Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1916 — Hoosier News Briefly Told [ARTICLE]

Hoosier News Briefly Told

A. P, ANDREW COMING HOME Former Treasurer of the United States, Now Head of Ambulance Corps Serving in France, Coming Back for Volunteers.

Laporte. A. Platt Andrew, former treasurer of the United States during the Tuft administration, and ‘now head of the American ambulance corps serving in France, will return to the - United States early in October. Mr. Andrew is the son of Capt. A. P. Andrew, a Laporte banker. It is presumed that Mr. Apdrew is returning to the United States to seek volunteers. Mayor Is Restrained. Columbus.—Mayor H. K. Volland and Chief of Police Frank Huffman are restrained from interfering with amusements at the Red Men’s carnival by an order of Judge Hugh Wickens of Greenfield until an injunction suit filed by the Red Men can be heard. The Red Men, the mayor understood, intended to have games of chance at the carnival, which is to raise money for the campaign of Howard J. Tooley, for the position of great keeper of Wampum of the state. The mayor had plainly stated that he would tolerate no gambling at the carnival.

School Janitor Saves Boys. Huntington. Herbert and Fred Covey, twelve and ten years old, played truant from school and got out their homemade canoe for a ride on Little river. The boat upset, throwing both into the water. Frank Hier, janitor of the school the boys attend, heard their screams and,' running to the river bank, lie jerked .off his coat and overalls and plunged into the water. He had to swim across the river, and the boys were under water when he reached them, but both were revived and are little the worse for their narrow escape. Logansport Presbytery Closes. Logansport Presbytery closed its sessions after electing Rev. John Burns of South Bend moderator, and Rev. S. A. Stewart of Rochester, stated clerk. The Presbytery adopted a resolution urging the state synod, which is to assemble at Huntington in October, to select Laporte for the 1917 w meeting of the four hundred clergymen and laymen of Indiana. Plymouth was selected as the next meeting place of the Logansport Presbytery. Could Not Judge Own Capacity. Columbus. —Alex Spry, age thirtyfive, asked Mayor Volland, in the city court, to a4d bis name to the list of habitual drunkards here. lie had been arrested on a charge of intoxication. Spry told the mayor that bis greatest trouble was his lack of ability to judge bis own capacity. The mayor granted Spry’s request. Copies of this list are on tile in all local saloons and the saloonkeepers have orders not to sell these men intoxicating drinks.

Shot by Former Indianian. Noblesville. William Sopher, a former resident of XoblesVille, and a brother of Edward and Charles Sopher of this city, shot and wounded A. 11. Seals, a real estate dealer at McEwen, Tenn., according to a telegram received here. Seals, Sopher asserts, interfered with his attempts to sell his fruit farm. The defendant also says he shot in self-defense. Valuable Museum Destroyed. Newcastle.—The museum of E. M. Worth, eighty, said to be worth a million dollars, was destroyed when the star-shaped building in which it was housed, wjjs burned to the ground. Among the things destroyed was what was claimed to be the head of Charles Giteau, the assassin of President Garfield and a collection of twenty mummies-,. Toothache; Asks Divorce. Noblesv ill e.—Sarah Sutton, in an application for divorce from John G. Sufton, a well-to-do farmer, sets out as one of her chief allegations that she has suffered intensely because of the toothache and that her husband has failed t7j employ a dentist to give relief to her. She also asks $3,000 alimony. Preacher Released. Bloomington. Rev. James C. Pearson of Worthington was released from the jail here-after serving a sentence for contempt of court, imposed by Roy Buckley, special police Jtfdge, several days ago, when Buckley and Pearson exchanged blows in court. Pearson was on trial for a charge of blocking the streets. He was arrested when speaking in the street. / Falls From Tree. Lawrenceburg. Booker T. Parker, age twenty-three, a tobacco grower- living about fifteen miles south of this city, fell about thirty feet from a tree into which he had climbed after young squirrels, and was Injured seriously. v Quarantines Own Home. Columbus. Harry S. Truitt, sanitary officer, here, was forced to quarantine his own home because his three-year-old son has scarlet fever. This the eleventh case here.