Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1913 — Page 1

No. 94.

ECHO OF THE FLOOD; MANY CATTLE DIE

Oarr Bros., West of Town, Have Lost Twenty Head From Lead * Poisoning in Pasture. Carr Bros., well-to-do fanners living southwest of town, have suffered a heavy loss during the past few days in the death of several head of steers, caused by white lead poisoning. Up to this Saturday afternoon 17 , head had died and 4 or 5 more were almost certain to die. A bucket containing a small amount of old yellow paint was the cause of all the trouble. Thursday morning when the catthat one was dead and an examination showed that others were very sick and several soon died. Dr. J. Hansson was called and. made an examination and he first thought that the cattle were dying of blackleg and he advised that the well ones be, separated at once from the sick ones. When steps were being taken to carry this plan out, Carey Carr, in pafssing through the pasture, found an old paint keg. which plainly showed that the cattle had been licking and this proved td have caused all the trouble. The old keg, containing only a small amount of dried paint in the bottom, had laid about the barn for several years, and during the recent high waters had floated out into, the pasture and Anally when the waters receded the keg settled down on the grass. The cattle were turned upon the pasture about a week ago but at that time water was still over the place where the keg was. The water went down a few days ago and the steers discovered the paint and found that it tasted good. They licked a hole through the thick coating at the bottom of the keg. The mystery solved, another visit from the veterinary was asked ahd he administered an antidote to all that were sick and this will doubtless save a number of them. In all there were 67 head of cattle in the pasture and twenty or more will die. Of the 17 head already dead all but one were 3-year-old steers. One was a yearling. The steers arc worth about SBO each and the loss will be almost $2,000. Mr. Carr stated to the writer that the paint had been left there during the time the farm belonged to A. McCoy. It had looked to be a very harmless thing and this accounts for the fact that it had never been burned. Nine n*en were today employed burying the dead cattle.

B. Forsythe Invests in 1913 Model Olds Defender.

One of the finest looking and doubtless one of the best automobile.- ever brought to Rensselaer, has been purchased by B. Forsythe. It is a 1913 model Olds Defender, a five passenger car with all modern equipment and representing all the excellent points that trie oldest automobile concern in the country can put into it. Mr. and Mrs. Forsythe went to Chicago and selected the car and it was driven through by a man from the factory. The car is stiver gray in color and has black and gold trimmings. A neverfalling self-starter, electric lights, and other modern features, make it a near-perfect car. The cost was $2,500.

Montana Altitude Too High for Silas Swain.

Silas Swain returned to Rensselaer today from a trip to Three Forks, Mont., where he had expected to remain in the hope that the climdte would prove beneficial to his health, which has been very poor for several omnths. The altitude, however, was too much for him and he could scarcely breathe at all and was in such bad condition for several days that it # was feared he could not survive.' He hastened back to Indiana as soon as he was able to travel. He liked the appearance of Three Forks and says that Walter and Judson Maines are well pleased, that they have a beautiful farm and fine prospeets.

Bursting Emery Wheel Oausea Medaryville Man’s Death.

Winamac Republican. Friday morning while Dee Hazlctt, of Medaryville, was sharpening a saw on an emery wheel run by a gasoline engine, the wheel burstcd, striking him on the head. So powerful was the blow from the flying pieces that he fell unconscious and lived only until Saturday night. The funeral was held Tuesday afternoon at the Methodist church.

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Purdue Will Conduct Summer School for Teachers.

Purdue University will conduct its second summer school for teachers from June 14th to July 19th, 1913, offering instruction in Agriculture, Domestic Science ahd Manual Training. The purpose of this school is to prepare teachers in the rural and town schools to administer the above-named subjects in an intelligent and effective manner.' The instruction will emphasize the elemen--tary side of the subjects, giving particular Attention to methods of preparing material and of organizing the work in rural schools. The lal> oratories and teaching equipment of the university, including the library, will be availabk to students. The School will be conducted primarily for teachers now in the service who wish, in this way, to fit thcmselves better for trhc teachtng of Agriculture, Domestic Science or Manual Trainng. The need for such teaching in the schools is no longer a doubtful one, and this fact has been emphasized by the recent report of the Indiana commission on industrial and agricultural education, as well as by similar commissions in other states. Legislation with reference to the introduction of this work into the regular work of the public schools of the state, further emphasizes the advisability of teachers already in service making preparation for taking up this work. The attendance at the first summer school at Purdue, June 17th to July 20th, 1912, is significant of the widespread interest in the above lines of work. It indicates that teachers are coming to recognize that they can do more to direct the ideals of the children of the farm toward rural life than anyone else can. Forty counties in our own state were represented in the enrollment, and the enthusiasm and vitalizing force going out into the school work of the state through these lines is making itself felt economically because of the respeet for labor of all kinds which it promotes. No efforts will be spared by the university authorities to make the summer school a real help to teachers in furthering the development of intelligent, effective vocational training.

Twine Prices Will Be Much Higher This Tear.

Indiana farmers wiR feel the effects of the Mexican revolution when they buy their binder twine this year. Twine marketed at the Michigan City prison wjll cost 9 cents a pound in less than car load lots I. o. b. at Michigan City, and 8% cents a pound in car load lots of 30,000 pounds. Last year’s prices were 6y s and 6% cents. Warden Fo: garty explains the increased priees by'the heavy advance in the cost of sisal, most of which is grown in Mexico. The revolution cut down the production and a syndicate of Mexican bankers loaned the planters $15,000,000 so they could withhold their crops from the market until prices go up. Sisal for the, prison plant was purchased at $3.95 a hundred pounds last year, but this year the price is $7.21.

Pulaski County Commissioners Grant Traction Franchise.

Winamac, IntL, April 18.—Four promoters of the Laporte, Logansport & Southern Traction Co., Warren Travis, R. M. Smith, B. B. Thomas and Fred Hanson, arrived here uoday, Inspecting the proposed right of way south of town. They met with the county commissioners and town council and were granted a franchise. The line will be built from Laporte to Logansport, via Knox, Lake and Winamac. This route has been selected, nos only because the country traversed is more thickly populated than the Roahester-Kewanna route, but also because many grades and fills are avoided.

Conservative Elected Head Of D. A. R. Convention.

A lively contest, that was threecornered for some time but that resolved itself into a two-sided fight after the withdrawal of Mrs. Charles B. Bryan, resulted in the election at Washington, D. C„ last Friday night, of Mrs. William Cummings Story, of New York City, as president of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Mrs. Story has been a candidate for the presidency for the past five years and represents the conservative faction of that society.

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Entered January 1. 1897, as second claBS mall matter, at the post-office at Kens-selaer, Indiana, under the act of March 3, 1879.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 1913.

INSURANCE COMPANY NOW IN TROUBLE

Concern Started at Lafayette a Tear Ago By Dr. Traugh and Others In Hands of Receiver. The Columbia Casualty Company of Lafayette has gone, into the hands of a receiver. Horace L. Fletcher, of secure,d the appointment of James Bingham, ex-attorney general, as such, on the allegation that the company had not invested its surplus in securities that are recognized by the laws of the state. One of the investments was the purchase of an SBO,OOO building in Tndianapolis.. The complaint avers that nearly $120,000 has been paid •in by stockholders, who are scattered all over the state, and that only $16,000 has been invested in securities that will be recognized by law. The company was organized one year ago last month with headquarters in Lafayette, and has a large number of stockholders there. The capitalization was $500,000. Dan W. Simms was president of the company, but resigned because of. ill health before on his recent trip. After he resigned N. W. Muller, of New York, an experienced insurance man, who was vice presidetn of the company, became president and was acting in that capacity when the receiver was named. N. C. Traugh, the first treasurer of the company, resigned several weeks ago and went to Basin, Wyo. G. D. Clymers and Edward J. Tausey, who have been selling stock for the company, and have located here, cancelled their*contract last month and are no longer connected with the company. It is understood that a plan of readjustment has been suggested, which if given the co-operation of the stockholders, will result in all who have invested in the company receiving their money.

Took Strange Acting Boy To His Home at Kankakee.

City Marslial Shesler left for Kankake4, 111., this Saturday morning, having in his custody a young man named Hubert Peck, 21 years of age, whom he was taking there at the request of his mother. Thursday night at about midnight Officer Critser found the young man leaning over the railing of the Washington street bridge as though lie intended trying to commit suicide. The officer talked to him and he seemed somewhat evasive but contended that he was just looking at the water. He was placed in jail next morning stated that his home was at Kankakee, and he gave his mother’s name ar\d officers communicated with his mother by telephone and she asked that he be ■returned there and said that she would pay all expenses. She said that the boy had been reckless and wayward and was apparently of unsound mind. It is presumed that he will be placed in some institution for safe keeping and for treatment, for his mental condition is such that he is apt to take his own life at any time.

Thinks Cross and Buttons Relics of LaSalle’s Party.

Richard P. DeHart, who has made a long study of Indian tristory in this state, believes relics unearthed at the mouth of the Tippecanoe river were brought to this country by LaSalle, the French explorer. LaSalle and his followers went through the northwest territory in 1679 and 1680. The skeletons of five men were taken from an Indian mound, and on the breast of one of them was a large solid silver Jesiut double cross. Several large brass buttons, a large copper ornament, arrow heads and other devices were found. LaSalle is known to have passed through this part of the state.

Body of Man Found on Deer Creek Bank at Delphi.

The body of a man was found on the bank of Deer creek at Delphi several days ago and indications wore that he had committed suicide. A druggist at Indianapolis named Ridlen disappeared several days ago and the body seemed to answer the description of him, but the druggist's wife and brother went to Delphi and found that (he body was not his.

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Planning to Place Postal Savings in Our Possessions.

. Plans are rapidly being formulated to extend the postal savings bank system to Alaska, Guam, the Samoan Islands, Hawaii and the Canal Zone. Postmaster-General Burleson hopes to have the banks in operation in these insular possessions by August 1. The postal savings bank system has already been extended to Porto Rico and it will be in working order on that island on July L There are sixty thousand postoffices in the. United States and of that number about nine thousand are offices of the presidential class. The others are known as fourthclass offices—the postmastej-s of which are selected by competitive civil service examinations. Postal savings banks have been established in each of these presidential offices, and if the present policy of Post-master-General Burleson is carried out, the system will be extended to the more important fourth class postofffces of Indiana and the other states, after it has been put in operation in Alaska,* Guam, the Samoan Islands, Hawaii and the Canal Zone. On January 31, there were 12,147 offices with 12,823 depositories (including branch stations), in operation and of these 12,174 offices, 8,236 were in the presidential grade and 8.938 cf the fourth class.

Logansport Lady Writes to Thank Rensselaer for Aid.

Below is a letter from Mrs. Fonts, of Logansport, written to her sister, Mrs. William Coldwell. •Logansport, Ind., April 9. To Mr. and Mrs. Coldwell and to all-kind friends: I received your letter this morning with bank check for fourteen dollars ($14.00), and I cannot express on paper how thankful I am to each one who contributed to my need, for their kindness, for it is surely a relief to me and it is a kindness and Christian deed to be remembered always and it is worthy of a high reward in Heaven. Please thank each one, including yourselves, for me. We are staying in our house now, trying to dry it out the best we can. It is hard to dry, as the water was In for four days, five feet and four inches deep. It got above the shelf and stopped the clock. Everything but the stoves were .upside down. Our clothing and bedding and everything was soaked. The furniture is all falling to pieces. My folding bed can’t be fixed and besides I was sick the week before the flood and had the doctor four times, so I am working along as I am able to. • . ........ The governor sent the militia with relief, but we were limited. They gave me a new mattress, two comforts, two pairs of blankets, some dry clothing and one half ton of coal, but it is about gone. It will take lots of it to dry out the house if it continues this kind of weather. It took an hour to clean the mud off of the back porch, as it dried on after the water went down. My son, George, came and brought some food for us, as I cannot walk the railroad ties over the Wabash. He was in the flood, too, and is staying with his wife’s folks. Three wagon bridges and the interurban bridge over the Wabash are gone and people walk the railroad ties, but I cannot. I felt all winter that something was going to happen to this town, and I wanted to go away, and they laughed at me and said I was crazy. Thanking you over and over, I am your sister,

C. P. Fate Has Purchased Mrs. Haus’ Restaurant Business.

C. P. Fate has closed a deal for the purchase of the restaurant business of Mrs. T. W. Haus, and will probably take charge Sunday morning. H<j went to Chicago today to see after some business matters connected with supplies for the restaurant. Mr. Fate expects to .go right out after business and to be very progressive in this respect. He will continue to be associated with his mother in the management of the Makeever Hotel.

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To Make Radical Change In the Postal Service.

Postmaster General Burleson has determined to effect the most radical reorganization of the postal service ever proposed in the history of civil service reform in this country. The plan upon which he is at work is distinguished by these features: All postmasters shall be placed under civil service and requited to pass examinations for admission, retention and promotion. Postmasters shall bo appointed and transferred without" regard to locality, so that, for example, a resident of San Francisco could be made postmaster of New York and a resident of Duluth postmaster of New Orleans. The new postmaster general has told his friends that his highest ambition is to take the postoffiee departnrentcomTJletelyout~of"poitttes and make organization of the highest business efficiency. He has submitted an outline of his plan to President Wilson, who has commended it enthusiastically and assured him that all the influence the administration possesses will be used to put it into effect. Mr. Burleson has reached the conclusion that politics is a blight on the postal service. Postmasters are appointed as a reward for political services and not for their fitness to discharge the duties of the position efficiently and economically. The result is that in ninetynine cases out of a hundred the political postmaster takes the appointment merely as perquisite. The postmaster general believes postmasters should be a professional class, trained in their duties and devoted to the service as a Use work. He thinks a postmaster should not be restricted to one locality, but should be promoted from the smaller to larger communities, according to ability displayed. The postmaster general has decided to subject all fourth class postmasters to a civil service test. Those who pass it will be retained and those who do not will be removed. This examination will be open to outsiders also and an eligible list of fourth class postmasters will be established. It is Mr. Burleson’s intention in the appointment of fourth class postmasters to experiment with the proposition of ignoring geographical considerations. Wherever a vacancy occurs the man at the top of the eligible list will be appointed, regardless of the fact that he does not reside in the community affected. If this scheme works well Mr. Burleson will ask congress to enact legislation placing the first, second and third class postmasters under similar civil service regulations, and subject to assignment without regard to locality.

Collector on One Route Did Not Make Rounds Today.

The collector for The Evening Republican that makes the residence route and the depot business section did not make his rounds today, owing to the fact that he had the measles and did not want to expose persons all over town. Please bear in mind the fact that he was not around and have the pay for two weeks on hand when he calls next Saturday.

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Strong Tires for the country man Would your farm hand follow the plow in a pair of patent colts? Takes something stronger—calf skin or tough old pig skin and then the shoes go down to the uppers quick enough. If extra strong shoes are economy for your farm hand why are not extra strong tires economy for your motor car? Why not use tires built especially to take the hard knocks of country wear? United States Tires are built extra strong They contain all the strength that four famous tire factories, working as an enormous unit, can put into them. Your desire for economy In managing the busineas affairs of your farm ought to lead you naturally to the uae of United StateaTires. They cost no more than you are asked to pay for other kinds. .Next Saturday’s spin to town is not complete until you have bought United States Tirss at The Rensselaer Garage lH

WEATHER FORECAST. j Fair tonight and Sunday; cooler south portion tonight; frost tonight. l

Buvnra rnmnni From inartMT to Milco Remington 12 Mt. Ayr S Pleasant Ridge 4 Knlman IB Wheatfleld / 25 DeMotte ...j 21 Pleasant Grove 12 Wolcott ; 18 Francesvllle 18 Alx 8 Monon 18 McCoysbnrg 8 Surrey 8 Parr 10 Pair Oaks 14 Foresman 12 Julien 10 Chairman Henry of the rules committee has introduced a bill to amend the Sherman anti-trust law so as to define precisely what acts constitute s trust, monopoly or conspiracy in restraint of trade, with punishment as felonies ranging from 2 to 10 years. As a result of damage to railroad property caused by the recent floods in Illinois, Indiana and Ohio, steel mills throughout the country are receiving an unusually large volume of orders for new equipment. Available stocks in warehouses, it is said, arc being absorbed rapidly. Moving pictures are to show what the department of commerce is doing for the people of the United States. Secretary Redfleld decided Wednesday that such a system of education would be of great value, both to his department and to those interested in its work. An entire block of frame buildings between Ninth and Tenth avenues on Washington street In Gary came near being wiped out late Thursday afternoon in a fire which raged for more than an hour, endangering the lives of one woman, three children and ten boarders who were asleep in the place. A European fire insurance company Thursday notified its Bt. Louis agent to write no more business in Missouri after April 30. This is the twelfth company, in two days that has given notice of withdrawal from that state as a result of recent legislation applying the anti trust laws to fire insurance companies. Another victory was chalked up to the credit of Mrs. Charles S. Washburne, formerly Virginia Brooks, when the revised returns of West Hammond's local election was received Wednesday. K. M. Woczinsky, the reform candidate, was re-elected by a large majority, carrying all on the ticket with him. Announcement has been made that at least fifty miles of double track construction work on the Burlington line between Chicago and Bt. Paul will be completed this year. It is expected that the company will have a double track system in operation between the two cities within the next three years. The improvement will cost about $7,000,^00. Arrangements have been completed by the Grand Trunk Pacific railway to emplow 10,000 men on construction work this year. Of this number 7,000 will be engaged on improvements and extensions in British Columbia. 'lt is expected that the company will complete the construction .of more than 300 miles of main and branch lines before the end of the year. If you wish to SAVE MONEY on your Spring Suit, buy it from TRAUB A SELIG. k

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