Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1911 — INDIAKA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

IN DIAKA STATE NEWS.

INDfANAPOLfS— After witnessing In a 'flve-eent theater a recital of domestic woes that reached its climax when the husband left home, Robert Harvey, nineteen years old. left his sevteen-year-old bribe of six months sitting in the theater and went to their home, where he packed his suitcase and departed for parts unknown. This was the tale told by Rosa Harvey when she swore out a warrant for Harvey’s arrest on the charge of wife desertion. According to Mrs. Harvey she and her young husband were still living in their honeymoon and all was happiness until they attended the motion picture show. They had had no trouble previous to that time, the girl said, and when her husband left the theater on a pretext she had no suspicion until returning home alone, she found she had been deserted.

BLOOMINGTON That he had been made the victim of “third degree” methods by John McCabe, a constable of Bloomington township, was the allegation made in affidavit filed against the officer by Ira Appleman of LaOrange, an Indiana university student. Appleman, who says the constable deprived him of necessary sleep by walking him about the streets of Bloomington until 2 o’clock in the morning in an effort to get him to confess petit larceny, waß accused of taklnk books. The charge against the constable for his alleged use of the third degree is probably the first in the state, under the new law. The penalty for that Is a fine of from $lO to SSO. BLOOMINGTON —ln his mail Deputy Prosecutor Regester, who had been active in his efforts to push the charges against the seven arrested for the alleged “whitecapping’’ of Harvey McFarley, received this letter: "Dear Sir —We hate to regulate a good man tar you will please forget the McFarley ‘whitecapping' case. A word to the wise, etc. —Harmony regulars.” Harmony is the neighborhood, southwest of here, where McFarley resides. Mr. Regester. says the receipt of the letter will not cause him to discontinue his efforts against whitecapping and that he is not alarmed at the threaL COLUMBUS Ralph S. Spaugh, the prosecuting attorney for this Judicial circuit, has returned from Chicago, Cleveland and Cincinnati, where he has been working on evidence against the men who are thought to have dynamited the Caldwell & Drake Iron Work* office here. Spaugh declines to say what he learned on his trip. Chief of Police Cooper, who had a conference with the prosecutor after the latter’s return, said the information obtained might lead to some arrests here later on. Spaugh declined to say whether or not he conferred with Detective William J. Burns while away. WASHINGTON—Hugh McKernan, Jr. f the youngest son of .. Hugh F. McKernan, a wealthy lumber dealer, was arrested on a warrant charging him witli having criminally assaulted Edna Brumett, a sixteen-year-old school girl, who is under the care of a physician. McKernan was released under SI,OOO bond. He is twen-ty-eight years oid and has been married twice, his wives having been divorced. TIPTON Finally deciding that it would be better to serve Uncle Bam for three years than to be prisoners in the reformatory for an indefinite period, Omer Church and Hugbie Woods, indicted for stealing chickens, accepted the decree of the court and were taken to Kokomo, where they enlisted in the regular army. They were sent to the barracks at Columbus, O. EVANSVILLE—Intense grief over the sudden death of her little child several weeks ago caused Mrs. Sophia West, a patient at a local hospital, to become insane, and she will be admitted to the Southern Hospital for the Insane. Mrs. West’s home ;is in Warrick county, and she is the mother of five children. She has been a woman of strong literary tastes. WABASH —An unknown man died in the hospital here, following injuries received in the yard of the Wabash railroad. The man was about thirty-five years old and well dressed. He carried a woman’s watch. A memorandum found in his pocket contained several violets which had been pressed and carried for some time. HAM MO/1 D—Anthony Alfaon, aged about twenty-eight, an engine wiper, who took the place of a man on strike at the Indiana Harbor roundhouse in West Hammond, was terribly burned by sulphuric acid. Alfaon was working on an engine when some one came behind him and threw the acid as he turned. COLUMBIA ClTY—Waldo Ghilon, a young newspaper man, was attacked by two great coonhounds, and before the could be driven away they had inflicted a number of serious wounds. The dogs are the property of Mayor B. J. Bloom, who ordered that they be shot by the city marshal. INDIANAPOLIS Believing that a boxing match on Memorial day would be a desecration of the day, Mayor Shank says no boxing matches will be permitted on May 30. He says if it is necessary the police force will be called on to prevent any such exhibition being held. TERRE HAUTE—Charles S. Downing, of LaFayette, has been elected president of the Indiana division, Travelers’ Protective Association, at, the annual convention here by acclamation. W. D. Chambers of Terre Haute was re-elected secretary-treas-urer.