Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1907 — LAW FOR SALOONISTS [ARTICLE]

LAW FOR SALOONISTS

Stat* Suweme Court Sustains an Ordinance That Fixe* Cer> tain City Boundaries. GIRL TRIES TO KILL HERSELi Does It Almost in the Hour Set foi Wedding—Hoosier State Her ... Miscellany. Indianapolis, May 29. The supreme court holds that a city ordinance, not only forbidding saloons outside of the business part of the city, but eiso defining the boundaries of the business part, so as x to include only a few squares surrounding the court bouse and the place where most of the business is done. Is valid. It holds that the only ground on which such an ordinance can be successfully attacked is that the city has beep guilty of an unreasonable abuse of its power and discretion In declaring such boundaries.

State Controls the Traffic. It also declared that a state may authorize saloons to be licensed and that the saloon business is lawful except as declared unlawful by the state. A judgment in favor of John W. Thompson, in a prosecution against him for violation of a city ordinance of Greencastle, by keeping a saloon near the Big Four station, was reversed and a new trial ordered. He Violated the Ordinance. The ordinance fixed the boundaries of the business part of town as Columbia street on the north. Market street on the west, Walnut street on the south and College avenue on the fast, and Thompson’s saloon was four squares north of Columbia street. It was surrounded by two railway stations, a beer depot, an oil storage tank, a livery stable, a poultry house and a restaurant, respectively, on different sides, and the nearest residence _was 800 feet away.

States Have Full Authority. After quoting the language of the new city and town act, that cities “may define such suburban or residence and business parts of any such city,” may “tax” saloons and charge a license fee for any saloon within two miles of the city limits. Judge Montgomery said that It is “well settled that the several states in the exercise of their sovereign power, have full authority, except as restricted by constitutional provision, to enact any measures deemed expedient to suppress intemperance and minimize the evils resulting from the traffic in intoxicating liquors, whether by prohibiting or by restricting and licensing the sale of such liquor*.”

SAID SHE WOULD RATHER DIE Girl Quarrels with Her Fiance on the Day Set for Marriage and Takes Poison. Marlon. Ind., May 29.—After a quarrel which resulted in her refusal to marry William Burns, Miss Linnfe Lawrence, aged 17 years, attempted suicide in the presence of her fiance, at the hour set for the wedding. The nature of the disagreement has not been divulged. Burns called at the Lawrence home dressed for the ceremony. He found the girl talking with her mother and apparently unprepared for the marriage. He tried to persuade her to go on with their plans, but for some reason she refused stubbornly. Suddenly she excused herself for a moment and returned with a bottle of carbolic acid, purchased in the morning. “I would rather die,” she cried, stepping toward Burns. Then she swallowed the contents of the vial. Burns ran to the street to search for a physician and soon three were on hand, but it is believed that the girl cannot live.

’ Looks Like Going to Work. Indianapolis. May 29.—A mortgage sor 1 115,000,000 made to the Western Trust and Savings bank, of Chicago, on the property of the Chicago, Indianapolis and Evansville railroad, to secure a bond issue in this sum for the construction of the road, has been filed at the office Of the county recorder here. A representative of a Chicago construction company made the statement that work would begin on the road at once. Kitten Has a Cotton-Tail. Shelbyville, Ind., May 29. Eart Higginfi, who lives in this city, has a freak kitten, which has the appearance of an ordinary cat, with the exception that it has the tall of a rabbit It travels over the ground with the long swinging leaps which distinguish the rabbit and the tracks left resemble those of a bunny.

Struck by .Lightning in Church. Wabash, Ind., May 29.—While singing in the choir of the United Brethren church, of which her husband is pastor, Mrs. D. W. Zartman was struck by lightning, rendered unconscious, and perhaps fatally injured. No one else was struck by the bolt, which put out the lights in the building and caused a panic. 1 Just aa oid as the State. Evansville. Ind., May 29. Anderson, aged 91, who was born at New Harmony on the day Indiana was admitted as a state into the Union, April 19. 1816, is dead at bls home la New Harmony.