Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 125, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1914 — Page 1

No. 125.

At The GAYETY THIS AND TOMORROW EVENINGS How & Barlow Novelty Equilibrists. The latest tricks on a slack wire. The lady suspended in mid air holding to the wire with her teeth. ( A PERILOUS FEAT. A. Sight Not Soon ForgotteA

IRISH HOME RULE BILL PASSES THIRD READING

Goes Through House of Commons By a Majority of SeventySeven Votes. London, May 25.—The Irish home rule bill passed its third reading in the house of commons today by a majority of 77. The vote was: for 351; against 274. The house was seething with excitement from the moment the speaker took, the chair. Members of the various parties indulged in loud outbursts of cheering when their respective champions entered the chamber, while at the same time mocking banter Was ■shouted from the opposite benches. Mr. Ganzoni, the unionist, who on Saturday defeated C. F. G. Masterman, chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, in the bye-election of Ipswich, met with such an uproarious welcome on his introduction that he appeared glad to escape from the limelight. The closing scene tn the fight in the house of commons for Irish home rule brought together a crowd of members and spectators which filled the chamber to its utmost capacity. Outside great crowds gathered to await the result of the debate on the third reading of the bill. Under the provision of the parliament act the bill becomes law after this stage, as it had al-, ready twice passed through all' its stages in the house of commons in two separate sessions, and the veto of the house of lords therefore has no further effect.

Social at Newland.

The Young Peoples Society at Newland will give an ice-cream social and bake sale at Newland Saturday, May 30th, afternoon and evening. Everybody invited.

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JACOB RIIS DEAD; ILL A LONG TIME

Newspaper Man Who Reformed a Part of New York, Rose From The Ranks of the Lowly. Barre, Mass., May 26.—Jacob A. Riis, author and social worker, died at his home here today aftera long illness. Jacob August Riis became “the most useful citizen” of the metropolis, through his work in behalf of the poorer people of New York, according to a tribute once paid to him by -Theodore Roosevelt, his intiment friend. As an almost penniless immigrant he obtained knowledge of the slums at first hand and found conditions there so repellant that he consecrated his while life to warfare against wretchedness. Riis was the thirteenth child of a Latin teacher in Ribe, Jutland, Denmark. He was born in 1849. Protesting at the literary career which his father had cut out for him, young Riis decided to work .with his hands and became a carpenter’s apprentice. The vocation he had chosen did not prevent him, however, from falling in love with Elizabeth Neilson, daughter of one of the richest men in his native town. But she refused him and when Riis was 21 years old, having learned his trade, he embarked for New York with only S4O in his pocket. He spent half the sum for a heavy navy pistol as soon as he landed “to fight Indians and desperadoes.” Riis led a varied career during the following six years. He built miners’ huts in a Pennsylvania construction camp, mined coal, made bricks, drove a team and peddled flat irons and books. At 27 he spent his last cent in reaching New York, hoping to enlist through the French consul in the French army against Germany for the FrancoPrussian war, but his services were refused, and Riis was forced to accept a beginner’s place as a reporter for a New York news bureau. At the very first he made his most conspicuous success in the study of conditions on the east side of New York. * (With only $75 capital And notes for $575 he succeeded in buying the South Brooklyn News, which was on the verge of bankruptcy, and made such a success with the property that he was able to sell it at a considerable profit a few years later. He returned to Denmark and married the girl who had refused him when he was a carpenter’s apprentice. This first died in 1905, and two years later Riis married Mary Phillipa, of St. Louis.

As a reporter on the New York Tribune and later on the New York Sun, Riis took up his real work in slum fighting. While attending to routine duty as a police reporter, he worked day and night to arouse the people to the need of improved Jiving conditions. One of the first of bis campaigns was against the impurity of the city water, and it was his fight which finally led to the purchase of the Croton watershed to assure safe drinking water for New York. He brought sunlight to the tenement districts by forcing the destruction of rear tenements. He entirely cleared Mulberry Bend, one of, the worst tenement in the city, and replaced the squalid homes by shady parks. Theodore Roosevelt was police commissioner of New York when ißlls attacked the evils of police station lodging houses. He won his point and incidentally a strong ally in Mr. Roosevelt. Rftis drove bakeshops out of tenement basements; he fought for laws abolishing child labor; and was largely instrumental In getting the passage of “the briefest, wisest and best statutes on the books of New York, laying down the principles that hereafter ‘no school shall be built without an adequate playground.’/’ After twenty-seven years as a reporter, Rile resigned to continue his fight by writing and lecturing. Among the products of his -pen are "How the Other Half Lives,” "The Children of the Poor,” ‘The Making of an American” (his autobiography), ‘The Battle With the Slum,” “Children of the Tenements,” ‘The Old Town,” Theodore Roosevelt, the Citizen,” and “Hero Tales From the Far North.” %

Barn in Gillam Township Burned Tuesday Evening.

A good bam on the Pete Hermanson fanm in Gillam township was destroyed by Are Tuesday evening at about 6:30 o’clock. About 18 tons of hay and most of the harness In the barn was burned, but the horses and cows were saved. The origin of the fire is not known. The bam and hay loss was covered with insurance.

Notice to the Public. I have finished my post-graduate work in Chicago and will be at my I office regular of terWednesday, May

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1211

SILOS AND BARNS DESTROYED BY FIRE

Firman Thompson the Greatest Loser in Miniature Tornado That Swept Old Path.

A miniature cyclone swept across the beaten path for windstorms at an early hour this Wednesday morning, wrecking a number of silos and damaging several barns and smaller buildings in the neighborhood of Parr and extending across Union township and to the farm of Mrs. 8. L. Jordan in Barkley township. Firman Thompson was the greatest loser, although all of his losses were covered by windstorm insurance in the Home Insurance 00., R. D. Thompson, agent. There were really several small storms instead of one, according to information we have been able to gather. The most destructive and the one closest aikin to a cyclone swept from the east southeast to the west northwest and was the one that visited the Thompson ranch. On the west farm of the ranch Where Will Porter lives the large barn was damaged to the extent of SI,OOO and one silo was caved in. At the farm a half anile west of the railroad another large barn was damaged to the extent of several hundred dollars and the 20-toot silo was also caved in. At the headquarters ranch another 20toot silo was damaged and a number of outbuildings'were torn down. A set of hay ladders and some farming implements were damaged. A number of trees, some as large as 15 inches in diameter were blowin over or uprooted and a number of fruit trees were broken down. A Allo on the Amos Davisson farm was blown down, also one on the John Eger farm near Gifford and one on Mrs. S. L. Jordan’s farm in Barkley township. ' The wind done more or less damage in various other places and the Lonergan brothers, near Surrey, lost a silo. The storm was accompanied by a good rain, which done a great deal of good to crops.

DELPHI MEN FIND BODY OF WOMAN

Had Caught in Clump of Bushes After Floating Down Wabash From Logansport Two farmers living near Delphi were riding along the bank of the Wabash ri v€r 5 miles north of Delphi Tuesday when they saw the body of a woman caught in the willows along the bank. Investigation proved that the body was badly decomposed. They gave the alarm, believing that a murder case had been discovered. Investigation, however, proved that the body was that of Mrs. Margaret Hill, of Logansport, who had often made threats to commit suicide and who had been missing from her home in Logansport for about five weeks. Mrs. Hill was called “the blue woman of Logansport” because of a peculiar blue cast to her complexion. * On the night of her .disappearance she did not retire when her husband did. He slept for a short time and when he awoke she was still in. the house and he asked her why she did not go to bed. She replied that she would and he went back to sleep. When he woke in the morning she was missing. He found a pair of her shoes in the room. They were covered with mud. He informed the police and a careful Investigation was started but no clew was discovered until the dead body was found Tuesday.

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Abe Might Have Said But Didn’t.

Next to a chigger there ain’t no animal with such a mean disposition as a mosquito. Eb Tripp says the trouble with struggling churches is there ain't no one winin’ to keep the grass cut

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WILLIS RELEASED BY KENTLAND JURY

Last of Charges Against Former Garage Man Decided—Hope Experience Proves Useful.

James L. Willis was cleared of the charge of perjury at Kentland Tuesday, the jury returning at about midnight with a verdict in his favor. The jury had been out about two hours. Willis returned to this city with his attorneys, W. H. Parkinson and J. A. Dunlap. While there is no doubt that the story of the Short boy was true and that he saw Willis, just as he claimed to have seen him, on the night of the assault on the Thompson girl, there were several who testified that the reputation of the Short boy for truth and veracity was bad and this had its weight with the jury. Willis >fe now free and it is hoped the trials he has been through and the expense to which he has been placed wall serve to reform him and that he will have a higher respect for womanhood and live a better life during the future, notwithstanding the fact that justice in his case has so entirely miscarried in .his favor.

W. C. Miliron Sells Restaurant to Postill. W. C. Miliron, who has for several years conducted a restaurant in the room ad joining the State Bank, has sold the business to Will ,H. Postill, the carpenter, who took charge Tuesday noon. Mr. MilMron has not been feeling very well and expects to rest up for a time before entering business and will visit his father at Denver, Ind., and his son, Robert Milliron, in Michigan. Mr. Postill has had considerable experience in the restaurant business and will doubtless make a success Of It. ' :

The 13th annual state convention of the Elks of Indiana will be held at Evansville on Wednesday and Thursday and it is expected that fully 1,500 Elks will attend. Fifteen thousand additional hands will be needed in Oklahoma to harvest the 1914 wheat crop, according to State Labor Commissioner Daugherty. The commissioner estimates the crop at 40,000,000 bushels, the largest the state has ever produced. Abraham Zimmerman, of Gary, and Wolf Mareovieh, of Indiana Harbor, both saloon keepers, have been arersted on indictments returned by the federal grand jury, charging violation of the internal revenue laws. They are charged with refilling whisky bottles. Chicago’s three caravels, familiar to thousands sipce the world’s fair, when they were presented to the city by the Spanish government, are safe at Erie, Pa, and have been given a thorough overhauling, according to word received Monday by J. E. Foster, superintendent of the south parks, Chicago.

Robert Cowan, 18-year-old aeronaut, was drowned in the Mississippi river at Alton, 111,, Saturday, through the falling of his balloon at a carnival given by the Loyal Order of Moose. The large crowd of men and women standing on the bluffs of Alton to watch the balloon ascension and flight were powerless to save the aeronaut as the hot-air bag, plunged into the water. Vice is said to have secured a foothold in Lafayette again and the ministers of the city drafted a communication and forwarded it to Mayor Bauer asking that places of vice be closed and that the mayor enforce the flaws and pledging the support of the ministers in doing so. The mayor has taken action according to The Journal and all brothels are to be closed.

.Russell Hatton, a young man who came from Royal Center, is employed at Fred Hemphill's blacksmith shop. He is a ball player, having played part of last year for Goodland. He will be given a tryout with the Athletics and in all probability will play with them next Sunday against the colored team from Chicago. • The Hammond Times, which was a few weeks ago declaring that there were no idle men in the Calumet region, now says: “With the large number of unemployed and an unusually large number of gen issude a warning to the residents in Hammond this morning to be more careful about leaving windows open and doors unlocked when leaving the house, giving sneak thieves an opportunity to ViTAiilr In?*

AGED LADY DIED TUESDAY EVENING

Mrs Mariana Fendig Pass'd Away After Lingering Illness at the Age of 86 Years.

After an illness that confined her to bed for several weeks and which from the start seemed certain to terminate fatally, Mrs. Mariane Fendig, widow of Samuel Fendig, died Tuesday evening at her home on Front street, at the advanced age of 86 years, 6 months and 21 days. Deceased was born in Greenstadt, Rhinish Bavaria, Germany, Nov. 5, 1827, and came to America in 1849, residing for a time with her sister, Mrs. Helena Tuteur, at Philadelphia, and later earning to Laporte, Ind., where for a time she kept house for her brother, A. Leopold. Later she went to Chicago, where she was married Sept. 4, 1846, to Samuel Fendig. They soon took up their residence in Rensselaer and he died in this city on Nov. 4, 1888. Mrs. Fendig has continued her residence here. Three children were 'born to them, Ben S. Fendig, of Chicago; Miss Rebecca Fendig, who lived with her mother, and Simon Fendig, of Wheatfield. She also leaves one brother, A. Leopold, of this city, and one stater, Henrietta, 82 years of dfee, who lives at the old home in Germany. There are a number of other relatives. Rebecca and Simon and his family Were with her when the final summons came at 9 o’clock Tuesday evening. Mr. Leopold found among her possessions a certificate from her school teachers made In 1810, or 74 years ago, and which gave her good rating for her studies and her interest in school work and which she had always preserved. The funeral of Mrs. Fendig will take place Thursday afternoon at 3 o’clock at the home on Front street. A rabbi will be procured to conduct the service.

Husbands Discover That They Have Same Wife.

New York, May 26.—Two expressmen, one With a little business of his own in the other with a like business in Manhattan, met in the course of trade, quite by chance, and got to telling their troubles. “Not six months after I married my wife dropped put of sight. I never heard from her afterward. It is a mystery," said Thomae Beaver, 1283 Park place, Brooklyn, one of the two. ; - • “Well, that brat’s anything I ever heard—l had the very same experience myself,” said John Gallagher, og 403 East Fifty-Third street, Manhattan, the other., ’ They drove around to Gallagher’s house and looked at the picture of his missing spouse. ‘That’s my wife—as I live,” cried Beaver. Detective Patton, of Brooklyn, was informed of the strange cointwo men mourning the disappearance of a wife and both wives the same woman. He finally located her in Boston. A letter was mailed telling the woman that Gallagher—the last husband—was ill and about to die; was always calling for her, and no doubt would get better if she hurried home. “Will arrive on boat Saturday,” she wired. The two hpsbands and the detective met her at the dock. She turned pale, wavered, then decided to brave it out But as she swept past the Patton put her under arrest. In Gates avenue court the woman, who had given her name as Mrs. Agnes Gallagher, waived examination and was held on a charge of bigamy, the two husbands identifying her. ■Beaver was married in St. Mathew’s church, Brooklyn, June 18, 1912, and Gallagher in Epiphany church, Manhattan, November 23, 1913.

Another Editor is "Home" Again.

Gary, Ind, May 26.—The Gary Tribune, which supported Roosevelt and Beveridge during the 1912 campaign, will support the republican state and congressional ticket this year, according to Homer J. Carr, the editor. The Tribune is regarded as one of the strong papers of northern Indiana. One of the features of the joint republican senatorial convention of pawnee of Mr. Carr aa • Portiapant in that convention. Mr. Carr’s homecoming from the progressive party was greeted enthusiastically by delegates to this convention. Mr. Carr was an alternate dal2ra+l in f,h« AAnwnHnn ? ueiegaw w vne wuvwuvu. > i

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MADE CONFESSION AND THEN SUICIDED

Reginald Barr Says That Sweetheart Died in His Arms When He Tried to Kiss Her. Reginald Barr, who was the cause of the death of Florence Bentley, at Downers Grove, IM, and who killed himself Tuesday morning by jumping in front of a train, left a note in which he related the death of the Bentley girl. He declared that he loved her dearly and would not have injured her purposely. He said that he tried to Ides her and she objected and that be asked her if she did not love him and drew her close to him and that hte arm was pressed across her throat and that she gasped and fell to the ground but was breathing. He said that he covered her head and in his fright ran away and did not return to full conoeiousnras until the following day. He then jumped into a pond to try to drown himhelf but failed. He then bought chloroform and went to the place where the girl was and lay down by her side and placed the chloroform where he could breathe the fumes, but it tipped over and spilled. He’then bought more chloroform and saturated a handkerchief and placed it over hte face but this did not produce death. He then jumped beneath the train and was gspund to death. The note of explanation was found in his pocket after death.

Indianapolis Lady Knew What a Silo Was, Rll Right.

A lady from Indianapolis was visiting in Rensselaer recently and was being taken about the country in an auto by her hostess. There were several in the party and the subject drifted to silos. A remark dropped by the visitor indicated that she did not know what a silo was and iher hostess remarked. “I don’t believe you know what a silo Is.” . < “Oh, yes, I do,” she replied promptly, "it’s a female pig.”

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