Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1920 — Page 1

No. 99.

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ATTY. LEOPOLD WITHDRAWS.

Attorney Moses Leopold of Rensselaer, one of . the candidates for the Republican nomination for judge, has announced his withdrawal" from the race. Mr. Leopold has many warm friends in both Newton and- Jasper counties who will regret his decision. He is a cleapcut, able and conscientious attorney, and there were many who would have found pleasure in supporting him. But with five candidates for judge from Rensselaer, 'the race was hopeless to some, and doubtless others will pull out before many days.—Morocco Courier.

PRINCESS THEATRE MATINEE—2:IS NIGHT—7.OO __ ~ ~~ —TODAY—FLORENCE REED “Wives of Men”

What would you do if you discovered your newly married . husband gazing at the photograph of another woman? ? If you thought your husband untrue wou|d you. seek the joys of life, and no care in what way you did so? If in the twilight you kissed and caressed a man you thought your lover and discovered it to be your. husband, what would

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Merely a, woman! What right had sho to love, when by wedding the man of his choice she could bring her selfish father ease and wealth? And so, stifling her dremne» yielding to ‘'duty,” she married a drunken beast. Then one day, they found her husband murdered in an Indian jungle. Who was guilty? A story that sweeps throng *be heart fas • storm of emotion. Touched with the spell of the oast.

The Evening Republican.

CARRIER BOY PASSES TENTH MILE STONE

' This is not only Friday, April 23, but it is the tenth birthday of Morgan Lynge one of the Republican’s faithful carrier boys. Morgan serves our patrons across the river apd he must please them for we seldom ever have a complaint. 'Should any of his patrons insist on presenting him with a birthday present Saturday will not be too late and he is sure to show-at the time with the smile that always makes the payment for the paper a pleasure.

you do? If th* man you. called your father was abusing and illtreating your bed-ridden mother, would you shoot him .to make him stop? For many years she was convinced, that her husband loved another woman, in reality married to another then she found out she was wrong. KEYSTONE COMEDY

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RENSSELAER, INDIANA, FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1920.

MOB STORMS CAPITAL JAIL

POLICE THWART ATTEMPT TO . TAKE NEGRO'SLAYER OF SMALL GIRL. Indianapolis, April 22.—One negro was shot and fifteen men arrested in the attempt of a mob of 2,000 men to take Wm. Ray, colored, 19 years old, from the Marion county jail tonight, where he is held without bond for the murder of 14-year-old Martha Huff, a white girl. Leon Harris, colored, was struck* in the neck and left leg, when he wa» pursued for several blocks through the city streets by a crowd of approximately 500 white men. Ten shots were fired. He was taken to the city hospital. His condition is not serious. John J. Gray, 39 years old, Louisville, Ky., was arrested for carrying concealed weapons and shooting within the city limits. The police say he shot at Harris. Fourteen ‘men were arrested for disorderly conduct and inciting a riot. Mob Formed Early. The mob began forming early in the evening and when a crowd estimated at 500 men marched down West Washington street at 8:30 o’clock an attempt was made to reach the jail, which was guarded by a large force of police officers armed with riot clubs. Most of the men were froip the neighborhood in which the Huff girl lived. The police dispersed the mob, but it was not until after midnight that the majority of the men left the scene. Lack of leadership is believed to be the reason no concerted attack.was made on the jail. After Negro Rapist. William Ray, for -whom ' the mob is believed to be seeking, came to Indianapolis from Chicago about three weeks ago and has been employed in this city. He is 19 years old and married. The crime for which he is held without bond was committed late Monday afternoon. He is said to have made a written statement in which he told hoW he enticed the girl from her home with the promise of new clothes and took her to a lonely spot on the banks pf Eagle creek west of the city. In the alleged confession he said she screamed when he attempted to embrace her and that he stabbed her thirteen times in the neck to silence her. Later he threw her body m the swollen waters of the stream. The body was found Tuesday evening and a long search for the negro who committed the crime resulted in the arrest shortly after midnight Wednesday morning of Ray. A bloody pen knife was found in his pocket. He was positively identified as the man who enticed the Huff girl from her home by her step-sister.

TURNER EXHIBITION EXCELLED THOSE OF PREVIOUS YEARS

The Turner exhibition given by the students of St. Joseph college in the college auditorium Wednesday evening was the _ best ever I presented by the institutiqn, according to the large crowd that witnessed the exhibition, and all came away well pleased and repaid for their time. Despite the fact that the majority of the performers were experiencing their first attempt at the sport, their work excelled that of previous years. By dint of hard and steady training the students were able' to make their work reach perfection. Approximately - forty students took part in the exhibition. ..... Everything included in a complete Turner program was presented. The difficult feats were many and the clowns added the necessary spice to the program and kept the audience in an uproar throughout The exhibition will be repeated Sunday afternoon and it -will be well worth anyone’s time to witness it. Such exhibitions are rare and all -should take advantage of the opportunity afforded them.

JOHNSON HAS LEAD OF 14,000 AS COUNT NEARS CLOSE

Omaha, Neb., April 22.—witn a little more than two-thirds of the precincts of Nebraska heard from and tallied by the newspaper bureaus, Senator Hiram Johnson is leading General Wood in the republican preference primary by 14,241 votes. The result of the tabulation of 1,265 precincts out of 1,849 in the.state .including Douglas county (Omaha) shows the following vote: Johnson, 47,888; Wood, 33,647; Pershing, 21,591. , William Jennings Bryan, who is running in fourth place for delegate at large for the San Francisco convention, continued to show slight gains over Berge, a Bryan candidate, who is in fifth place. On the face of returns thus far received Neville and Shallenberger, Hitchcock delegates, lead' the field of eight candidates with Stephens, the high man of the Bryan candidates, in third Dlace.

TEMPERATURE The following is the temperature i for the twenty-four hours ending a* ’ 7 a. m- on the dsts indicated: Mb? MIDApril 23 t 75 44

FUNERAL OF CIVIL WAR VETERAN

The funeral service of Joseph Smith of this city was held at his late home on South Van Rensselaer, street at 10:30 a. m. Friday, April 23, and was in charge of the Rev. W. T. Barbre,, pastor of the Christian church of this city. The following obituary was read at the service: Obituary Joseph Smith was born in Tippecanoe county, near Lafayette on February 16, 1837. He enlisted in the Civil War in Company Gr, 63rd Indiana Infantry and served until the end of- the war. December 22, 1867, he was united in . marriage with Mrs. Catherine Wiley, who, at that timp, was a widow with three children. To these children Mr. i Smith was a true and loving father. These children have grown to maturity and now reside as follows: John M. Wiley, in Moravia, Mont., William S. Wiley in Hartford, Mich., and Mary J. Summers, widowed, who makes her home with the parents in this city. Mr. and Mrs. Smith are the parents of two children. A daughter died in infancy. The other is a son, Charles F. Smith of Salem*, O. Both parents were very fond of Charles and were delighted with the success which has come to him in his profession as an attorney. — For a number of years Mr. and Mrs. Smith lived near Seafield in White county. In the spring of 1888 they moved to occupying a farm which Mr. Smith had purchased near Kniman. While living here he became a member of the Oddfellows lodge. They moved to this city in 1912 and that time have been residents here continuously. He was in poor "health for some time and was taken very seriously ill on Saturday, April 16. On Wednesday, April 21, he was taken to the hospital in the forenoon, but lived but a few hours, passing away at 12:30’ p. m. Mr. Smith was a splendid citizen, of happy jovial disposition and ’ was beloved by all who knew, him.

SUGAR PROFITEERS WILL BE ARRESTED

New Orleans, April 22.—United States District Attorney Mooney announced tonight that he woujd file affidavits tomorrow before the United States commissioner here against several who have charged 35 cents a pound for sugar. Local refiners said there was a crisis in the sugar situation due to the fact that purchases must be made in tie open market where conpetition is intense,

IOWA’S 26 VOTES INSTRUCTED FOR GOVERNOR LOWDEN

Des Moines, la., April 22.— lowa’s delegation with 26 votes will go to the republican national convention in June either instructed to vote for Governor Frank O. Lowden of Illinois for president, or with the indorsement of his candidacy from their.- respective districts. The state convention unanimously passed resolutions instructing the delegates at large, eight in number with one-half vote each, for Lowden. All congressional districts, except the fourth and fifth instructed for Lowden. These two indorsed him. ,

FREAKS DISCLOED IN ROUNDUP OF COUNTRY’S NEWS

Chicago—Bliss lasted two days in the Bliss home here. Most of the Bliss went with Mrs. Bliss. Tony Bliss, the husband, who was blessed with very little bliss was granted a divorce- —grounds, desertion. .. —o—- — Chicago—John Badowicz told his chief clerk, the Anger of keeping money in. banks. “I keep mine in this cigar box,” he said. Radowicz isn’t worrying about getting another clerk, .but now he can’t replace the cigar box. # o— New York—Henry Rose didn’t use' honeyed words when - a sliding ’phone booth door jumped ■ its gwove and trapped him, even if he is a honey dealer. Workmen with a crowbar “jimmied” him free. Batavia, N. Y.—A pig with three eyes, two snouts, two mouths and two tongues was born /'on a farm here. The pig can sqeal out of both mouths at the. same time and see with the three eyes. Chicago—Edward Murphy, janitor, garbed in greasy Overalls, lounged in the morning sun here. A crowd gathered ’round him and praised him for wearing overalls. “Faith, I bin wearing ’em, nine years,” Murphy said, wonderingly. —o— Chicago—George Genovese went to a barber shop bath room here to bathe. He left S3OO on a chair. « wasn’t there when he came back after it Genovese is clean. Next time he’ll stay dirty, he said. Cheapest, he argued.

YESTERDAY’S RESULTS. National. Chicago, 4; Cincinnati, 3. (11 in.) Philadelphia, 4; Brooklyn, 8. New York-Boston, rain. American. Washington, 8; Boston, 5. New York, 8; Philadelphia, 6. Chicago, 8; Detroit, 2. Cleveland, 11; St..Lduis, 3.

Mayme Beaver went to Lafayette today.

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MAN’S FACE PARTLY SHOT OFF AT WEDDING “BELLING”

Careless handling of a shotgun on the part of some person at a belling” northeast of town Monday night cost Arthur Bond’s large portion of his face. The gun loaded only with wads, was fired with the muzzle winthin a few inches of Arthur’s face, tearing a big hole m the right cheek and shattering the jaw z bone. ; . The charavan was being held at the home of Mrs. Mac Lowry in the southwest corner of Tippecanoe township, where her son George and his bride were staying following their marriage on Saturday. A number of men and boys of the neighborhood had met by agreement and gdne to the Lowry home to ’bell the couple. ; \ While the party was in the yard near the house, some fellow pulled the trigger of his gun without noticing where it was pointed. Bond s face received the entire discharge of wads and burned powder.—-Pu-laski County Democrat.

DESIGNATES MAY 1 AS AMERICAN DAY

Indianapolis, April 22.—1 n order that the people of Indiana may demonstrate their disapproval of radical socialism and internationalism, Governor Goodrich today issued a proclamation designating May 1, as American day. Similar action has been taken by most of the states as a counter movement to the May day activities of the reds.

DEPOT RESTAURANT ROBBED.

A petty thief broke into the depot restaurant Thursday night and carried away some cigars, cigarettes and Jeandy. Entrance was made througha window on the south side. The thief did the job quietly and the robbery was , not discovered until morning.

A. sheriff’s sale of the Charles Bibos restaurant fixtures will be held Saturday. It is thought the creditors will receive about eighty cents on the dollar. Mr. and Mrs. George McCarthy returned today from Chicago where they have been visiting their daughter, Mrs. R. M. ChissOtn and family the. past two weeks,

STAR THEATRE —TONIGHT—- « •. - * ■ Desperate, she told Ear secret; it led to an “innocent crime” y Don’t Fail to Soo ..... ' .. - - ■ ■> • “The Splendid Sin” ■ ■ . A Story that tags at the heart strings A William Fox Production Starring a. Madeline Traverse ~ ' Superb in Eseotiuual; Portrayals\ - _ tat>*<*"<* and jfuff a ■

MONON SLEEPER ROBBED; GUILTY MAN CAUGHT

George Doyle, 21 yean old, of Montreal, Quebec, is being held in the Tippecanoe county jail aMd probably will be charged with train robbery, as a result of the work of the Lafayette police, Detective John A. Hayes of the Monon railroad, arid Sheriff William W. Weinhardt. It is charged (and Doyle admits the charge) that he robbed at least three passengers in a sleeping car on the Monon railroad early Tuesday morning. Doyle and a companion known as “.Slim” boarded Monon passenger train No. 4 at Louisville Wednesday night. When the train arrived here Doyle got off. At Rensselaer some of the passengers discovered they had been robbed. Charles Moore, the conductor, sent word to 'Lafayette and gave a description of Doyle who was under suspicion.—-Lafayette JournaL

ORCUTT NEWS.

Fred H. Hamilton has resigned from the services of the Union Oil Company to accept a position with •P. Z. Fogle at Santa Maria. During the ten months that Ham has been on the hill he has made many friends who are sorry to see him move away. Ham managed the champion Union Oil basketball team and took a leading part in the activities in Orcutt.—Santa Maria (Calif.) Daily Times.

ABE MARTIN.

(Indianapolis News.) Business suite at $135 have driven a’whole tot o’ fellers out o’ business. Denim underwear would be th’ bigges savin’ o’ all, both in money an’ shimmyin’.

NOTICE TO VOLLEY BAU. AND TENNIS FAMS There will he a meeting of those interested in volley ball and tennis at the high school gymnasium ftiday evening at 7:30 oclock. AB interested are invited to be present. DR. M. D. GWIN We share Ted’s hope that while the President of the Irish Repumic is wandering on foreign strands his Secretary of State will not usurp his powers by calling any cabinet meetings.—Chicago Tribune. ■- j WAMTBO—The party that ed overcoats with me in pool room. Please return. James Moore, phone 356.

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