The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1915-06-18
State


t"o moheho 'dCdtion IN the vest. lie
brought with him an alleged parole
violator. Roy Jarboe of Perry county
said to be the only inmate OF the In,
stitution OF recent years who ran
away when on leave OF absence to Wis.
IL sick relatives.
Huntington.-The Eel River Chris.
tan conference institute convent, N
will be held in the First Chris.
tan church at Huntington, June l. 2
and 3. The program will be opened
on Tuesday with an address OF well
come by o. w. Whitlock OF Hunting
ton, conference president. The re-
spouse will be by Rev. c. B. Kesshner
of Warren.
Richmond.-The Wayne County
Good Roads association. which IS
arranging for an "old trails cele-
bration July 4, announced that Sena.
tor Kern probably would make the
principal address. Senator Kern. in
a letter to a member of the commit
tee. said Ii was his desire to attend
the celebration and he hoped he would
be able to send his formal acceptance
In a few days.
Anderson.-Robert A. Harris, age
ten, died Of conclusion of the
brain, the result Of being hit on the
head by the branch of a tree which
had been sawed off by his father, Will
son A. Harris, a week ago. After a
windstorm Mr.. Harris and his son
were removing loose limbs Of trees.
The boy was under the trees, picking
up h smaller limbs, when a large
n fell, hitting him on the forehead.
Marion.-A charge of assault and
battery with intent to kill has beer
placed here against Sherman Bahr,
nineteen years old, of Kokomo. Bahr.
who is driver of a truck for Mikalas
Bros, candy manufacturers of Koko-
mo, while driving the automobile along
the road at Sims, struck a hay baler
in which James M. Brown was seated,
breaking both of Browns legs. Bahr
gave bond Of 81, 900.
Sullivan.-Willis Russell. bartender
or the saloon near Lewis known as the
"Neversweat." paid a fine and costs OF
$9O.15 in Justice Watson's court for
six violations of the liquor laws. Prose-
cutor Fred F. Bays is holding courts
of inquiry in Justice Watson's court in
Sullivan, and Justice Duncan's court
in Digger, gathering evidence of al
legged Gill township election frauds,
concerning which a number of iudict-
ments were returned by the last grand
jury.
AndersOn.-The police continued
to search in vain for a prisoner
who escaped after being taken to
police headquarters. He is said to be
William Cramer, age twenty-seven, of
Toledo, 0. He is accused of stealing
two tires from Harry Harter's auto
mobile in Anderson. He was arrest
ed when taking the tires from the
place where he had hidden them.
Cramer was taken to police h~eadquar-
tiers while the police went to the resi-
dence to question another young man
who represented he was James Pro-
bert, also of Toledo, O. While the in
vestigation was being made at Pro-
bert's home, Cramer slipped out a
side door of the police station and
the officers returned with Pro-
bert to examine Cramer they were sur
prised to find that Cramer had es-
Marion.-That Marion forever will
saloonless was the univer-
sal belief expressed by the dry
following their victory, with a
at the local option election. Every
ward in the city was carried by splen-
lid margins. Over five thousand
votes were cast. The great triumph
Of the drys is attributed to a concen-
rated effort of business men, factory
and a strong antisaloon
eague. Many former wet advocates
Ioined in working for the dry move
nent this year, including the wet
campaign manager of last year. The
victory was celebrated by a parade Of
four hundred men on foot and
many women in automobiles. Re-
igious songs were sung along the
streets.
Observation-Disclosures leads all 9TH
r counties in the number OF
prisoners now at the state penal farm.
darion county has sent ffty-fve pris- I
ners to the farm since April. The I
from which the prisoners l
ave been received and the number
rom each follows: Alien, 2: Black
ord, 3; Bartholomew, 3; Boone, l; 6
ASS. 4; Clark. 8; Davies, 4; Dekalb.
4; Dearborn, 8; Elkhart, /; Fulton. /
; Floyd, 8; Gibson, 3; Grant. l.: Ham
ton, 8; Howard, u; Jay, /; Johnson, c
+; Jefferson, 2; Jackson. 8: Knox. 8; v
2; Marion, SO; Lawrence, 4; I
5; Montgomery. 2; Monroe. 4
!; Madison, 6; Marshall, 6; Miami. (
!; Noble. 1; Putnam. 4: Rush. 2; ST. i
13; Steuben, /; T~ippecanoe, a
Vanderburg, s; Vigo. "a; Vermilion. Il
Wayne 2: Wells, /, and Washing Z