Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1918 — CLEANED from the EXCHANGES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CLEANED from the EXCHANGES

The Ruff building, a large structure at Sioux City, lowa, collapsed Saturday and it is thought that fifty people were kiled and buried in the ruins, thirty-nine bodies having been taken out at latest reports. The Indiana supreme court, after handing down the state-wide prohi- [ bition law decision Friday at noon, i adjourned for the Summer Vacation .period and, unless some special call )is issued by the chief justice,- will not convene again until next fall. Cadet Harold Carothers Noble of York, Penn., was killed instantly Friday evening at Ludlow, five miles north of Rantoul, 111., when he lost control of an airplane and plunged 50b feet to the ground. It was the first fatality for Chanute field, a government station. The accident occurred in a blinding rainstorm, which came up suddenly and which is thought to have caused Noble to lose control of his machine. He was alone in the plane, Eugene V. Debs, four times socialistic candidate for the presidency of the United States, was arrested at Cleveland Sunday by United States Marshal Charles W. Lapp and Deputy Marshal Charles Boehme as he was about to deliver a socialistic address. The arrest was made on a federal warrant in connection with Debs’ speech at Canton, Ohio, June 16, last. Debs, whose home is at Terre Haute, was nominated for congress by the socialists of the Fifth Indiana district on the same day he was jailed at Cleveland. The Indiana supreme court has affirmed the Jennings couty circuit court in holding that the legislature has the "power to pass special laws for holding elections for the removal of county seats. The decision was'bn a law passed by the 1913 legislature providing for the holding of an election for the removal of the county seat of Jennings county [away from Vernon. It was decided [that those interested in keeping the [county seat at Vernon are not en- ! titled to a temporary injunction to restrain the petitioners and the county officers from proceeding under the 1913 law.