Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1898 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat.

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WHS HI Established 1867, Incorporated 1894. C. P. MOORE. P. STOSSnEISTBR, Phsioiht. Bust Nias Mmmii. Oldest and Best Business Gonsie in Nonheni tnd.

Address, HALL’S BUSINESS COLLEQE, Cor. Broadway and Sixth St. LOGAN SPORT, INDIANA.

DR. JACQUES DESSLER, OPTICAL SPECIALIST. RENSSELAER, - INDIANA. I take great pleasure in announcing to the people of Rensselaer and the surrounding country that I have located here in the Arcade building, above the Paylight Clothing House, as an Optical Specialist. My thorough experience in the profession, with the help of the latest improved instruments, leads me to hope that I shall be able to give my patients full satisfaction, and can promise with responsibility that every case will be treated with special care. Hoping that the peopie of Rensselaer and surrounding country will give me a trial, I am, very respectfully yours, DR, JACQUES DESSLER. Optical Specialist. NOTICE— I desire to call your attention to the fact that eyes can be examined with the same accuracy at night as at day time. Examination free.

CHICAGO, INOUNAPOkII * UMHIVIUt 5 Rensselaer Time-Table, Corrected to May 15,1898. South Bound. No. 31-Fart Mail (don't stop) 4:48 a, m. No. s—Louisville Mail, (daily)... . ..10:55 a. w, No. 33—Indianapolis Mail, (daily).- 1:45 p. m. No. 39—Milk accomra.. (daily)..... .. 3:15 P- m * No. 3 Louisville Express, (daily) ■ ■ 11:12 p. m. •No. 45—Local freight 2:40 p. m. North Bound. No. 4-Mail, (daily) ♦:•» No. 40—Milk scoomm.. (dully) 7:31 a. m. No. 32-Fast Mail, (dai1y)...... .■•• 8:55 a- “• •No. 30—Cin.to Chicago Vea. Mail.. 6:32 p. m. 1N0.38-Cin. to Chicag0............ 2:57 p. m. No. 6-Mail and Express, (dally)... 3«p.m. •No. 46-Local freight • :» a. m. No. 74-Freight, (daily( 7:52 p.m. •Daily except Sunday. fSuuday only. . „ No. 74 carries passengers between Monou and Lowell. Hammond has been made a regular stop for No. 30. W. H. Beam, Agent.

Fisher & Norris Near the Depot, Pay Cash For Hides, Veal, Eggs and Poultry, and Game in season. '*■ . " \ RENSSELAER, INDIANA. Mill We wish to inform the public that we have got permanently located In our Milt at the old Creamery Building, and have a full equipment of machinery and are prepared to do till kinds of Mill Work. Carpenter and Job Work and all kinds of Wooden Work. WE (SRIL FOR MID DELIVER Articles to be repaired. When you have anything that no else can fix, give us a trial; DONNELLY BROW. RESIDENT ’PHONE SOI. MILL 'RHONE SOS.

Twwwww•w ■ ■w m w t i Caveats, and Trade-Mark* obtained and ail Pat- 1 j ent business conducted for moderate Fee*. < Our OrncE is opposite U.R.Pateht orrtoc I*and we can secure patent in less time than those 1 j remote from Washington. Send model, drawing or photo., with descrip-1 don. We advise, if patentable or not, free of l | charge. Our fee not due till patent is secured. A Pamphlet, How to Obtain Patents,” with:' cost ox same in the U. S. and foreign countries' [ sent free. Address, ; i JC.A.SNOWdtCO. Opp. Patent orricc, Washhmton, D. C. IWMMMMMiMAmMWSMMMVtW I When others fail to suit yon in price, style and durability of buggies, wagons, hamessj etc., then see Judy and The Lief Buggy Company. . W^‘

DR. MOORE, Specialist, Office First Stairs West Of Post Office. RENSSELAER, IND.

Th&college building is one ofthabest in the city, rooms elegant, equipment unsurpassed, teachers of experience are employed, methods are modem, systematic, practical, in commercial department actual business from the start, in the shorthand department the student haa the free use of the typewriter on entering. As a large attendance is expected during the coming year it will be to your advantage to arrange with ns at once. It you do not intend to enter before Sept. Ist, or even Nov. Ist, write us at once and we will look after your interest. Hundreds of our graduates are holding good positions.

MOODY & ROTH, Dealers in Fresh, Salt and Cured MEATS Poultry, Game, Etc. Highest Price Peid for Hides end Tallow. OPPOSITE PUB. SQ„ RENSSELAER, INl>. PHONE 102. REASONS FOR INSURING In the Continental. Ist. Because it is one of the Oldest, Strongest and Best Managed Companies in the United States. 2nd. Because it adjusts its losses fairly and pays them promptly, without any wrangling about it. 3rd. Because it has adjusted and paid losses to over seventy-five thousand farmers. 4th. Because it insures you for Five Years upon the installment plan, permitting you to pay one-fifth of the premium annually, without interest, instead of paying the whole in advance; thus giving vou the proceeds of each year's crop with which to pay your premiums as they rail due. sth. Because it insures against damage to buildings, and losses of Live Stock by lightning. Tornadoes, Cyclones and Wind Storms, as well as loss by Fire. J. F. Bruner, Agt. Rensselaer Ind. Office at Makeever House.

The Markets, Wheat 60 to .57 Corn 26 Oats, new 17 to 20H Rye.. 35 Hay, (Dealers not buying).. Hogs.... .8.50 to 8.60 Potatoes..... .45 to .50 Butter 16 Egg 9... .12 Hens : 05 Young Chickens 54 to .06 Ducks 05 Roosters 02 Turkeys 04 6 .06 Hides 05 .06 Tallow 02

FARn LOANS. I have plenty of money to loan on,real estate. A special low rate of interest on farm loans in large amounts. I also loan money for short time on real estate or personal security at current bank rates. 23t8. James H. Chapman-.

DR. J. W. HORTON, Graduate of the Haskell school of prosthetic denistry, is established in the new brick, first door west of post office.* All operations performed according to the latest methods. flkjT'Special attention given to the painless extraction of teeth by the use of gas and local anaesthetics. I have private funds to loan on real estate at low rates for any length of time. Funds are always on hands and there is no delay—no examination of land, no sending papers east—absolutely no red tape, Why do you ' wait on insurance companies for 6 months for your money? I also loan money for short times at current bank rates. Funds always on hand* W. B. Austin.

Rensselaer, Jasper County, Indiana, Saturday, October i, 1898.

' LOCAL MATTERS. J. J. Hunt spent Sunday at Knox. Ira W. Yeoman of Remington, was in the city Wednesday. f- Monon’s big street fair will occur next week, Oct. 4,5, 6, 7. Judge Reynolds of Monticello, was here on business Saturday. J. 8. Barnes, the Remington hay dealer, was in the city Friday. Medaryville onion buyers are paying but 25 cents per onions. 1 Bates Tucker, late of the YankoSpanko war, is. teaching up in Keener tp. Mrs. S. M. Freelove of Goodland, is visiting her daughter, Mrs, F. E. Babcock. 100 cases rubber boots and shoes just received. Chicago Bargain Store. S. H. Kuster and Wm. Penwright, of Remington, were in the city Saturday on business. Fifty dozen new neckwear just received. Chicago Bargain Store. J. S. Barnes, J. W. Lock. P, Maguire and C. R. Griffith of Remington, were in the city Tuesday. We stated last week that Jasper county had an area of 580 square miles. This was an' error, we should have said 570. Clarence Kuns, of Co. I. 161st Indiana, a son of J. T. Kuns of Brookston, died in camp at Jacksonville, Fla., last Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Moorehead of Princeton tp., White county, were in the city Saturday and made The Democrat a pleasant call. Elder N. H. Shepherd has concluded his summer’s work at Chicago University and will now be here during the week as well as Sundays. Injunction proceedings have been begun m the circuit court lo restrain the collection of the costs in the Iroquois and Wakarusa ditch cases. W. L. Rich and E. F. Emery of Remington, were in the city a few hours Wednesday. They were enroute to the former’s sheep ranch, near Rose Lawn.

A four-year-old sou of Leonard Vetter, of near Goodland, got a foot cut off one day last week by getting in front of a mowing machine where his father was mowing weeds. The Monon’s Chicago excursion last Sunday was well patronized by Remington and Rensselaer people and those from the surrounding country, 233 tickets being sold at this station. Our brilliant ex-postmaster, E. P. Honan, will leave for Indianapolis Monday to enter a law college in that city. Mrs. Honan will join him shortly in the city and they will take rooms there during Mr. Honan’s stay. „ The 3-1 railroad company recorded a $3,000,000, fifty year mbrtgage with the county recorder here a few days ago. The recording fee was sl3. The mortgage was given to the Continental Trust Co., of New York, and must be recorded in every county through which the road passes. H. J. Bartoo of the Home News, Has leased the Goodland Herald and will take possession of the plant about ijae 15th of the present month. A. J. Kitt, the present proprietor, will seek a more extended field. Bro. Bartbo has our best wishes in his new venture. The Home News has been discontinued. The commissioners of Benton county have entered ah order requiring that every two years the books and accounts of all officials handling county money must be thoroughly overhauled by an expert and a report made That is an order every county in the state should have upon its records, —Goodland Herald.

Sheriff Reed was in Fair Oaks serving papers Thursday. Benton democrats will hold their county convention today. Mr. k. Chipman has our thanks for a basket of fine Concord grapes. Mr. and' Mrs. Simon Fendig of Whijjatfield, spent Sunday here. John Weise of Goodland, was in Rensselaer on business Wednesday. Cash buys more at Judy and The Lief Buggy Company than anywhere else. The veterans of the 128th Indiana will bold their reunion at Monticello, pet. 5 and 6. The greatest shoe bargains ever now at the Chicago Bargain Store, has been confined to the louse this week by injuries receivej'from a serious fall. Mrs. €. W. Hanley entertained the O. 18, and O. F. E. C. Wednesday gfte moon and evening. , . _ •»' ■■ 1 • Walter Tharp of this place, now a memljer of the 161st Indiana, is sick with typhoid fever at Jacksonville, Fla. Hon. Thomas F. Bayard, a cabinet officer under the Cleveland administration, died at Dedham, Mass., on Wednesday. F. A. Woodin, the hustling Foresman real estate agent, is doing a rushing business these days. Several deals have been closed up this week. The spools at McCoysburg are closed this week on account of a pupil, a daughter of Jas. McDonald, having taken down with diptheria. Curfew will ring to-night for the first. The school bell will be used to tap the warning for all kids and old maids to vamoose to their homes. Harry Holderman, a former teacher in this county, now a member q£ the Ist Illinois, is visiting His regiment is to be mustered out Oct. 18. Now is the time to get your chimneys clean before putting up your heating stoves. Any body wanting work done in that line, call on Harry Wiltshire, the chimney sweep. Mr. anti Mrs. W. B. Austin went to Lafayette Monday and brought home their daughter Virgie, who has been sick for some time at the home of her grandparents, Judge and Mrs. Hammond. Readers of The Democrat will confer a favor by patronizing its advertisers as much as possible. They are wide-awake business men and appreciate the trade of a democrat as well as that of people of other political faiths. The case of John Reed, jr., of Jordan tp., vs the Home Insurance Co., of New York, which was begun in the Jasper circuit court over a year ago and taken to Newton on change of venue, and there won by Reed, but in which a- rehearing had been granted defendants, has been finally settled. We are not informed as to the exact terms of the settlement. Mrs. G. B. Ward who is attending her son, John, at Jacksonville, writes back that she visited the camp of the 161st, and especially Co. I, and found that camp life, climatic and other influences were gradually undermining the health of the boys and but little of their former J*im and vigor was left. Private Fox who accompanied Stuart Fox home, rejiorts the same conditions existing. Monticello Journal. , Rev. Peter Hinds of Milroy tp., has sold his fine farm to Mr. Geo. E. Hosmer. Mr. Hinds has resided in Jasper county for sixteen years, and has been an honorable and upright citizen, as mflny of our business men know. He intends to locate south of Louisville, Ky., while his son Malilon will occupy the twelve hundred acre farm he has lately purchased in Tennessee, where Hinds & Son intend to deal in stock. *

BOLD BANK ROBBERY.

Flora, Carroll County Bank Robbed of Nearly $15,000 in Cash and the Cashier Woundee. The Flora bank, in Carroll county, was entered by bnrglars last Monday night, the safe blown open and from SIO,OOO to $15,000 in cash taken. The cashier, W. H. Lenon, discovered the robbers while at work and shot at them with a revolver. They returned the fire inflicting severe wounds upon Mr. Lenon. The robbers, of whom there were several, fled to the railroad with their booty, boarded a hand car in waiting and went north. Posses were started in pursuit at once, but at this writing the robbers were still at large, Several suspects have been arrested but were soon released on account of insufficent evidence to warrant holding them. It was the most daring and successful bank robbery in the history of the state, and there is great excitement in the vicinity of the crime. Mr. an<l Mrs. Geo. O. Pumphrey visited friends in Brook last Monday. George Shepherd and another gentleman from Goodland, were in the city Thursday. Donnelly Bros, are erecting a fine new house at Morocco for a party at that place. John Dennis, of near Foresman, has sold his 120-acre farm to John Weise of Goodland. Judge Thompson and; several of our attorneys are attending court at Kentland this week. Mrs. C. P Jokes of Grand Trunk Crossing, Lake county, is visiting her son, P. W. Clark, of this city. * Rev. D. A. Tucker will move to Ridgeville, lud., where he has accepted the pestorate of the F. W. Baptist church. Several members of the Rensselaer W. R. C., attended the district convention of that order at Fowler last Friday. 1 Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Vincent and grand-daughter, Carrie Vincent, and Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Vincent all of Remington, were in the city Thursday. Washington Casey, a resident of this county since 1857, died at his home in Union tp., Tuesday, at the age of 87 years and 5 months. The funeral was held at the residence on Wednesday and interment made in Mt. Tabor cemetery.

E. G. Haff of Goodland, lias purchased a half interest in Masker’s feed and hitch barn, on Cullen street, and has moved his family here, occupying residence property on South Cullen street. We welcome Mr. Haff and his excellent family to our city. Sheriff Reed's star boarders, with the aid of a case-knife, succeeded in severing an iron bar of their prison a few days ago, but the work was discovered before they had a chance to cut through other bars and make their escape. Their liberties are now restricted some more. When the war department officials start out "on a tour of inspection a brass band, figuratively speaking, is sent ahead to announce their coming, in order that all. maybe put in spick an span shape for the “inspection.” The same may be said of our civil inspection of state and county institutions, and the utter worthlessness of inspections so conducted must be apparant to everyone. The republican papers, and The Democrat of Rensselaer are having a scrap—on paper—about the expenditures on that “Jonah” the court house. While we can see but little good in a genearal mix up and mud throwing, yet.. it is to be admitted by an outsider, that The Democrat has justice on their side when they accuse the county officials of needless aud costly expenditures which are of very little use to any one.—Brook Reporter (rep.)

Vol. I. No. 25

BABE DROWNED.

There were heavy hearts at tho home of Mr. and Mrs. Ira Moreland last Sunday, their infant daughter Myrtle, aged one year and four months, having met with a fatal accident. She had wandered out on the back porch of their resieence and fell into a tub of water, and before discovered life was extinct. It is thought she could not have been in the water more than five minutes, but although two doctors worked over her for two hours their efforts were unavailing. Funeral was held at the Christian church Monday afternoon, Elder J. L. Brady, assisted by Elder N. H. Shepherd conducting the services. We understand that the child had been insured some two weeks before with a Delphi insurance agent for a small sum.

FARN FOR SALE. 80 acres, four miles of good town, all fenoed, fair buildings, 50 acres acres of corn will go 40 to 50 bushels per acre, one-third of crop goes with land. Will sell for sls per acre if sold soon. F. A. Woodin, Foresman, Ind..

WANTED-TOWN PROPERTY. I have several good Farms ranging from 40 to 400 acres which T will exchange for real estate in Rensselaer. Long time will be given on residue. , James H. Chapman. Subsribe for. The Democrat. A very common remark: ‘T paid $1.50 or $2.00 for a J. Miller shoe and wore them every day for over one year.” Chicago Bargain Store. No, the heavy bombardment heard during the week in the vi-* cinity of the Journal office did not come from said office but was caused by tlje blasting in excaw* ting for the sewer in the alley* north of the Journal. The report of the latter’s guns does not reach outside the Journal sanctum.

We understand that the democratic

cratic state central committee has consulted with a board of promi-* neflt attorneys, who, after investigation, decided that all appointees to the office of township trustee will hold over until the general election in 1900. Therefore there will be no trustees voted for at the coming election. Our band boys went to Grant. Park Thursday to take part in the band tournament at that place. They were awarded the 2d prize of SSO, Chicago Heights being given the Ist. There was consid- | erable dissatisfaction over the dei cision, nine-tenths of the people present being of the opinion that Rensselaer was fairly entitled to Ist. The band went from Grant Park to Delphi, where they entered, the contest at that place yesterday. The Democrat has contended, from the first that our new court house cost too much money, and the cuts of different court houses now being run in our columns, together with a statement of their cost, etc., is simply for comparison. While the architecture is somewhat different from our own, the fum—ishings, heating system, etc., etc.* of the court house at Eureka, 111., published last week, and at St. Joseph, Mich., in this issue, ars ! almost identically the same as Jas—- ! per county’s. The difference, however, in cost is about $75,000. Why should there be this difference ? . Beginning with Sunday morning Rev. H. M. Middleton will preach a series of sermons on successive Sunday mornings on “The Sermon on the Mount.” No other single portion of the Bible so fully and definitely portrays the principles of the gospel and of the Kingdom of God as , this. It is of paramount interest to all to understand it. We therefore especially invite all our citizens whom religious obligations do not call them elsewhere—particularly the men of our city who are not in the habit of attending church —to hear these sermons. The subject for Sunday night will be “Christ before Human Thought.” *