Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1898 — Page 1

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lALL S BUSINESS COLLEGE Established 1867, Incorporated 1894. C. F. MOORE, F. STOSSfIEISTER, Pkisisiht. Buiiniu Manama. Oldest and Besi Business coil® m Northern lod.

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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 Day light 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 people 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' fkee.

iMiiitiiiiii CHICAQO, INOIANAfOtIS * LOUI»VIU« Rensselaer Time-Table, Corrected to May 15,1898. , South Bound. No. 31—Fast Mail (don't stop) ♦ :48 a. m. No. s—Louisville Mail, (daily).... ..10:5a a. m. No.33—lndianapolis Mail, (daily).. 1:45 p. m - No. 39—Milk aeconun., (daily)..... '6:15 p. n». No. 3 Louisville Express, (daily). 11:12 p. in. •No. 45—Local freight 2:40p.m. North Bound. No. 4-Mail, (daily) a.m. No. 40—Milk accoinm., (daily) 7:31a.m. No. 32—Fast Mail, (daily) ? *> *»• 1,1 • •No. 30—Cin.to Chicago \es. Mail.. 6:32 p. m. iNo. 38—Cin, to Chicag0............. 2:57 p. m. No. 6—Mail and Express, (daily)... 3:-7 p. m. •No. 46—Local freight..., 9:30a.m. No. 74—Freight. (daily( i :54 p.m. •Daily except Suuduy. {Sunday only. No. 74 carries passengers between Motion and Lowell. Hummoud hus beeu made a regular stop for No. 30. . „ , Frank 3. Rebd, G.-P. A., W. H. McDobl, Vice-Pres, and Geu. M g r. _ Chas. H. Rockwkll, Traffic M g r, W. H. Beam. Agent, Rensselaer.

MOODY & ROTH, Dealers in Fresh. Salt and Cured Ml; ats Poultry. Game, Etc. Highest Price Paid for Hides and Tallow. OPPOSITE PUB. SQ., RENSSELAER, IND. PHONE 102. Fisher & Norris Near the Depot, Pay Cash For Hides, Veal, Eggs and Poultry, and Game in season. ■ 'jg '" RENSSELAER, INDIANA. pii:| '! We wish to inform the public that we ]' have got permanently located in our | ' | Mill at the old Creamery Building, and i | 1 1 have a full equipment of tnaciiiuery ]> 1 1 and are prepared to do all kinds of ij 1 1 Mill Work. Carpenter and Job Work j 1 1 1 and all kinds of Wooden Work. 1 j i; WE GALL FOR AND DELIVER | ji Articles ho be repaired. When you 'i i[ have anything that no els- ran fix, 11 give us a trial. ' | DONNELLY BROTHERS, |j 1 , RESIDENT 'PHONE SOI. MILL 'PHONE EOS. < \ Try The Democrat for job printing.

DR. MOORE, Specialist, Office Flr»t Stairs We,t of Port Office. J RENSSELAER, IND.

The college building is one of the best 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 has 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 us at once. If you do not mtendto 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.

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Good correspondence stationery cheap at The Democrat office. If you have for sale a farm, house and lot, or any other property of a salable nature, try advertising it in The Democrat. It is said that a Western firm recently adopted the rather unique name of “The Flying Squadron.” The people of the town could not figure out what it meant until the first of the month, when a lot of hills became due. Then, the store was found closed, and a brief note tacked on the door, read: “Ordered to the Philipines.” That, of course, explained matters.

ROBERT FULTON’S TORPEDOES

How He Scattered the Crowd While Conducting an Experiment Before he turned his attention to navigation by steam, Robert Fulton invented a marine torpedo which he endeavored to dispose of to the United ! States government. Succeeding in interesting James Madison, then secretary of state, in the matter, he obtained a small appropriation from the government for the purpose of conducting some public experiments. In the summer of 1806 he invited the high dignitaries and a number of prominent citizens of New York to Governor’s Island to seethe torpedoes and machinery with which his experiments were to be made. While he was lecturing on his blank torpedoes, which were large, empty copper cylinders, his numerous auditors crowded around him. After awhile he turned to a copper case of the same description, which was placed under the gateway of old Castle William, and to which was attached a clockwork lock. Drawing out a peg, Fulton set the clock in motion, and then he said in solemn tones to his attentive audience: “Gentlemen, this is a charged torpedo, with which, precisely in its present state, I mean to blow up a vessel; it contains 170 pounds of gunpowder, and if I were to suffer the clockwork to ran 15 minutes, I have no doubt that it would blow this fortification to atoms.” The circle of humanity which had closed around the inventor began to spread out and grew thinner, and before five of the 15 minutes had passed there were but two or three persons remaining under the gateway. Some, indeed, lost no time in getting at the greatest possible distance from the torpedo, and they did not again appear on the ground until they were assured that the engine of destruction was safely lodged in the magazine, whence it had been taken. The local historian of that period remarks: “The conduct of Mr. Fulton’s auditors was not very extraordinary or unnatural; but his own composure indicated the confidence with which he handled these terrible instruments of destruction and the reliance he had on the accuracy of the performance of hft machinery. The apprehensions of his friends surprised- and amused him, and he took occasion to remark hoW true it was that fear frequently arose from ignorance.”—Scientific American.

Rensselaer Jasper County, Indiana, Saturday, November 26 3 1898.

LOCAL MATTERS.

E. G. Haff made a business trip to Goodland last Monday. David Jakes has joined the 161st regiment regimental band. “Honest Abe” was in Monticello on business last Friday. Chas. W. Hanley was up at Crown Point on court business this week The roller skating craze has again broken out in many of the cities. ’ Jasper Guy and C. T. Dye of Remington, were in the city on business last Friday. We sell envelopes and writing paper cheaper than any place in the city. The Democrat. Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Cole of Englewood', 111., are visiting relatives and friends here this week. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Stoudt of Remington, were guests of Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Babcock, last Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. John Taylor of Lafayette, were guests of Mr. and Mrs. T. J. McCoy a few days this week. Haff & Masker are preparing to ! enlarge their hitch and feed bam i by building a 42 foot extension on ' the east end. (L ■ Ex-county Treasurer J. W. Paul, ! of Monticello, died quite suddenly last Sunday. He had been ill but a very few days, f Mr. and Mrs. Delos Thompson attended the golden wedding of the latter’s parents at Battle Creek, Mich., last week. ! The Rensselae'r High School. football team defeated a team, from j St. Joseph’s college last Friday as- j ternoon. Score 26 to 0. Myron Dumond, a former resi- j dent of Walker tp. was killed a j few days ago at Atwood, Kan., by : falling from a windmill tower. Rev. W. H. Sayler has moved to Wixom, Mich., where he has accepted the pastorate of the F. W. Baptist church at that place, j The W. R. C. sent a box of Thanksgiving dainties to the Ren&J selaer members of Co. 1., 161st Indiana, now stationed at Savannah, Ga. J. W. Russell, one of White county’s county commissioners, died suddenly at his home iu Brookston last Saturday from heart disease.

Rev. Middleton united in marriage Henry Warrick and Ella M. Mercia of Delphi, at his residence last Sunday evening. The bride has a brother, a baker, working for Geo. W. Goff.

Another big invoice of stationery and printers’ stock received by The Democrat a few days ago. We respectfully solicit a share of your job patronage, and can please you both as to price and workmanship.

lam nowmble to offer you my goods at reduced prices. Sailors, walking hats and tarns at cost, and trimmed hats at big reductions, as I wish to close out my entire stock of millinery. Mrs. C. E. Hershman.

Cholera is playing sad havoc among the hogs on the Gaff ranch. Something over 500 have already died from the disease, and it will not be at all surprising if the entire drove of nearly 1,200 goes in the same way.—Morrocco Courier.

Laura Belle Randle and Albert E. Josserand were married at 9:30 A. M. Wednesday morning, at the home of the bride’B mother near Pleasant Ridge. Rev. Shepipard officiating. The happy couple will move on the groom’s farm near Wolcott.

The widow of Peter Brooknian, a Remington man who was killed by a Chicago & Northwestern (rain at Chicago a few weeks ago, has been given SSOO by the railroad company, who also paid the funneral expenses of the deceased and the attorney fees of the widow.

Boone, the hipnotist, next Monday night. Miss Maggie Kenton is assisting Rev. Tucker in revival meetings at Ridgeville. J Geo. Fisher, of Lake City, lowa, is visiting friends at Remington this week. The 159th Indiana was mustered out of service at Indianapolis Wednesday. , Miss Amanda Hoyes, who is teaching near Tefft, spent Thanksgiving at home. Repairs are to be made on the new court house where the frescoing Las peeled off, Chjarles Roberts, who has been in thf west for several months, returned home last Saturday. Albert Overton and Charles Grow wheeled to Lafayette, to enjoy Thanksgiving festivities. No foot ball game was played here on Thanksgiving, the Valparaiso team failing to show up.

Dr. A. -E. Sehmadel is still in Evansville, where he was called by the serious illness of his father.

Try The Democrat for latest style calling cards, either plain or printed in handsome plate script.

When in Rensselaer put your team up at Half A Masker’s feed and hitch barn, one block north of Makeever hotel. ts

Miss Dora Gleason of Fair Oaks, and Miss Jessie White of Dunnvilie, are in attendance at the Teachers’ Association.

Binder twine agents are now placing contracts for next season’s twine. The retail price will be about 14 cents per pound.

The Lez Ricardo vaudeville company, which gave their opening entertainment here a few weeks ago, stranded at Delphi. Frank Bulger, the raised money shover, plead guilty at Indianapolis last Tuesday. He has not resentence at this writing. “Buck’' Stanley's meetings closed Thursday night. About 850 l>eople, including children, signed the pledge and donned the blue ribbon. Mr. Stanley is now holding meetings at Mt. Ayr. Bv the freezing ami bursting of a water pipe in the closet of the Judge’s private office of the new court house last Tuesday night, the floor was flooded and the ceiling of the clerk’s vault damaged to some extent. James Blake, the 14-vear old son of A 1 Blake, who runs the pool room over Rosenbaum’s saloon, was sent to the reform school a few’ days ago, at the request of the boy’s father, who said he could do nothing with him. The boy was caught stealing candy from a freight car, and was arrested and bound over to court previous to his committal to the reform school by Judge Thompson.

H. V. Rees, who has been here for a few weeks working up the Modern Woodmen lodge, has succeeded in getting twenty-seven new members who will be initiated next Tuesday night at the old G. A. R. hall in Odd Fellows’ temple. The initiatory work will be done by the Wadena, Benton county, team of Foresters, fifteen in number. All medibers of the local lodge are requested to be in attendance, and a cordial irritation is also extended to neighboring lodges to be present. A grand good time will be had.

On Wednesday evening last, at the bride’s home in Remington, Mr. John W. Reed, of Medaryville, was married to Miss Phebe Pearl The bridegroom is the well-known son of Mr. Frank M. Reed, merchant of this place, and the bride is the accomplished daughter of Mr. Jasper Guy, a well known attorney of Remington. The young people enter the matrimonial sea under most favorcircumstances and we unite with their friends in wishing them a happy and prosperous journey through iifo.—Medar ville Advertiser. #

Don’t miss seeing Boone, the hipnotist. The White circuit court convenes Monday. Harry Noland was taken to the asylum yesterday. J. N. Timmons of near Valma, has moved to Monticello.* The mercury lias been down to within 5 to 15 degrees of zero this week. Mayor McCoy and family spent Thanksgiving with Mrs. McCoy’s parents at Lafayette. A new serial story begins in this issue of The Democrat. It is a good one, be sure and read it. The Monticello Herald is authority for the statement that Robert Parker of Remington, is contemplating starting a bank at Idaville. The east end of the Washington street sewer, which has been laid some several years, is being taken up and cleaned out. It refused to work. Benton Review: Mrs. Frank Comer and Mrs. Guy Barnard are spending Thanksgiving with their parents, Jos. Hixson ©nd wife, at Kniman.

Miss Iva Alter, in company with her aunt, Mrs. Nancy Davisson, of Fair Oaks, is visiting friends in Arkansas. They will spend the winter there.

The proposed street improvements at Morion have been abandoned for the present, owing to the cost proving more than expected. The bids filed run from $21,664.58 to $23,250.

Mrs. Zoreglar. and daughter, Mrs. Sargent. Miss Nora Gardner and friend, Miss Graham, all of Attica, are spending a few days with the family of James Gardner, of this city.

The world-famed Baldwin hotel at San Francisco was totally destroyed by fire Wednesday morning. At least three lives were lost. The financial loss will reach from $1,500,000 to 82.000,000.

Niekum, the Lognnsport “perpetual light” fraud, was indicted by the l\ S. grand jury at Indianapolis last week for fraudulent use of the mails hi furthering the sale of territory for his alleged invention.

Among those who were home for Thanksgiving were: Misses Gail Wasson and Grace Thompson, of Evanston; Miss Flora Harris of The Art Institute, Chicago; Miss Bertha Nowels of Lafayette; Joe Reynolds of Hammond, Ira Washburn of Chicago.

Ben Hart of Carpenter tp., has begun divorce proceedings against his wife, Mary C. Hart, to whom he was married in March of last year, alleging incompatibility of temper, etc. Both have children by former marriage which is no doubt the seat of the trouble.

City Marshal McGowan is in receipt of a letter from Frank A. Turner, an attorney of Salem, Oregon, asking for information concerning the whereabouts of May Nancy Herbert and Antoine Noma Herbert, brother and sister born near New Orleans, La., and who some years ago located in Northern Indiana. An estate is left to these parties, and any information concerning them should be addressed as above, providing this should meet the eye of any one who knows anything about the people.

An opinion has lately been rendered that a depositor in a bank withdrawing his money personally, can give a receipt in lieu of a check, thus saving the two cents war tax on each withdrawal. The Rensselaer Bank, evor mindful of the interests of its depositors, has followed thet example set by son, of the large national banks and has got out a form of receipt for counter use in conformity therewith, and they are now in regular use at the counters of that institution. These receipts are not negotiable, and are payable only to the maker in person.

Vol. I. No. 33

PROF. BOONE.

Prof. Edwin H. Boone, the noted Hypnotist, will appear at the Ellis Opera House for one night, Monday, Nov. 28. He has created a great sensation all over the country wherever he has appeared, and the newspapers have devoted columns of praise and description of his wonderful feats. Several times he has buried men alive, and after several days they have been exhumed and found to be all right. One of his great feats as a free street feature, is that of driving a double team, blindfolded, through the crowded streets in search of an article hidden by a committee of our leading citizens.

It is a wonderful test of Mind Reading, and has been successfully accomplished by Prof. Boone. He is backed by a carefully selected company, and comes highly recommended. Don’t fail to §ee him_ He will place his subject in a 50 hour hypnotic sleep in the large show window of B. F. Fernlig, Saturday evening, at 7 o'clock. Nov. 26, to remain until Monday night and awakened on the stage at Ellis’ Opera House. Don’t fail to witness his perilous carriage drive. Mind Reading Test, Monday afternoon at 2:B0. from place where subject lies in hypnotic sleep. Admission 25. 35 and. 50 cents. Seats on sale at Opera House Jewelry Store.

Get your sale bills at The Dem 1 ex rat office. | ‘ ' • . ' A whole armload of old papers i for a nickel at The Democrat ofj fice. M. F. Chilcote spent Thanksgiving with his son Fred, at Albany. For Sale: — Lots 5 and 6, block i 13, Newton’s addition to Renssel- ! aer. Enquire at Dem<X’Rat office. Mrs. H. C. Goldsberry, daughter ;Opal, and Miss Emma Bull of Wolcott, were guests of W. H. jCoover and wife over Tlmnksi giving. For Rent:—B room house and [ large barn. Good location and ■ extensive grounds. Inquire of C. ' D. Nowels or address A. S. Nowels, Hammond. I ml. The "Heal" clothing and gents’ furnishing .-tore is to be moved to the room now occupied by Laßue Bros. Read Mr. Wildberg’s ad on last page of to-day's Democrat. ) .Myrtß. Price, the newly elected | surveyor, took his office Monday. His bond is for 81,000 with Robt. Parker and W. S. Russell as sureties. He also filed bond as drain- ! age commissioner in the sum of 55.000.

Crossed electric light w’ires at the home of Mrs. J. H. Loughridge caused an alarm of fire to be given early Tuesday night. No damage to speak of was done and the services of the fire department were not needed. '

F. H. Robertson, whose latest newspaper experience was in starting the Hebron Republican, a Crum packer campaign sheet, has, it is said, moved the outfit to Wheatfield where he will try his luck again at the newspaper business.

Tho official count gives Major a majority of two and Dowell only three. These are narrow margins, but J. A. McFarland will sell you groceries on a narrower margin than that. An official test will show that a pound of good butter or a dozen eggs will buy more at McFarland’s grocery than anywhere else.

Harry Noland, the young man from Remington who was confined in jail here for several months in default of peace bond, and was finally released and taken to Indianapolis by his mother, wandered back to Remington last' week and after bowling up on Remington whiskey, started out to seek some one to 'devour. He wa••finally arrested, and taken befoi Ksquires Bloom and Chapbell for, examination as to his sanity. He was declared insane and application made to Longel ff asylum for ids reception. The unfortunate young man is at present n the county jail. 1