Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1917 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts of the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL *- k ‘ ■ Happenings in the Nearby Cities and Towns^—Matters of Minor Mention from Many Places. McCOYSBURG MEN ARRESTED For Intoxication at Monon and Fined $12.70 Each. Claude Jackson, blacksmith, and Arthur Taylor of McCoysburg were each assessed $12.70 in Squire Catlin’s court Wednesday night for being drunk and disorderly. Of this sum $lO in all is dignified by going to the school fund, and the remainder is for trimmings. Jackson was arrested in the Haydn,

Coots store, where he had been raising a disturbance, and gave the marshal a merry tussel before he was landed in the cooler. Taylor ran amuck of Nightwatch Wilson as he emerged from the alley near the store. Hie undertook the same antics as Jackson, hut was made docile by a tap from Wilson’s mace. Both plead not guilty while their evidence established guilt. Jackpon amused the crowd of spectators by his sallies of humor while on the witness stand. When asked by H. C. Thompson, who appeared for the prosecution, if he did not have a quart of whisky on his person, he replied that he had a quart bottle, hut it was not full. Asked where he obtained the whisky he said he brought it with him. He insisted on settling his fine when "he booze was returned to him, but the court refused to comply. The maudlin condition of the men when Aried left no doubt about their intoxication. —Monon News.