Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1916 — STATE NEWS IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

STATE NEWS IN BRIEF

E vansville. —Charles Sherwood, a saloonkeeper, was acquitted in the city court of a charge of selling liquor on Sunday. Sullivan. —Five automobiles went into ditches between Sullivan and Vincennes following hard rains. No one was injured. Knox. —Vergil Magill confessed to Sheriff Pettis that lie was driving the car which strucjc and killed Charles Masterson in South Main street. Tipton.—Mrs. Martha Allen McCarty, seventy-six, is dead at her home at Jackson, five miles north of here, following an attack of grippe. Bloomington.—A small cyclone left wrecked buildings in its narrow path through the southwest part of Monroe county. Thousands of dollars’ worth of timber was destroyed. Newcastle.—J. C. Snider, forty, died at the county jail. Snider was a monument salesman, and Was arrested a few days ago on a charge of passing fraudulent checks. Death was caused by heart disease. Vincennes. —Sherman Clark, colored, forty, was shot through the right hip by Sheriff Bales of Lawrence county, Illinois, when he was attempting to arrest the colored man for an alleged attack on a woman. Muncie.—C. E. Westbroke, alias Joe Dobb, alleged pickpocket, was acquitted by Judge Ralphs S. Gregory in city court for lack of evidence. Westbroke admitted he gave a false name, and said he had been arrested before. He lives in Terre Haute. Bedford. —As a result of arrests by deputy fish and game wardens, Harry Smith was fined $lO and costs. Stanley Bartlette was fined for having a 50-foot seine, and Ben Pierce Is held under SIOO bond for trial July 7, charged with having a trammel net. Vincennes. —Mrs. Johanna Reed was killed and her husband and two small children seriously injured by a tornado which swept this section of the state. Numerous school houses, barns and outbuildings were demolished and great damage done to trees, shrubbery and growing crops. Indianapolis.—Charles Lamp and August Behnke were fined $1,060 each and Behnke was given an additional sentence of six months in jail by Federal Judge Alschuler after they had pleaded guilty to extensive oleomargarine frauds in Gary, where they formerly were in'ijusiness. Muncie. —Ralph, six, the son of Charles Smith, when endeavoring to imitate the actions of older playmates who walked along the rim of a pool fed by a fountain in Federal park, fell in. An unidentified man who was passing saved the boy’s life by dragging him out. Hartford City.—Albert Thomas, a farmer, pleaded not guilty in cirsuit court to a charge of murder for killing Geraldine Stout, age eight, of Upland, May 29, when he hurled a bucket of corn into an automobile as it passed him in the road. Thomas will be tried during the October term of court. Crawfordsville. —Tnswell Key Is freed of the charge of murdering Forrest Miller, his nephew, for which his son, Erroll Key, is serving a term In prison. The father owes his freedom to his son, who was brought from prison to testify that he and not his father had done the shooting during the quarrel in a gravel pit which resulted in young Miller’s death. Anderson. —11. H. Briles of Indianapolis won the first prize of sls for his essay on safety measures in the contest conducted by the Indiana Union Traction company for its employees. The second prize went to George Erskine of Anderson and the third prize to E. G. Mitchell of Indianapolis. The awards were made at the semiannual banquet of local and general safety committees of the company here. Washington.—The local option election case will be appealed to the supreme court, the Civic league having voted to press the appeal. The league will pay the expenses of the appeal and the money is now being collected. Attorneys for the drys contend that there are enough errors in the proceedings to make a reversal of the decision given by Special Judge Gwin In the Martin circuit court certain. Judge Gwin threw out three illegal dry votes and one illegal wet vote, announcing the wets had won by two votes. Indianapolis.-—Members of Battery A, in camp at Fort Harrison, took the new oath of allegiance making it possible to send them outside the United States for duty. Adjutant General Bridges planned to concentrate all state troops at Fort Harrison the last of the week and prepare for a quick trip to the Mexican border. Bridges received a telegram from the manager of the American Tobacco company at Evansville that he had offered l\is 200 employees full pay during absence if they enlist in the guard. Indianapolis.—Delay in mobilizing the Indiana National Guard will be occasioned by an order requiring companies to be recruited to war strength. Several companies are deficient. Adjt. Gen. Frank L. Bridges ordered haste in recruiting. He sent the following order to commanders: “Mobilize at once, home station. Recruit war strength. Report to regimental commander when you have minimum peace strength required, ready to move.” As soon as all come panies have beon recruited to minimum peace strength they will be ordered to Fort Benjamin Harrison.