Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1899 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

100 good envelopes with your return card printed thereon for only 50 cents, at this office. You should see C. A. Roberts for Buggies and Road Wagons before buying. It will cost you nothing to see them. At the rear of Glazebrook’s blacksmith shop. Warren & Irwin are making loans on farm or city property at a low rate of interest and commission and on more liberal terms than can be obtained elsewhere in Jasper County. There seems to be no end to the May-Dluzak trouble in Milroy tp. This week Jacob Dluzak was again arrested on the old corn-stealing charge, on an indictment from White county, notwithstanding the fact that he had twice before been tried in justice’s court on the same charge and discharged. His bail was fixed at S3OO, which was furnished yesterday morning by his son, Joseph.

Burt Hodgkins and Arthur Kherns, the well-known comedians will be seen at Ellis’ Opera House, Saturday night, Oct. 28th, in their new play “Uncle Seth Haskins.” The piece is a pretty story of life in the rural districts of Vermont and abounds in comedy and pathos, so intermingled that a tear is chased away by a laugh only to be turned again into a tear. Two bands are carried by the company which take part in the parade.

The foot ball game last Friday resulted in defeat for the Chicago team, score 17 to 0. No casualities. Sheridan was billed against Rensselaer at Riverside Park yesterday aftereoon, but owing to the inclement weather, the prospects for a game were not very favorable at the time of our going to press. Saturday’s foot ball game at St. Joseph’s college grounds between the Rensselaer high school and college team, resulted in a score of 12 to 0 in favor of the high school boys.

Eliza A. Marion vs Lorenzo D. Marion, is the title of a new divorce case filed in the Jasper circuit court. The parties reside near Pleasant Ridge, we understand, and were married Feb. 21, 1866. They lived together until Oct. 9, 1899, when they separated and have not since cohabited as husband and wife. They have one daughter, Rosetta Marion, 18 years of age. Cruel and inhuman treatment is charged in the complaint. Plaintiff asks for custody of the child and $2,000 alimony, and that she may be allowed to resume her former name. The cases instituted by Geo. E. Marshall, editor of the Rensselaer Republican, against Homer Babcock, were dismissed on request of the prosecuting witness, the defendant having made “apology, both written ana verbal,” says the Republican. One of the affidavits made by Mr. Marshal charged a felony, and it would seem that were the charges made in the affidavit true, Mr. Marshall comes dangerously near laying himself liable to prosecution in having this particular case dismissed, as the statute designates such action compounding a felony and holds thtf party so doing equally guilty.

A. G. Birch, a freight brakeman oh the Indianapolis division of the Monon, fell between the cars as his train left Monon Tuesday morning at about IDO a. m., and both legs were cut off below the knee. He was not missed until the train reached Delphi. He lay beside the track with his life blood ebbing away until the north bound passenger train came along, when the dying man crawled to the track and placed a torpedo on the rails. The explosion of the torpedo, which is a signal of danger, caused the engineer to stop the train and the man was. found and taken to the depot at Monon, about one-half mile away, and doctors hurriedly summoned to attend his injuries. He had lost too much blood, however, and only survived about an hour after being picked up. Birch was a young, unmarried man, his parents residing at Crawsfordsville, and he had been in the employ of the railroad 'for some time.