Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1919 — 40 FOOD DEALERS INDICTED [ARTICLE]

40 FOOD DEALERS INDICTED

True Bills Returned Against Large Number of Store Owners In Indianapolis Charged With Dealing Out Short Weights. Indianapolis, Sept 12.—Approximately 40 Indianapolis food dealers were indicted by the Marlon county grand jury on charges of deallug out short weights.

Public Service Grants Petitions. Indianapolis, Sept. 12.—Five orders were issued by the public service commission. The orders were announq|d following a conference of the members of the commission called by E. I. Lewis, chairman. The Batesville Gas 'company was granted permission to increase Its rates. The Greensburg Water company was authorized to Issue $120,000 of its 5 per cent cumulative preferred stock and to exchange it par or par, for the present outstanding mortgage Indebtedness of $120,000 par value 4 per cent bonds. The commission denied the petition of the Decatur County Telephone company of Greensburg, asking for authority to make a charge for overtime service.

Permission was granted the Frencl Lick and West Baden Street railway t« discontinue temporarily the operation of cars between French Lick and West Baden. An extension of 45 days, from September 1 to October 15, was grant, ed the Indianapolis Street Railway company in which to secure the consent of bondholders to the retirement of bonds In the sinking fund.

Barr Guilty of Bigamy. Goshen, Sept. 12.—John M. Barr, thlFty-nlne years old, a traveling salesman of Indianapolis, who was arrested here two weeks ago on a charge oi bigamy, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 90 days on {he state penal farm. He was also fined $25. Barr admitted tlait he has a wife and son In Indianapolis and in Goshen. The Indianapolis wife and son visited Barr at the county* jail here. It was stated jiere that upon the expiration of his term at the state farm he will return to them. Barr’s system In having two wives was to spend half of the week with the family in Indianapolis and the other half with the Goshen wife at their Lake Wawasee cottage.

Seven Hurt in Car Crash. Indlaanpolls, Sept. 12. —Seven perrons are suffering slight injuries as a result of a car collision caused indirectly by a burning residence. A Broad Ripple car, on •vhlch the seven were passengers, was halted in College ave"nue by a fire hose laid across the tracks. An inbound Tipton interurbap car crashed into the rear of the stalled city car, the motorman not seeing the danger signal in time to stop, according to his explanation. Many passengers .had left the crowded city car to carry furniture from the burning home and this is believed to have prevented serious injury or death to many. .

3,148 Hoosiers Killed in War. Indianapolis, Sept. 12.—Three thousand one hundred and forty-eight Hoosiers made the supreme sacrifice during the world war, according to figures just compiled by the Indiana historical commission. Deaths of Indiana soldiers, sailors, marines and nurses are distributed as follows: Killed in action, 963; missing in action, 181; died from wounds, 363; died of disease, 1,452; died from accident or other cause, 179; nurses who died in service. 10. Checking up of reports may add another hundred or so names to the list, J. W. Oliver, director of the commission, stated.

Wounded While In Melon Patch. Peru, Sept. 12. —Mystery surrounds the devastation of a three-acre watermelon patch on the Mrs. Addle Reed farm, tenanted by Charles Crider, near Twelve Mile, northwest of this city, Nearly every melon was mashed. Soino one fired a shotgun four times and a report reached here that 80 shot-were removed from one person and 26 from another. It is not known whether prosecutions will follow. Factories have been established in Spain for the manufacture of paper from vine shoots and of paper pulp ‘from esparto grass. The water in a public drinking foundaln In a Kansas City park is ■cooled by running it through a coil of pipe sunk in an old well.