Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1906 — "KIDS" ON A PETITION [ARTICLE]

"KIDS" ON A PETITION

Little Boys Ask the City Council to Prosecute the War on the “Demon.” BIG VICTORY AT NOBLESVILLE Blanket Kemonstranoe Is Held GoodDeath Catches a Mean Thief— State News Notes. Richmond, Ind., Feb. 15.—Next Monday evening, at a regular session of the city council, the following will be presented to the council: “We, the undersigned, are little boys who go to school north of the railroad, In the Fifth ward, just two squares from the worst saloon that is in Richmond. Now we have some pride trying to grow up honest and decent young men, as we are the boys that will have to fill your places socner or later. Will you, as fathers of our city, not aid us in purifying our place of schooling and give us a decent locality for school purposes by voting this ward a residence district? If so, we will do likewise with the next generation.” Means a Fight to the Finish. Councilman Peck, to whom the boys presented the petition, promised that their appeal should be placed in the hands of the city council at the next meeting, and the belief prevails that it will have as much effect as the petitions signed by older residents of the Fifth ward. A fight to the finish between the saloon men of the residence districts of the city and the temperance forces is certain to come, and apparently the death knell of the saloon outside of the business districts ofRichmond will be sounded before another year rolls round. Blanket Remonstrance Goes. Noblesville, Ind., Feb. 15. The county commissioners have decided to hold valid the blanket remonstrance filed by the Anti-Saloon League of Adams township. The board spent three days in hearing the testimony and argument. The remonstrance contained 599 signatures, and George B. Lanhain. applicant for a license to sell intoxicants at Sheridan, filed answer, setting up that a majority of names attached to the remonstrance were obtained by power-of-attorney. It was also alleged that some of the remonstrants were not legal voters. By agreement twelve signatures were withdrawn, and tn other instances the question of the genuineness of the signature was in dispute. DEATH AVENGED THE WIFE Rascally Husband Who Hobbed and Deserted Her Dies as He Flees with His Stealings. Terre Haute. Ip<i., Feb. 15. Captain Mastaguer, master of a sailing vessel which has just returned to New York from a long voyage, notifies friends in this city that E. M. Livingston, formerly of this city, died of cholera in August, 1905, and was buried at sea. He was tlien on his way to South Africa. Livingston came here as a “street doctor” some years ago. during a street fair, and he boarded at the home of Mrs. Kate Hess. An attachment sprang up and they were married. Over a year ago, while Mrs. Livingston was visiting friends in Illinois, her husband sold her fur nlture, checked out what money she had in bank and disappeared. No word was afterward receivefl of him, and Mrs. Livingston was granted a divorce.

Some More Home-Made Anarchy. Bloomfield. Ind., Feb. 15.—The genanil store of Sherman Hash, six miles northeast of here, on the line of the Indianapolis Southern railroad, was destroyed with dynamite and fire. The loss is $3,000 and the insurance $1,500. Fira followed the explosion. There is no clew to the persons who exploded the dynamite. The store bad been In operation about two months, and was doing a large business among the laborers working on the Indianapolis Southern.