Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 159, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1911 — Page 1

No. 159.

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LOCAL HAPPENINGS. Mrs. Mark Holmes and children, of Camden, Is visiting relatives here. Mrs. H. M. Baughman, mother of Mrs. Short, is ill at her home in Monon. Pearl, Flo and Hattie Wasson went to Winchester Thursday for a visit with relatives. The F. G. C. club will have home made candy on sale at Mrs. Purcu? pile’s millinery store Saturday. Look at the G. E. Murray Co. advertisement in this paper. It means a big saving to buyers. Morocco voted “dry” at the local option election last Saturday by a majority of 79. The vote stood 245 s “dry,” 166 “wet.”' We unloaded, last week, another car of Eastern cane granulated sugar, the best sugar ’ fb'f preserving fruit* JOHN EGER. Col. William S. Haggard, commander of the Indiana State Soldiers’ Home at Lafayette, died last night after an extended illness. In The U. E. Murray Co. July sale we have given up the idea of profit We are compelled to raise money and must sacrifice our goods to get it. The White county commissioners continued the petition for an interurban election in Princeton township until their August session. Mr. Hayner, piano tuner and repairer from Chicago, is in the city. Patronage respectfully solicited. Leave orders at Clarke’s jewelry store. One of Buffalo Bill’s automobile publicity, cars passed through here this morning on the way from Indianapolis to Chicago. The car was quite a curiosity, being built to represent a buffalo. An emergency operation for acute obstruction of the bowels was performed upon Mrs. Sarah Smith, living near the Smith cemetery in Barkley township, Wednesday evening by local physicians. She is getting along very nicely from the operation. Invitations have been issued for the marriage of Miss Meafrle McColly, of Rensselaer, and Chauncey E. Johnson, of Steger, 111. The wedding will take place Tuesday afternoon, July 18th, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Kresler, on North "“Cullen street, In Rensselaer. One and a quarter million dead flies in one heap, being a pile three feet high and five feet wide, represented the slaughter wrought by small boys as the result of a fly-killing contest which closed July 4th at San Antonio, Texas. Robert Basse carried off first prize of |lO with an official record of 484,320 dead flies. For summer diarrhoea in children always give Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy and castor oil and a speedy cure is certain. For sale by all dealers. c

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TONIGHT’S PROGRAM ■' —♦ — PICTURES. STABILITY vi. NOBILITY. SEMIRAMIS.

Kentland Water Service Now on. Meter Basis.

Kentland Enterprise. The Kentland water service was put on a meter basis Saturday morning. Th,e order for meters was made about eight .months ago, hut desiring to give the people ample time for installing the same, the town board has extended the time limit from month to month. All but twenty-five or thirty patrons had complied with the onder, and the board believing sufficient leniency had been shown, directed the water superintendent to turn off all lines not metered. The service is now where it can be conducted on a business basis. Every consumer pays for the water they use, and no more. They are not taxed to pay for tjie wastefulness of others, and the town is saved the expense of pumping the thousands of gallons formerly wasted dally. Those who have been using meters for a few months find them much'- more s&tistsctary than- the -flat rate, more economical, and yet the rate is sufficient to permit the operating of the plant on a self supporting basis. *••• o Those who found the water turned off Saturday morning, with the temperature running up to the hundred mark, did some quiet cursing, but a majority took the matter philosophically and are having meters installed. It’s impossible to carry out such work without treading on th/ toes of some.

In The G. E. Murray Co. July sale we have not bought up a lot of. cheap goods,, hut will offer you our regular lines of dependable merchandise. J. J. Weast, the fertilizer man, has bought George McCarthy’s pool room fixtures and will reopen the business in the room formerly occupied by Mr. McCarthy. Mr. Weast will place some one in charge of the business and will / continue to devote his attention to the fertilizer business. At the first city election held at Crown Point, Harold H. Wheeler, former county clerk and a republican, was elected mayor without opposition. Howell V. Parry and H. J. Lehman were elected clerk and treasurer, respectively, without opposition. Four ward councilmep-at-large were also elected. Elliott R. Hooton, chief of the new state bureau of inspection, is wondering how he can publish the new inspection law in a county seat which has no newspaper. The law requires the publication of the notices in each county seat in the state, but Mr. HoOton has discovered that Vernon, county seat of Jennings county,'is without a newspaper. Moore & Scott, the contractors on the Kurrie sewer, are having considerable trouble with the work. A few days ago they struck a stretch of rock that had to be removed for about twenty feet and today they struck another ledge that will have to be drilled out for a distance of ten feet to the depth of two inches. Owing to the dry weather the dirt is very hard, making progress very slow. They will be lucky if they come out even on the work. The sewer runs from Makemself sewer south in the alley to a point in the rear of the Methodist parsonage.

Work on the interurban Line south of town is going right along. Yesterday the laborers were working at the site of the bridge over tha Howe ditch. They have done some grading ‘on each side of the ditch and the right-of-way in that vicinity is getting to look like a railroad bed. Work will necessarily be delayed until the balance of the right-of-way is secured, and if it is necessary to condemn the land, this cannot be done until the September term of the circuit court. The gang of Roumanians working on the road make their home in a shanty constructed for them along the right-of-way. They seem a happy lot They do their own housekeeping and rarely come to town. ‘ Itching piles provoke proffanity, bnt profanity won’t cure- theta. Doan’s Ointment cures itching, bdeedtag or protruding plies after years; of suffering. At any drug store, _

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RENSSELAER, INDIANA, FRIDAY, JULY 7, 1911.

Grand Jury at Fowler Finds Larsen Murdered.

“We, the grand jury, find that Peter Larsen came to his death by violence not of his own hand, but by some person unknown to this grand jury. We find insufficient evidence to warrant the indictment of any one person.” Having completed its examination of witnesses and its investigation of the mysterious death of Peter Larsen, the grand jury returned the above verdict at 4 o’clock Thursday afternoon. This verdict repudiates the hasty finding of suicide by Coroner Arthur LeSage and by its vagueness, condemns the lack of vigilance on the part of the authorities for not. having gone to the bottom of Larsen’s death, immediately after the body was discovered in the cistern two weeks ago Friday morning. The finding of the grand jury caused a sensation at Fowler as such a verdict was unlooked for. Many thought that an indictment of murder would be returned against Peter Larsen’s widow and others believed that the grand jury would find that Larsen died by suicide. When asked what further action would now be taken, Burke Walker, deputy prosecutor of Benton county, stated that be did not think anything further would be done, as he thought that the verdict of the grand jury closed the case. He again said that he thought that the investigation would be left open for any-farther evidence that might be brought forward. Prosecutor John Hall left for Williamsport immediately after the grand jury's'* verdict was returned and no statement could be gotten from him. Detective Winn, of the Pinkerton agency, who was employed by friends and relatives of the late Peter Larsen and who arrived at Fowler Wednesday morning accompanied by Peter Larsen’s son-in-law, William F, Gussy, of Chicago, stated Thursday that if he had been on the grounds at the time of the finding of the bofiy that he would have found evidence warranting an indictment of murder in the first degree. He said that the evidence had been so thoroughly covered over and removed that no one in particular could be accused of thq crime, but that there was sufficient evidence remaining to show that it was, without a doubt, not a case of suicide. He and Mr. Gussy left for Chicago last night.

/ Mrs. Larsen and her attorney, Hall, were examined by the grand jury Wednesday afternoon and it is said that her testimony was the same as that given before, the coroner’s inquest She went before the grand jury dressed in deep mourning and was weeping as she entered and left the court house. It is possible that the grand jury had a motive as yet unknown in returning the verdict as it was. W faout a doubt, it was convinced that Larsen was murdered and the opinion of the six men may be that further investigation and time will reveal the murdered A verdict of suicide would have closed the case, but the verdict returned leaves it open. It appears now as if another Benton county mystery will be left unsolved. _

Fire of unknown origin destroyed* McKenzie hall, the dining hall of Howe Military academy, at Howe, Ind., on the Fourth, causing a loss of >20,000. Homer Benjamin, age eighteen, and his brother Lester, age sixteen, sons of W. A. Benjamin, of Petersburg, were drowned in White river, five miles northeast of Petersburg, Wednesday. They were bathing in the river. Stops earache in two minutes; toothache or pain or scald in five minutes; hoarseness, one hour; muscleache, two hours; sore throat, twelve hours—Dr. Thomas* Eclectic Oil, monarch over pain. The township assessors of Hancock county were “docked" $25 each by the county assessors and they threaten to sue the county if the money is not paid. The amount, claimed is for Sunday ' work, which the commissioners say they have no right to pay. Postmaster General Hitchcock has announced fifty new postal savr ings banks to open July 29. Among the offices are Newcastle, Union City and Washington, Ind. Applications from depositors to purchase postal savings bank bonds July 1, aggregated >42,000. Never leave home on a journey without a' bottle of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. It is almost certain to be needed and cannot be obtained when on board the cars or steamships. For sale by all dealers. c * 1 Calling Cards at The Republican.

Barnum’s Circus at Lafayette, Thursday, July 27th.

The people of Rensselaer and vicinity are to be given an opportunity of seeing the Barnum and Bailey Greatest Show on Earth, which will give two performances in Lafayette, on Thursday, July 27th. Many wonderful features, new to American circus-goers are promised. A company of 400 of the world’s most prominent circus talent, principally European, will present an array of novelties, there will be an elaborate forenoon parade and a new menagerie. In the menagerie among many other wonders is to be found Baby Bumbeeno, the only giraffe ever born in America. It is just one year old. Among the more sensational numbers on the long bill are John Ducander’s company of bell-ringing hordes, from England; the Fonelli company of Italian acrobats, the Siegrist-Silbon family of German aerialists, Jupiter, the-balloon horse, Charles the First, a chimpanzee bicycle rider and roller skater, the great Georgetty family of French jugglers, the Les Deko Les Silvas family of French equilibrists, Noonan’s brass band of elephants, Capt. Winstbn’s troupe of riding and juggling seals and sea-lions, Berzac’s company of mule and pony * actors, Nederweld’s dog and monkey circus, Victoria Codona, the world’s greatest wire dancer and the fifty funniest clowns in the world. The Barnum and Bailey circus is now at the zenith of success. It than -a fiaile in length. It employes 1,286 people and has 700 horses. In the menagerie are forty elephants and over 1,000 other strange animals. The show carries its own dynamos illuminating the twenty tents and the show grounds with 4,000 incandescent lamps, arc lights, search lights and beacons. The railroads will make special arrangements to convey visitors from outlying towns to Lafayette on show day.

Leave your orders for Black Raspberries for canning, Wednesday and Thursday of this week. - - JOHN EGER.

The G. E. Murray Co.’s ■ ■ I I ■■,■■■■ ■ ■■■■ ■ . ■■■. ■ ■■■■■■,,, Annual July Clearance Sale ' f ■■ ■ ■ ■ . From 10% io 20% Off Our Regular Prices. Men, Boys, Children’s Suits, Pants, Hats, i Caps, Underwear, Dress Shirts. Men, Boys, Women’s Shoes and Oxfords. Ladies’White and Colored Dresses, White Waists, Skirts, Muslin and Summer Underwear. Special for this Sale—7 Spools Thread 25c

SEVEN SPOOLS THREAD . 25c 10c Dress Ginghams B|c 12£c Dress Ginghams ... 10c 15c Dress Ginghams 12}c 25c Dress Ginghams , , . 20c 50c Overalls . 39c 50c Shirts .... 39c 50c Children's Play Suits . 39c One let es Hen's Shoes, worth front $2 to 12.50, sale price 11.39

Special Low Prices on Odd Lots Chinaware and Dishes. •

TO EAT FRESH New Peaches Blueberries New Tomatoes Pineapples Cucumbers Oranges New Potatoes Head Lettuce Canteloupes Lemons HOME GROCERY “Growing Battar Every Day'*

Supposed Victim of John Poole Died in Ohio.

Clyde Witham, who was supposed to have been murdered by John Poole and buried on his Jasper county farm, died in Ohio from natural causes, according to a card received by Prosecutor Wood, of Parr. Barney Newland, a former '•ompanion of Witham’s, now of Shelby, has written Mr. ..Wood that Witham died in Ohio, on a farm 2% miles south of Algiers, He failed to give the date of the death. Mr. Wood will investigate the matter further.

Presbyterian Church.

The summer communion service will be held at the morning hour next Sunday. Every member Is urged to be present. J. C. PARRETT, Pastor. If you haven’t the time to exercise regularly, Doan’s Regulets will prevent constipation. They induce a mild, easy, healthful actipn of the bowels without griping. Ask your druggist for them. 25 cents.

One lot Hen’s Shoes and Oxfords, worth from >2.50 to >4, sale price >1.75 One lot Beys’ Shoes and Oxfords, worth >2.50 to >3.00, sale price 1 >1.50 15c Men’s Half Hose 10c 25c Hen’s Half Hose ... 19c 25c Hen’s Suspenders .19c 8 Bars Lenox Soap 4 Cans Mammoth Lye 25c 3 Packages Corn Flake 25c 1 Galion Nonsuch Apples . . . 40c «

WEATHER FORECAST. Fair tonight and probably Saturday; moderate temperature. July B—Sun rises 4:36; sets 7:82.

Stores and Factories Come Under State Inspection Law.

All stores employing more than five persons, as well as manufacturing establishments, come under the jurisdiction of theaew st&fee-bnresu of Inspection which began operations Saturday. A license fee of |1 per year must be paid. This is the interpretation placed on the law by Elliott R. Hooton, chief of the bureau. Only farmers and those employing more than five persons as domestic help are excepted, he holds. Under Mr. Hooten’s interpretation of the law it Is believed the new department will earn a revenue of more than 8100,000 annually. There are 40,000 factories in the state which have been subject to inspection under the old law.

Black Caps for canning, Wednesday and Thursday of this week. r JOHM EGER.

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