Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 138, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1912 — Page 1

No. 138.

LOCAL HAPPENINGS. Mrs. Hurley Beam went to Chicago today. Alex. Merica came over from Francesville yesterday. *= V": :'Z i ' - Mrs. Vem Britton went to DeMotte to visit with Mrs, DeMoss and Mrs. Russell. * ; w ~ . i L. W. Hubbell, of Francesville, was in town today for a short time on business. . ..**7"’" iPupils desiring to do school work for the September examination call phone 138. Mrs. I. J. Porter and Mrs. Jessie Hammond went to Rossville today to visit with relatives. The finest lot of buggies ever exhibited in Rensselaer. See them before you buy at Hamilton & Kellner’s, m Mrs. T. F. Murphy came down from Chicago today to visit two sons who are attending-St. Joseph’s college. Why pay 40c a peck for old potatoes, when you can buy fancy new ones for 60c? JOHN EGER. Mrs. Lulu Sheppard, of Indianapolis, came yesterday for a visit of several days with Rev. and Mrs. C. L. Harper. See our line of cultivators and gophers. HAMILTON & KELLNER. W. S. Day went to LaPorte today to visit over Sunday with his son, Omar, and wife and his daughter, Mrs. C. A Brown. —i. . . Mrs. L. E. Pernell and son went to Morocco today, being called there by . the serious illness of her slater, Mrs. Wm. Pollock. Louie Leopold, of Wolcott, is visiting here with his father and relatives. His wife and daughter preceded him here by several days. S. P. Clark, of Wheatfleld, was called here yesterday to testify in the Iroquois ditch case. He was not used, so he returned home today. Now is the time for pineapples for canning. They are at their best. Get our special price on them in case or dozen lots. JOHN EGER. Attorney Frank Foltz went to Kentland today to argue on special findings . in the Behles case. The court will not act on the case until the October term. Remember we handle the famous Deering line of mowers, rakes and binders. HAMILTON & KELLNER.

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The Evening Republican.

WEATHER FORECAST. F'air and slightly warmer today; Sunday increasing cloudiness.

Miss Edith Martlndale came from Anderson today to vfeonsult with the county superintendent With a view of teaching in Jasper county next year. • The annual children’s day exercises will be held at the Presbyterian church Sunday evening at 7:30. Miss Alice Shedd and Mrs. Rue Parcells will sing. If you are going to want any strawberries to can or preserve we will make you a special price on them in case lots this week. JOHN EGER. While working at Surrey for Green Thornton, who is erecting an addition to his store there, Dan Chupp stepped on n spike nail, running it through the instep of his foot. We have on exhibition in our show window a mammoth sack of “Aristos’’ flour that we are going to give away on the 4th of July to the one that guesses the nearest correct weight One guess with every' 50-pound sack of Aristos purchased. JOHN EGER. Thos. Randle, of Ottawa, Kas., has been visiting his father, James T. Randle, who is now almost recovered from his recent sickness. Tom and Robert will both start for their homes the first of next week and their brother, Ed, and son, Walter, will accompany them, visiting Tom and family at Ottawa for some time. You can secure Mica Special Roofing from any dealer in Jasper or Newton counties. If your dealer does not have it in stock, call me up and I will supply you direct Prices the same everywhere. HIRAM DAY. Mr. and Mrs. Bert Hopkins returned Thursday from an extended sojourn through the west They visited in Arizona, California, Oregon and Washington. In California they visited at Los Angeles and took many side trips from there. They went through Medfojd, Oregon, but did not stop. While in Portland they called on Dr. and Mrs. A L. Berkley. They visited for three weeks with Sam Pullins and wife on Sam’s Montana ranch. Itching piles provoke profanity but profanity won’t remove them. Doan’s Ointment is recommended for itching, bleeding or protuding piles. 50c at any drug store. Butter wrappers, any quantity, plain or printed, may be had at the Republican office.

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RENSSELAER, INDIANA. SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1912:

GEORGE KETCH DIES AFTER LONG SICKNESS.

Well Known Retired Fanner Passes Away at Home On Mllroy Avenne This Saturday Morning. George Pierce Ketchum, 46 years of age, a native of Illinois, but for the past fifteen years a resident of Jasper county and for the past three years, of Rensselaer, died this Saturday morning at his home on Milroy avenue. Dissolution took place at 9:30 o’clock. Mr. Ketchum had been an invalid since last October, and had spent some time in the care of a specialist in a Chicago hospital and later at home, the specialist aiding the family physician, Dr. E. C. English, in his care. His complaint was diagnosed pernicious anemia, a disease of the blood, for which .there is no known remedy. Mr. Ketchum gradually sank to his death. His decline began prior to his removal to town three' years ago and he recovered to some extent after moving from the farm, but the disease took a more acute form last October. Mr. Ketchum leaves to mourn his death, his wife, his mother and a number of brothers and sisters. His father died four years ago, since which time ki3 mother has resided with him. His brothers and sisters live in Illinois and the funeral arrangements will not be made until they are conferred with. The funeral will probably not be held until Tuesday. Mr. Ketchum was well known and well liked in Rensselaer, and his untimely death has produced great sorrow among all who knew him.

Prominent Carpenter Township Farmer Sought by Peoria Sheriff.

Sheriff Hoover received a letter from the , sheriff of Peoria, 111., Wednesday,, instructing him to arrest John Zehr, a well known farmer residing near Remington, and to hold him until a deputy arrived’ from Peoria to take him back. He is charged with being a fraud. The trouble is over a real estate deal. Although the specific charges are not known, it seems that while Zehr lived in Illinois he and other men made a real estate deal involving some North Dakota land. Mr. Hoover went over to see Zehr today and.found him at work. Mr. Zehr told the sheriff that attorneys of Peoria had been communicating with him for some time over the matter but that he paid no attention to them. Mr. Zehr stated , that he would not voluntarily leave his farm work, but declared -that ha. would -go any tfine they came after him. Mr. Hoover informed the Peoria sheriff of Mr. Zehr’s attitude and declined to put him under arrest, as he could be found at home any time. Mr.-Hoover_ requested the Peoria sherlft tO wTre a reply, buFup untJT this time none has been received. Mr. Zehr is a ‘well known and respected farmer of Carpenter township and seems to take the matter lightly.

Memorial Erected to Devoted Victims of Titanic Disaster,

The friehds of Isidor Straus and his wife, who went down together in the wreck of the Titanic, have lost no time In erecting a memorial in their honor. It is the first to be raised in memory of a Titanic victim and consists of a window in a New York synagogue dedicated to them. Following names and dates are the words: “Where thou wilt go, I will go; where thou wilt die, I will die.” This form different from the utterances of Ruth in the protestant. Bible, but may be the words in. the Jewish, scriptures. At all events it is undoubtedly meant as an adaption of the ferverent pledge of the Moabite woman. Innumerable are the times that Ruth’s words have been quoted as promises deathless love and loyalty, but always the application is to the love between men and women; yet Ruth’s pledge was to her mother-in-law and a woman of a race alien to her own. The poetry of it does not appeal to the people of today in connection with mothers-ln-hnr. *--.-7,

Trial of W. P. Michael Set For September Term of Court

The preliminary hearing of the case of Mrs. Harry Cook vs W. P. Michael in Squire Bussell’s court at 2 o’clock Friday afternoon resulted in Squire Bussell binding Michael over to the September term of the circuit court under a $509 bond, which was signed by George E. Murray, J. A Larsh and W. H. Parkison. % y' Longwell and Leopold were attorneys for plaintiff and W. H. Parkison Fas attorney for defendant

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DAY AND HUBBARD GRANTED NEW TRIAL.

New Evidence Develops Thai Points 75t>: to Their Innocence of the Crime of Murder. » Judge Hooper, of Watseka, granted a npw trial to Roy Day and Joseph Hubbard, who were alleged to have been involved in a chicken stealing scrape near McCoysburg several months ago, in the Bradick murder casq, Saturday, with the brief statement that the principal ground on which it was granted was the testimoney of Sheriff Ireland in the hearing of a week ago in which there appeared sufficient new evidence to submit the case again to a jury in the opinion of the court The case was set for its second trial on June 24th. Sheriff Ireland and many of the citizens of Watseka who heard the first trial, are convinced that Day and Hubbard are innocent, and some new evidence has been gathered that points to their innocence.

Sparrows Responsible For Early Morning Fire Alarm.

The burning of sparrow nests in the kitchen attic of the residence of Simon Hochstettler at an early hour this Saturday morning resulted in the sending in of a fire alarm and the prompt response of the company. Mr. Hochstettler had arisen early, and after starting a fire in the range, had gone to Babcock & Hopkins’ elevator and took W. C. Babcock to the depot to catch the early train, for Chicago. While they were enroute to the depot in an automobile they heard the alarm and when they reached the depot Mr. Hochstettler was surprised to see the fire engine in front of his own home. The fire proved to be a small one, however, and Ed Lane, who' lives across the street, and who is a brother of Mrs. Hochstettler, mounted the roof and subdued the flames with a few buckets of water before the department arrived. Sparrows had carried nesting material into the attic above the kitchen fend this had become ignited from tHe stovepipe. Timely discovery and prompt action doubtless saved the house.

Tourist Finds Sure Proof Against Accidents on Trip.

Clarence Fate writes from Cincinnati under date of June 7£fi, as follows: “Arrived In Cincinnati at 3 p. m. Had a fine trip, indeed. The roads are fine. Have solved the problem of avoiding trouble. Before starting on a -longtrip prepare for trouble, I did. I had two extra tires, an inner liner, three inside boots, two outside boots, two inner tubes, about ten pounds of material to patch inner tubes with, and consequently did not have a puncture or a blow-out If T get away from the hills that aite around Cincinnati without tire trouble I will believe fortune Is with me. It Isn’t a question of taking them on high, but °* getting up them at all. Going into Kentucky tomorrow.”

College Girls to Be Entertained At Six O’clock Dinner Tonight.

Misses Nell Meyers, Murial Harris and Mary Harper and their guest, Miss Clara Holmes, returned home this Saturday afternoon from Greencastle, where they have been attending DePauw university. The school term ended FYiday and they are going to be started off on their summer vacation by Mr. and Mrs. George F. Meyers, who will entertain in their honor this evening at 6 o’clock dinner. Miss Georgie Harris is the only other invited guest The girls are all sorority sisters and several parties and dinners have been planned in honor of Miss Holmes. Miss Georgia Harris will entertain at dinner Sunday.

Thinks Beaux of Future Will Need Flying Machines.

Chesterton Tribune. Between the eleetrfe railway and automobiles, * the livery business has been badly demoralized in this county. Valpo now has hut one stable; a few years ago it had eight and in the old times they all were doing a good business. Now there is not enough for the one. One liveryman says that it has got so now that a young man can’t gpt a girl to go oat riding unless he hires or owns a machine. The old horse and buggy are entirely too slow, and tbe fellow who offers to use one is considered a cheap skate. In a little while It will be the flying machine.

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Copyright by Frank A Munsey Co. cSafier XIX. Royalty At The Grand Babylon. .. --f .= The royal apartments at the Grand Babylon are famous in the world of hotels, and indeed elsewhere, as bein& in their own way, unsurpassed. Some of the palaces of Germany, and in particular those of the mad Kink Ludwig of Bavaria, may possess rooms and salons which outshine them in gorgeous luxury and the mere wild, fairy-like extravagance of wealth; but there is nothing anywhere, even on Fifth avenue, New York, which can fairly be called more complete, more perfect, more enticing, or —not least important—more comfortable. The suite consists of five chambers —the anteroom, the salon or audience chamber, the yellow drawing room (where royalty, receives its friends) the library and the state bedroom—-to the last of which we have already been introduced.

The moat Important and most impressive of these five is, of course, the audience chamber—an apartment 50 feet long by 40 feet broad, with a superb outlook over the Thames, the shot tower and the higher signals of the Southwestern Railway. The decoration of this room is mainly in the German taste, since four out of every six of its royalty occupants are of Teutonic calling, a masterpiece by Fragonard taken bodily from a certain famous palace on the Loire. In one of the window recesses of this magnificent apartment, On a certain afternoon in late July, stood the Prince Aribert of Posen. He was faultlessly dressed in the conventional frock coat of English civilization, with a gardenia in the buttonhole, and the indespensable crease down the front of the trousers. He seemed to be fairly amused and also to expect some one, for at frequent intervals, he looked rapidly over his shoulder in the direction of the door behind the royal chair. At last a little, wizened, stooping old man, with a distinctly German cast of countenance, appeared through the door and laid some papers on a small table by the §ide of the chair. “Ah, Hans, my old friend!” said Aribert, approaching the old man. “I must have a little talk with you about one or two matters. How did you find his royal highness?” The old man salpted, military fashion. “Not very well, your highness,” he answered. “I’ve been valet to your highness’ nephew since his majority, and I was valet to his royal father before him, but I never saw”— He stopped and threw up bis wrinkled hands deprecatingly. “You never saw what?” Aribert smiled affectionately on the old fellow. You could pereeive that these two, so sharply differential in rank, had been intimate in the past and would be intimate again. “I)o you know, my Prince,” said the old man, “that we are to receive the financier, Sampson Levi —is that his name —in the audience chamber? Surely, the library would have been good enough for a financier?" "One would have thought so,” said Prince Aribert, “but perhaps your master has a special reason. Tell me,” be went on, changing the subject quickly, “how came it that yon left the Prince, my nephew, at Ostend, and returned to Posen?” “His orders, Prince,” and old Hans, who had had a wide experience of royal whims, and knew half the secrets of the courts of Europe, gave Aribert a look which might have meant anything. “He sent me back on an—an errand.” “And you were to rejoin him here?” “Just so, highness. And I did rejoin him here; though, to tell the truth, I had begun to fear that X might never see my master again.” “The Prince was very sick in Ostend, Hans.” “So I have gathered,” Hans replied drily, slowly rubbing his hands together. “And his Highness is not yet perfectly recovered.”

“Not yet. We despaired of his life, Hans, at one time, but, thanks to an excellent constitution, he came safely through the ordeal.” "We must tyke care of him, your highness.’’ "Yes, indeed,” said Aribert solemnly. "His life is very precious to Posen.” At that moment Eugen, hereditary Prince of Posen, entered the audience chamber. He was pale and laguid, and his uniform seemed to be a trouble to feto. But, at the same time, bere beyond doubt, was royalty. Nothing could have been more striking than the contrast between Eugen, a sick man in the shabby house at Os tend, and this Prince Eugen In the royal apartments of the Grand Babylon Hotel, surrounded by the luxury and pomp which modern civilization can offer to those born in high places. And the desperate episode of Os tend was now hidden, passed over. It was supposed never to have occurred. It existed only like a secret shame in the hearts of those who had witnessed it l ' % f Prince Eugen had recovered; at any rate, he was convalescent and he had been removed to London, where he took up again the dropped thread of his princely life. The lady with the red hat the incorruptible and brilliant Jules, the damp, dark cellar, the horrible little bedroom —those things were over. Only—only, Jules, Rbcco and Miss Spencer were still at large; and the body of Reginald Dipuapck lay buried in the domestic mausoleum of the palace at Posen; and Prince Eugen bad still to interview Mr. Sampson Levi. That various matters lay Jieavy on the mind of Prince Ehtgen was beyond question: Hfi seemed to have with* drawn wltbin himself. Despite the extraordinary experiences through which he had recently passed, events which called aloud for explanations and confidences between the nephew and the uncle, he would say scarcely a word to Prince Aribert Any allusion, however direct, to the days at Ostend, were ignored by him with more or Ims ingenuity, and Prince Aribert was really no nearer a full solution of the mystery of Jule’s plot than he had bden on -the night when he and Racksole visited the gaming tables at Ostend. Eugen was. well aware that he bad been kidnapped through the agency of the woman in the red hat, but,‘ doubtless ashamed at having been her dupe, he would not proceed in any way with the clearing up of the matter. “You will receive in this room, Eugen?” Aribert questioned him. “Yes,” was the answer, given pettishly. “Why not? Even if I have no proper retinue here, surely that is no reason why I should not hold audience in a proper manner. Hans, you can go.” The old valet promptly disappeared. “Aribert,” the hereditary Price continued, when they were in the room alone, you think 1 am mad. “My dear Eugen,” said Prince Aribert, startled in spite of himself, “don't be absurd.” “I say you think I am mad. Yon think that that attack of brain fever has left its permanent mark on me. Well, perhaps I am mad. Who can tell? God knows I have been through enough lately to drive me mad.” f Aribert made.no reply. As a matter of fact, the thought had crossed hi* mind that Engen’s brain had not yet recovered its normal tone and tyThis speech of bis nephew’* however, had the effect of immediately restoring his belief in the latter** sanity. He felt convinced that if only fee could regain his nephew’s trust, the old brotherly confidence which existed between them since the years when might yet be well. jvexzus rr£

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