Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1906 — UP AGAINST THE LAW [ARTICLE]

UP AGAINST THE LAW

Solicited Campaign Fund*, “Ac* knowledged the Corn," and Is Fined SIOO. THAT IS COL. HUFFMAN’S FATE New Republican (State Commit' tee Organize* Grain Dealers Indorse Roosevelt. Indianapolis, Jan. 19. Pleading guilty to a charge of having violated the United States laws which forbid the solicitation of money to be used for political campaign funds, Colonel W. VV. Huffman, of Anderson, formerly a member of tbe Republican state central committee, was fined SIOO by Judge Anderson, In the United States district court. Tbe indictment by the federal grand jury came as the result of an investigation held by Commissioner Henry F, Greene, of the civil service department at Goshen, where it was alleged that Colonel Huffman had made collections from employes of the postofflee to be used In tbe campaign of 1904. Republican State Committee. Indianapolis, Jan. 19.—'The Republican state committee reorganized by electing James I’. Goodrich, of Winchester, chairman; George Dinwiddle, of Franklin, vice chairman; Carl W. Riddick, of Winamae, secretary, and Frank 1). Stalnakcr, of Indianapolis, treasurer. Insane Hutcher Kills Himself. Indianapolis, Jan. J 9 Ford, who while Insane killed his wife and three babies with a hatchet, and then set fire to his house near Vevay, several months ago. ended his own life at the Central Indiana Hospital for the Insane. Escaping the attendant for a few minutes he hanged himself to the hinge of a door in the hath room. He was dead when found. Indorsed by the Grain Dealers.

Indianapolis, Jan. 10.—The Indiana Grain Dealers’ association elected E. M. Wasuintli, of Roanoke, president, and adopted resolutions indorsing President Roosevelt’s plan for government rate making. Attacks the Governor’s Methods. Indianapolis, Jan. 19. W. H. H. Miller, in his argument before Judge Carter on the defendant’s demurrer in the case in which it is sought to oust Daniel E. Storms from ids office, digressed enough from legal discussion to attack the methods of Governor Hanly in exposing alleged wrong-do-ing of members of tin* state administration. lie thought them too spectacular. MAKES THE MARKET PAY Standard Oil Methods Roasted lor the Benefit of Retail Merchants—Parcels Post Denounced. Fort Wayne, Ind., Jan'. 19.—Standard Oil methods were scored in a paper read before the Indiana Retail Merchants’ association by J. W. Galloway, who declared that the company makes the non-competitive market pay the cost of driving out competition, its price ranging from H to 17 cents a gallon, according to the competition. He charged tiiat the company "sells under false brands, and resorted to trickery ami deception in order to secure a monopoly.” Judge Woods, of the state railroad commission, delivered an address, and S. (’. Ibidd, of Terre Haute, read a paiier denouncing the parcels post as a scheme of mail order houses to increase their business.

Accidentally Kills a Brother. Uoonville, Ind., Jan. 19. —Charles A. Fetter, lti years old. son of John Fetter, a farmer living nonr BoonviUe, was killed Instantly by the accidental discharge of a shotgun. With his brother. he was hunting, and the dogs ran to cover what was believed to l>e a rabbit under an abandoned log church. Wiille hastening about the building the accident occurred, the shot entering the victim’s brain. The supposed rabbit turned out to lie a cat. Was a Cruel Mistake. Terre Haute. Ind., Jan. 19.—The Idle gossip of a barber shop in a little Missouri town made 200.000 Indiana people happy and hopeful. It brought to the anxious hearts of Dr. and Mrs. L. 8. Byers, of Seelyvlile. eight miles eats of here, a renewed hope that they would regain their lost Itoy, but their hopes were dashed when a telegram arrived stating that the boy had not been found. Was a Gentle Tornado. Loogootee, Ind., Jnn. 10.—During the recent midwinter storm the school building in the Thomeson district, Rutherford township, was lifted off Its foundations and moved ten feet away. The school was in session at the time, but no child was seriously hurt. H. W. Harbinson is tbe teacher. Postofflce and Store Bobbed. Evansville, Ind., Jail. 19.—Burglars robbed the postofflce and store owned by Frederick Steinmetz, at Chandler, Warrick county, taking 2,000 1-cent stamps and some money from the postofflce. and money and goods valued at several hundred dollars from the safe In Steinmetz’s store. Defendant Has Gone Mad. Lafayette, Ind., Jan. 10.—A commotion was caused In the circuit court when theannouncement wns made that Joseph Eaeock, the defendant in the Eaeock blackmailing aud conspiracy case, was a raving maniac.