Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1915 — Page 1

No. 56.

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HAS TAKEN STAND FOR CHRISTIAN LIFE

Lost Wife and Child in Iroquois Fire and Then Went Wrong—Will Now Try to Reform. Valparaiso Vidette. Judge Harry Phillips, who lost his wife and children in the Iroquois theatre fire many years ago, which wAs the cause of his downfall, stepped into a new life at the Christian church last night by making the confession at the Hill-Hackleman meetings. Every night except one, since the services began, he has been present. His emtion last night gave proof of his sincerity. Judge Phillips is known to many attorneys in Chicago who have gained high standing. Before the days of the holocaust he was one among them and the future looked bright. Then, came the terrible shock of his life and he went forth to drown Ips sorrow. He has been in jail on various charges, •hut his friends always came to his relief. At many of the homes in Valparaiso he has done odd jobs _ and made himself almost indispensible. HiR greatest friend has been an old dog that stuck to him through thick and thin. It is not often that he harks back to the dark days of the disaster. The judge has declared he is in the fight to win over his greatest enemy, strong drink, and-the people of the church are determined to support him at every opportunity.

Methodist Church Notes.

/ There were 266 at the Methodist Sunday school Sunday mornidg. ' Dr. Curnick baptized 24 and took 35 into the church Sunday morning. The Ladies’ Industrial Society will hold a social at the ehurch Tuesday afternoon. The Brotherhood will give a gettogether social Thursday night c

The Evening Republican.

LIBERTY “ALMOST” FOR HORSE THIEF

Walter Miller Recaptured (by Sheriff McColly at 2:30 a. m. Sunday When Near Freedom. To the light sleeping of Mrs. McColly, wife of County Sheriff Ben D. McColly, belongs • the credit for detecting the effort of Walter Miller, self-confessed horse thief, to secure his freedom from the Jasper county jail Saturday night or rather early Sunday morning. Miller is again in a cell and his liberties will be cut to the minimum. He is the man who stole three horses, a buggy and some harness from County Commissioner G. H. Hillis, of Newton county, two weeks ago. As recounted at the time Mr. Hilils, aided by Sheriff Hess and a posse of Newton county, overhauled the thief near Momence and after a preliminary hearing at Kentland, he was brought here for safekeeping. Miller made confession to the authorities and also to the newspaper reporters. His complacency while relating his plans to steal the horses seemed altogether too easy for a beginner and it was the conviction of some who talked with him that he was a smooth criminal. His bold effort to escape adds to that belief.

Miller occupied one of the chain of cells in the jail. The other occupants are Dunlap and Howard, the automobile insurance men.' Saturday night Sheriff McColly pushed an iron bar in place to fasten the door at the end of the cells but did not draw and lock the center bar. Miller used a piece of broken broom handle, which he notched at one end, to work the bar across the door back so that it would not catch. Painters had been working in the jail that day and had left a stepladder in the room where the prisoners are kept and where the cells are located. Miller climbed to the top of the cells and used a plank about 5 feet long, 2 inches thick and 8 inchta wide to pull a section of the metal ceiling loose. When he had a hole large enough to pass through he put the stepladder under the hole, got his overcoat, cap and three blankets and passed them up into the attic and then climbed up there himself. Evidently he expected to break through the roof and by using the blankets for a rope, lower himself to the ground. At the north end of the attic a small door enters into the bathroom which is at the top of the stairs in the residence part of the jail. A light was burning in the hail and it is thought Miller saw a ray of light through the small door. At any rate instead of going through the roof he tried to open the door into the bathroom. The door fastens with two small clasps on the bathroom side. Miller succeeded in getting one of these open and was trying to open the other when Mrs. McColly heard the noise. She awakened her husband and he hopped frpm his bed with a revolver in his hand. He turned on a light and asked what was going on. Miller was afraid he would be shot and lost no time in explaining who he was and that he was

trying to escape. “Don’t move or I’ll kill you,” was the sheriff’s reply. Miller assured Ben that he would not move and he didn’t The sheriff had his son, Harry, get a pair of handcuffs and opened the door and had Miller come out He placed the cuffs on him and took him back to his cell, taking the precaution to see that he was locked in tight Miller was covered with dirt and cobwebs from climbing about the attic and he told of his plans to escape with the same bravado that had characterized his confession. He will be watched the remainder of the time he is in the jail. He is a Newton county prisoner and his trial will probably come up at Kentland next week. His attempt to escape will probably influence his sentence. Sheriff McColly expects to furnish a description of the man to

the Chicago police and believes he i? apt to be identified with other crimes and also thinks he has probably done time in the penitentiary before. Had he carried out the plan of getting through the roof it is probable that he would have made his escape. It Was about 2:30 in the morning when discovered and his absence would not have been discovered until tn the morning and he would doubtless have left t°wn on the early morning train for the north. Neither Dunlap nor Howard made any effort to escape. Neither did they make any effort to arouse the sheriff and warn him about the plans of Miller.

There will be a box social at the James school house, south of town, Friday night, March 12. Everyone invited. for The Republican.

Box Social.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, MONDAY, MARCH I, 1115.

GENERAL NEWS IN SHORT PARAGRAPHS

Busy Readers Can Thus Keep Abreast of the Times and Not Waste Much of Their Time. $3.50 Limit on Girl’s Dresses. The girls of the senior class of the Columbus high school have decided to wear uniform graduating dresses to cost no more than $3.50 each.

Lake County Harbor for Drugs.

Federal detectives are watching Hammond and Gary closely in an effort to locate where various kinds of dope is being kept. A gigantic corporation is supposed to be back of it.

Sunday Scorns Paris.

Billy Sunday, the evangelist, has received and rejected a call to “save” Paris. “There is hell enough in the United States to occupy my time," is his explanation of his refusal of the call.

U. S. to Use War Lessons.

All the latest lessons of the war in Europe will be observed in planning the two new dreadnoughts, costing about $15,000,000 each, just authorized by the 1916 naval appropriation bill.

$285 Dog Slain in Fight.

Dr. Roy Thompson, of Kokomo, is mourning the loss of a bulldog for which he paid $285, the animal perishing in a fight with a bird dog. The bulldog got hold of his opponent and literally smothered himself to death.

Mine Roof Collapses.

Three men were killed in the Ayrshire mines near Petersburg Sunday when a quarter of an acre of the mine roof collapsed without warning. If the accident had started any day except Sunday it is probable that scores of lives would have been lost. >

Berlin a Potato Patch.

All the available land in Berlin is being turned into truck patches, for the immediate raising of vegetables. All available truck farmers and agricultural experts will be enlisted to lelp in the work. The women also will help in the work of feeding the army.

29th to Panama.

To guard still further the safety of the Panama canal and as a step toward building up the force that is permanently to protect the zone, the president has ordered the 29th regiment of U. S. infantry to duty in the strip through which the inter—oceanic canal passes.

State Building to Be Dedicated.

The Indiana state building at the Panama-Pacific exposition will be dedicated Tuesday. The principal address will be given by Charles W. Fairbanks. The ceremony will probably attract a large crowd since the speaker is a former vice-president

U. S. Rubber for Army.

One and one-half million dollars’ worth of rubber boots, warm lined rubbers and wool boots have been shipped to England and France this winter for use of soldiers and sailors by the U. S. Rubber company and associated companies, according to its twenty-third annual report, given out in New York city Friday.

Unprecedented Case.

An Elkhart physician reports an unprecedented case in local annals of medicine —the birth of a child with its brain on the outside of the skull and covered only with a thin membrane. The child is alive and apparently doing nicely. An operation will be performed in the near future whereby the skull will be opened and the brain put in its proper place.

Vote Fraud Cases Open Today.

Donn M. Roberts and twenty-seven other leading officials of Terre Haute will be placed on trial at Indianapolis today. These 28 men who are to face trial are part of the 116 who were caught in the federal net under election frauds. The balance of the 116 pleaded guilty to the charges and their trials will be held last. A. O. Stanley will be counsel for Roberts. This is the first time the government has ever stepped in to prosecute in election frauds.

I. O. O. F.

All members requested to be present Thursday, March 11, 1915. Work in the initiatory degree and refreshments. Sojourning members always welcome. —J. W. Mann, N. G. The Women’s Home and Foreign Missionary Societies of the Presbyterian church will meet Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 with Mrs. Walter -V. Porter. All members of the society and the drarch are asked to be present. Subscribe for The Republican.

NEWLAND IS AGAIN TO HAVE BIG BOOM

One Hundred Families to Come to Jasper County and Many New Houses Will Be Built. Ed Oliver brought four men from Chicago Sunday and sold each a tract of land at Newland. In all there have been 103 purchasers so far this winter, thirty-three at Newland and seventy at the Springer ranch near Kniman. Every buyer will come or send some one to truck the land this summer and fifty or more, Mr. Oliver thinks more, will erect new houses. Most of the houses will be cheaply constructed, four room buildings, being erected with a view to housing the owners through the trucking season. All of the buyers in Newland are of native birth, but practically all who have purchased on the Springer ranch are foreigners, Roumanians, Belgians and Polanders. They are a class of hard working and ambitious foreigners, who have saved money while working in the city and who will make good citizens and will do much toward building up the almost wasted lands of the springer ranch. Mr. Oliver says that if weather conditions are favorable there will be 500 acres of onions put out at Newland within the next five weeks and there will be a lot more put out on the Springer .ranch. Some of the newcomers will put out other vegetables, having had experience as gardeners.

The housebuilding will begin at about the time the onions are planted. Some of the purchasers have arranged to have one head carpenter to come down and assist them in building their own homes. There will be a great hum of industry from all appearances. Most of those who were at Newland last year will return, in fact, every land owner, according to Mr. Oliver, will again be on the job. Most of the renters will also be there again and a number of new renters. They are coming in now every day and getting shaped up for the spring. The plans for a canning factory have not materialized, having been considered too late to have a factory installed this year. Several owners of canning factories, however, have been consulted and Mr. Oliver believes it will be better to have a branch factory there instead of starting a new factory that will have to build up its business. There are so many canning factories that the marketing of the product is an important feature. To realize fully from the truck lands that have been opened up a canning factory Is almost an essential and Mr. Oliver will doubtless have one far by another year. The land selling has by no means stopped for this year. Mr. Oliver expects to have many more purchasers and will, bring them down in bunches from now until the middle of April, when the selling activity will probably ease up until next fall. The work of Mr. Oliver in the development of the Newland and Laura sections of the county is the most important work since Benjamin Gifford began to buy and drain the large acreage of waste lands. Mr. Oliver is a young man, full of spirit and hustle, and he has accomplished by these sales a thing that hardly a man in a million could have 'done. He is today the greatest booster in Jasper county and should be given the encouragement of all who are interested in having Jas-

EASTER *■ SUNDA APRIL 4TH 1916

BURLESON REBUKED FOR EVADING LAW

Congress Provided That Demoted Carriers Be Restored to Full Pay— P.-G. in Bad. Congress in its last moments officially rebuked Postmaster General Burleson for his action in demoting a number of letter carriers in Chicago and other cities without authority of law. The postmaster general also was rebuked for his effort to evade the law governing the pay of rural free delivery carriers by issuing regulations which would have prevented many of them from drawing the salary provided by congress for their routes. When it became apparent that the conference report on the postoffice appropriation bill could not be adopted in the senate because of the filibuster on the Indian bill, a joint resolution appropriating an amount equal to that for the current year’s expenses of the postoffice department was prepared and rushed through. This resolution specifically provides that carriers who have been reduced by reason of the recent orders of the postmaster general shall be restored to their legal standing. It also provides that the postmaster general shall pay to rural carriers the amounts legally fixed for their routes according to the length of the particular routes involved.

Bargains in New and Second Hand Pianos.

In order to make room by March 15th for my stock of pianos now at Laporte, I will give some big bargains in slightly used and second hand pianos. These pianos are almost as good as new and will be sold at a bargain. Open evenings until 9 o’clock. H. R. LANGE & SON, Van Rensselaer Street, north of Rowles & Parker’s.

Monticello Wants Ten Men In Next Checker Contest.

The Monticello Journal in reporting the checker game of last Friday evening issues a challenge for a third and deciding game and wants it played with ten men. Rensselaer’s second five will have to polish up if the game is played with that many on a side. <

Christian Church Notes.

The services yesterday were very largely attended. The Bible* school keeps well over the two hundred mark and the men's class had the splendid attendance of 48. There were four immersions at the church yesterday afternoon. The pastor preached to a capacity audience in the Presbyterian church Sunday evening. The Worker’s Council will meet at the church this Monday evening at 7:30. Every member please come. The official board will meet on Tuesday evening of this week. Every officer please be there. See those fine Munsing union suits. They certainly do fit swell, and wear well. C. EARL DUVALL.

per county grow. When the marketing opportunities are opened to the muck soil, country as they will be with the extension of the Gifford branch of the Monon the section that is to present so much activity this spring will be the most important adjacent to Chicago.

P VERYONE likes to be suitably attired on lister C Sunday. They like to get into new duds and sally forth in fine raiment because it’s Easter, the day of days for good clothes, and because it’s Spring, the time of the year when the desire comes to throw off the old clothes worn during winter and be arrayed in keeping with the trees, the grass and the flowers. I am this Spring, more than ever, able to take care of your wants. .. TARTAN CHECKS, Plaids, all the latest shades in cassimeres, worsteds and serges* and the Largest line of plain and fancy blue serges ever shown Prices fom Fifteen Dollars to Fifty Fit, workmanship, and absolute satisfaction assured. We are now taking advance orders—we’ll have them shipped when wanted. . H. B. TUTfeUR-

BOOZE FIGURED IN FIGHT AT MONON

Smoke Shop Scene of Belligerent Af* fairs Friday and Saturday Nights of Last Week. Two fights occurred in Monon last week, both at the Smoke Shop. According to reports reaching this city booze figured in both mix-ups and blood was spilled on the cigar store floor. The first occurred on Friday night when a man named A. I- Ogden, who was reported to be under the influence of liquor, forced his attentions on George Whitlow, who warned him a time or two to leave him alone. Finally, when the warnings failed, he knocked Ogden down and there was lively doings for a time. Finally Ogden left, it is said, with the boast that he would return with a gun, but he didn’t get back or if he did he kept the shooter in his pocket. On Saturday night the Smoke Shop was the scene of another mix-up, this one of a four-cornered nature. A dance as well as some booze seemed to furnish the inspiration and the principals were John Seymour and brother on one side and Perry Winkley and a man named Fullmer on the other. Possibly there were a few others in the fracas for it is said to have had the appearance of a free-for-all for a little time. John Seymour is said to have knocked Winkley down and then Fullmer, who lives at the Winkley home, took a hand and then the other Seymour sailed in. A show case at the Smoke Shop went down for the count. No arrests had been made up to Monday noon.

Widow of Elias Hammerton To Receive $l2 Pension.

Attorney Edward P. Honon insti- • gated special legislation thorugh Senator. B. F. Shively and secured for Mrs. Elias Hammerton a pension of sl2 per month. He received a telegram today from Senator Shively that President Wilson had signed the bill. Mrs. Hammerton’s first husband was John L. Sullivan and after his death she married a man named Stanley from whom she procured a divorce. In December, 1907, she married Elias Hammerton, who died some time ago. Mrs. Hammerton badly needed the pension, as she had been v to some extent dependent on charity.

St. Joe .Defeated Holy Name Team at South Bend.

St Joe Varsity went to South Bend Friday night and again defeated the basketball team of the Holy Name Society. South Bend managed during the first half to keep right behind their opponents, evidently St. Joe being just warmed up, for when they started they -ran away from the South Bend quintette and the game ended 33 to 19 in favor of St. Joe. Marbles, Marbles and Marbles. We will give FREE with every boys’ suit sold one nice bag of marbles. Duvall’s Quality Shop. C. EARL DUVALL.

THE WEATHER.

Fair, somewhat colder tonight. Tuesday fair.

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