & Co , of Logansport, to furnish all supplies of this nature for the sum of $1,450 and pnid the said firm the full-amount of said said contract price. The county commissioners, no doubt owing to the publicity The Democrat had given this matter, refused to allow Burford’s claim. As the county had contracted for and paid for all supplies required of another firm, it is claimed by well ported attorneys that the officers exceeded their authority in order ing supplies of Mr. Burford and are personally liable on there bond for wh a fever supplies they have ordered. If so, steps should be taken at once to bring them to time in this matter. It is not right for Jasper County to be compelled to pay for two sets of books and stationery, and only receive one set, simply because certain of her public officers wished to favor two stationery firms at the expense of the taxpayers. It will be well renlembered in this connection that when The Democrat exposed this stationery steal, during the campaign of ’9B, the padded legal gentleman who presides over the destinies of the Official Apoligist denounced us as a liar from Liarsville, but like every other statement The Democrat has made concerning the conduct of county business, time has proven that the liar was the other fellow and that The Democrat told the truth.

'f'The funeral of ex-President Harrison will take place at Indianapolis to-morrow. at 2 p. in. President McKinley aud cabinet and many other high officials will attend. The remains will lie in state to-day from 11 a. m., to 10 p. m., and the military demonstration will be held to-day, the Indiana national guard being in attendance. Railroads have made half-fare rates and an immense throng will be in Indianapolis today and to-morrow.

The grand jury indictments against Dr Mary Jnekson of Hammond, for abortion on the person of Miss Mary Nagel of Rensselaer, were qtTashedin the Lake Superior court YY’ednesdny morning as defective. The girl refused to make new affidavits, but finally her father, Michael Nagel, made the affidavit. The defense asked for change from Judge Tuthill, and the case was continued to Thursday. At the hour of going to press we learned by telephone that a jury had not yet been secured. A Williamsport dispatch says: Mrs. Christiana Shrimptin of Jasper County has tiled suit in the YY'arren Circuit Court to recover $25,000 from John F. Judy, originator and promoter of the socalled “Judy system” of money lending. She charges that Samuel Hunter, one of Judy’s agents, came to her home to foreclose a chattle mortgage on personal property, and that he seized a set of harness not included in the mortgage, and in the struggle to recover her property she was thrown to the ground and injured.