Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1916 — State Happenings [ARTICLE]

State Happenings

FEDERAL GRAND JURY MEETS Probers to Investigate Ordinary Cases of Violations Before Taking Up Alleged Election Law Violations in Indiana. Indianapolis. The federal grand jury began work which may continue through most of the winter. The grand jury will investigate first a score of violations of federal laws and then will take up the alleged election law violations in Indiana. Prosecutors in several counties who had gathered evidence of illegalities at the polls are turning their evidence over to the federal authorities. It was reported from Connersville that much evidence of vote-buying at $2 a head has been given to the government. Two Rushville men, Homer and Will Casey, were arrested by local authorities, charged with illegal voting. It is claimed they moved to Rushville from Indianapolis after registering.

Says Was No Crookedness. Indianapolis. hailed with delight the determination of administration leaders to' ask a senate investigation of the ■ method of election of United States ; Senators James K. Watson and Harry S. New. Will H. Hays, Republican state chairman, greeted the announce<ment with contempt. “There was no crookedness. It was a clean election on both sides,” he declared. The proposed senate investigation was not in- ‘ stigated by the Democratic state committee. State Chairman Korbly had decided to let the federal grand jury do its work ‘first. But defeated candidates on the ticket and Democratic organs in every hamlet have been clamoring for action. One of the lat-' est Democratic eharges is that the Re-, publicans gave hundreds of workers five-dollar bills with which to place bets on Hughes. Federal Agency Popular. Indianapolis— In the three years the, federal free employment bureau has operated the number of persons for whom employment has been secured has grown until in the fiscal year ending next June 30 employment will have been found for 200,000 workers, according to Anthony Caminettl, commissioner of immigration, who stopped here to inspect the Indiana bureau. Mr. Caminetti is mhch interested in the work of the women’s department of the bureau, here, which was established recently with the co-I operation of club women of the city. ■

Republican, authorized ’the statement that" he would not contest the election of Congressman Henry A. Barnhart. Leading Republicans of thedistrict, after canvassing the situation, decided there was no ground on which to base a contest.

Fight Over Politics. Princeton. —During a political quarrel here Lloyd Evans shot at Joe Cannon, colored, and Cannon felL It developed Evans shot Into theground as he pushed Cannon over. No one was hurt. Evans was fined $2 and costs for carrying a concealed weapon.

Brings Divorce Suit Brazil. Catherine E. Pell, wife of George Pell, a farmer east ot Brazil, has brought suit in the Clay circuit court for a divorce and $25,000 alimony. She alleges cruel and inhuman treatment. The couple has a family of grown children.

Shot While Hunting. Lawrenceburg.—Rodger E. Tolbern„ twenty-two, accidentally shot Breckenridge E. Wooders, twenty-three, when hunting rabbits near Splitrock. Both were shooting at two rabbits and scattering shot from their guns struck each other.

Exposure Kills Roumanian. Muncie. —■ Alcoholism and exposure are given by Coroner J. Frank Downing as the causes of the death of George Giornedl, a Roumanian, whose body was found in a weed: patch.

Nhrrowly Escape Death. Rockport.—Four persons narrowlyescaped death here when Alvin Frank backed an automobile he was driving over an embankment. Mr. and Mrs. Holsten of Birmingham, Ala., and Mrs. Kate Frank were injured. Hunter Lost in Sand Dunes. Gary. A party of citizens are searching in the bogs of the sand dunes wilderness for Oliver Starr, an attorney. Starr went hunting in the marshes, and it is feared he met with an accident or became lost