Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 192, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1913 — Page 1

No. 192.

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A. FENDIG AND FAMILY IN DISASTROUS FIRE

Lost Trunks and Clothing When Blue Mountain House Burned Near Baltimore, Md.

Mr. and Mrs. Albert Fendig and their three children, of Brunswick, Ga., had a close call for their, lives and lost their trunks and clothing when the Blue Mountain House, a summer resort near Baltimore, Md., was destroyed by fire' several days ago. Mr. and Mrs. Fendig and children had arrived at the the evening before the fire and were aroused the next morning by pistol shots and the scurrying of guests of the hotel. They rushed out into the corridor to find that flames were coming up the elevator shafts and also the stairway surrounding the elevator. They thought for a moment that there was no way of escape but a porter told them of a rear stairway and Mrs.- Fendig rushed back to her room for her jewel bag and secured Mr. Fendig’s coat and a coat for one of the children. They made their escape from the burning building, lightly clothed and without any of their baggage. They lost 4 large baggage trunks, 2 hat trunks, 4-hand bags and 2 suit cases and most of the clothing which they had removed upon retiring. Even their shoes and stockings were left in thein room when they made their hasty exit. There is no town nearby and a special train was made up and took the hotel guests to New York, all barefooted and bareheaded. A Baltimore paper gave ail extended illustrated article about the fire and Albert sent a copy to his brothers, B E. and Samuel. Had the fire occurred an hour earlier, it is Albert’s opinion that all would have lost their lives.

The Birdsall-Webb anti-alien land bill, of California, which aroused the nation because it threatened to become a stumbling block to peace between the United States and Japan, Monday became a law.

No. 6651. REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF THE Tirst national Bank At Rensselaer, Indiana, At the close of business, August 9th, 1913. RESOURCES. LIABILITIES. Loans and Discounts ....$295,261.26 Capital Stock paid in..... $60,000.00 Overdrafts, secured and Surplus fund ~... 20,000.00 unsecured 2,073.14 Undivided Profits, less U. S. Bonds to secure cir- Expenses and taxes paid 11,104.01 culation z 25,000.00 National Bank Notes outOther Bonds to secure standing . 25,000.00 Postal Savings 5,000.00 Due to State and Private Bonds, Securities, etc .... 1,900.00 Banks and Bankers .... 1,613.26 Banking House, Furniture Individual deposits suband Fixtures 8,000.00 ject to check 205,597.22 Due from State and Pri- Demand certificates of derate Banks and Bank- posit 45,251.44 ers, Trust Companies, Certified Checks 642.24 and Savings Banks 3.86 Postal Savings deposits... 4,936.22 Due from approved reserve Bills payable, Including Agents .: 28,227.49 obligations for money Checks and other Cash borrowed w 25,000.00 Items 5,652.86 - Fractional Paper Currency, Nickels, and cents 105.57 Lawful Money Reserve in Banks, viz: Specie 6,027.60 Legal-Tender Notes 9,094.00 15,121.60 Redemption Fund with U. S. Treasurer (5 per cent of Circulation) 1,250.00 Bills in Transit :... 11,548.61 a Total Total .$399,144.39 State of Indiana, County of Jasper, m: ' ■ ■ I, J. N. Leatherman, Cashier of the abovonamed bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true to the best of my knowledge and belief. J. N. LEATHERMAN, Cashier. Correct—Attest: Subscribed and sworn to before me this 13th day of August, 1913. GEORGE A. WILLIAMS, Notary Public. My Commission expifes Feb. 17, 1914. V R. A. PARKISON, GEO. E. MURRAY, , E. P. HONAN, Directors, <

The Evening Republican.

Tonights program. _ “On the Brink of Ruin,” Kalem drama. “Nearly in Mourning,” Lubin comedy. “Liquid Air,” Patheplay. Educational. _ ■ ■ . . “The Predicament.” Lubin comedy. Winter in Upper Engadine, Switzerland. Patheplay. Educational Only 19 days until chair is given away. $2.50 each Saturday night. Show starts at 7:30 o’clock.

Rifle Team Left For Camp Perry For Match.

The Indiana state rifle s eam, of which First Sergeant Jerry B. Garland, of Rensselaer, is a member, left Fort Benjamin Harrison, where the members have been practicing for several days, for Camp Perry, Ohio where the national and international matches will be held this year. This is to be the greatest shooting tournament A ver held in the United States and it is expected that the Indiana team will mgke the best record it has ever made. Sergeant Garland will have an opportunity to take part*not only in the team matches but also in the individual matches against the leading military marksmen of the world, and he is certain to make a fine showing in all his matches. The members of the team were all issued new star-guage rifles after their arrival at Ft. Benjamin Harrison and the two weeks’ practice they have had has made it possible for them to get well acquainted with the rifles and the improvement has been very marked. Seven members of the team are commissioned officers and eight are sergeants. The team has a greater number of new men this year than it has had for several years and this is expected to give it a great advantage as a team.

Bride and Groom From Texas Spending Honeymoon Here.

Attorney and Mrs. John A. Dunlap are being visited by Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. Lee, of Dallas, Texas, the ladles being sisters. Mr. and Mrs. Lee were married at the bride’s home in Dallas, her parents’ names being Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Johnson, and her maiden name, Miss Anna Maria Johnson, They came to Chicago and thence to Rensselaer, and the first of the coming week, accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Dunlap, will go to Green Bay, Wis., for a sojourn of about two weeks, returning here before their departure for their future home in Dallas. Mr. Lee is a chemist.

This is the steel age. We have a steel wagon for you. HAMILTON & KELLNER.

Entered January 1, 18»7, aa second clan mall matter, at ffie post-ofllee at Rensselaer, Indiana, under the act of March t, lift

RENSSELAER, INDIANA. WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 13, 1913.

Good Show at the Gayety Airdome.—Swell Bicycle Act.

The LaDare-Warner act at the Gayety Airdome this evening and Thursday evening comes highly recommended. It was one of the f -v attractions at the Carroll County old settlers’ meeting at

THE LaDARE WARNER TRIO.

Delphi last" Saturday and elicited much applause. The work of LaDare and his wife and their little son is quite remarkable on bicycles, monocycles and girraffecycles. It will certainly please the grown-ups and the children and is a 10-cent bargain in the entertainment line.

Finished Pile Driving For New Bridge At Burk Crossing.

The job of pile driving for the new bridge at the Zeigler or Burk crossing of the Iroquois was completed Monday and the pile-driving machine returned to Crown Point, from which place it had been rented. The piling was driven to various depths from 35 to 56 feet, each to a solid bottom, and all piling had to be spliced. Twentythree piles were driven for each abutment. On this piling the concrete abutments will be erected. The abutments will be 4 feet wide at the base and 2 feet, 6 inches at the top. The bridge will be a single span structure, 76 feet long with a 20-foot driveway.

Special for Wednesday, Aug. 13th, at the New 5 and 10c Store, a can of Mennpn’s Talcum Powder 10c with every 50 cent purchase

Tc J I / Z I' B 4 fiJ * I CHARLES H. POOLE. — TE ends of the earth are literally being laid under tribute to furnish edification sod entertainment for our American Chautauqua audiences. Thia rima it J# Hon. Charles H. Poole, from faraway New Zealand, who comes to tell of the remarkable reforms In operation under the efficient laws adopted by his progressive home government Last season he lectured at a number of Chautauquaa and with his ready Irish wit and unbounded good nature at once made a hit with his audiences. The past winter he has been speaking before immense audiences in England, Ireland and Scotland in response to a popular demand. Those who had the privilege of hearing him last year will look forward to his return with pleasure. Those who did not hear Mm then have a treat in store at our ChautawM ou the laht day.

SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST J. L WILLIS

Proprietor of Garage Charged With Criminal Assault Against 15-Years-Old Girl.

James L. Willis, commonly called “Jamie” Willis, who has been in the automobile garage business in Rensselaer for several years, was arrested Tuesday- afternoon on an affidavit made by J. J. O’Brien, a tailor, charging Willis with having criminally assaulted Mr. O’Brien’s step-daughter, Clara Bell Thompson, 15 years of age. Anticipating arrest Willis had secured the services of Attorneys Dunlap and Parkinson to defend him and was at the office of Mr. Parkinson, when arrested by Constable W. S. Parks. He was taken before Mayor Geo. F. Meyers, where his attorneys at once began a strenuous tight in his behalf. Attorney Moses Leopold represented the state. The defendant’s attorneys fllpd a plea in abatement, alleging that Mayor Meyers had no jurisdiction. The motion was overruled. They then filed a motion for a change of venue from the township, setting forth that the defendant could no’; receive a fair trial in this township, owing, to the. feeling against him. The attorneys argued, for some time about the right to make a change of this kind from the mayor’s to a justice’s court. The mayor decided to grant the change and sent the case to the court of . Squire Joel Spriggs, of Walker township, and the hearing was set for Monday afternoon of next week at 2 o’clock. Willis was released on SSOO bond, his father, A. L. Willis, signing the bond. There was no question about the correctness of the affidavit alleging the feeling against the defendant in this city. Men and women alike were indulging in bitter denounciation of Willis .and the attitude of the people was very grave and many undertone threats wete made by people not given to excitement. The Thompson girl had been working at the Willis home for three or four days prior to last Friday evening. On that evening Willis took his wife and two children and the Thompson girl in his automobile. The little girl’s story is to the effect that Mrs. Willis and the children got out of the machine some place at the out-

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skirts of town, where Mrs. Willis was having dressmaking done. Willis offered to take the Thompson girl for a ride. She charges that he turned the lights out, stopped the car, put his hand over her mouth and dragged her out and committed the act. She says that she tried to ery out and that he choked and cursed her. She states that he brought her back to town, letting her out some place where there was no sidewalk and when she got home her eyes were bloodshot from crying. Mr. O’Brien asked what was the matter and she told him and he told her to go right to her mother and she did so. Mrs. O’Brien went right away to the home of A. L. Willis, across the street, and told Mrs. Willis, who, with her husband, went to the home of their son. Later Jamie and his father went to the O’Brien home, where he is alleged to have informed Mr. O’Brien that ,he was quoted in Bradstreet’s commercial agency as being worth $32,000 and that his people and his wife’s people had money and that they would spend it all defending him and that the O’Briens would only bring disgrace upon themselves and the daughter. Mr. O’Brien and family have been here less than a year, having come from Delavan, Wis. They are in ordinary circumstances, depending on his wages for their living, and they thought that they would have to have money with which to prosecute Willis and they decided just to bury their bitter trouble. In some manner information leaked out and became generally talked about on the street Tuesday morning and Mr. O’Brien, who had worried himself almost sick about the trouble, related the little girl’s story. When he went home at noon he had the child again tell him just what happened and lie decided to file the affidavit, which he censured himself for failing to do immediately on hearing the child’s story. The Republican can not print the horrible details of the story told by the girl, but if they are true we believe that every person in Rensselaer will hope that the severest punishment is meted out to the brute who did the deed. A counsel of physicians made an examination of the girl this afternoon, on order of Prosecuting Attorney Longwell, of Brook, who was advised by telephone of the arrest and the action thus far. Mr. Longwell also asked that the bond for Willis’ freedom be increased from SSOO to $1,900.

JOHN EGER, President. DELOS THOMPSON. Cashier. J. H. CHAPMAN, Vice-President. CHAS. M. SANDS, Ass'L Cashier. Clk State Bank of Rensselaer Report of the condition of the State Bank of Rensselaer, a State Bank at Rensselaer, in the State of Indiana, at the elose of business on August 9, 1913 RESOURCES. LIABILITIES. Loans and Discounts ....$234,375.09 Capital Stock—paid in ... $30,000.00 Overdrafts 490.43 Surplus 22,000.00 U. & Bonds . ’ 100.09 Undivided Profits 842.45 Other Bonds and Securi- Exchange, Discounts and ties 6,180.00 Interest 1,75739 Furniture and Fixtures... 1,000.00 Demand Deposits 197,895.65 Due froih Banks and Trust Time Certificates 36,523.42 Companies •- 56,898.86 Bills Payable 20,000.00 Cash ort Hand 9,743.16 Reserve for Taxes 2,118.90 Cash Items 388.05 Current Expenses 1,187.63 Interest Paid 77439 Total Resources .$311,137.81 Total Liabilities $311,137.81 State of Indiana, County of Jasper, so: I Delos Thompson, Cashier of the State Bank of Rensselaer, do wlemnl, swcr that the .hove SuteeHhM .nd • My Commission expires October 28, 1914. ■easy to Lean at Oarreat Bates. Tawr Patraaaga Solicited.

CHARLES E. SAGE DIED TUESDAY P. M.

Esteemed Citizen and Former Trustee of Jordan Township Victim of Short Illness.

Charles E. Sage, a highly respected farmer and former Trustee of Jordan township, died at about 1:30 o’clock Tuesday afternoon at his home southwest of this cfty after a brief sickness. He was first taken sick the first of August with what was believed to be inflammation of the bowels. Drs. Kennedy and Kinneman, of Goodland, attended him. His condition did not become alarming until early Tuesday morning and. the physician who attended him at that time decided to call a specialist at once. The specialist arrived in Rensselaer at 2 o’clock Tuesday afternoon and went at once to the Sage home but he had passed away before that hour. Meningitis was assigned as the cause of death. Mr. Sage z would have been 47 years of age in September. He is survived by his wife and six children, the three older being sons and the three younger daughters, their names being from the oldest to the youngest, George, RusselL Ray, Esther, Jeany and Ruth. George is 21 years,old and Ruth is 7. He leaves two brothers and one sister, Warren Sage and Mrs. John Eck, of Jasper county, and John Sage, of Goodland. He was an energetic farmer, a Christian gentleman and an exemplary citizen and his death will be mourned wherever he was known. The funeral arrangements have not been made at this time

Son of Ira Galbraith Broke Arm In Rensselaer.

Tuesday MA. Ira Galbraith and three children, of Elmhurst, 111, came to visit Mr. Galbraith’s sister, Mrs. Frank Ellis and family, and this Wednesday afternoon Merl Galbraith, 8 years old, fell from a cherry tree limb arid fractured both bones of his right arm, just above the wrist. Dr. Hemphill was called and reduced the fracture

WEATHER FORECAST. Showers tonight or Thursday; warmer extreme north portion tonight.

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