Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1912 — Page 1

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LOCAL HAPPENINGS. Fresh head lettuce at Rhoades’ grocery. J. W. Blacker made a trip to Delphi today. Try some of Leavers home made candies. J. A. McFarland is laid up with the grip. Frank Maloy came down from Low ell today to attend the poultry show. Kenneth Allman left this morning for Boulder, Colo., to re-enter college Frank Duvall, of Allentown, 111., formerly a resident of Jasper county, was here on a short visit this week. The only place in the city where you can buy a large can of White Karo corn syrup for 10c Is at John Eger’s. Silas Swain dropped in this morning to see whether his old frienls had all frozen up. He is still selling lightnings rods. ■*• > . ■ John and Alice Gish and Grace Ulery returned to Monoh today after a visit of several days with their aunt, Mrs. Jennie Gish, southeast of Rensselaer. Capt J. M. Wasson has been improving quite a little the past week and is now able to be up some each day and the outlook for his recovery is encouraging. Mrs. Crate Crogun and daughter Celine, of Indianapolis, carte today from Indianapolis to visit her" parents; Mr. and Mrs. James Tot bet, of Barkley township. n - Russell Sluyter has recovered from the typhoid fever and came to Rensselaer from Monon yesterday, accompanied by his wife, and they are visiting her mother, Mrs. H. t. Adams and family. Advertising is an inyestmentj not an expense. Advertising placed in' The kepdblican becomee a profitable investment, whether large or small. Try a classified advertisement and be convinced. Mr. and Mrs. James Lefier arrived here this morning and will remain in Jaspdr county for several weeks. They left Marihette, Wia, yesterday, at which time the temperature there was 26 below zero* John ML Winkley, of Monon, died Thursday in St Elizabeth's hospital in Lafayette. His funeral took place today in Monon. He was 63 years of age and had been tit poor health for some time. He leaves a wife and one son, Harry. Mrs. J. A. McFarland and Mrs. J. W. Horton, i? addition to those heretofore mentioned, witnessed the production of "The Messiah" by the Apollo Society of Chicago Friday night The theatre party arrived home ott the train due here at 1:27 but it was two hours late. ’

Million A Week : jil^l ! P iPi flpfp THE ORIGINAL HAS THIS SKHATUKE

The Evening Republican.

TONIGHTS PROGRAM ♦ WHEN CALIFORNIA WAS WON. DR. BILL’S PATIENT. SINS OF THE FATHER. SATE YOUR COUPONS. 7. . 7

BIG DEMONSTRATION OF NONE SUCH PURE FOOD PRODUCTS.

At G. £. Murray €©., Store, All Next Week, Jan. Bth-13tli. We have secured the of Mull, an expert from the McNeil & Higgins Co., Chicago, to demon-strate-at our store all next week the celebrated None Such Pure Food Products. Ail who are interested in serving pure foods on their tables are requested to call during Miss Mull’s visit and sample these goods free of charge. Remember the date, Jan. 8-13.

Creamery, 35c pound. Country, 25 to 30 cents, but scarce. Swift’s Jersey Oleomargerine, 20c. This we cannot recommend too highly. Better than a large per cent of butter. RHOADES’ GROCERY.

Commencing January Bth we will close our hardware stores at 6 o’clock every evening except Saturday, until further notice. WARNER BROS. E. D. RHOADES & SOft. . CLEVE EGER.

We are selling three times as much of our fancy butterine as we are butter. Only 20c a pound at John Eger’s. Ernest Miaxwell, who has lived on a farm near Dunkirk, Ind., for the past three years, will move back to Jasper county in the spring, awl will live on the Brady & Brand farm, south of Rensselaer. He did not have good health at Dunkirk and is returning here on that account. Monticello officers are following up every clew that might lead to the arrest of Orin Day. Friday they went to Hammond, having learned that Day. had been there. They did not find him, however, and returned empty handed. Day will doubtless keep away until he ascertains whether or not Arrick dies. Jack Kendall, accused in Benton county of having stolen a horse, and who had been in the Jail at Fowler since Thanksgiving, broke out of th*> jail Tuesday night He had on sum mer clothes and found the weather so disagreeable that he returned to the jail Wednesday morning and surrendered to the sheriff.

~ E. C. Maxwell bas sold bis 10-acre tract and residence at the northwest side of the corporation to Charles Reed, who has been living on the Malchow farm. Mr. Reed will more to the farm about March Ist and tirfll | help his brother, George, run the latIter’s big farm. Mr. Maxwell will be in the market for Rensselaer property. ... ..’ . The dedication of the M. E. church will take place tomorrow. Sunday school ft 9:30. At 10:30 Dr. W. O Shepherd, of Chicago, will preach the dedicatory sermon. He will preach again in the evening at 7:30. Services will .continue throughout the week and will be followed by union services with the Presbyterian and Christian churches. —f Harry Wade arrived; In Rensselaer yesterday from Mississippi, where he has lived for the past two years. Hte wife had preceded him here about two weeks. Harry sold his farm of 540 acres near Macon, that state, to an Illinois man, clearing aboUf~f 12.50 per acre. He will now be fit the market for another farm, but will probably not buy until spring. „ , ....i. Eat saner kraut and try and live one hundred years. It costs only one cent a meal for each person. 25 cents a gallon for Silver Thread sauer kraut, at John Eger’s. Controller of the Currency Hurray agement" plan to dissever the reason for laxity of certain bank examiners. He instructed every national bank examiner to report weekly. "

Entered January fc 18*7. as aaooaA alas* mail matter, at the post-offic* at Bswaalaar, ladiana, under tits aet ot March 3, 187».

G. E. MURRAY CO.,

Rensselaer, Ind,

Butter Cheaper.

Notice of Early Closing.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, SATURDAY 1 , JANUARY «, 1912.

Conviction of John Poole Cost Benton County $3,500.

The Fowler Republican-Leader. The total amount of the bills filed on account of the murder of Joseph Kemper ar# a little less than thirtyfive hundred dollars. This includes the expense of the '•oroner’s inquests and* the grand jury. The bill of Tippecanoe county is but $1,361.90. Of this amount the cost of the jury is $853.05..-' But $3.50 for board is charged. This- 4s on accountorder of Judge DeHart that the jury be not confined and the board bill Is for the time spent in reaching a verdict. The bailiff fees were. $357.75. And Mr. Poole’s board bilT is $77.75. Hon. E. G. Hall’s bill was a thousand dollars as was agreed upon. His expense account is sooo. The bill for the medical testimony is $475, sioh each for Drs. Cook and Weatherill and $75 for Dr. Davison. The state and the defense are entirely satisfied with the treatment accorded. them in Tippecanoe county. Each assert that the trial was fair <o both parties. And perhaps it is the best ending. If he had been convicted for the shooting of John Quigley there ngght nave been a doubt concerning his sanity. The end was foretold by his If Poole had only dene a kindly act in his life—if he had ever patted a dog on the head during the twenty-five years of residence in the county, but the trouoKv was the dog could hot be found. Great excitement prevails at Morrison, 111., as a result of finding six gold nuggets in the crops of wild ducks shot on the farm of D. J. Fielding, three miles north. The nuggets are valued at $lO. Several prospecting parties are being formed. Stops earache in two minutes; toothache or pain or burn or scald in five minutes; hoarsness, one hour; muscleache, two hours; sore throat, twelve hours —Dr. Thomas’* Eclectic •Oil, monarch over pain.

Ail hope of agreement between conferees of the two houses of congress on the resolution providing for election of United States senators by direct vote of the people has vanished. A report to this effect is expeefted next week. The announcement was made at t Vc . Gary Commercial Club yesterday that Myron H. West, a Chicago park expert, will be in Gary soon to prepare plans for an extensive park system. Recreation spots and a lake front park are to be included. Representative Norris, of Nebraska, declares “the postpffice department has come to be a huge political machine used by any party in power to control party organizations.” He has introduced a bill which would place every postal employe except the postmaster general under the competitivj classified service! Three girls and one boy were born yesterday to Mrs. J. T. Bivens, in West Hickman, Ky„ the first quadruple birth, in that vicinity. Mts. Bivens married J. T.. Bivens after the death of her former husband, Tom Wilson, who died in Nashville penitentiary twO years ago. Mr. Bivens is 60 years old. Lpss of $87,000 in the funds of the American State bank at Terre Haute | was reported yesterday by state examiners at work on its accounts. Of the deficit $62,000 is due to loans on worthless securities authorized by W. ]H. Taber, president of the bank, the i examiners said, shortage of $25,00 is charged to him.

Leonard (“Baby”) Bliss, reputed to be the largest man in the world, was found dead in his home at Bloomington, 111., yesterday. He had not been seen about the place for several days and neighbors who made an investigation found his frozen body In a chair. He was in his night clothes and gas was escaping from a gas stove. It Is believed he arose several nights ago to get warm and In some way accidentally opened tfie jet - Pupils wbre found by an inspector of the state board of health attending school at Ladd, Bureau eounty, 111., while suffering from smallpox in its advanced stages. A total of twentytwo cases existing in thirteen families were found. Local physicians had diagnosed the disease as chickenpox and no quarantine regulations had been ordered. 'j. Most disfiguring skin eruptions, scrofula,, pimples, rashes, etc., 1 are due to Impure blood. Burdock Blood Bitters is a cleansing blood tonic. Makes you clear-eyed, clear-brained, clear-skinned,'' .

A Classified Air. will sell ft.

DISUNION IN UNION AT BOTOM OF MELEE FRIDAY.

Mob and Women Engaged In Combat on Coart House Square—Parted With Difficulty By Officers. “In union there te' strength” is an old saying that has never been successfully contradicted, but some Union township people Friday undertook to disprove that altruism. They chose a fine setting for a fistic encounter, the north front of the Rensselaer court house, and, although the battle lasted only a moment or two, a crowd of about fifty people witnessed it from short range, while business offices across the street afforded a fine view for their occupants. It was some classy battle while it lasted, and the hard knocks of the male participants mingled with the hair pullings and the scratchings by the woman, while one of the feminine combatants is said to have taken a right arm swing at one of the assailants of her husband, which indicated that she was about the ablest pugilist in the bunch. The Republican reporter saw only the finish of the scrap and the following aCcount is given ■as gathered from a number Of eye witnesses; Testimony was conflicting and the ac count as here printed may not be entirely accurate. *

John Wells had sued Joseph A Lucas, charging that the latter’s stallion had almost ruined a horse for him by biting it The suit brought quite a number of witnesses to Rensselaer, the case having been sent to Squire Irwin’s court on change of venue from Justice Fay, of Parr. Lucas was represented by A. Halleck, while Logan Wood, of Parr, represented the plainti'ff. The court decided in favor of Lucas. That was not all the glory, however, that he was looking for, and he decided to take a little out of Well's hide. Accordingly be waited just outside the courthouse for his man. When Wells came out, l<ucas started in to beat him up. He took a crack- or two before Wells got into action and Mrs. Wells started in at the same time. She used her. finger nalts with effect, leaving a few marks on Lucas’s face. Then Mrs. Oscar Atwood, a sister of Mrs. Wells, but whose husband had, however, been on tiie Lucas side of the lawsuit, walked in to try to separate Lucas and Wells. She is a large yoUng woman but-it was a poor place for her, as she soon found out One of the "fflfen caught her by the hand and tore her golf mittens into shreds as he jerked her afay. At about this stage of the contest, Ed Myers, a brother of ifttfi MTS. Wells; and Mfs. AlWbod. entered the arena from the rear and Is said to 'have welted LueSs across the head with his fists a few tidies:-Then Mrs. Lucas, who is a tail ahd rather athletic looking woman, todk h hand in thb affray and Is saW to have struck Myers a stlfagfng blow In ‘the mouth with her fisi Myers was not seriously injured, however, and again w»ded in on Lucas: Al Rbbinsbh, whd had been an interested spectator up to this time, decided that LuCaS was th*> tar get for too many ahd to even up matters a trifle he set into Myers, who started to run. Years ago, when “Buck” was in trim, a little footrace would have suited Mm better than anything else, but he haa gqhe back some and was handicapped by iiavipg an overcoat on, Myers took toward the trees in the northeast corner of the court house yard and played tag With A! until Myers dodged n-s pursuer and got away. » . In the meantime Deputy Sheriff Gus Grant and Jury Bailiff sll Irwin and former' nighfwatchman. Lyman Zea all took a hand in the fracas, trying to separate the belligerents. The who’e mass, including the near at hand spectators, surged from * the courthouse steps to the sidewalk in front. The men and yomen were all talking ‘at the same time and ail were making threats, but no serious damage was render and several times jerked away from the officers. His wife clupg to his neck and thus added to , the dramatic effect of the scene. J. L Myers, father of the Wells and Atwood women and of Ed Myers, was a central figure on the stage just before the curtain ran down. It seems that h? ia to have his daughter and son-in-law ejected from the house they occupy and- Atwood was making a declaration of his determination to look after his wife with true husbandly devotion. Myers expressed some doubt about the outcome and Atwood’s wife clung to her husband. Lucas was finally taken into the sheriff's office and after quieting down found that he had broken a bone in bis right hand and Went to Dr .Washburn’s office to have it dressed. Ed • A- ,• * wmmW ....d#':

Pumphrey Article Recalls Death of Abner Healey.

-The article written by Geo. O. Pumphrey about the battle of Stone River, TennL, and published In The Republican, revived the memory of Mrs. W. S. Coen, of this city, whose youngest brother, Abner Healey, was hilled in the battle forty-nine years jeo. Abner was only 16 years of aee and his father had tried to keep him from going to the war but he was determined to go and finally his father gave consent. The family lived in Cass county and Abner joined a company that was being formed at Logansport Soon after enlisting and before his company had departed for the front he was taken with measles and was sent home for two weeks. When he had recovered he was sent to the front and he had received but little training when the battle of Stone River was fought On the afternoon of the secohd day of the battle he Was wounded in one Of his legs and was unable to leave toe battlefield. The weather was cold and the exposure was intense. A comrade wrapped him in a* blanket but be was left on the battlefield over night and the next day taken to a field hospital, where iris leg was amputated. He died as a result cf the shock a day or two later. He was also a brother of Col. Joshua Ilealey, deceased.

Theodore George Will Go on Road for New Wholesale Firm.

Theodore George, who resigned his position as a traveling salesman for Marshall Field & Co., on Oct. Ist, will start out in a few days for I, A. Samuels & Co., a New York firm that has a large business ail over toe country, selling standard hosiery and underwear. He will travel In Indiana, Illinois and Michigan.

Funeral of George Robinson Will Take Place at McCoysburg.

The funeral of George Robinson, who died suddenly Friday morning, will be held Sunday morning at abo&t 10:30 o’clock at MeCoysburg, being conducted by Rev. W. G. Wink, of toe Rensselaer Christian church. Burial will be made at toe Osborne cemetery.

For This Week Only.

4 cans Standard corn, hominy or kidney beans, for 25c, at John Bger’a.

Myers took advantage of the temporary quiet and got his horse and rig from the hitchbarn and took it straight for Union. Marshal Mustard procured an automobile and tbofodt in pursuit, but he did not get the right road and finally gave up and returned to town. Lucas war arrested on two changes. He plead guilty to assaulting Wells and was fined $5 and costs by Justice) Bruner. In all it amounted to $1348. which he paid. He was also fined |5 and costa for having pushed Mrs, #lelli aside in hid atixtety to get at her husband. He plead *‘qot guilty*” In this case and the evidence was exhaustive. He took an appeal to the circuit court ’ A warrant was sworn out for Myers and Constable “Billy” Parks went after him this morning and brought hito in on the 11:20 train, which was abount an hour late. He was fined $5 and costs in Justice Bruner’s court, amounting to $13.50. Another case has been filed against Lucas by Carey Williams, who alleges that Lucas's stock destroyed ten tons of hay worth S7O for him, and he Wants a settlement Lucas came to Jasper from Redkey, Ind., about two years ago. He has been very much in the limelight. It was Mrs. Lucas No. 2, who was upset by being forced off the road by a Chicago automobilist last spring. Lucas and she were apparently as thick as honey during the time they were prosecuting the Chicago man, but the same day she filed a suit for divorce, making some seusatioßal charges. She went to Indianapolis and . soon after her departure, Mrs.'Lucas “No. V, from whom he .had been, divorced to marry No, 2, came to the Lucas home and took up her residence and has since lived there. This is said to have occasioned some little talk and to be the actual cause of the difficulty between Lucas and Wells. Mrs. Lucas No. 2 procured a divorce In the Jasper circuit --court recently, and it is said that Lucas paid her $3,000 yi ordM- to avoid a lawsuit He Is said td haVe. made a fortunate sale of his Union township farm, clearing about SIO,OOO on it. He to pfenning to move at once to Plainfield and Oscar Atwood and wife wflP go with him. . To find I buyer for your property, try a .classified adv. in to* B

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