Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 284, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1914 — Page 1

No. 84.

TONIGHT AT THE PRINCESS Thelion Dollar Mystery A big train wreck in this evening’s episode. Other pictures in connection, good ones. t A double show. 7-8-9

E. P. HONAN AGAIN CHOSEN PRESIDENT

Also a Delegate to Attend National Congress ol Fraternal Orders In San Francisco.

Edward P. Honan returned Tuesday evening from Indianapolis, where he had attended the annual meeting of the state fraternal con- ? grass of \yhich :he is the president, and he was honored by being again elected to that position. In addition to this the was chosen as the delegate from Indiana to attend the national meeting of the congress in San Francisco next summer. The duties in connection with hi® office will also require him to make a trip to Detroit, Mich., short ly, and possibly also to Washington, D. C.

Praise For Miss MacLaren, Who Will Be Here Thursday.

Thursday evening, Dec. 3rd, Miss MacLaren will present ,f ‘Daddy-Long-Legs” at the Presbyterian Church and the many press notices .indicate that a rare treat is in store t for all who attend. The admission j has been placed, at 25 cents A very clear idea of her methods of* presenting a play may be gained from the following comment from; the Ashbury Park Press: * s | “She acts the entire play, portray- ( ing each character with such ra ( markable distinctness as to cause, her hearers to mentally witness the play enacted by a full cast, and for- ■ get for the moment that'they are being entertained by a singly artist. It seemed as -if she had a large com- j pany of players at her call, and asj If by magic they entered, rendered the lines, and exited at her command.”

We have cannel egg, Jackson Hill] egg, and Ky. Belle egg coals lor the range.—Hamilton & Kellner, i

Do You Walk % V Like.TMs IH Y* — or^ first is the way people walk mmon shoes—with the f ; ■ I lwjj l i- Bja e weight resting on less XiLdLwl half the feet. It’s a sure J to have tired, aching, other is the way folks walk iwSSsO^. wear the famous Dr. A. Reed v ion Shoes—with the weight evenly buted over the whole foot. And it’s the way to walk easily and comfortably. . it have never worn Dr. A. Reed Cushion T Shoes ip in tomorrow and look at them. Every one of :ustomers that has tried them is delighted—says ike walking on air—and we’lhguar- • i that you’ll say the same thing. r A s's every size and style to choose from ouAotX guarantred —all at reasonable prices. I look for you tomorrow. J3S lr.A. - g J,jOo| gL^Ai she./ . P. Smith 8ho« Co., Mtra., £fg t\ • , rmnir i iir retLirttT ** L N. FEWDIG ■■■■nnBIIMBVIRIHM v, -18 . w '■

The Evening Republican.

MANDATE COUNCIL TO MAKE APPROPRIATION

Court Holds That Lawlmposefe Duty to Provide For County Agricultural Agent’s Pay.

Jasper county may again have an agricultural agent. Last year the county council refused to make an appropriation of money for the agent, O. G. Barrett was holding the job at that time and he was forced to abandon his work and move away because there was no provision for his pay. On behalf of those who want an agent of agriculture the matter was appealed from the council to the circuit court, Attorney Halleck appearing for the cause of the agent and County Attorney 'Williams representing the council. The Case was heard, this Wednesday morning and Judge Hanley 'ruled that the law required the .council to make the appropriation and mandated that it be done. Attorney Williams prayed an. appeal from the decision. ~

, The county agent can be of great benefit to the farmers of the county and if the right man is procured we believe it is the proper thing to have him. Mr. Barrett seemed to be a constant worker, but forisome reason he never warmed up to the public very ardently and it is probable that the opposition of last year was to some extent a personal one Practically all of the farmers who are trying to keep abreast of the great questions of. agriculture are In favor of having a county agent and with the diversified soils and pursuits of this county we believe one should be maintained.

Prompt Action is Pleasing Many Rensselaer Citizens. Get down to the cause of everything. Bad backs are. frequently caused by weak kidneys. Help the kidneys to get rid of kidney backache. Doan’s Kidney Pills are for the kidneys only. No time wasted trying to cure Other troubles.. Jacob R. Wilcox, Dayton St., Rensselaer, Ind., says: “I had pains through my loins andi was in misery day and night. I always felt tired and worn out and was annoyed by a distressing kidney weakness. Nothing relieved me until I 'began taking Euan's Kidney Pills. They were ofc such great benefit that I consider them worthy of the highest endorsement. The statement I gave & few: years ago praising Doan’s Kidney Pills, holds good. The cure has been permanent.”

Price 50c at all dealers. Don’t simply ask for a kidney remedyget Doan's Kidney Pills—the same that Mr. Wilcox had. Foster-Mil-buril Co., Props* Buffalo, N. Y.

Fresh candy made every day; special attention to party orders; we make any kind and any flavor. THE CORNER CAFE.

NO TIME WASTED

HOME MADE CANDY.

RENSSELAER INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, Dec. 2, 1914.

PINE VILLAGE 12; RENSSELAER 0 ; V ; y y-.yy; Rensselaer was defeated in today’s football game with Pine Village, played at Morocco. The score was 12 to 0. f.

OIL BURNER TO BE DEMONSTRATED HERE

Erhest 0. Linton, Inventor, Will Place Burner in Rhoades & Son’s Hardware Store. Ernest O. Linton, inventor of a mechanical chemical process for generating gas from kerosene and utilizing it for heating purposes, is again in Rensselaer to demonstrate his invention and the burner will be placed in the window of Rhoades & Son’s hardware store and kept going. Mr. Linton states that a gallon of kerosene will keep it going for 24 hours. He will also demonstrate at one of the garzS'es a ihpt air heating system with the oil burner furnishing the heat. Mr. Linton says that Robert, Winn, the promoter, has already begun plans for the formation of the company and for incorporating under the laws of Indiana. It is -hoped that the repairs to the building can be made during December and Mr. Linton states that his requirement of Mr. Winn is that the company be incorporated ■and ready for within thirty days.

Domstic Science Fair at Old High School Building.

The 'Domestic Science Fair and Exhibit for the benefit of that department of our schools, will be held in the ofd high school building, Saturday 1 , Dec. 5, afternoon and early evening. The doors will be open at 2:30. The main feature of the fair will be a market where cakes, pies and candies prepared in the domestic science laboratory will be offered for sale. Other features will be a cooking exhibit, which will consist of a contest, a series of cash prizes being offered for best work in this. For best cake, first prize $1; second 50c. For best cookies, first prize $1; second 50c. For best assorted candies, first $1; second 50c. For best biscuits, first $1; second 50c. Entries for the first three will be prepared at home and brought to the exhibit, hut the biscuit contest will take place in the cooking laboratory during the afternoon of the fair. The girls will prepare the biscuits before the judges And onehalf will be counted for method of work and one-half for results. The sewing wq/k done this, year in the department will also be exhibited. -,, Not the least of the interesting features will be the pure food exhibit and sample sale The department has secured samples of 'foods and household products that It can recopimend for use. Samples of these products will be offered for sale at a very small sum each. Lunch will be served to those who desira Menu will be of cafeteria style with oyster stew, salad, cocoa, pies, coffee and icc cream to select from. 'Everyone is cordially invited to attend and so gain a general idea of the progress of the work in this department this year.

NORTH NEWTON.

The box social at Surrey Saturday night was a success. Mr. Pierson, of Hobart, spept* a few. days jvith Joseph Lane last week. Mrs. Sarah Mclntosh, /Who has been spending the past few months with her sister, Mrs. Milt .Grimes, returned Sunday to the home of her son in Danville, 111. Miss Margaret Yeager spent her Thanksgiving vacation with friends in Tefft Mr. and Mrs. Milt Grimes and daughter spent Sunday with relatives in Brook. Mr. Lamson called on the school at Bogus Center Monday. Joseph Lane and family spent Sunday with their daughter, Mrs. Harvey Messmari and family. Little Norvelle Grimes is sick. Mrs. James Lane and daughters spent. Thanksgiving with Mrs. Guildenaoph. Ed Lane was out to his farm last Monday. Joseph Eickmond hauled wood to Rensselaer Tuesday. , Joseph Thomas was In Rensselaer Friday. j

If your stock of engraved calling cards is running low bring the plate to The Republican and have dupli cates made If you do pot have engraved cards order them today.

WIFE UNFAITHFUL, HUSBAND MURDERS

William McCoy Killed Wife and Paramour at Frankfort—horrible Crime After Discovery.

Frankfort, Dec. I.—One of the most horrifying double murders ever recorded in the criminal annals of Indiana was committed here at 6:30 o’clock this rporning. Norma McCoy and her paramour, John Byreley, are dead, William McCoy occupies a felon’s cell at the Clinton county jail, and Doris and Opal McCoy, the little children of Norma and William McCoy are left worse than orphans. This is the toll of a wife’s unfaithfulness, a friend’? deception and an outraged husband’s wrath. / Just at the break of a nefw day, £ - the Working people along Rossville avenue were busy getting ready to resume their daily toil, the stillness .of the air was broken by the sharp report of a shotgun, followed by the agonized scream of a woman and four mate reports of the gun. Hurried investigation made by the neighbors living near the home of William and Norma McCoy revealed the slaughter that had taken place in the street in front of their homes. On the south side of the. street John Byreley lay mortally wounded. Mrs. McCoy lay dead at the edge of the sidewalk, in the yard that surrounds the house, which a few minutes before she called home, and William McCoy, her (husband, stood over her prostrate foun with a smoking shotgun in his hands. Little Doris and Opal' McCoy, clad only in their nighties, stood shivering in the doorway of the McCoy home, calling alternately, “Papa! Mama!’’ neither realizing that the mother for whom they called would answer no more, nor that the father who hoard but did not answer, was a murderer. The scene was the most pathetic that ibas ever.been witnessed in all Clinton county. Knowing of his wife’s infatuation for Byreley, and believing that clandestine meetings were being held at his home during his absence, McCoy, in place of going to work, watched for developments at his humble home. He saw John Byreley, his one-time friend, and companion, come up the street and enter the yard of his home. McCoy went to the home of a neighbor, and borrowed a double-barrel six-teen-guage shotgun, on the pretense that he wanted to kill some cats. Jacobs gave his neighbor the gun and six shells, and he departed. When McCoy entered the house his wife and Byreley fled. He followed them and fired a charge at Byrel’ey, striking him in the back. The next charge struck him in the shoulder. Mrs. McCoy, seeing that her hubsand was firing at Byreley, ran between them to try to save him and received the third charge. It entered (her left shoulder. Byreley fell prostrate in the street. f ; Mrs. McCoy returned to her Own door yard and fell on her knees before her husband. She begfeed, “Ob, papa, please don’t shoot me,” but her plea fell on deaf earn McCoy reloaded the gun and placed the muzzle at his wife’s head and fired, blowing her brains out. He then crossed the street to where Byreley lay and seeing that he was still breathing placed the gun within a few inches of his face and fired. He then ran to his home and picking up bus children carried them into the house. McCoy went out of the house through the kitchen, picking up a bottle of carbolic acid that was on a shelf. He started to drink it as a neighbor knocked the bottle from his hands.

Byreley did not die at once but passed away later. McCoy was taken to jail. He talked about his crime, saying that (he had been informed by neighbors about Byreley’s attentions to his wife and that he had tried riot to believe their stories, but his wife had informed him that she loved Byreley and expected to leave with him. When he saw with his own eyes the things his neighbors had told him he became enraged and the deed followed. Byreley’s wife had left him because of his attentions to Mrs McCoy. Byreley had claimed to be a friend, of McCoy. The murderer informed the officers and reporters that he was glad he had killed the man who had darkened his home, but was sorry he had killed his wife. He said he had not intended to do so, > but was overcome with irage. Frankfort was never so wrought up over a crime as it is at this time. Why suffer catarrh and let it ruin your health and happiness. Simply breathe Hyomei. B. F. Fendig sells It on the “No-cure-mnpay” plan. Begin treatment now and get quiek and lasting relief.

MORE IMPORTS AND MUCH LESS REVENUE

War Tax Not Due to War But to Fact That Foreign Goods Enter Our Ports Free.

Washington, Dec. 2.—Charges that the war tax bill was unnecessary and that any deficit in revenue was not due to the war, but to the passage of the Underwood tariff bill practically have been verified in a report issued by Secretary Redfield, of the department of commerce.

The report shows that the imports for the United States for the ten months ending October 31, of his year, were more than $88,000,000 greater than for the same ten months of the preceding year, when there was no war.

The imports for the ten months ending October of this year were $1,548,531,394, compared with a total of $1,460,334,373 for the same period last year. For the month of October, this year, the imports were $138,080,530, compared with a total for the same month last year of $132,949,302, an increase for October this year of more than $5,000,000. These figures,, which, of course, are official, are regarded as a striking indictment of the efficacy of the Underwood tariff bill, the more so, because they are given out by a member of President Wilson’s cabinet

These figures, it was contended, prove conclusively that the cry of the democrats that the loss in revenue to this country was directly due to the war ejntirely were unfounded, and that - a lot of explaining will have to be done by democratic statesmen to prove or try to prove that anything outside of the administration’s new tariff bill was responsible for the slump. It was also declared that a tot of explaining also will be necessary to prove that in the face of increasing exports to this country the necessity of a war tax bill was apparent. The Underwood tariff bill went into effect on October 4 last year. The war has,-had a disastrous effect on our exports, however, for, according to the report for the 10 months ended with Oeober, they were more than $342,000,000 less than for the same period last year. Exports were more than $76,000,000 less in October this year, compared with October last year.

Trace of Foot and Mouth Disease Reported Again.

A Crown jpoint dispatch to the Hammond Times states that it was reported that the foot and mouth disease had broken out again afong the Kankakee river, this time among sheep grazing on the Brown ranches. It was also reported to have been found among the cows on John Kaiser's farm, north of Crown Point. Dr. Scott, a federal officer, assisted by Dr. Kannal, has been here since Tuesday morning for the purpose of disinfecting the premises where the malady existed. The Logan farm in Gilliam township was visited Tuesday and A thorough disinfection program instituted. The inspector received a supply of the material used for germ killing Tuesday. It came by express in $ five gallon milk can and judged this year were more than $88,000,000 it should be able to kill all the germs it touches and make those within a mile radius wonder what they were created for. Harve Moore is taking the doctors about,in his auto and today they are working in Newton county.

We want you to try our silver thread sauer kraut >lt is extra fine this year. JOHN EGER.

A Few Of Our Headliners ■ - - -—■ ■■ - - p For the Grate—Our Brite-Light Cannel. r For the Heating Stove—Our Ky. Belle Lump and Puritan White Ash. For the Range—Our Ky. Belle, Egg B. B. and Jackson Hill. . —. , '■"v'fr* " 1 ■ ll ‘T"* We carry a full staple line of hard and soft coal. All that we ash is one trial. Phone 7. Harrington Bros. .Co.

PROBATE MATTERS IN CIRCUIT COURT

Several Large Estates Mentioned, Including Inventories of Personal Properties.

Probate. George 0. Stembel Estate. The administratrix files her Inventory and appraisement showing total appraised value of personal property to be $19,129.00. Jerome Harmon Estate. The administrator, J. H. Chapman, files petition to settle said estate as insolvent. Joseph Downey Estate. Administrator files inventory showing value of personal estate to be sl,r 040.82.

Daniel T. O’Connor Estate. Della B. O’Connor is appointed administrator and gives bond in sum of SI,OOO, with C. B. Townsend surety. Samuel R. Nichols Estate. Jesse Nichols appointed administrator and gives bond of SI,OOO with John L. and Hettie Nichols sureties. Samuel McGuire Estate. Charles R. Peregrine, administrator, files inventory and appraisement showing nb personal property. Isaac N. Makeever Estate. tus M. Yeoman is appointed odmini istrator and gives bond in sum of $3,000, with G. A. Williams, W. H. Parkinson and D. S. Makeever as sureties. Gifford Estate. Executor presents deed for certain lots in -town j of Gifford to S. C. Irwin for sum of i $75 and court examines and approves same. ■ Lida M. Potts Estate. Alfred F. , Webber appointed administrator j and gives bond in sum of S2OO, with ‘ John H. Webber os surety, 0. H. Sternberg Estate. Edward G. Sternberg, executor, files inventory and appraisement showing value of personal property to be $15,905.15 and court orders executor to file a bond in sum of $32,000. Rebecca & John ®cott Estate. John Scott, Jr., administrator, flies | filial report and same is set for j hearing first day February term, 11915. I Emma L Beal Estate. W G. Beal, administrator and only heir of decedent, is assessed and charged inheritance tax In- sum of $33.50 and administrator Is directed to pay such sum over to the county treas- | urfer. William P. Baker Estate. The court determines total value of real estate and personal property to be $63,415.14, and that Marla Baker widow, is taxed on her share the sum of $111.38; Lawrence Baker, son, $191.38, and Vivian Boicourt, daughter, $191.38, (under Inheritance tax law and administrator ordered |to pay such sums to the county tr6ftsur6T Mabel Lock, guardian ofdJeitriek children, files petition to have money of said wards In hands of C. C. Warner, ex-clerk, ordered paid to her for such children and court orders money paid to her, i Charles W. Reed appointed guardian of Daisy, Lloyd, Charles, Frank, George and Gladys Cooper, minors, and gives bond in sum of $1,500, with John W. Marlatt as surety. ——— . »

Horseshoeing.

Prices reduced on shoeing as follows: Four new shoes $1.50, except sizes 6 arid 7, which will be 25 emits extra. FRED HEMPHILL, r- Cullen St. Blacksmith.

Don’t miss “Daddy-Long-Legs.”

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