Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 173, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1911 — Page 1

No. 171

LOCAL HAPPENINGS. Potatoes now down to 50c a peck at the Home Grocery. — ~ Mrs. Carrie Short went to Monon today to visit her mother. . - - ■ ■ » Miss Ida Jacobson went to Louisville yesterday for a visit' with relatives. The St. Paul Cadets, who have been in camp at the college, have returned to Chicago. Mrs. Bert Brenner went to Muncie today for a visit with Mr. and Mrs. Emery Mills. A 10-pound son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Mart Reed, of near Pleasant Ridge, Saturday. ■ Mrs. Max Moss and Mrs. Jake Oppenheimer, of New Orleans, came yesterday for an extended visit with Mr. and Mrs. B. S. Fendig. Harvey W. Wood, whose illness was mentioned at the time of the attack, is getting along nicely and is now able to walk around. Mrs. A. Oppenheimer, mother of Mrs. B. S. Fendig, who has been spending the past nine months in Germany, will leave for home The hearing in the Ransford bankruptcy case was resumed today. Referee in Bankruptcy Chas. A. Burnett, of Lafayette, is in attendance. The apple crop in Jasper county is even give the apples away. A cider mill would be a profitable investment this year. Miss Minnie Alter, of Lafayette, a trained nurse, is taking care of Leslie Alter, who, was so badly scalded last week. She is the daughter of Lewis S. Alter, of Carpenter township. Miss Mina Clager, of Wheatfleld, returned home Saturday from North Dakota, where she has been visiting her sister, Mrs. Harry Brown, and family. Mrs. Brown and baby and Mrs. Nels Line and children accompanied her home for an extended visit with relatives and friends. John Moliter, of Chicago, who has been making his home for some time with his niece, Mrs. Nat Nesius, south of town, died yesterday forenoon at about 11 o’clock. The cause of death was cancer. He was 65 years of age. The body will be taken to Chicago tomorrow for burial, where a daughter, Mrs. Fred Schaller, lives. C. B. Stewart, Chas. Simpson and Frank Osborne attended the funerai of George M. Death at Lowell, Sunday. Mr. Steward and Mr. Osborne were two of the pall bearers. Deceased was a member of the Rensselaer Encampment of Odd Fellows, and was one of the oldest members of the Odd Fellows’ lodge in the state. The "Cole 30,” the official press car of the "Four State Tour,” which ends today in Indianapolis, passed through here last night on the way to Logan sport. . The truck car followed £md went to Lafayette. The passengers were thoroughly soaked from the rain, and were an uncomfortable lot. News has been received of the death at Britton, South Dakota, of Mrs. Victoria Beßse. Zacker, daughter of Mr % and Mrs. T. A. Besse, formerly of Jasper county. Her death took place July 3rd: She was born February \, 1889, at Bloomington, 111. She resided in this county twelve years, and was married to Wm. Zacker, of Surrey, at the age of eighteen. Later she was divorced from him, and he is now living in Chicago. She leaves one child. v A man’s idea of neaven is a place where he can eat all he wants without getting sick, drink all he wants without getting a headache, and make love to all the women he likes without getting bored.

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The Evening Republican.

SIMON PHILLIPS PASSED AWAY THIS MORNING.

Was One of the Early Settlers of Jasper County—Funeral to Be i Held Wednesday. Uncle Simon Phillips, one of the early settlers of Jasper county, died this morning at 3:15 o’clock, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Q. A. Roberts, %fter several weeks’ illness, at the age of 88 years. The last hours of hfe life were without pain and he passed peacefully away. The cause of his death was troubles incident to old age. ' His daughters, Mrs. S. S. Barnes and Mrs. Frank W. Vanatta and daughter Marion, were here when he died, as were his other children with the exception -of Gus, who was compelled to return to New Ydrk before his death. He was .born February 'B, 1823, canje to Jasper county in 1847, he lived on a farm moved to Rensselaer.' An extended obituary will be printed in a later issue. The funeral will be held at the residence Wednesday at 3 P. M., but full arrangements have not yet been made.

Abundant Bain During Week Forecasted by Weather Bureap.

Rain, and plenty of it, throughout the country is prophesied by the United States Weather Bureau for the comings week. Cooler weather will Mtew ttejiovpippur JLnJ&e. he«iunift& of .the week, but this cold wave will give way to higher temperatures late.’, although no unseasonably hot weather is expected. No extremely high temperatures are probable during the week except possibly in the extreme South and in the South Pacific states, where an absence of precipitation is also probable. Mr. and Mrs. C. B, Steward will attend the seventeenth annual meeting of the Indiana Agents' Association of the Ohio Farmers’ Insurance Co. at Winona Lake Tuesday and Wednesday. Sherman Thornton, who lives near Surrey, while starting to return home yesterday, had his horse frightened by a passing automobile, the horse falling and breaking its leg. It was injured so badly that it had to be shot. Governor Marshall has refused to grant permission to the Indiana national guard members who live in Lebanon to go home to vote at the local option election, to be held there today. The guardsmen are now in the annual camp at Ft. Benjamin Harrison, and will be there until next week. Representatives of both the wets and the drys called on the governor to obtain permission for the Lebanon company to go home.

Hamilton Smith, son of Jeff Smith, of west of town, who took a claim in Cheyenne county, Colo., two yearß ago, like many other westerners, is in httrd luck. Last year his crops were a failure owing to dry weather. This year the prospect for a big crop was excellent, but on Sunday of last week a big hail storm completely destrowed all his crops and the outlook is rather discouraging. There is yet time to put out a crop of millet, which will help him some to weather the winter. There are persistent rumors that the Monon railroad will centralize the business of the system in this city, add new equipment and increase the force at the shops. There is now talk of bringing the claim office of the freight department to Lafayette and. in that event, that the passenger station at North street will be enlarged by the addition of a story. The company la having a handsome passenger train built at Dayton, Ohio, for the: Air Line division and is making specifications for twenty new freight locomotives of powerful type. These engines are to be used in hauling coal from the mines recently purchased by the company near Linton.—Lafayette Journal. The pay of Indiana rural letter carriers is about to be readjusted so that the maximum compensation will be SI,OOO a year. In the future rural carriers will be paid according to the following schedules: Those serving routes whose lengths is six miles or less than eight miles, will get S4OO per annum; eight miles and less tbaft ten miles, $480; ten miles and less than twelv? miles, $520; twelve miles and less than fourteen miles, $560; fourteen miles and less than sixteen miles, $600; sixteen miles and less than eighteen miles, $700; eighteen miles and less than twenty miles, $800; twenty miles and less than twen-ty-two miles, $900; twenty-two miles and lees than twenty-four miles, $960; twenty-four miles and over, SI,OOO.

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RENSSELAER, INDIANA, MONDAY, JULY 24, 1911.

HAPPENINGS IN INDIANA

Interesting Occurrences of One Day in the Booster State

CRUSADE AGAINST GAMBLERS.

Newcastle Police Seek to Break Up Resorts of City. Newcastle, Ind., July 23.—Activity of the police has resulted in an exodus to other points of the professional gamblers who had come here from different parts of the state and opened games in various parts of the citv. Gambling had become more rampant than it had been for years despite the efforts of the police to check it The gamblers found “easy picking” of the young men in the factories and when several divorce cases were filed as a result *of men losing their week’s wages over the gambling table the police started a crusade which, although it did not result in any of the gamblers, being caught with “the goods,” frightened them to such an extent that they have left the city. It is said one game was operated in in'? second story of a block in the business center. Across the hall in the same building religious services were held add while the words of the preacher came floating into the room the gamesters dealt the cards, shook the dice and enjoyed great merriment over the fact that their games were accompanied by preaching. The police have issued an order that all known gamblers shall be arrested.

BROKEN NECK CAUSE OF DEATH.

Kentuckian Expires on Train Near Yincennes While En Route Home. Evansville, Ind., July 23.—Jefferson Johnson, 20 years old, of Campbellsville, Ky., who fell out of a cherry tree two weeks ago and broke his neck, died on a Louisville & Nashville railroad train early'this morning as it was approaching this city. Johnson, who had been sent to a St Louis hospital for treatment, was pronounced to be in a hopeless condition, anil returning to his home to die. A physician who escorted him said death was hastened by the jolting of the cars. After the coroner’s inquest here the body was sent to Campbellsville.

GAS LINE BROKEN; ONE DEAD.

Explosion Results From Thrashing Machine Engine Crushing-Pipe. Vincennes, Ind., July 23.—Phillip Burrell was burned to death and Pickering Mann will die from burns Buffered when a thrasher they were ihoving near Lawrenceville, 111., struck and punctured a 500-pound pressure gas pipe of the Lawrenceville Gas Co. The gas instantly ignited from the firebox of the engine, and thrasher an<J engine were ruined. Burrell fell between the engine and wheel and was incinerated. Mann is barely pliVe. Burrell leaves a widow and a child two days old. •

CLERGYMAN’S SON DROWNS.

Tries to Learn to Swim and Boat is Blown 0«4 of Beach. Culver, Ind., July 23.—While trying to learn to swim Edward Comfort, 30 years old, son of an Episcopal clergyman, of Columbus, Ind., was drowned in Lake Maxinkuokee. He had gone out in a rowboat and was plunging into deep water and swimming back to his boat when the wind carried it out of his reach and he was drowned before his father could reach him from shore. The Comfort family had beeh occupying a cottage on the lake during the past month.

HEART ATTACK FOLLOWS RUN.

Retired Farmer of Logansport Dies i Following Chase for Car. Logansport, Ind., July 23.—After running a square to catch a Ft. Wayne ft Wabash Valley car as it was leaving the station here, John West, a retired farmer living at 1521 Miami avenue, sustained an attack of heart failure today and died just as the car reached Clymers station. The body was carried on to Burrows, where it was removed from the car and shipped back to this city. • • 4 . The Michigan Central railroad is making preparations to transfer the division point now at Michigan City, Ind., to Niles, Mich. The shops, yard 3 and offices will be moved within thirty days, and about 1,000 people will go with them.

BAN ON KNIFE SWAPPING.

Illinois Town Adopts Rale in Effort To Stop Rage Among Men. Owensville, 111., July 23. —Swapping pocket knives bas become such a fad' in Owensville that an ordinance prohibiting the practice will be introduced before the town council. The ordinance reads as follows: “Be it ordained that it shall be unlawful for any person or persons to engage in the practice of swapping pocket knives or other devices in the streets, alleys, sidewalks or in any building or buildings within the corporate limits of Owensville. Any person or persons violating this ordinance shall, upon conviction, be fined in the sum of not less than $1 or more than $3 for each and every offense.” The knife swapping club of the village is against the ordinance, on the ground that swapping pocket knives is an innocent amusement, affording members the means of passing away the monotonous hours of village life. The members say some person who has lost in a knife trade is responsible for the proposed ordinance. The club holds hourly sessions, and when a victim appears the knife swappers get busy and gather in close. The unsight and unseen method of swapping a knife is observed in almost every instance, unless some person has a goodlooking knife and demands 5 or 10 cents to close the trade. It is said that some members have made enough money out of the sport to keep up their tobacco accounts at the village store.

PARK MANAGER IS PUGILISTIC.

Attacks the Vice President of Gary Amusement Company With Fists. Gary, Ind./ July 23.—Things went wrong at Lakewoods Park, Gary’s amusement resort; today, when Manager Gerald Berry, formerly of Chicago, quit his job by punching his* resignation 'into the face of Vice President Louis Berstein, The two had words about various matters, including the alleged failure of the manager to receive three weeks’ salary. By the time two rounds had been fought Otto Berman, president of the park company, separated the combatants by placing his 320 pounds of avoirdupois between them. With Ber : ry there also resigned Will Reed Dunroy, publicity manager, and a number of assistants. A police guard was posted at the park entrance to prevent Berry from entering the grounds, as further hostilities were feared.

ESCAPES IN GUARD’S UNIFORM.

Trusty at Jeffersonville Later Captured in Woods Near Prison. Jeffersonville, Ind., July 23. —Felix Raines, 30 years old, a negro trusty, who walked away from the reformatory last evening, was captured early this morning in a woods three miles north *of here. Raines put on a suit of clothes belonging to a guard, which he found in the administration building, and thus made his escape. He was sentenced from Indianapolis three years ago for from one to fourteen years for grand larceny.

Governor Suggests Remedy to Relieve Congestion at Plainfield.

Boys entirely too young and young men entirely too old are amoqg the inmates of the Indiana Boys’ School at Plainfield, Governor- Marshall declared after he had inspected the institution. Many of the boys, the governor said, should be at home, and many of the youths near the age of twenty-one should be at the reformatory at Jeffersonville, where they could not possibly contaminate the minds of the young boys. The school now has 630 inmates, 230 above its normal capacity. “We should have a state workhouse,” the governor said, “and when we find a boy below the age of fourteen whose parents attempt to send him to this school we should send the parents to the workhouse. The frequent use of the rod would have saved many of these boys from being where they are now.” The governor said he would take steps to, prevent judges sending young boys to the school. A meeting of the trustees soon will be held and they and the governor will discuss means to relieve congestion at the school. The Home Grocery for the piano contest votes.

SC-SPECIAL at THE REX-50 “LADY CLARE” c, “VENGEANCE HATH BEEN HAD” ItelilßM Co. C. S. WEBB, of Detroit, will sing “ AFTER W AID” :

NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

Leo Shinn, 15, was fatally injured Friday at Peru, when he fell to the pavement from a store window. The postoffice at Radley, Grant county, has been ordered discontinued and the former patrons of the Radley office will get their mail hereafter by rural carrier from Jonesboro. Forty horses, including a valuable trotting stallion, more * than 100 wagons, twelve automobiles and a large quantity of hay and grain were destroyed in a fire which swept the Hub stables at Nineteenth and Dearborn streets, Chicago, about 9 o’clock Friday night. As the result of the death of Melvin McMillan, of Elkhart, chief witness for the government in the prosecution of Charles A. Davey, a prominent South Bend lawyer, on a criminal charge, it is probable that the case against the lawyer In the federal court at Indianapolis will be dismissed. Winchester’s oil and gas field has experienced a sudden jump in production, following the drilling of a large gas well on the Jaqua farm east of that city. The well is the largest since the famous Wysong well was drilled Into gas bearing sand near Saratoga, The Monarch Gas company owns the new well. *" A new counterfeit |lO bill on the American Exchange National bank of New York has been found circulating in the middle west. It is a photographic reproduction of a genuine bill, and bears evidences of having been made by the same counterfeiters who recently circuited a bad $lO United States note. The St. Joseph annual conference of the United Brethren in Christ’s church will be held in Kokomo Sept. 13-18. Bishop G. M. Matthews, of Chicago, will preside. From 225 to 250 ministers and lay delegates will attend the sessions. The St. Joseph conference includes all of the churches of the denomination in northern Indiana. For the first time in United States naval maneuvers the wireless telephone was used successfully in communicating from land to ships at sea in a mimic battle at San Francisco Thursday night between the California militia and the attacking regulars. Messages were exchanged between Major A W. Chase and Captain A. T. Schenck, of the coast artillery, while the latter was in command of the government tug Captain Gregory Barrett, fourteen miles out at sea.

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WEATHER FORECAST. Fair tonight and Tuesday. July 25.—Sun rises 4:50; sets 7:22.

Contract Will Be Signed For Construction of School Building.

At » meeting of thesehool board Saturday evening, Hiram Day notified the board that he was willing to sign a contract for the construction of the building in accordance with the hid he previously filed. It is probable that the work will not commence until spring, however. If arrangements for the material can be made in time to get the brick work done this fall and enclosed, that much of the work may be done; otherwise work will be commenced early next spring, and pushed to completion during the summer. If society dealt with its drones as do the bees with theirs, we know a lot of people who would get awfully stung. The most successful fishermen are those possessing the greatest flow of language and the largest bumps of imagination. Criticism is frequently quite a help to the man criticised, but unfortunately it somehow always has a tendency to pucker up the critlciser's own bank account. . So far as the simple necessities are concerned, most of us could live very comfortably within our incomes. It’s the pesky luxuries that keep our noses to the grindstones all the time.

YOL. XT.