Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1915 — 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 M inor Mention From Many Places. OVERRULES DEMURRERS. Judge Anderson Decides Terre Haute ' Men Must Stand Trial. Indianapolis, Feb. 2.—Mayor Bonn M. Roberts Off Terre Haute, and thirty-one other men jndicted in the Terre Haute election conspiracy ease will be placed on trial in the federal court here, March 8. That was decided yesterday after Judge A. B. Anderson had overruled, the demurrers to the indictment entered by Roberts and twenty-six others. The men who had filed demurrers entered pleas of not guilty when «they were arraigned after Judge Anderson read his decision on the demurrers, thus making the total number of not guilty pleas thirty-two. The remainder of the 115 men arrested by the federal authorities have en tered pleas of guilty.