Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1910 — THE COURT HOUSE [ARTICLE]

THE COURT HOUSE

items Picked Up About the County Capitol. F. H. Doran of Laporte, census superintendent for this district, was here yesterday and held a meeting at the court house with his enumerators in this county, giving them necessary instructions in their '‘duties. —o — Judge Vinton was up yesterday and ruled on the demurrers to the complaints in actions of Babcock vs. Washburn, et al, holding them technically bad and sustaining demurrers with leave to amend, which was done. Don’t forget the primaries next Saturday, April 16, democrats, to select delegates to the county convention. Turn out and see that good men are sent as delegates. See official call on second page of to-day’s Democrat. —o— / O. P. Robinson, for many years a deputy sheriff in tins county and a familiar figure about the court house, suffered a slight stroke of paralysis Friday, affecting his right side. 1 The stroke was very slight and he is nowimproved greatly. The April term of the Jasper circuit court convened Monday. The first day was given over to probate and other matters, and yesterday was “call day.” Attorney Darroch and Sammons of Kentland and Davis and Longwell of Brook were among the out-of-town attorneys in attendance yesterday.

Two state cases from Newton county 1 have been brought here on change, of venue, both against William Lewis on grand jury indictments One charges defendant with having on the sth day of February, 1910, sold a gill of whiskey to Job Miller, and the other with having on the sam’e date sold a like amount to Wilbur Hart, receiving in the first instance 10 cents and in the second 25 cents Lewis resides at Mt.-Ayr, but is well known heic where he formerly lived. —ot—New suits - filed: No. 7596. Patrick Hallagan vs. Frank Cochran ; suit on note. Demand S4OO. No. 7597. Orrin Elijah vs. Chicago, Indiana and Southern R»R. Co.; suit for SIO,OOO damages for injuries alleged to have been received by plairytiff in January, 1908, while enrcAite from Kentland to . Morocco as a passenger in a caboose of one of defendant’s trains, a bunk hanging at the side of the caboose falling and striking him on the head and causing, it is allegeed, permanent injuries. Edward Daniels and George L. Dqnny of Indianapolis, the former Master in Chancery and the latter attorney for a life insurance company having a mortgage on the S. B. Moffitt lands in Union township, which was recently foreclosed, were here Monday to dispose of said lands, which were bid in by the insurance company at the amount of the mortgage, $20,000, interest, taxes and costs, in all $25,136.46. The insurance company hopes to sell the land and come out whole on it. There is about 1800 acres of it. " /■/ ’ < / —o— ' :1 y. ' Glen Baumgardner, the Newton county prisoner who has been boarding with Sheriff Shirer for some time, charged with brutally beating up ah old in an near Conrad last October in an attempt to make him disclose the hiding place of some S2OO which the latter - was known to have in his possession, was found guilty by a jury in the Newton circuit court last week and given an indeterminate sentence of from five to fourteen years in the penitentiary, to which place he was taken Saturday. Frank Foltz returned Saturday night from Michigan City and Chicago, to which former place he been assisting in taking the depositions of Robert

-Parker, the former Remington banker, in the matter of the case of Trustee Qheadle vs. Ex-trea-surer S. R. Nichols and E. L. Hollingsworth, growing out of the settlement of the amount due' Jasper county from Parker’s bank, some S2OJpOO, on the eve of its failure, and some cases where certain-notes were turned aver by Parker to Mrse Rawlings and Jasper Guy of Remington in lieu - of money due them from Parker shortly before the bank failure. Mr. Foltz says that Mr. Parker is bearing his confinement well and Ipoks better than when he saw him some time ago.