Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1905 — DID A LAND OFFICE BUSINESS [ARTICLE]

DID A LAND OFFICE BUSINESS

tatooD keeper. Pay * Court tor low \ Violation tlio Sum of $4,183. Marlon, Ind., Feb. 10. The 120 sakonkcepers who were Indicted by the recent grand Jury for violations of the Nicholson law, and for keeping gambling devices, appeared before Judge Pnuius in the circuit court and entered pleas to the information against them. All but three or four of the number pleaded guilty and were fined. The court added sls to the minimum fine iii each case, making the fine for violating liquor laws $25 and for keeping a gambling device S4O. The costs in each case were SO. The total fines and costs paid in by tbe saloonkeepers amounted to $4,185. The prosecutor receives a $5 fee for each ease and his fees in these amount to SOOO. Two of the bills returned by the grand jury were for tbe sale of liquor within one mile of the Soldiers’ Home, which is a violation of the Wood law. Lewis Baumhoff appeared in the circuit couit ar.d pleaded guilty to violating the Wool law'. He was fined SIOO anil sentenced to jail for ten days. The penally fixed by tbe court in Baunihoff's case was the minimum under the Wood law.

Be«ui> to Gnd the Matter.

Bedford, Ind., Feb, 10. Deputy Prosecutor Fletcher lias dismissed the charge against Elmer Browning, who was held to the grand jury after « preliminary henring jointly with Frank Evans charged with the muidcr of Miss Sarah Schafer. The prisoner was at once released. “Dude” Cook and Jack Acton have beemgruuteda change of venue.

She Lived To Be 108. Jeffersonville, Ind., Feb. 10. Susan Robinson, a negress, once a Kentucky slave, died here at the age of 108 years, if the record she treasured in an old Bible, which gave the date of her birth on June 20, 1790, is to be Lelieved. She was born in Winchester, Ky., being for sixty years the property of John Robinson.

Promulgates a Peace Appeal.

Richmond, Ind., Feb. 10.—Professor Cyrus W. Hodgin, of this city, president of the Peace Association of Friends in America, has promulgated the appeal sent out by the Peace Unions of Norway, Sweden and Denmark for a united effort to bring the war In the Far East to a close.

He Was Quarantined In Jail. Fort Wayne, Ind., Feb. 10.—Clyde Stillwell made social calls on bis sweetheart, who is a nurse at the smallpox Isolation hospital west of town, and afterward walked about the street. The result was that he was sentenced to jail for twenty days.

Went Safely Through War for This.

Sottsburg, Ind., Feb. 10. Leman R. Young, 35 years old, who served ns a soldier In th£ Philippines, whiie felling a tree near Alpha, this county, was caught in the descent and crushed to death, scarcely a bone remaining unbroken.