Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 73, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1916 — STATE HAPPENINGS RECORDED IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

STATE HAPPENINGS RECORDED IN BRIEF

News Items From All Over Indiana. % MUNICIPAL MARKET IS OPEN Potatoes Placed on Sale at Evansville at $1.40 a Bushel While Grocers Are Asking SI.BO to $2 for Same Quantity. Evansville, Dec. B.—The municipal market, planned by Mayor Benjamin Bos.se, was opened here by John C. Wallenmeyer, city sealer. A carload of potatoes, containing 600 bushels, arrived from Chicago and these were placed on sale at $1.40 a bushel. Retail dealers have been asking SI.BO and $2 a bushel. Sacks containing 2% bushels were offered for $8.50 a sack at the municipal market, where dealers have been asking $5 and $5.50 for the same amount. Other cars have been expected.

Dealers 7 Hit Back. Muneie, Dec. 8. —Coal dealers of Muncie took a lling at Mayor Bunch’s effort to bring down the price of coal by establishing a municipal coal yard. They cancelled advertising contracts with newspapers which had given space to Bunch's efforts and prepared to wage a fight along other lines. Mayor Bunch has already disposed of all the surplus coal tlte city owned and declares lie will get more and sell it below cost if necessary to make his plan a success, lie will not use the $15,000 appropriated for the establishment of a municipal caul plant.

Dry Campaign Opens. Indianapolis, Dec. 8. —The executive committee of the Indiana Dry federation will start its legislative fight immediately. Members of the committee decided to hold weekly metings for an Indefinite period. Under, the direction of this committee the constituent organizations of the federation will begin work in every part of the state. It is announced that the Antisaloon league will not join the federation. Ask Election Probe. Petersburg, Dec. B.—Twenty citizens of Pike county forwarded a petition to United States District Attorney Slack for a grand jury investigation of alleged vote frauds here. In a recount here 50 ballots were found to be mutilated and although only four straight Progressive votes were cast, 50 ballots were marked with both the Republican and Progressive crosses.

Monterey Man Missing. Laporte, Dec. 8. —Police of northern Indiana towns were asked to search for Charles E. Cinn, a business man of Monterey, who disappeared two months ago while on his way to North Hudson. Cinn, who was forty-five, was well supplied with money and it is feared met with foul play. Judge Reduces Sentence. Indianapolis, Dec. B.—Sibley Everett’s plea that his fathe# be held blameless for the scheme to defraud, to which both pleaded guilty, resulted in Judge Anderson of the federal court taking six months off his sentence. It was made a year and a day instead of 18 months. Bloodhounds Track Man. Indianapolis, Dec. B— Tracked by Bob Owens’ Bedford bloodhounds, Fred Brown was arrested charged with firing two large barns west of the city. Farmers in the district have been in terror since the fire bug first made his appearance. Brown denied the charge. Glass Eye Explodes. , Hammond, Dec. B.—F. K. Cosgrove will never sit near the kitchen again. The heat caused his glass eye to explode while he was dining in a restaurant at North Vernon and rendered him unconscious for several minutes.

Suit Is Dismissed. Shelbyville, Dec. B.— Mrs. Nettie Meyers of Indianapolis has dismissed her suit here for $25,000 damages feebreach of promise from John F. Qofcclazier, a farmer. K. of P. Hold Meet Gosport, Dec. 8. —The annual meeting of the Fourteenth district, K. of P- comprises the counties at Brown, Morgan, Monroe and Owen, was held here. Kouts Post Office Robbed. Valparaiso, Dec. B.—Thieves cut a window pane out of the Kouts post office building and stole cash and the amount of which has not yet been determined. Trampled by Horae. Columbus, Dec. B.—Edward Thurston, eleven, of Hartsville, was trampled by a horse in a pasture at his home and probably will die of his ipjtarics. Gary Politician a Suicide. Gary. Dec. B.—Louis Rhodes, a wealthy property owner and prominent in Republican politics, despondent over Illness, shot and killed himself. Indian Killed by Train. Marion. Dec. 8-— Sylvester Shapn. twenty-seven, a Miami Indian, killed near Converse when struck by a j Pennsylvania railway train.