Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1911 — Page 2

RENSSELAER REPUBLICAN DAILY AND SEMI* WEEKLY. HEALEY A CLARK, Publishers. Ste Friday Xma* to th« K*gwtox Weakly Edition. ■T""*" SUBBCKBPTXON KATES. Daily, by Carrier, 10 Cento a Week. By Kail, 93.75 a year. Semi-Weekly, la advance. Tear, 91-50. Tuesday, April 11, 1911.

Bishop Hughes Lectures Some Young Ministers at Conference.

“1 don't want to hear of a single member of this class selling mining stock,” said Bishop E. H. Hughes, presiding officer of the north Indiana conference, Friday to a class of newly Hedged preachers at Kokomo. “I don’t want any of you to peddle sewing machines, or work life insurance, much less do I want to hear of you investing in mining stock. 1 never knew a Methodist preacher to do any good that way. Hire a trust company to transact your business. They understand it better than you do. I don't suppose my personal busir. ness affairs take an hour of my time

a year. Keep your promise to devote all your time to the Lord. “No preacher in the Methodiv church has a right to be a slouch. It is a shame for him to wear a dirty collar or a dirty shirt. Water is plentiful, soap is dirt cheap arid shoe blacking but five cents a box. If needful carry a rag in your pocket and keep your shoes polished. “Don't yield to the temptation of loafing at the corner grocery and do not allow yourself to be an errand boy for the ladies’ aid society, bet study and perfect yourself. If you do not, you will bellow on Sundays instead of preach, and such a minister of the gospoi is a liar, n cheat and a thief.”

C. W. Fairbanks, former vice-presi-dent of the United States, and now president of the Indiana Methodist Hospital Association, addressed the conference Friday. He said that those who predicted war between the United States and Japan misjudged the motives of the Japanese, and in that country, Korea, Turkey, in fact, throughout the world, the United States is regarded higher than ever before, because of its Christian work. "The bible is driving back the horizon of war and is greater than battle ships and armies," he said.

Mrs. R. B. Harris returned from Chicago Sunday evening, where she laid been at the bedside of her daughter, Mrs. Leonard Rhoades, since the latter was operated on Thursday. Mrs. Harris was taken quite sick immediately following the operation on her daughter. She was feeling very poorly still when she arrived home and has taken worse since then. She now has peritonitis and her condition is quite serious.

NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

James Hoffman, an inmate of the penitentiary in Michigan City since IS9S from Posey county, has been paroled to Hon. Charles Lieb, of Rockport, a member of the legislature. The conference committee of the Methodist Episcopal church, 'n session at Kokomo, adopted resolutions condemning Gov. Marshall and members of the last general assembly for the repeal of the county option law. The program committee of the Grand Army encampment, to be held at Richmond in May, has received information that J. B. Foraker, formerly United States senator from Ohio, will be one of the speakers at the campfire to be held on the night of May 18th. John Hogwood, northeast of Tipton, captured a lizard that does not seem to be listed or pictured in freak records. The lizard is five inches long, flat of head, with four feet, and with several horny projections along the vertebra, tailward. The specimen will be put in alcohol to be saved for the eyes of experts.

Joseph M. Quinlan, a candidate for the priesthood, studying at Notre Dame university, won first place at Notre Dame in the state peace oratorical contest. A cash prize of $75 accompanies the right to represent Indiana in the interstate contest to be held next month. Charles M. Anderson, of Purdue University, won second place.

With few exceptions Gary's 256 saloons were closed Sunday as the result of the county Commissioners’ determination that no more licenses should be granted saloon men who violated the state Sunday closing law. Gary’s aldermen, six of whom are saloon keepers, set the example by keeping the doors of their places shut. One of the results is the passing of the Sunday night dances which long have been an established amusement In Gary. Despite the fact that the saloons were closed, the arrests for drunkenness did not decrease, many having laid in supplies Saturday night Six persons were arrested, charged with being intoxicated. ■/ ■ ■■ . ■

LEGALLY HANGED

By CHARLES LEWIS PHIPPS

“Which one of all your cases,” 1 asked Wilcox, the celebrated criminal lawyer, “has most excited your Interest?” “That of Mathews, who was'accused of nTurder.” “Wns he Innocent or guilty?” “Innocent.” “Did you secure his acquittal?” “No." “Hanged ?” “Yes; legally hanged.” “What do you mean by that?” ‘Til tell you. Mathews was In the employ of Henderson, the tuan who was murdered. I don’t care to go Into the details of the case; I will only say that there was so much circumstantial evidence against him that from the first I despaired of saving his neck. 1 knew he was innocent, though he could no more explain the circumstances that pointed to his guilt than I could.” “How did you know he was innocent?"

“By both experience and intuition. 1 defy any of tny clients to deceive me in this regard. 1 simply look them in the eye, and trial tells me trie story. “There was everything about Mathews’ case to interest me. He wns a younger son of a British country gentleman and in love with the daughter of another British geht lonian. His mother had no knowledge of his having been accused of crime, much less having been convicted, for I could do nothing to prove him innocent, lie showed me his mother's letters, and it was distressing to read them. His betrothed was also writing him without any knowledge that he was under senteuce of death. A week before lie was to be hanged a letter from solicitors in England was handed him, informing him that a bachelor uncle had died and left him a large fortune.”

“Upon my word! It was an interesting case, wasn’t it?” “I Should say so. If ever there was a man who had everything to live for Mathews had. And-to be judicially executed without ever having wronged any one in his life was.simply awful. You have uo idea how having a life on your hands wears on a man, and this case nearly drove me insane. “But I braced myself for a gigantic effort. After conferring with Mathews I decided to cable the solicitors in England, giving them the situation and asking how much funds they could cable me within a few days. They placed £20,000 to my credit, and with this sum l went to work. There was uo use in trying to secure delay or a new trial. What 1 must do was to interest the sheriff. I had a long secret conference with him, but could not move him to act for money, though 1 so far secured his judgment that he must do an official wrong in hanging Mathews that he consented to wink at any game I might practice, provided it could be kept secret. “I got a friend of mine who was a professor in a medical college to apply for the body of Mathews as soou as he was dead.' This enabled me to gain possession of the condemned man the moment the hanging was over. Then I “fixed'' every official who was to be present at the hanging. Mathews put in a request that there should be uo spectators present. 1 could not even be present myself. But there was not one of the officials to whom 1 paid less than SIO,OOO, and the hangman got $20,000. My friend the doctor was the only one present who got uothing. He had a coffin ready for the corpse as soou as it was taken from the gallows and a hearse to carry It to the hospital. “Well, that night I went to the hospital and found Mathews locked In the doctor's room.” “But how was the hanging managed?” “I don’t know; I never asked. There were half a dozen men paid by the Btate to see that Mathews was banged, and I paid every one of them—in all sloo,ooo—to go through the process without hanging him. All I know is that I paid the money and found Mathews aliTe in the doctor’s room. Some burnt cork, a woolly wig and a suit of clothes procured from a Jew tailor fixed him so that no one would know him. I had a steerage ticket for him In an outgoing steamer, and early the next morning he was on his way to England."

“He must have been very grateful to you." “Grateful! I should say so. Before parting with me he made me promise that I would come over as soon as possible and see him. I couldn’t go for a year, and then I found him in possession of £50,000 a year income and married to the woman he loved. He met me on the steamer, and the first thing he did was to impress It upon me that neither his mother nor his wife nor any one living except his solicitors knew that he was Judicially dead In America. He had often tried to bring himself to unburden his se cret to his wife, but had always failed. “Mathews entertained me royally and begged me to suggest some way for him to pay the debt he owed me, even if it required every cent of his fortune. I assured him that I took more comfort In his case than in all the cases I had ever won, though I had lost it “After spending a mouth with him I left him to return. He could hardly bear to part with me and regretted that it wouldn’t be safe for him to come to America or he would cross the ocean with me. He shed tears when I came away."

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HANGING GROVE.

Mrs. Louisa Foulks, of Monon, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Richard Foulks. Chas. Bussell and family spent Sunday with Roy Bussell and family at McCoysburg. Blonnie and Ogle Lowry, of Gillam township, visited with Mr. Ross’ children over Saturday and Sunday. Misses Ethel Parker, Clara Ringeisen and Dora Phillips and Frank Ringeisen took dinner with Miss Ethel Ross Sunday. There was a good turnout at Sunday school and church Sunday, the weather being quite favorable, and it is hoped each Sunday will see as many out. The saw mill at Mr. Ford’s was shut down all last week on account of bad weather. The mill sets in the open and has no protection from - the weather. There were eleven applicants took the March diploma examination and of this number eight were successful. A second examination will be held next Saturday for those who failed. William Erb received a general average of 90 per cent, the highest in the township, and perhaps the best in the country. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Parker spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Felix Parker at Roselawn. The latter were residents of this township until a few years ago, and since moving to their present location, Mr. Parker has been afflicted with rheumatism, and for the past few months has been unable to put on .a coat without assistance.

Quite a few neighbors and friends came in at Simon Cook's Thursday to surprise Mrs. Cook and remind her of a birthday. They were not sly enough though, with the preliminaries, and Mrs. Cook was aware of the coming visitor# Each • brought well filled baskets and many good things were served for dinner. Those present were Robt. Drake and family, Wash Cook and family, C. EJrb and family, Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Ford. Mr. and Mrs. Lou Manning and Mrs. S. W. Noland and daughter Cora. Mr. and Mrs. Morris, of Lafayette*, have moved into the hotel property at McCoysburg, and will work for the man owning the land. Mr. Morris is a carpenter by trade and intends to do considerable building and repair-

ing. The large sheep barns that McCoy built several years ago, will be torn down and rebuilt into one good general purpose barn. It is the inten tion now to have the hotel moved back farther east toward the barns, and if this is done it will necessitate considerable repair work. Mr. and Mrs. Morris ccme here from Lafayette highly recommended as church and Sunday school workers, which is a lucky addition for our Sunday school.

DEAFNESS CURED

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CLEAX-UP NOTICE. There is to be a general clean-up in Rensselaer this spring. Property owners will be given ample time to clean closets, back yards and alleys and if they fail to do it, it will certainly be done anyway. The health board does not desire to force cleanliness, but has the power and will use it if necessary. CITY BOARD OF HEALTH. G. E. McMahon and wife and chauffeur stopped in Rensselaer over Monday night. Mr. and Mrs. McMahon reside in Olney, 111., and had been to Chicago to purchase an auto. Thej selected a Kissel-Car, a very fine looking $1,750 machine. Landlord Fate, at the Makeever hotel, has fixed up a “bridal chamber” and whenever a married couple comes in he puts them therein. Mr. and Mrs. Mc\iahon were' thus honored. Let your wants be known through our Classified Column. Calling Cards at The Republican.

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