Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1911 — GENERAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL NEWS.

At Terre Haute, Ind., judge i Hawley of the Clay circuit court, sus- • tained a demurrer to the complaint of Donn Roberts, city engineer, against Louis Gerhardt, mayor of Terre Haute, asking for a permanent injunction to prevent the removal from office of Roberts by Gerhardt. was given Rooerts to amend the complaint Roberts obtained a temporary restraining order from Judge Fortune on the ground that no charges had been preferred against him and no notice of his removal for cause sent to the city council by Gerhardt The mayor took a change of venue and Judge Rawley was sitting as special judge. Between 9:30 and IG o'clock at night, Iruse Rey, former mayor of the little town of Guadalupe, forty miles eaSt of Juarez, alighted from a street car in front of the Juarez customhouse and a bulge in his hip pocket attracted the attention of the police, who saw him about to ascend the steps of the customhouse. Roja, a policeman, placed him under arrest and found a tin can bomb in his hip pocket. He took the prisoner to the jail, where he was placed in confinement Two other men were arrested assuspects, but released later. The bomb was full of dynamite. The prisoner will probably be put to death. At Chicago Tuesday motion to quash the indictment charging Frank B. Harriman, Joseph E. Buker, Charles Ewing and John M. Taylor with conspiracy to defraud and confidence game in connection with the alleged Illinois Central graft exposure was filed before Judge Scanlan in the circuit court. Basing their contention upon fiftv-nine separate grounds, counsel for the defendants attack the legality ot the indictment, the Jurisdiction of the Cook county criminal court and the validity of the acts of the jury commissioners tn drawing the grand jurors by whom the indictment was returned. Many of the insurrecto generals <are tc be retained in the service of the Mexican army. General Jose De Im Luz Blanco, now in command of Juarez, is to be retained as a general of rurales, and Jose Perfecto Lomeli, who quit a lieutenant-colonelcy in the federal army for an insurrecto generalship, is to succeed General Torres as military commander of Sonora, and will be made a brigadier in the regular establishment Pascual Orozco, in command of the insurrecto troops of Chihuahua, is to be made a brigadier in the regular. A dispatch from Juarez. Mex., sdys A widespread anti-Madero plot, with ramifications in San Anfcnio, El Pa . New York and Mexico'City, has been discovered, according to the Mexican government officials. The first purpose of the plotters is said to be the establishment iq the cities named of juntas similar to those of the revolutionary party and then to carry on a systematic effort to hamper Madero and to restore to power a certain political element which was ousted when President Diaz resigned. J. D. Bren, accountant and treasurer at the University of M inneosta, was arraigned in municipal court and charged with the theft of $13,600, which he held in trust for university students. He asserts the money was stolen from him early last Friday by robbers who held him up in a secluded campus spot. Bren was released on a band of $2,500. He reiterated his statement that he is absolutely innocent of the crime and that his accounts are in good condition. ‘ Taft’s speech on Canadian reciprocity in Chicago has aroused bitter resentment among certain senators who are opposing the pending trade agreement These senators are ugly over the charge of the president that the opposition is inspired by the American manufacturers of print paper and those who control the lumber supply of the United States. Informal conferences will be held in Washington shortly by senar tors who want to so amend the pure food and drug act of 1966 as to make It apply to misstatements about the curative effect of medicines as well as misstatements about the ingredients. Cleveland and northern Ohio were swept by three storms which did great damage to property in cities and the farming districts. Several persons are reported to have been injured. A deluge of water resembling a cloudburst fell in Cleveland’s business district Four central western cities, through their commercial organizations, have protested to the interstate commerce con mission against the cancellation by middle western railways of what are known as “return shipment rates.” Jack Johnson engaged' the chief engineer’s stateroom on the Kronprinz Withelm for the trip to Europe, and trouble is prophesied when the black man appears to eat at the first cabin table. • ' Judge Dyer of the United States circuit court in St Louis appointed a receiver for the University Heights Realty and Development company, one of the E. G. Lewis corporations. In a secluded defile on the road over which Sultan Mehmed will pass on his tour of Macedonia have been found large stores of dynamite and bombmaking apparatus. Chicago packers filed written arguments in the United States court showing why they should be given a rehearing on their motion to quash im dictments. The army transport Ruford sailed frcm-San Francisco for Honolulu, Guam and Manila, *with 780 army and navy recruits for the» island stations. Almost all of $206,(jo0,000 received from the sale of church property in France, and which was expected to accrue to state, has vanished.