Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1912 — Conviction of John Poole Cost Benton County $3,500. [ARTICLE]

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,'' .