Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1915 — Page 1

No 46.

TONIGHT AT THE PRINCESS “The Exploits of Elaine” The most amazing—most remarkable photo-play serial in the history of the'business. No serial ever produced begins to equal Elaine in any detail. In addition to the above will be shown the Ford manufacturing Go's, plant. This is the first and last opportunity to see the way a Ford is made from the start to the finish

No advance in prices. Postponed Sale of Household Furniture. The sale of household furniture of Arthur Herrick's which was to have taken place last Saturday, was postponed until Saturday, Feb. 27th. The sale wiffl be held in the street near the court house The sale will consist of several articles of household furniture. All kinds of feed,' baled hay and straw for sale by Hamilton & Kellner. A 25c size of absolutely pure tomato catsup, 15c per bottle. ROWLEB & PARKER^

Last Game! R. H. S. VS West Lafayette This is a team of 6-footers which we held to a 25-21 score on their own floor. This will be the best team appearing here this season; Basket Ball Buy tickets now, 15c Buy tickets at door,'2sc Feb. 24. Bp. m. High School Gym TONIGHT • Special At Princess Tonight i ' s' 100 feet film showing the manufacture of the Ford automobile. Additional reels will be run once each week for several weeks. No Extra Charge This is an educational feature that is worth seeing .

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Charles Shinkle Completes Ninety-Day Jail Sentence.

Charles Shinkle, of near Thayer, who confessed at Kentland last November to haviig assisted in robbing the Adams ranch near that place; was released from the Jasper coutny jail today after serving a 90-day sentence. Shinkle was made a trusty during most of his stay here and deported himself in a very commendable manner, i... It .was a full confession by Shinkle that involved “Hank” Granger and son, Roy, of Thayer, in the Adams ranch robbery. He states that the Grangers took him over tb the Adams ranch to act as a “look-out” while they entered the house and stole about SSOO worth of property, including rugs, silverware, etc. He say 9 that all the property he got was valued at about 45 cents. Shinkle says that at the time the act was committed, which was between the 20th and the 27th of last iMay, he waS intoxicated. He says that he Was not in the habit of getting under the influence of liquor, but that Granger had him doing some painting and paperhanging for him and that liquor was freely dispensed and that for about two weeks he was drunlk. During this time, he says, the Grangers induced him to assist in the robbery. He says that the property was first taken to Th’ayer and then shipped to Hammond and stored in the Golden storage house. On June 27th Shinkle was . arrested for the robbery and spent a day or .two in jail here before bond was arranged. He says that it was during the time he was in jail that the property was placed in storage in 'Hammond. He has also implicated ar married daughter of Granger, as aiding in the concealing of the property. It is understood that Adams, the owner of the ranch, who is a wealthy Chicago man, has stated that he will do all he can to send the Grangers to the penitentiary. Shinkle says that he is not afraid of the Grangtrs, although he has

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heard that they propose to “get him” and that they had offered S3OO for some one to kill him. He says that Hank has threatened to hang him up by the tongue. The Grangers are out on bail and their ease will probably come up at the next term of the Newton circuit court.

SOT’S DEATH NKEDS SOME INVESTIGATION

Son of Lou Watkins Said to Hava Died of Acuta Aloo holism —People Indignant. The 3-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Low Watkins, who live in Rabbit Town, died this morning and Dr. C. E. Johnson, the phyteician called to see the child, states that he believes the child’s death was caused by acute alcoholism. If this should prove true, the good people of this community should not rest until a thorough investigation is made and if it is proven that the father of the child or any other person gave the child whiskey and produced the condition that resulted fatally then the most vigorous prosecution should follow. The child is to be buried Friday morning and right at this time .when the hearts of the parents should be wrung with anguish it is unfortunate to have this story afloat, but it seems to be talked generally about town that the Wat kins family had a drunken Jamboree last Sunday, that this little boy was used to pfcss the bofitlie of whiskey about to Jhe father and other men in the house and that the child drank of the liquor in sufficient quantity to Cause its death a little more than two days later. It is said that Watkins has been In the habit of entertaining at affairs where liquor and brawls constituted the entertainment and on one occasion one of the Watkins men Was fined foT public intoxication. The writer on one occasion saw the father in a decidedly intoxicated condition in Company with one of his little children and has frequently heard that (Watkins had drank to excess and th'at conditions existing in his hbme have been far from what they should be. Prosecuting Attorney Sands has consulted Judge Hanley about the rumors and an indignant citizenship will back him up in an effort to bring to justice the guilty person who gave whskey to the littfte b'oy if that proves to be the cause of death. *

White County Checker Players Coining Friday.

Another checker match Will take place here Friday evening. The Monticello team is coming and it wifll be strengthened by John Smith and John Raub, two well known players from Chalmers. They hope to bring ten players, to meet an equal number here. The visitor's will include besides the two from Chalmers the following from MonticeUo: George Wigmore, Harry Pingree, Charles Sill, William Schroder, Chester Sprague, Dr. Gable, Frank McQuaig and J. M. Mcißeth. The players will arrive here on the 7:06 train and hope to get to plhying immediately, as they WiU return home on the midnight train. * The local team will include McFarland, Hill, Stevens, Thomas, MoJony, Potts and some >f the lesser lights.

iMr. and Mrs. J. C. G*wln left yesterday afternoon for Patterson, N. J, to visit their son, Blaine Gwin and wife. Dr. Curniek is stil'l confined at his home with sickness and Rev, Titus will conduct the revival service at the M. EL church again tonight. The teachers’ training class of the Christian Sunday school will be in charge of L. H. Hamilton. ... The Gifford schoqls are still closed on account of the sCarlet fever in that neighborhood. No nCw cases have developed but one of the children of Sheridan Logue is reported in a serious condition. Miss Pearl Horn, the teacher, left yesterday for her home at Idaville.

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HORSES RECOVERED; THIEF CONFESSES

Three Animals Stolen From O. H. Hillis, of Newton County—Th|sf Is In Jail Horn. “Caught with the goods;” That seems to express the case of Walter Miller, who was overhauled Monday morning within a few miles of Momence, 111., by George H. Hillis, a commissioner at Newton county and an extensive farmer and former trustee of Colfax township. Accompanying Mr. Hillis in pursuit of the stolen property were several neighbors in two automobiles. The stolen property consisted of a draft team, a driving mare, a bjjggy, two sets of single harness and one set of double harness. Miller was driving westward about four miles from Momence when Hillis and Iris volunteer posse overtook him. He mad no resistenCe, did not take advantage of his right to fight extradition but accompanied the officers to Kentland an'd after making a confession at a preliminary hearing was bound over to the circuit court ad sent to Rensselaer for keeping in the Jasper county jail. Miller talked freely with The Re publican editor at the jail this Wednesday morning. He said that he was guilty and that he realized he was up against it and that nothing could be done for him. The re porter told him that he represented a newspaper and that any questions he did not cae to answer he should refrain frbm doing so. He said, “Yes, I know that the newspapers want the news and I expect that my case wHI be published and I do not mind telling you the truth, except that I do not care to say where my home is or to go into details about myself.” He then said that he had worked last November for Mr. Hillis and that he know there were some good horses there. He said he planned to use the draft team to engage in the teaming business at Galesburg, 111., ahd that he intended to sell the driving mare to /buy a wagon/ He stated that he had all of his plans developed before he went to the neighborhood of the Hillis ranch on Sunday but that he did not undertake to make way with the horses until Monday night but kept in hiding owing to the bad weather. It was between 11 and 12 o’clock Monday night, he thinks, when he went to the stable and took the horses. He said he had pfianned to reach GaleCburg by Tuesday evening and that he wtoufd

not hove been caught except for a delay occasioned by the rain storm of Monday night. He thinks it was about 2 o’clock when the hardest rain occurred and the draft team ■would not lead behind the buggy and he tied them on either side if the driving mare. He estimates that he lost about two hours on account of the rain. This two hours, he thinks, would have permitted him to make good his escape; The reporter Was about to go when Miller said: “There Is one thing I would like to call your attention to and Mr. Hillis will confirm my statement. Next to the door out of which I took the horses stood the draft team. In the third stall was*a driving mare belonging to Russell Harmon, who works or Mr. Hillis. In the fourth stall was a driving mare belonging to Mr. Hillis. It was not quite so large and not quite so good as the Harmon mare. Mr. Hillis asked me why I~ skipped the Hannon driver and took his. I want to anSwer this clearly. Harmon Is a working man and could not afford to, lose his animal. I figured that it wouldn't hurt Hillis' and that is why I selected his driver Instead of the other." (Miller claims never to have been in trouble before. He is a man of about 32 years in age; fair complected and his hair on top Is quitte thin. He is about 5 feet 11 inches tad and quite slender! He talked cooly and did not seem to take his ] capture with much more seriousI ness than he would had he stolen j the property on purpose to get arrested. He weans a blue flannel

Come! Come! Come! i • .. : .. ‘ ... Y to Lyceum Entertainment Christian Church Thursday, Feb. 25,8:20p.m. A splendid musical entertainment that will interest every person

shirt and apparently is a laboring man. He is a man of Intelligence and has evidently seen considerable of the world When the reporter entered the Jail he was engaged in a game of “seven-up” with Howard, one of the Chicago men accused Of auto insurance frauds. Dunlap, the other insurance agent, Was reading a paper near the table. Their Case has been venued to Kentland. Howard says that the charges that have been made abotft him are false and that he 2nd Dunlap were the authorized agents of President Williams of the Motor Security Alliance. Since their arrest they have settled their board and room rent, they state; and there will be nO prosecutions there. These three are the only prisoners in the jail at the present time.

FITZ W. BEDFORD’S LONG LIFE ENDED

Bad Beta Resident of Jasper County Mac* 1867—Accident Nov. 6th v Hastened Bad. Fitzpatrick W. Bedford died this Wednesday morning at his home across the toad from the old stock farm, just east of Rensselaer, at 7:20 o’clock. On the morning of election day, last November stli, he fell while attending to some work at his bam and fractured one hip. He lay on the ground and was exposed for several hours before he was found and this fact probably had its influence in the result. However, at hla advanced age; is was not expected that he could last a great time and when a few days ago pneumonia set in it left no ray of hope for his recovery. His brother. Win 8. Bedford, of Osage City, Kans., who was with him for some time following the accident, and who went to Chicago recently to visit iris son, returned here Monday and with present when his brother died. Mr. Bedford was born in Columbus, Ohio, June 8, 1828, and lacked until next June 6th of being 87 years of age He moved to Lafayette when a young man and came from there to Jasper eourity In 1857, in Which year he Was married to Mrs. Elizabeth Warner, the mother of Norman and Marsh Warner. She died in 1886, since which time Mr. Bedford had continued to live on his (arm just east of town. He was an active man and prior to the time when the infirmities of age began to tell on him was a familiar figure in this city.. He loaves two brothers, Win S.

Butter! Butter! Butter! Gold Bar Butter is without an equal. The only butter sold in Rensselaer that is made of whole milk cream. The milk is hauled to our creamery at New Troy, Michigan, by the farmer, and separated at the creamery; the cream is then sent to ourfactoryat Chicago, and made into butter. This butter la la the pound prints within 24 hours from the time the milk is taken from the cow. Our prices this week in 5 pound lots 50c; under 5 pounds 32c. W. H. Dexter Go. ■ - ' •* ,\ r : : ■ . ■ • ■ t: • : fcjssi '

Ellis Theatre Wsdwdsjr and Thursday Feb. 24 and 25 Haris’s Big Vaudeville Review < All Star Acts • - ■ . Bernard Win ton, the Wizard of the Violin. Devoyle, Pianologue' in a elaas by herself. ‘ /. ------ (Harris and Helena, in a comedy skit—A Study in Photography, * Irwin W. Nagle, the Surprise Novelty—From White to Black. LaMont—Featuring the New York Fire Department, Special feature The Great Kyrogo, ‘The Man of Strange Powers.” Mystic and mind reading act. Ask him anything. He tells you aIL Beads your palm from the stage. Ask Kyrogo. . Complete change of program nightly Performance starts at 8:1* p. m. ASMXSfIXON 10c and 80s Bedford, of Osage City, Kans, and Daniel Bedford, of Bridgeport, 111. Also two slaters, Mrs. Mary Jane Cole, of the State Soldiers Home at Lafayette, and Mrs. Julia Warner, widow of Jack Warner, until recently a resident of this city but now living in Remington., The funeral arrangements have not been completed, awaiting plans by the Odd Fellows lodge, of which he has been a member for almost fifty 'fCara. . Tonight at Presbyterian Church. Because the slides did not arrive until Monday, it Was impossible to glvt the stereopticon sermon on Presbyterian colleges last Sunday evening, but this sermon will be given with the slides this evening at 7:30. Everyone welcome Admission free. No collection. We handle the famous John. Deere line of farm machinery. HAMILTON A KELLNER. Advance Endgate seeders are sold by Hamilton A Kellner.

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