Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1899 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat.

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m rnui i iiyvi• • • (< 18-; Carriages, Buggies, Wagons, Bicycles. W X | WOOD WORK, « B Of all kinds on Carriages, Buggies, Plows, (< f Etc, Etc. S » • g BLACKSMITHING, « M And repairing of every description. Horse- Q Sk shoeing, 4 Shoes for 50c. My prices are ? • . always right. All work fully warranted.® tn ■ * /m ■ | TUB SOOTH MIMI WIIOICBRMIGE W. • < . J. P. WARNER, Proprietor. L

| L. S. RENICKER, 1 £ —DEALER IN — 4 | flwiilM l*na Woßons i Buggies i f The Lafayette Wagon, the finest wagon J fr on the market ; John Deere Plows and 4 L « the Zanesville Brown Cultivators —“Jen- j | nie Brown;” also full line of the Ohio j fr Rake Co’s goods. Call and see the Bull’s 4 A Eye Corn Planter, most accurate dropper j ► on the market. 4 ► Near the Depot, Rensselaer, Ind. <

SUNSTROKE In Battle. j.l.spehcer, Of Platteville. Wla., formerly of Co. G. 87th Wisconsin In tty., has suffered many, years from the result of a sunstroke. He has found relief and desires to tell his story for the good of other veterans- fie says: "At Petersburg I was sunstracfc and carried off the field for dead. Later rheumatism of my heart developed as a result and physidans failed to benefit me. In the spring of *951 began using Dr. Miles* Heart Cure and Dr. Miles’ Nervine and now my health is better than for 30 yean before.** DR. MILES 1 Heart Cure is sold by all druggists on guarantee first bottle benefits or money back. Book on heart and nerves sent free. Dr. Mlles Medical Company, Elkhart, Ind. HARRIAGE Ervin Grant Bushey to Mary Hancock, issued April 18. BIRTHS. April 18, to Mrs. and Mr. A. Anderson, in town, a girl. April 18, to Mr. and Mrs. Peter Wagner, a girl. wells noosier Houitry Howaer Makes Hens Lay* cures Cholera. Genes and Soup, tnd keep.KUltiySgSU. J , 7 Sold by A. F. Long.

••'Steg,, DR. MOORE, Specialist, Office First Stairs West of Post Office. RENSSELAER, IND. - - ~ * ■ - -■ ' ' . _

What Is the Matter With This? We will sell you Buggies and Carriages 25 cents on the dollar cheaper than you have been paying heretofore, besides we will take your old buggy or anything else you have to trade on a new rigat all they are worth. We have some second-hand rigs and light harness we will sell at almost any old price. When in town drop in and see us and we will prove to you that we will do what we advertise. Worland & Landwerlen, The new Buggy and Carriage firm next door to Short’s livery barn, Rensselaer, Ind. (PyMlg yr L “Saw Edge" Collars and poor laundry work have spoiled this man’s temperand ruined his linen. If you know him tell him The American irons the edge of every collar and cuff with the latest machine for the purpose. You can wear a CHOKER WITH COMFORT when done by us American Steam Laundry, LAFAYETTE, IND, C. H. VICK, Agt. Rensselaer, Ind.

Rensselaer, Jasper County, Indiana, Saturday, April 22, 1899. F ,-, , . _.. . .

LOCAL MATTERS. Thos. Parker is nursing a broken arm. Hear the lecture at the M. E. church to-night. Valparaiso is to , have another republican paper. ■» ■— * . Link Wright of Morocco, was in the city Tuesday. Elder Sheppard is holding meetings at Good Hope this week. Copies of the new acts were received by Clerk Coover Thursday. Eva Morgan of Rensselaer, has been granted a pension of sl2 per month. Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Moorhead, of Remington, were in Rensselaer, Tuesday. A. B. Cowgill was called to Illinois last Friday by the death of his father. Uncle James Culp of Lee, was in the city on business Thursday and yesterday. Tom Boyle’s Brown county sawmill, was destroyed by fire one night last week. S. C. Robinson of Rensselaer, was appointed a railway mail clerk last Monday. The late T. E. Allison of Walker township, carried 53,000 life insurance in a fraternal order. Mr. I. French was called to Lincoln, Neb, by the dangerous illness of her mother, Mrs. Cook. The Telephone says that Wheatfield has 123 children of school age, an increase of 18 over last year. T Henry Welsh, Geo. Besse, J. J. Porter and John Mitchell of Remington were in the city Saturday.

Zern Wright has gone to Birmingham, Ala., where he will assist his father in “digging” gold. Two deaths are reported from Mt. Ayr, Harvey Baldwin and John Richinson, both old residents. Tom M’Coy is “mentioned” for Congress. Tom has been very successful raising Hereford bulls. —Fowler Leader. For Sale: —Two bedsteads with springs, and six dining chairs. For name of owner enquire at this office. John Schnekenberger, an old and well known resident of Morocco, died at his home in that place on the 13th inst. Edward Lakin and Albert Keener of near Blackford, have gone to Biawbik, Minn., where they have a position in a machine shop. The complaint of a poor outlook for a wheat crop seems to be pretty general throughout this section of the state. Elder W. H. Applegate, who recently moved here from Delphi, has secured a charge at Macomb, Ohio, and moved to that place yesterday. Mrs. Alfred Hoover, who has been an invalid for the past year or more, was taken to St. Vincent’s hospital at Indianapolis last Wednesday, for treatment. Several of the Rensselaer High school boys went out and took dinner with their classmate Robert Crockett, at his home southeast of town last Sunday. The citizens’ corporation ticket at Wheatfield is as follows: Trustees, Ist ward, August Statchel; 3d ward, J. H. Tilton; clerk and treasurer, M. Bernicken; marshal, W. Brown, At a special meeting of the town board, Tuesday evening, the Central Union Telephone Co., (the BbII) longdistance, was given permission to run their line through town.—Oxford Tribune. A Warsaw, JLnd., dispatch states that the grand jury there has returned indictments against several of the county officers, including two of the present county commissioners and two ex-commissioners. They are said to have been interested in public contracts.

Chase Kelley has a new steam peanut-roaster and corn popper. Mrs. W. A. Miller was called to Chicago last Saturday by the death of her sister, Mrs. S. H. Burns. B. Cawley and wife, W. H. Shessler and Ira W. Yeoman of Remington, were in the city Monday. A large number of people are taking advantage of the S7OO real estate mortgage exemption law in this county. The time for filing these affidavits expires on April 30. Both the democratic ani republican corporation conventions, at Monon resoluted in favor of a general reduction of salaries of town officers and more rigid economy in conducting the town’s business. Among the Remington people in the city Tuesday, most of them having been called here by business in court, were: Robt. Packer, Jasper Guy; Chas. F. Fisher, I. D. Luckey, M. B. Graham, Wm. Chappell and Gus Hoops. Mrs. Virg. Sayler of near Medaryville, was interred in Weston cemetery last Wednesday afternoon. The cause of her death was lung trouble, resulting from a severe attack of the grippe. She leaves a mother, Mrs. Mattie Henkle of this city, a husband and two children to mourn their loss. It is said that a 300-pound lady at Morocco' carries a revolver and bowie knife strapped to her belt. We have failed thus far to observe any confirmation of this report in the Courier, but the fact that Bio. Schanlaub must pass her resident e in going to and from his meals perhaps accounts for the omission.

The 8-day-old infant of Alfred Anderson died Thursday night. The babe had been in a state of semi-coma during the afternoon and about 11 o’clock p. m., Mrs. Anderson awakened and noticed that the little one’s hands were cold. This led to the discovery that the babe had been dead for some hours. The wife of William Hawkins, a farmer residing near Brookston, was burned to death last week while assisting her husband in extinguishing a fire in a clover field upon their farm. Her clothing became ignited and before it could be extinguished she had received fatal burns. She had been married about five years and leaves two children. Rev. Thomas Craver, A. M., who has spent 23 years of his life in India, will lecture on the “Dark and Bright Side of Life in India,” at the M. E. church to-night, admission 10 cents. Rev. Craver carries many flattering testimonials, and all should avail themselves of this opportunity of hearing an interesting lecturer on an interesting subject. The 8-months old son of Editor and Mrs. G. E. Marshall, mention of whose serious illness was made in our columns last week, died Sunday morning and was buried Monday afternoon. The immediate cause of its death was brain fever, although it had been ailing for several months. Mr. and Mrs. Marshall have the deepest sympathy of The Democrat in their bereavement.

Chas. E. Mills of Rensselaer, attended the meeting of the town board Friday evening in the interests of the Jasper Telephone Co., to whom the town had tendered a franchise taxing them 50 cents a pole for each pole within the corporation. Mr. Mills claimed this tax was unjust and excessive, but the Board did not coincide with his views and refused to modify their ruling.—Remington Press. The appellate court on Tuesday reversed the decision of the lower court in the celebrated W. B. Austin wine case, and held that it was not a crime to give wine to guests. This case grew out of Mr. Austin’s keeping “open house” on New Year’s Day, 1898, and serving champaigne to guests. He was convicted of giving away intoxicants on a holiday. The case was appealed to the higher courts with the above result.

A Combination of Errors.

Probably the most interesting case tried in court this week was that of the State vs JohnTE. Alter, .gx-county surveyor, for perjury in swearing to a false claim before the commissioners of Jasper county and for which offense he was indicted by the grand jury in December. The indictment was quashed as faulty, and an affidavit and information was then filed, but nothing further done with the case until this term. The facts in this case are familiar to most of the readers of The Democrat. The evidence introduced by the state showed that the work for which Mr. Alter filed the claim and swore to its correctness, was never done, that Mr. Jessen went out and posted some notices for cleaning an allotment on the Coates ditch on Oct. 8, that Mr. Alter asked him to go, and that on returning he went to Mr. Alter and the latter told him to go to the county auditor and get his pay or put in a claim for same. This Mr. Jessen did, the claim being SI.BO, and the same was taxed up against the landowner as taxes and in due time paid to Mr. Jessen by the county treasurer. This work was One in which the county surveyor had nothing to do with, except, on request of the auditor, he found a party to post the notices, the work coming under the duties of the auditor’s office, and not the surveyor. It was shown that the warrant was issued to Mr. Alter himself and that it was paid by the county treasurer on Dec. 22,1898. (When the writer called Upon Treasurer Gwin about Feb. 1, to see if this warrant had ever been paid, it could not be found, but Mr. Gwin produced the warrant in court all right.) Mr. Alter received the money but had never told Mr. Jessen that he had some money for him, nor had he done so to this day. Neither had he turned it back to the county treasury on finding that Mr. Jessen had received his pay for the work for which be filed the claim.

The defense took the ground that the whole thing from beginning to end was a mistake; that Mr. Alter made a mistake in filing the bill; that he made a mistake in swearing that the alleged services had never been paid for; that he made a mistake in collecting the money on the order, as he didn’t know what it was for; that the auditor made a mistake in entering the claim on the docket in the name of J. E. Alter instead of John H. Jessen; that the commissioners who examined the claim failed to notice that it purported that Jasper county owed John H. Jessen, and not J. E. Alter the amount of the bill, and allowed it in Mr. Alter’s name; that another mistake was made in the auditor’s entering it on the commissioners’ record in Mr. Alter’s name instead of that of John H. Jessen; that the auditor also made a mistake in issuing the warrant to Mr. Alter instead of Mr. Jessen, and that Mr. Alter made a mistake in not observing that he had been paid the amount of the claim which he alleged was due Mr. Jessen. In fact no such series of “mistakes’, was ever before aired in court as occured in this case—in the opinion of the defense. The state attempted to show that Mr. Alter had been in the habit of employing people to work for him at a certain price and had then charged the county a very different and much higher price, and had witnesses present for this purpose, but the evidence was not admitted, as it bad no bearing on this particular case. In summing up the case Mr. Mills opened for the state and made an eloquent plea for the prisoner. Frank Foltz for the defense followed and told the jury how it was all a mistake, and that mistakes were very apt to occur even among county officers, etc., and asked that the prisoner be acquitted. / Prosecutor Chizum closed the argument for the state and made a very able plea. He stated that it was not the small amount involved that should be taken into consideration; that a like amount here and a like amount there soon run up into hundreds of dollars, and the jury should give the evidence the same weight they would

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were it a larger sum. Then followed the Judge’s instructions which were quite lengthy, and the case went to the jury. The least penalty that could be meted out, had the jury returned a verdict of guilty, was two years in the penitentiary. After being out one hour and fifteen minutes, they agreed on a verdict acquitting him of the charge. They were quite badly divided on the case for some time, it is said.

Most of the farmers whose lands are tiled have finished sowing oats. The next session of the Logansg>rt Presbytery will be held fat ensselaer. Yesterday was a very warm spring day and the indications were good for another April shower as we go to press. The Chicago Bargain Store has the largest and finest display of ladies’ and gents’ umbrellas, in its display windows, ever seen in Rensselaer. The Monon has at last been transferred to the Vandeibilts. There will be no change in the management, it is said, it continuing to be operated as an independent line. Will Schanlaub is now installed as foreman in The Democrat office. He expects to teach again the coming school year, and has a position as teacher in the sixth and seventh year grades in the Morocco city schools.

Wants Suggestions.

The Judge wishes to appoint, as members of each County and Township Council, in this Circuit, only those who are without bias for or against the elective officers, and who will be able and willing to give the law a fair trial, and due effect. He has no favorites, and would be glad to receive timely suggestions from each county, district and township. S. P. Thompson, Judge of the 30th Circuit Rensselaer, Ind.. April 18, ’99.

Excitement at Monticello.

Monticello has been having her share of sensation the past few days. Last Saturday Rev. Steward, a colored preacher residing at that place, was removing a pile of manure at the back end of his lot when he came upon the remains of an infant which had apparently been buried in manure. The remains were in a bad state of decomposition and soon crumbled on exposure to air. The find created intense excitement and the coroner put in several days investigating and returned a verdict that “the infant was placed in the manure pile soon after birth by parties unknown to him, and placed there some time after December, 1898. The age and sex of the infant unknown.” Sunday evening the denizens of the picturesque city on the banks of the Tippecanoe were again plunged into a fever of excitement. Mrs. Monroe Watkins, wife of a cigar dealer, attempted to shuffle off this mortal coil via the strychnine route, and was only saved by the heroic efforts of physicians.

Ladies' Literary Club.

The Ladies’ Literary Club gave an open meeting, Friday evening, at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Wasson, at which there was a large attendance. The following program was rendered. PROGRAM. Club song Society Prayerßev. Middleton Quotations 4. .Society Instrumental Duet .Della and Mildred Harris Review of year’s work Mrs. Ooover. Mandolin and piano. Glen Robinson, Edna Thompson Recitation Mary Jeffries Vocal Solo Dollie Shuck Recitation Mrs. Hemphill Selection Mrs. Leatherock Instrumental Solo.. .Miss Moody The words of the Club song were written by Mrs. Leatherock and the music composed by Mrs. S. P. Thompson. •

Morris’ English Stable Powder rrtMt sea. vMtavh Sold by A. F. Long.