Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1914 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts of the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in Distant and Nearby Cities and Towns.—Matters of Minor Mention From Many Places. Head of Lafayette Police, Given Clean Bill, Resigns.

Lafayette, Ind., May 25.—A compromise was reached tonight in the controversy between Mayor Thomas Bauer and Police Superintendent John R. Fisher when the charge of insubordination against Fisher was dismissed and he -was given a clean slate. Fisher resigned when this action was taken by the commissioners and the mayor. The Lafayette Ministers Association, at its regular meeting today, asked the mayor to close the disorderly houses in the city. The ministers say in their letter to Mayor Bauer that they are deeply shocked because the law is not enforced and request a thorough investigation. They allege that in his campaign he promised to do away with all such places. Church workers and the anti-saloon forces, who were Bauer's chief supporters in his campaign, are now up in arms against the mayor on account of his telegram to the Tenth District Congressman opposing the Hobson prohibition bill.