Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1911 — State and General News [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

State and General News

MORGAN DRYS WIN EASILY Carry Jackson Township, Morgan Co., By a Majority of 48. Martinsville, Ind., March 4. The local option election in JackSon township, Morgan county, resulted in a “dry” victory, by a majority of forty-nine. The total vote cast was 449. The 20 per cent, on the petitions was based on the vote at the last election—496, and the result shows that nearly all the voters expressed their preference in the matter.

last chapter in the’ celebrated Sayler-Miller tragedy at Crescent City, 111., will be closed next week when the Sayler farm will be offered for sale in ord,er that the estate of the murdered banker may be closed up. is believed the farm will-fie bought in by one of tlTr'djrothers of the dead banker. Much of the estate has been spent in prosecuting Dr. W. E. Miller,, who killed John B. Sayler, and Mrs. Lucy Sayler, wife of. the banker, who was indicted as an accessory. Both are now in Joliet penitentiary. John Byron Sayler, who was one of the wealthiest bankers and farmers at Crescent City, was shot and killed in the parlor of his home, nearly two years ago, by Dr. W. E. Miller, the leading physician of the town. The tragedy was due to the intimacy of the two. At one time there was strong talk of lynching them.