Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1906 — QUICK CHARGE CAUSE [ARTICLE]

QUICK CHARGE CAUSE

Terre Haute Mayoralty Litigation Has a New Phase to Present Each Day. LATEST IS BIDAMAN’S ABBEST He and His Counsel Charged with Contempt of Court—Church Bell with a History. Terre Haute. Ind., July 6. There have been unexpected developments in the mayoralty contest. Judge Stimson i'-sned an order for the arrest of Mayor Ffthunan and his attorney, Louis lb -ou a charge of contempt, m v ■ t . :tn affidavit charging them .with vi<;’:tting the restraining order to ; recent Lidamau from interrupting or di.-tm I Ing the proceedings of the council. The affidavits on which the writs were issued were filed by Councilmen Allen and Nattkemper. They charge that Reichmnn, in the presence of, and with the consent of Bidamnn, vociferously denounced the action of the council in electing Allen presiding officer, that Reichman threatened the members of council, and so acted that the council adjourned without being able to transact any business. Mayor and Council in Court. The complaint also sets up that the actions of Bldaman and Reichman caused the crowd in the room to become boisterous, and an effort was made to include some of the spectators at the meeting, but the councilmen coqjd not get their names. Judge Stimson at once placed the citations in the sheriff’s hands, and Mayor Bidaman and Louis Reichman appeared in the superior court to show cause why they should not be punished for contempt. Another Change of Venue. Another change of venue in the mayoralty case has been taken, this time by Frank M. Buckingham, who desired a change of venue from Special Judge Williams. The attorneys—Davis, for Buckingham, and Louis Reichman, for Bidaman—agreed on W. T. Gleason, a ■well-known Democratic lawyer, who w*as defeated for police judge last spring. He declined the job. however, and the attorneys got together again and selected Judge White, of Rockville, who for a number of years presided in the circuit composed of Parke and Vermillion counties.

BELL THAT HAS A HISTORY Called the People to Arms in ’6l and Tolled a Requiem for Lincoln. Grant and Garfield. Greenfield, Ind., July 6. Montgomery Marsh, of this city, has presentoil the bell that hung in the old court house steeple to the Presbyterinn church. The bell was bought by the county com miss I oners in 1853. and it hung in the court house until the building was torn down in 1896. It. was then offered for sale as junk. Marsh opposed this disposition of a bell that had tolled the death of Lincoln, Grant, Garfield and other noted men. and which called the county to arms when Fort Sumtor was fired upon. The bell was then presented to Marsh, who loaned it to the city as a curfew bell. The older people of the city are wonderfully attached to the old relic. He Jumped Into His Grave. Brazil. Ind.. July 6. —Pinned to the door of the old Zeller coal mine. No. 1, near this city, a note was found purporting to lie signed by John Dudley, saying that he was tired of life and proposed to eml it by jumping down the abandoned shaft. His hat was found nearby. The shaft is 140 feet deep, and has thirty feet of water in Lt. There Is a i>osslbillty that the body, if he did jump down, has Boated off Into one of the entries and that it will never lie recovered. Idea in Hog Feeding. Fort Wayne. Ind., July 6. The board of health has discovered that a company raising bogsuear Fort Wayne has been buying all dead horses in the city and feeding the flesh to the fattening pigs. These horses have died of all sorts of diseases. No affidavits have been filed. Aged Man Sent to Prison. Evansville. Ind., July 6. Leon Chambers, 70 years old, entered a plea of guilty to horse-stealing, and be was committed to prison at Michigan City under the indeterminate sentence act. He Is the oldest man ever sentenced to prison from this county. Excursionist Shot and Killed. Peru. Ind., July 6.—A telegram from Cincinnati says that John Pearce, an excursionist of this city, was shot and Instantly killed while on a Fort Thomas car there. The police have been unable to And the person who fired the shot. A few Weber wagons and beds left yet, and will sell at a bargain. Call on L. S. Renicker.