100 years ago: Couple living together as man and wife arrested for indecent conduct

From the Lawrence Daily World for Oct. 5, 1910:

“Revolution is sweeping Portugal. The republicans who yesterday overthrew the government are today in complete possession of the Capitol. King Manuel II is reported to have taken refuge on a Brazilian warship. According to a German report, Manuel’s flagrant flaunting of his mistress in the faces of his starving subjects caused a wave of popular indignation that culminated in the revolt…. There are several cases of typhoid fever in Lawrence now, enough to cause the attending physicians a great deal of worry. One block in West Lawrence has three cases. A strange feature of the cases seems to be that most of them were contracted away from Lawrence. No analysis of the water has been made recently, but it is not suspected that the city water contains any typhoid germs…. A complaint was sworn out by relatives last evening, charging Neal Scott and Millie Hewner with indecent conduct. The affiant alleged in the information that the pair had been living together as man and wife. The couple were arrested last night but later released on a $40 bond…. Three small Indians who concluded to leave the protecting walls of Haskell Institute and return to freedom of the reservation yesterday, were recaptured at Eudora last night. Douglas Smith saw the trio trudging through Eudora last evening and suspecting that they were Haskell truants, took them into custody. Supt. Fiske authorized their return and the three, very much crestfallen, were unceremoniously brought back.”