Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 190, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1915 — Page 1

No. 190.

AT THE Gayety Tonight The Celebrated H. L. Walton & Co. This Chinese novelty stunt will be pulled off at the Gayety this eve, rain or shine. The little lady who done the dancing on the Brussels rug shoeless and hoseless induced the few who attended the Gayety last night to sit back and take notice. They will appear again tonight. No vulgarity.

If you have forgotten the market for charity the past three Saturday’s, please remember your contribution is needed. Bring something to Warner Bros, hardware store next Saturday between 9 a. m. and 3 p. m. to help along this worthy cause. Cash or anything; good to eat are solicited. This is the fourth and last market. The Republican was in error in saying that Mrs. Mary D. Eger was caring for her grandchildren, while their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Van Grant, were enjoying a vacation in Chicago. Mrs. Eger is herself on a visiting trip to Grand Rapids, Mich., and the Grant children are being cared for by their paternal grandmother, Mrs. Mattie Grant.

See the Columbia’s $2.00 bargains, pumps, for your inspection, and only $2.00 for your choice, at the Columbia. - George E. MoColly, brother of Sheriff MoColly and the other members of that family in this county, had the misfortuhe to suffer a fractured leg near Lamar, Mo., recently. Word from there indicates that he is getting along very nicely. His sister, Mrs. Payne, sent him The Semi-Week-ly Republican to keep him posted on Rensselaer and vicinity during his confinement at home. A window full of ladies’ oxfords and before buying your next pair of oxfords. You’ll save money. Columbia Shoe Store. W. S. Parks returned Monday from Kosciusco county, where he spent several days with his aged father, Thomas Parks. Although his father is 86 years of age he is enjoying very good h'ealth. On his way home Mr. Parks stopped at Longcliff to see how Harvey Casto was getting along and found that he is very poorly and his death seems a matter of a very short time. His brother, Dennis Casto, will go there today to see him. In an automobile collision Friday night Judge T. F. Palmer and Frank Hodshire and their machines escaped without injury. Both were on Broadmay street but going in opposite directions. They met at the Monon crossing and each attempted to turn south on Railroad street thinking the other was going straight ahead. They were driving slow and had their cars under control, which nrobably accounts for the fact that nothing serious happened.—Monticello Herald.

Sunday Evening Concert Program. March, Religious. Calvary. Gospel Hymns. Nature’s Adoration. iSermon by Rev. Green. Jeruselem, the Golden. (Sweet Remembrance. Home, Sweet Home. Recommends Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. “I bever hesitate to recommend Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy,” writes Sol Williams, merchant, Jesse, Tenn. “I sell mote of it than of any other preparations of like character. I have used it myself and found it gave me more relief than anything else I have ever tried for the same purpose.” For sale by all dealers. C

If it’s Electrical let Leo Mecklenburg do it. Phone 621

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State Board of Tax Commissioners Confirm Jasper Tax Assessments.

Information received Wednesdy by County Auditor Hammond from the auditor of the state of Indiana confirms the assessment of real and personal property in Jasper county as returned by the assessors in the various townships and modified by the county board of review. The total land assessment for 1915 was $9,149,215, as against $6,942,540 for 1911. Personal property assessment for 1915 was $3,106,875, as against $2,800,570 for 1914. Total taxables, land and personal property, for 1915 were $14,283,660, as against $11,798,485 for 1914. The slight increase in personal property is probably due to the failure of crops aiid the foot and mouth disease the last year.

Western Freight Rate Case Decided On Wednesday.

The interstate commerce commission at Washington Wednesday gave its decision in the western freight case, allowing advances in bituminout coal, coke, fruit and vegetables, and denying increases in grain, live stock, packing house products, fertilizers and broomcorn. The decision allows some of the increases asked and denies almost an equal number.

At the Gayety Tonight.

The H. L. Walton Chinese novelty act which will be pulled off at the Gayety tonight, rain or shine, is one of the most baffling stunts that the writer has been privileged to view in this territory and we would eruess that it would require one reasonably well posted to comprehend it. The Chinaman »tier impersonating the roosters, hogs, etc., incidentally meets a beautiful young lady who is 22 years of age with auburn hair and induces her to smoke opium and dance on the brussels rug with bare feet. In fact, as near nude as possible for a woman to get and wear anything. Her superior ability to dance in this condition seems to get his goat when he decides to induce her speedy demise and commit suicide. This stunt is absolutely exempt from vulgarity and highly educational

Onion Market Will Be Good.

AU indications point to a good price for cn : ons this fall, due in the main, to a short crop. Conditions have been unusually bad for the entire crop over the entire belt this year. High winds, floods, excessive moisture and cool weather have reduced the crop to probably one-hal for less. The Starke county onion crop has come out of the turmoil of the unusual year, so far, even better than that of her neighbors. The big Scioto marsh in Ohio lost about 2,000 acres early in the year on accoutn of high winds. The Newland marsh lost 1,000 acres (because of flood conditions. Up to two weeks ago the Starke county crop was 100 per cent perfect with a large acreage. The excessive rainfall, the blistering hot, then the shivering cold weather wrought much damage. An onion will stand a lot of abuse and still be an onion. Buyers are becoming anxious, and this is regarded as a good sign by the growers. When an onion buyer walks the streets with a ten cent sigar stuck in his face at an angle of 45 degrees and can’t tell an onion field from a watermelon patch, it is a pretty sure sign that some growers "will sell their product at 20 cents a bushel before the season ends, but when the onion-hungry purchasers limit their smokes to a Missouir meerchaum, haunt the highways with an appealing look in their eyes and climb on top of a six wire fence to say ‘‘good morning” to a man over in the other forty it may be regarded as an almost infallible sign that somebody is going to sell out his onion crop around one dollar a bushel. Unless crop reports are sadly at fault the man with some good onions to sell should be able to exchange them for the coin of the realm at about a dollar per.

And still the rain continues. Most of Tuesday night and Wednesday and most of Wednesday night and today. Thrashing has been suspended and there are still thousands of bushels of grain uncut. Misses Geneva and Ethel Hopkins returned to their home at North Manchester today after a visit of two weeks with their sister, Mrs. G. B. Lewis. Their nephews, James and Albert Lewis, accompanied them home. Miss Rachel Stuart left this morning for her home at McComb, Miss., after a visit of seven weeks with Toward Stuart and family at Remington. The Knox militia company will be mustered in next Thursday evening, Aug. 19th. g* For a Sprained Ankle. If you will get a bottle of Chamberlain's Liniment and observe the directions given therewith faithfully, you will recover in much less time than is usually required. For sale by all dealers. ■ C

RENSSELAER, INDIANA. THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 1915.

REPUBLICANS OF LAKE COUNTY TO HOLD PICNIC

Harrison Club Will Give Great Event At Cedar Lake Saturday—Many To Gather There. All Lake county will turn out Saturday when the Harrison Club, of Gary, will give its big picnic at Cedar Lake. Not only will Lake county bt well represented but republicans from all over the state will gather there to participate in the big event and the candidates for governor, senator and other offices will be present. It will be the big early movement of the republicans in this part of Indiana. To give entertainment to the occasion a number of athletic events have been planned. -There will be two wrestling matches, a soft ball game, fat men’s race, men’s race, boys’ race, standing and running broad jumps, shot put. hammer throw, etc. The committee had first planned to sell 1,000 tickets, but the demand became so great, says The Gary Tribune that 1,000 more tickets were authorized Tuesday and apparently all will be sold. Hon. James R. Mann, of Illinois, is the speaker of the day. The date set for the picnic is Saturday of this week, Aug. 14th, and it is probable a number of politicians from this county will attend.

Large Shipment of Gold to This County In Battleship.

A special train carrying $52,000,000 worth of gold and securities which had been shipped by the Bank of England from London by way of Halifax and Novo Scotia to New York arrived Wednesday. Of the total shipment, $35,000,000 was in gold and weighed about 75 tons. It is said to be the largest shipment of gold ever sent across the Atlantic in one vessel. The British battleship which carried the money was conveyed cut of the war zone by a cruiser and a flotilla of torpedo boat destroyers. The cost of transferring the money from London to New York is estimated at $250,000.

United States Rejects Austrian Munition Argument.

The American note rejecting the contention of the Austro-Hungarian government that the action of the United States in permitting the exportation of munitions of war to enemies of the German allies “is not in consonance with the definition of neutrality,” was sent to Vienna Wednesday. The communication is in reply to the Austro-Hungarian note of July ,29th. In the case of the vessel William P. Frye, which was sunk some time ago by a German submarine, the German and U. S. governments have come to a partial agreement. This government has agreed to accept payment for the vessel but still holds to the point that the sinking of the ship was a violation of the PrussianAmerican treaty of 1828.

SALTS IF BACKACHY AND KIDNEYS HURT

Stop Eating Meat For a While If Your Bladder is Troubling You. When you wake up with backache and dull misery in the kidney region it generally means you have been eating too much meat, says a wellknown authority. Meat forms uric acid which overworks the kidneys in their effort to filter it from the blood and they become sort of paralyzed and loggy. When your kidneys get sluggish and clog you must relieve them, like you relieve your bowels, removing all the body’s urinous waste, else you have backache, sick headache, dizzy spells, your stomach sours, tongue is coated, and when the weather is bad you have rheumatic twinges. The urine is cloudy, full of sediment, channels often get sore, water scalds and you are obliged to seek relief two or three times during the night. Either consult a good, reliable physician at once or get from your pharmacist about four ounces of Jad Salts. Take a-tablespoonful in a glass of water before breakfast for a few days and your kidneys will then act fine. This famous salts is made from the acid of grapes and lemon juice, combined with lithi'i, and has been used for generations to clean and stimulate sluggist kidneys, also to neutralize acids in the urine so it no longer irritates, thus ending bladder weakness. Jad Salts is a life saver for regular meat eaters. It is inexpensive, cannot injure and makes a delightful, effervescent lithia-water drink.

Notice to Masons. There will be a special meeting of the Masons for third degree work tonight—H. W. Wood, Jr., Secretary.

WEATHER FORECAST. Fair ton’ght and Friday; warmer Friday. j". ■;"

CHALMERS MAN ENDS AN EVENTFUL LIFE

James Shigley, Once Prosperous Farmer, Found Dead Beneath Handcar Shed Wednesday. Had Dissipated Riches Left Much Fine Land He Had Squandered a Great Deal at Cards and In Other Ways—Wife Died Three Years Ago—Occasionally Visited In This City—Was Popular and Had Host of Friends—Left Some Money and Insurance.

James E. Shigley, jovial and a good fellow but for many years a gambler and addicted to the use of liquor, ended his life Tuesday night at Chalmers and a section hand found his dead body early Wednesday morning beneath the floor of the handcar house, where he had apparently crawled after taking chloroform. He was a son of Noah Shigley and his father left land valued at SIOO,000. Jim was a worker and a good farmer but he formed the gambling habit and for many years spent much time in Lafayette gaming houses, where he played poker and faro bank. It was said that he frequently would take from SSOO to SI,OOO with him to the gambling houses and that often times he made big winnings, but he met the inevitable fortune of the gambler and gradually his share of his father’s estate slipped away from him. Some two or three weeks ago Mr. Shigley passed through Rensselaer on his way to North Dakota, where it was understood he expected to make his residence. Hfe returned, however, the first of this week and was in Lafaytte Tuesday, going to Chalmers that Hight The Lafayette Journal, in telling of the death, says that it was caused by heart failure, but in Monticello it was understood to suicide. His wife, whose maiden name was Millie Giles, died three years ago and Jim is said to have been dissipated much since that time. He is survived by two sisters, namely, Mrs. Joseph Montgomery, of Idaville; Mrs. Samuel Scouden, of Buck Creek; also two brothers, Charley and Noah, and four children, Rollie and Leah, of Chalmers; Jewell, of Indianapolis, and Cyrl, of Delphi. iFor many years the Shigley family owned forty acres of land in Jasper county, lying along the river north of Rensselaer. They sold it after the death of their father, a few years ago. On Shigley’s person was found a bank book showing that he had SI,OOO on deposit in a nlndianapolis bank. Notes found on his person aggregated about $2,000, and he carried $3,0Q0 life insurance. -

Rev. H. L. Kindig Recovering From Rheumatic Trouble.

Monticello Herald: Rev. H. L. Kindig, pastor of the M. E. church, is making a remarkable recovery from his recent surgical operation. He has been discharged from the hospital and is staying at the home of his brother in Chicago until permitted to come home. His progress has been so rapid that he is hoping to return home this week, with the assurance that he will be free from his rheumatic trouble, renewed in health and better fitted for active work than he has been for years. How soon he will resume work depends upon the advice of his doctors, but there will be no preaching service next Sunday morning, that being the last Sunday of the Battle Ground camp meeting.

French and British Rout Turks in Dardanelles.

While the Russians are fighting desperately to extricate themselves from the cordon of Austro-German troops, which is steadily pushing them more closely in Poland, their allies are working mith considerable success to open the Dardanelles, through which they hope to pour into Russia much needed supplies and ammunition. British troops, assisted by French battleships, have routed the Turks, but the victory has not yet been determined decisive. German submarines have renewed their activity and in the last three days have sunk 18 vessels, ten of which were British trawlers and four of which belonged to neutral countries.

Despondency Due to Indigestion. “About three months ago when I was suffemig from indigestion which caused headache and dizzy spells and made me feel tired and despondent, I began taking Chamberlain’s Tablets,” writes Mrs. Geo. Hon, Macedon, N. Y. “This medicine proved to be the very thing I needed, as one day’s treatinent relieved me greatly. I used two bottles of Chamberlain’s Tablets and they rid me of this trouble.” For sale by all dealers. C

DOG DAYS BRING MANY DANGERS

Suggestions That Should Be Followed By Everyone In Dealing With Svspected Dogs. Dog days are approaching. As is the case every summer during this period the police are called on many times to kill “mad dogs.” Danger attending the presence of dogs increases during the months of August and September. While very few dogs that bite people are affected with hydrophobia, you should take no chances, but call in a doctor. Not every bite from a dog suffering from hydrophobia is fatal, or dangerous, because in biting through the clothing the poison in the saliva on his teeth may have 'been wiped off on the cloth. While this is comforting to know, take no chances, but call a doctor and he will cauterize the wound. This is the first thing to do, and the first thing the doctor does. If a physician is not available the victim or some friend can cauterize the wound with a hot poker or curling iron. This should not be done by an amateur unless absolutely necessary. A dog suffering from rabies acts entirely dicerent from his natural self. His disposition is entirely changed. He may have been an affectionate creature, but when affedted with the rabies will run about and bite those he loved best He acts sulky, suspicious, snappish and later as the attack has grown he goes into a corner and lies curled up, with blood shot eyes rolling, mouth frothy, tongue hanging and finally becomes more or less paralyzed. Do not go near such a dog even then, as he is liable to fits of slight recovery and may reach out and bite. Dog bites on the hand are dangerous, while the bites on the face are of great danger, because of the great blood supply there. Hydrophobia is so frequently fatal when developed and the sufferings are so terrible that no chances should be taken. Call a doctor. It is important to prove whether the dog is really suffering with rabies. There are two ways. One is to keep the dog alive under observance, the other is to kill the dog and send his head packed in ice to Indianapolis, where a diagnosis can 'be made. Never allow a dog that has bitten you to escape or be killed and lost sight of. Of course, if it is found the dog is suffering from rabies the victim should begin at once taking treatment.

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MEXICAN SITUATION AGAIN VERY GRAVE

Carranza Defiant and Declares U. S. and Other Countries Must Leave Him Alone. Governor Ferguson Acts Border Threatened By Raiders and Texans Rest Under Arms While Governor Dispatches Message to President Asking For More Federal Troops—Can Condition Last Much Longer Is Question Many Are Asking.

The Mexican situation seems liable to come to a head almost any day. Peace efforts of the United States and the A. B. C. countries of South America seem to have failed completely although Secretary Lansing holds out hope that the Mexican bandit leaders will accept the plea for a conference “far from the road of cannon.” Carranza is defiant and says he will brook no interference in the internal affairs of Mexico and ursres that his chances of success in arms is the only hope of Mexico. Villa is reported to be half-willing for the conference but it is doubtful if he is sincere and even if he was it is doubtful if he could bring his war-maddened followers to accept any terms of peace not dominated by arms of a nation strong enough to enforce order. The Mexican disturbance in Vera 1 Cruz, which caused the United States to dispatch battleships there, has spread to north Mexico and for 200 miles along the border a grave condition exists and hundreds of Texans have armed themselves to repel a threatened invasion. Governor Ferguson, of Texas, has telegraphed President Wilson for additional troops for border duty. Ignorant classes in Mexico are said to have a wild scheme of turning all or part of Mexico back under Mexican control. Animosity toward the United States is intense and there is about as much chance, it would seem, of bringing the factions to a realization of their true condition with a view to adopting a peace plan, as it would to get a lamb and a lion to bunk together in peace. v An American trooper was murdered Tuesday night and Americans who pursued the gang of murderers captured a flag which bore the inscription: “Army of liberation for Mexicans in Texas.” It has been found out by General Funston, who is in command of the U. S. troops there that over 3,000 Mexicans have banded themselves together to kill all males in the United States over 16 years of age. In the meantime the United States is without representation in Mexico City, where its interests had been guarded for some time by the Brazilian minister, who was deported by Carranza. Appeals are being made for someone to come to Mexico City to give protection to Americans and other foreigners there. It is reported that 1,700 Carranza soldiers have crossed the border into the United States and are engaged in ravages and are determined to avenge the fact that Carranza was not recognized as the legal head of Mexico by the United States. Apparently moral suasion has failed utterly in Mexico and there is little doubt that the time is near at hand when the United States must determine on another program. That program must be intervention and it must have the power to subdue the bandit leaders and police the country until the devastation ceases and the peons are put to work. It will be a slow process, for the halfcivilized Mexicans and the Indians will reluctantly accept the control and outbreakes will doubtless occur for any years. The civilizing effect of the American flag, however, will ultimately restore peace and create prosperity in Mexico and disagreeable as the job is, the sooner it is begun the sooner it will be concluded and the examples of Cuba, Puerta Rica, the Philippines, the Hawaiian Islands, the Panama Canal Zone should furnish every citizen with -the confidence that the result will be for the best. President Wilson left his summer home Wednesday to hasten to Wash- - ington to take up with Secretary Lansing several grave problems, mainly the Mexican situation, 'but also the problem of national defense and the Eastland disaster. President Wilson is said to be determined to carry out his plan of Mexican moral suasion through the Pan-American conference, disregarding Carranza’s attitude. In other words he proposes to “Give Mexico another chance.” Nineteen sixteen Model Maxwell touring car $655; self-starter and all modern; at the Main Garage. Call and aee it

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