Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1898 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat.

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LOCAL MATTERS. Threshing oats will begin to some extent next week. Mrs. Geo. Goff is visiting friends at Crown Point this week. Rommie Stacker of Morocco, was in the city Wednesday. Patronize home industries by smoking home made cigars. A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. J, J. Eiglesbach on the 18th. A whole armload of old papers for a nickel at The Democrat office. Postmaster Hochbaum of Virgie, was in the city on business Thursday. Geo. Healey of Brookston, was in the city Friday and Saturday of last week. O. B. Mclntire, of Indianapolis, formerly of Remington, was in the city Tuesday. • Call oiUthe Meyer Sisters’ for stylish m/.tinery. First class goods and lowest prices. -• ) Owing to sickness of the editor, the Home News did not make its appearance last week. Sixty-five tickets were sold from Rensselaer to the Camp Mount excursion last Sunday. William Morris of Rushville, is visiting his daughter Mrs. Geo. O. Pumphrey this week. B. W. Pumphrey and wife and Mr. Weston of Brook, spent Sunday with the former’s parents. Miss Flora Wharton, of Delphi, music teacher of our city schools, was a Rensselaer visitor Saturday. The Wallace Bros, advertising car was here this week. They have 3,388 square feet of boards in the city. It is a little difficult *to keep track of the company letter of the Monticello company. The latest is that is company I. The Christian church ladies give a patriotic social at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Parks this afternoon and evening. If you have for sale a farm, house and lot, or any other property of- a salable nature, try advertising it in The Democrat. L. Hildebrand received $397.63 from the insurance company for damages to his livery stable building by the fire of July 10. Get your job printing done at The Democrat office. Satisfaction guaranteed both in stock, prices and workmanship. Geo. Strickfaden has placed a couple of revolving fans in his saloon on South' Van Rensselaer street. The power is furnished by water motor. Several republican candidates for nomination to state offices have been in the city this week interviewing the leaders of their party in Jasper county. Samuel Dick, a carpenter at Kentland, was killed last Friday, by falling from a 60-foot scaffold on the McCray & Morrison elevator, at that place. The Fowler Republican says that notwithstanding the unfavorable outlook this spring, Benton county will produce her average big crop this year.

James McDonald recovered the team “sold” to Perry Hull last Friday. He found it near Ft. Wayne, where Hull had traded it for a gold watch and $lO in cash. Lyman Zea says that a young pig weighing about 30 pounds left his premises without notice last Saturday, and any information leading to its recovery will be duly appreciated. The Jasper County Democrat was recently purchased by and is now under the management of F. E. Babcock, late of the Remington Press, and is a very creditable paper considering its politics.— The Oxford Press.

’■'is*. DR- MOORE, Specialist, fiEMORHORDS, SBS ‘ * S BSbWw««. Office Flirt Stair. Wert of Port Office. RENSSELAER, IND. < ■ • . n • ■

Try The Democrat for job printing. Work has again been resumed on the walks about the court house. Type-writer paper, either blank or printed, at The Democrat office. Mr. and Mrs. Delos Thompson spent Sunday at Battle Creek, Mich. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. K. Hollingsworth spent Wednesday at Cedar Lake. E. L. Hollingsworth is visiting his wife and little ones at Charlevoix, Mich. Miss Hattie Dowler has gone to Williamsport to visit her sister for several weeks. We understand that B. J. Gifford now owns 32,000 acres of land in Jasper county. Mrs. F. B Meyer and children are taking an outing at Mr. Meyer’s clubhouse on the Kankakee. Esq. Heilman of Kentland, has been granted an increase of pension, from $lO to sl2 per month. The principal attraction in town this week for the small boy are the bill boards of the Wallace show. For spring hats in latest styles call bn Mrs. Imes. Everything in her line first class and up to date. Messrs. J. J. Porter and Ed Green of Remington, were up in the Wheatfield neighborhood this week viewing a ditch. Several from this place attended the Judicial Convention at Goodland yesterday. We go to press too early to give the result of the convention. The officiating clergymen are required to attach a 10-ceut documentary stamp to their return marriage certificates under the new revenue measure x Wm. Geier, the Remington blacksmith, was in Rensselaer on business Wednesday. Will is just starting a bad felon on the index finger of the right hand. Bring your buggy, wagon and harness wants to Judy and The Lief Buggy Company and they will supply you. They have the material and ability to do it. Kellner & Bushey will give another big dance at Roberts’ Hall next Wednesday evening. Good music will be in attendence, and a large patronage is anticipated. Even a J ustice of the peace pays no attention to the state law or city ordinance against the riding of bicycles upon the sidewalks. It is not strange that others regard the law as a dead letter. Over one hundred new subscriptions have been added to our list since July 1, and we now have what is undoubtedly the largest country circulation of any paper published in Jasper county. We have added a handsome new line of wood type to our job printing department this week, and are prepared to do anything in the line of dodgers or poster work in a satisfactory manner and on short notice. ■2^-—■ The Porter county agricultural society, on account of lack of interest, has decided not to hold a county fair this year. The society has been in existence for twentyseven years, and this is its first failure. Perry Hull had his hearing before Esq. Burnham last Friday afternoon, and was bound over to the October term of court. The bond was fixed at SSOO in default of which Hull will board at county expense until the next term of court. Several residences on the north side were broken into by burglars Monday night and a few articles of but little value taken. Among the houses visited were those of Harrison Wasson, Reed Hopkins and Mrs. Henry I. Adams. The thieves were frightened away from the latter place before securing anything. It was probably the work of tramps.

Rensselaer, Jasper County', Indiana, Saturday, July 23, 1898.

Mr. L. F. Bartoo of Remington, is reported quite ill. The Cubans may yet prove a white elephant to Uncle Sam. Good correspondence stationery, cheap at The Democrat office. Cash buys more at Judy and The Lief Buggy Company than anywhere else. fl The United States treasury decit for July already reaches over $22,000,000. Buy your calling cards at The Democrat office. Latest styles always in stock. Patronize home industries by smoking home made cigars manufactured in Rensselaer. A handsome envelope, .either square or oblong, for 5 cents per package at The Democrat office. Bro. Marshall of the Republican; is preparing to put in a water motor to run his job and newspaper presses. Perhaps Abe Halleck will yet be compelled to make the race for reelection on his record in piling up the expense on that new court house. When others fail to suit you in price, style and durability of buggies, wagons, harness, etc., then see Judy and The Lief Buggy Company. It seems* to us that it would be much better to use a finer grade of crushed rock in repairing city streets and for the top layer of the new roadways. Judge and Mrs. S. P. Thompson and Mrs. Alfred Thompson left yesterday for a week’s visit with friends at Seneca and other points in Ohio. Henry Eiglesbach, on Capt. Wasson’s farm, southeast of town, lost a part of a finger Wednesday morning, by getting it caught in the gearing of a windmill. L. A. Ford, whose death is mentioned in our Remington correspondence, was well known to a large number of our readers, having resided in Remington for a great many years. The republican state convention at Indianapolis and the Wallace Shows at Rensselaer come both on the same day. Many of our local republicans are in a quandrary over which circus to attend. Mrs. W. A. Huff went to Crawfordsville Tuesday night, in response to a telegram from her husband, who has been there for the past week at the bedside of his mother, whose condition is very critical. Bicycle riding upon the sidewalks of the city should be stopped at once and for good. Bicycles have no more business upon the sidewalks than a dray wagon, carriage or other vehicle. One arrest would put a stop to this dangerous and unlawful practice. While the Remington band was giving an open air concert at that place last Saturday night, one of the gasoline lamps used for lighting up the band stand, fell from its fastenings and exploded. The burning oil struck Ernest Rawlings, one of the players, and he was quite badly burned about the face and hands. Frank Babcock, formerly publisher of the Remington Press, has purchased the Rensselaer Democrat and the first issue under its new management came to our office this week. Mr. Babcock is an up-to-date newspaper man, and we wish him success in his new field, which certainly presents a bright future. —The Francesville Tribune. The Journal says: “Rensselaer saloon keepers have raised the price of beer to make up for the war tax. While the price per glass is the same, the size of the glass has been reduced.*’ Now we understand it is the custom among saloon keepers at all times, in certain cases, to set out very small glasses, especially when they think a man has had enough. We haven’t observed any diminuation in the size of the glasses ourself.

The Democrat and Indianapolis'Sentinel one year, $1.35. Democrat and Cincinnati!- Enquirer, $1.50. Clerk Coover issued a marriage license Thursday do Thomas Starkey and Mary E. Magee. The groom is 70 years of age and the bride 67. The parties live near Fair Oaks. * Mrs. Anna Hoover, of CJarksdale Junction, 111., an aged lady who was visiting her daughter, Mrs. Jas. Randle, in this city, died suddenly Thursday morning at the home of Mrs. D. A. Stoner, her grand-daughter, after an illness of but a few hours. William H Mackey of this city, and Miss Ola Marlatt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Perry Marlatt of Barkley tp., were married at the residence of the bride’s parents Wednesday, Rev. Middleton officiating. They will start housekeepiajg at once in the east part of the city. Cols Albaugh sold SIOO worth of deer to Tab Goodwin, Monday, off his fann. The Colonel has a farm on which he can entertain any and all his friends to their hearts’ content. Whey can fish, hunt crow, squirrels or coon, and if this ’be not ga>e enough, can chase fox or Tribune. Miss Stella Griffin, of the Remington Press, was taken to Chicago last Tuesday to undergo an operation for the removal of a tumor. A card received by Rensselaer friends Thursday evening, stated that she was operated on at 8 o’clock Thursday morning, but that little hopes were entertained of her recovery. It is reported that Joe Guss, a former resident of Jordan township, who moved to Woodbury, Tenn., some years ago, was killed by a negro there a few weeks ago. He was closing up his saloon for the night, the negro objecting, and in the struggle that ensued the latter cut Guss’ throat with a razor.

It is reported that S. H. Petrie, a Wheatfield business man, and meciber’tSf th© school board at that town, has mysteriously disappeared. He left Lowell, where himseif and family were visiting, July 6, to go to Cedar Lake. Since that time no word has-been received from him. For Sale: —One 6-col. quarto Washington hand press; one pair news chases, 7-cols. wide, 6-cols. long; 16 nonpariel col. rules for 6col. paper; two 6-inch composing sticks, one 16-inch yankee job stick, 25 pounds 2-point leads, 13 ems. Has been used but a few months. Will be sold cheap, and separately if desired. Address The Democrat. A Rensselaer girl writes to a Monticello friend concerning a mutual friend who is in the Sixtyfirst: “I got a nice long letter from . is getting along splendidly. He has been assigned to the guard house for five days. Says it is a pretty hot place, but then, you know, he never shirks his duty. Ma and I are naturally proud to hear of his promotion.” At Monticello, last week, the pastors of the various churches got out circulars and freely distributed them, protesting against Sunday excursions, and asking people to refrain from patronizing the Monon’s Camp Mount excursion last Sunday. Just what effect their action had is difficult tp determine, but a large number of tickets were sold at that station all the same.

An exchange remarks: “There is only one right way to advertise, and that is to hammer your name, your location, and your business so persistently into the people’s heads that if they walk in their sleep they will constantly turn their footsteps toward your store. The newspaper is your friend in spite of your criticisms. It helps to build up the community that support you. When the day comes that the newspapers of a town are dead, the people are on the edge of thd grave with nobody to write their epitaphs.” ,

LETTER FROM ARTHUR LAKIN.

Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Lakin of near Surrey, have received a couple of letters from their son, Arthur, who is now with the 4th Infantry, which we publish below. The letters were evidently written hurriedly on sheets torn from a note-book, which accounts for the disconnected sentences appearing at times: Santiago, De Cuba, June 29, 1898. I will write you and let you know where I am. lam 3 miles from Santiago, in camp. We landed the 18th. The battleship Indiana bombarded the landing place then we landed and put what Spaniards were left to flight and ran to a block house and hoisted our flag. We then formed a battalion and skirmished the mountains for a few miles. About 1 o’clock we heard firing to our left. We hastened to the spot, but too late. The Spaniard ambuscaded 800 of our troops. There were 4,000 of them. Eight Americans were killed, 170 Spaniards.

We will make an attack on Santiago this week. The city will be attacked on three sides. Our battalion will lead the attack. Are in camp in a cocoanut grove, a most beautiful place. Cocoanuts plenty and mangoes in abundance. We have had a tiresome time of it. My chum is still with me and he wants you to write to his folks and tell them where he is (stationery is scarce at present.) Tell them about the battle, the same as I have wrote. ’ He is well, and lucky enough to escape the bullets. Tell them he is in good spirits and anxious for the coming tight. Tell them if he falls they will be notified at once. We marched through the battlefield this evening and saw the boys along the road, lying in a line, and the wounded in a field hospital. It was a sad sight. The boys lay with their boots on. We marched a few rods from there and rested. We heard the death march, and taps blowed o’er the graves of the boys in true blue who gave up their lives for their country,—the first eight to go. We were on picket duty the 27th and could look over the city and could see the Spaniards digging tunnels in the mountainside to hide in. We are getting our dynamitegunsand Hotchkiss in position to blow them up. We are resting up for the coming battle. The artillery is passing this evening. The Spaniards are working hard building up breastworks. A corporal captured today says they do not understand the American’s way of fighting. He says: “We shoot and run back: American shoots and keeps coming.” We broke our jpicket line and marched into camp this morning. A great deal of shooting during the night. We haven’t had anything to eat since yesterday noon, will have nothing for dinner. Tell Perry not to think of enlisting, as he don’t know the hardships of the army. Well I will close, as the mail is going out in a few minutes. Write to Port Tampa, as I will get letters there. From your son, Artie Lakin. ♦ ♦ ♦ *

In camp, 5 miles from Santiago, on the side of a mountain, in sight of a block house well fortified by big guns and many Spaniards. We expect to attack Santiago tomorrow. Our battery arrived yesterday. Many bullets are buried in the trees in the vicinity of our camp where the battle took place. Shells and litters and blood stains on the grass mark the place where the boys in blue gave up their lives in defense of their country. The stars and stripes wave over their graves, while the buzzards circle around the bush in search of the dead Spaniards. « « * « July 6.—Will yvrite you a few lines. Am lucky enough to be alive and well. Have had some hard fighting and many were killed and wounded, 1,200 were killed and wounded. Odds were against us. On June 30th we captured a

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fort. The “Fighting Fourth” were at the front. We captured. 200 prisoners. Have been on tne move every hour since and bullets have been whistling around our ears all the time. We spent the 4th in trenches, have the Spaniards in a close place, almost surrounded now. Thousands of women and children are rushing to the mountains, also the Spanish soldiers are leaving the army. They have to guard them to make them work. The firing has ceased, if they open fire now they will be blown off the face of the earth, as our batteries are on the hill facing them. A great many French sharpshooters are helping them. The escaped refugees from there say they are almost starved. The Cubans are happy and sing day and night. I have trusted in the Lord for my safety. My chum is still safe. It was a sad sight to see the dead, carried off the field and the wounded crying for help. The dead could not be buried for some time, the fire was too hot. Write to me at Santiago, 4th U. S. Infantry. Arthur Lakin.

Defeat at Last.

The ball game at Riverside Park. Thursday afternoon, between Sheldon and Rensselaer, resulted in defeat for the latter by a score of sto 4. This is the first time our boys have met defeat this season, and, it might be added, the Sheldon fellows are the strongest players they have crossed bats with thus far, and they did exceedingly well to keep the score so close, it was the best game played here this season. The Sheldon club drove through from their town, 34 miles. The Middleton fair will be held next week. Gus Sthalman, of Brookston, son of a merchant of that city, was among the killed in the fight of July 2nd, before Santiago. He was a member of the 2nd U. S. volunteer infantry, and enlisted at Lafayejte.

Bondholders and contractors are 'in favor of prolonging the war for the money there is in continued, contracts and bond issues. Politicians would like to see it continued that they may ride into office on the wave of war excitement that controls the country. But the people who pay most of the expenses would like to see a vigorous prosecution and a speedy end of the war, that it may absorb as little of the wealth of the country as possible in its cost of blood and. treasure. —Hartford City News.

One of the Sheldon ball players is said to have indulged in a little too much Rensselaer “booze” after the game was over and got a little gay in making remarks to ladies gissing along the streets. George obinson, jr., attempted to remonstrate with the fellow, when he hauled off and gave Robinson a “lick” in the eye. Reinforce ts arrived but the beliggerent base ballist had taken refuge Nowels House, where he was «.ept until a late hour and finally sneaked out of town. A warrant had been sworn out for his arrest but was not served. The man is said to have been one of Sheldon’s salaried players, and does not belong to Sheldon proper. Garcia, the Cuban general, is said to have written a letter to General Shafter, declaring that he is disgusted at his treatment at the hands of the Americans, and. will therefore take his force to the hills. Among the things of which General Garcia complained is the failure of the American commander officially to notify him of the surrender of the Spanish force under General Toral, and he is also incensed at the alleged fact that he was not invited to be present at the ceremony attending the formal capitulation of Santiago. Another grievance is the retention, of Spanish civil authorities in the administration of their functions in Santiago. For these reasqas Garcia declares he will no longer co-operate with the forces under Shafter’s command, but will act independently, as he did before the American -troops landed in. Cuba.

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