Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1899 — Page 6

pSPER COUNTY DEMOCRAT. fF. E. BABCOCK, Publisher. ||*«StEU£R. - • • mi Ml*

SUMMARY OF NEWS.

I Fully 5,000 persons lost their lives by ■gbc earthquake that wronght havoc in KL. Island of Ceram, according to adMers brotight by the steamship America Hltani. The upheaval shocked the JapaEpnese coast and agitated the adjacent isl- . p :At San Francisco, I'nited States CirLuit Judge Morrow has entered a judgI nient for $45,970 in favor of the United I States and against the bondsmen of exI Internal Revenue Collector O. M. \\ elilmrne. who was recently acquitted of Mnbeulemcut. | Mrs. Jack Gardner. the leader of BohI ton society, has purchased an Italian palIpce and will import it, stone by stone, Kind rebuilt it in that City. When corn* Rieted the first floor will become the refpository for the works of art which Mrs. has collected. E The city council of Toledo, Ohio, has voted to sell the city gas plant, the Mayor, after months of opposition, being 'able to muster only three votes. This ends municipal gas so far as Toledo is concerned. The plant goes into the haflds of J. X. Bick for $228,000. Rev. G. R. Robbins of the Lincoln | Park Baptist Institutional Church, CinI cinnati, has caused a sensation by deIBouncing church fairs and bazaars ns ‘wicked. He says it is more godlike to | let the poor starve to death than to pro- | vide for them through a charity ball. Passenger train No. 18 on the Jersey- ' Central Railroad ran into the rear end j; of extra coal train No. 42(5, abo east I bound, opposite Usury's, l*a. Four train- ; men were killed and two injured. The | wreck caught fire and the engine, sinokf er and baggage car of the passenger - train were burned. The coroner’s jury in St. Louis held I William E. Bremser and Martha A. Wilf letts responsible for the death of Mrs. I Sarah E. Bremser, and warrants were : applied for against them for criminal negligence. The accused are faith cur- | iats, and failed to provide medical at- ; tendance for Mrs. Bremser. At Lima, Ohio, the jury in the caw* of the directors of the American National Bank against Vice President N. L. Michael and Cashier Gus Kalb to .recover the amount stolen from the bank last Christ- ' was eve returned a verdict for the full amount, $18,255.72, and interest. They were charged with negligence. - At a Republican jollification in Irvine, Ky., Edward Parks the town marshal, was killed by Fred Ashcraft. Charles Wallace, colored, was fatally injured during the shooting. Ashcraft ami Wallace had previously given the town marshal trouble, and lie was compelled to shoot while trying to arrest them. The report of a heavy battle between Mexican soldiers and Ynqui braves lias reached Orti*. Genernl Torres, at the ? bead of a column of 1,100 soldiers, fonni ed a halfmoon around the headquarters l of the Yuquis, located about fourteen L miles north of Chumeanpaeo. Torres 1 for«d the Indians to retreat in confu- * siou. While preparing to start for tile South with a tow of coal the steamer Pacific backed into the tow of the Charles Clarke at Pittsburg, staving in her side and sinking two lmrges of 12,000 bushels * of eoal each. The Pacific sank in less than a minute after the collision, but the crew, which included several women, e acting as chambermaids, were rescued,

NEWS NUGGETS.

John O. Domtcr. superintendent of the American Sugar ltefining Company, died hi New York City. 1 John ReyruerhoffVr, Austrian consul at s Galveston, Texas, died suddenly on |y* Broadway, New York, aged 50. Swift IVothers, of Chicago, are re- ; ported to have purchased the Squire packing houses nt Cambridge, Mass. ; Fire destroyed the plant of the North | Amherst Packing Company at North Amherst. Ohio. Loss' about *IO,OOO, The directors of the Mergentlialer Linotyjie Company have declared a quar- |' terly dividend of 2Vj per cent., payable * lH*e. 28. f Mabini, a Filipino leader Who is said to , Is* the real head of the insurrectionary forces, has tieen captured by (Jen. MacArthnr’s troops. | (Jov. Poyuter of Nebraska has appointed ex-Seuntor Allen to fill the Scull; atorial vacancy caused by the death of f Senator liayward. L At To|K*kn, Kan., the jury brought in : a verdict of guilty of manslaughter in ; the third degree nguinst S. E. Yooinan, who in a quarrel last July shot and I killed David Jackson. | According to a preliminary statement issued by the Board of Agriculture the : total wheat yield in Great Britain for : 18110 is estimated at 05,529,525 bushels, J compared with 73,028,850 bushels last {■ year. • B Henry and Edward 11. Deikc, doing k business in New York as D. F. Deike | A Son, manufacturers of glue and gelai tin, have filed a petition in bankruptcy, I with firm liabilities of $50,240 aud assets of *31,175. The Southern Bailway Company has r issued an order which applies to the | aouthern division requiring all employes | to Mop using cigarettes or resign their p positions. In futnre no one will be employed who smokes cigarettes, j Developments prove that Ben Zedler’s tobacco pipe had boon responsible for ' the mine disaster at Carboiplale, Wash. Foreman Bobert Cox’s men found Zed- - ler’s corncob pipe and a bag containing I tobacco where his corpse was discovered. ■J; It is reported that the Standard Maltlog Company will buihl a mammoth malt- | ing plant in Milwaukee with a capacity •- of 1,000,000 bushels and to cost *OOO,OOO. Commander C. I*. Perkins has lieeu & detached from the revenue cutter Michif gau and ordered to duty in charge of the fifteenth light-house district, St. Louis, the Vandalia Dine, has tendered his resi\igßation. On Jan. 1, 1900, he will as- ****** the auperintendeucy of the Pressed Steel Car Company s plant at McKee s ft gLmW l>m -' r i '->• '• ■* • ' JftOCK, X P- gJA-A, 0 .

EASTERN.

The lumber yards of Andrew F. I>*tb•rbee and Blaker & Shepard in Boston were damaged $00,060 by fire. A seat in tfie New York Stock Exchange was sold the other day for $40,000, the highest price ever paid. At Enfield, N. H., the Baltic mill, owned by the American Woolen Mills Company, was partially burned. Loss SIOO,000. Mrs. C. A. Burling, mother-in-law of Rear Admiral William T. Sampson, died at her home in Rochester, N. Y., aged <0 years. . «. John D, Rockefeller is reported to he hacking H. C. Frick in platis to establish an iron aud steel plant to compete with Carnegie, Ralph and Clyde Hendricks, brothers, aged 13 and 11, and Albert Schilling, aged 14, while skating at Gallitzia, Pa., were drowned. The powder works of James S. Miller, near Sumneytowh, Pa., were wrecked by an explosion. Three men wore killed au<f several others injured. The New Jersey State grange declared in favor of electing United States ators by the people and for the extension of rural mail delivery. James MeCouueii, editor and one of the proprietors of the Evening Star of Philadelphia, died suddenly in that city, aged 55 years. Paralysis was the cause. James P. Reed, the famous cheekei player, formerly champion of the world, died at the Homeopathic hospital in Pittsburg, I’a., from an epileptic tit. Reed was 40 years of age. An explosion blew up the nitroglycerin magazine of the Pennsylvania Torpedo Company at Bolivar Hollow, Pa. The shock was felt at a distance of many miles. Nobody was killed. Mrs. Elizabeth Somerville, 83 years old, and her daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Lindsay, 50 years of age, were found dead in their apartments in New York. They had been asphyxiated by gas. Pain's Fireworks Company has made an assignment at Brooklyn. The trouble is said to be due to damage suits arising from an accident at Columbus, Ohio, where many persons were injured. .Commander Charles P. Howell, chief engineer of the United States battleship Maine when that vessel was blown up in Havana harbor, is dead at his home in New York City. lie died from an apoplectic strolat. The Carbon County Improvement Company’s electric light plant, wagon works, foundry, facing mill, ice plant aud machine shop at NVeissport, Pa., were total ly destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at SIOO,OOO.

WESTERN.

W. O. Parker died suddenly of apoplexy in the city hospital at Norwalk, Ohio, aged 71 years.

Unrequited love caused George Spees, a young man at Newark, Ohio, to commit suicide with a revolver.

Charles It. Groves, a politician and salooukeefler of Omaha, was murdered by Tom Collins, a locul tough. The thirty-fourth annual encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic will be held iu Chicago Aug. 28, 20, 30 aud 81, 10(H). At Ashtabula, Ohio, fire destroyed F. M. Rogers’ livery barn. Eleven conveyances were burned. Loss $3,000, partially insured. At Ilarrisouvillc, Mo., fire destroyed the buildings aud yards of the Hurley Lumber Company, causing an estimated loss of $20,000. Congressman-elect Roberts of Utah hns issued an address to the American people denying the right of the House to prevent his being sworn in. At Bt. Louis, Mo., the M. C. Wetmore Tobacco Company, with a capital stock of $250,000, has been formed to run independently of the tobacco trust. An Englishman, claiming to be the agent of Cecil Rhodes and l)r. Jameson, is negotiating for promising properties in the Rainy Lake region of Minnesota. The Cherokee Legislature has passed an act employing Judge William M. Springer of Illinois ns resident attorney for the Cherokees at Washington for one year. The Sacramento, Cal., ehnmber of commerce has adopted resolutions emphatically protesting against the Senate ratifying the Jamaica treaty for reducing the tariff on citrus fruits. Because of family trouble, John Curtis shot and killed X. B. Thompson ami wounded Henry Smith, six miles wefet of El Reno, Okin. Curtis has given himself up. Smith will recover. The manufacturing potters west of the Alieghauies at u meeting in East Liverpool, Ohio, agreed to an advance of 10 per cent on the price of white ware, to tnke effect the first of the year. The Guyana Gold Mining Company, with its principal offices at Marietta, 0., has been incorporated in West Virginia by A. I). Follett and others Of Marietta. The authorized capital is $3,000,000. At Bddcn, Neb., J. N. Blinkiron, n wealthy stockman, was killed by C. F. Harris, a newspaper man. The tragedy resulttsl from an article regarding Blinkiron which appeared iu Harris’ paper.

Col. James Graham and William I\ Cunneeu, two prominent politicians of Bt. Mary’s, Kan., drank from u bottle containing a disinfectant, believing it to be whisky. Both were made seriously ill. The Fort Dodge and Omaha Railroad is practically completed. It is expected that the running of a local service between Council Bluffs aud Fort Dodge, lowa, will be commenced in a few days. The Kansas Supreme Court has declared invalid the law preventing corporations employing more than ten persons from paying them Hi scrip or anything other than lawful United States money. In Lincoln, Neb., Dr. Charles W. Little,. a practitioner of osteopathy, was found guilty of a violation of the medical laws of the State by a jury in the District Court. The action was begun by the State Board of Health. A suburban passenger train op the Burlington road ran down a hand car bearing five men 100 yards west of the bridge at Alton, 111., killing two men outright and fatally injuring two others. The accident is attributed to henry fog. E. R. Howe of Chicago died at the county hospital ju Los Augeles, Cal., from selfcjntlicted gunshot wound*. He shot himself with Suicidal Interit at'Santa Ana on Nov. 15. Uis family, from whom he is estranged, live in Chicago. Taylor Kirk, a noted outlaw, was found gnttty at El Reno, Okla., of the murder of his sister, Mrs. Mary Garborough, at f-i ■ ■ ’ - At

Cloud Chief, Okie. Kirk will be sentenced to death. He shot his sister because she would not go with him to a dance. Oruio Billingsley, the 5-year-old son of Mrs. Annie Biningsley, was burned to death in Chicago. The boy got hold of a box of matches, set fire to bis clothes, and when the mother came into the room was almost burned to a crisp and dead. Warren Arms, third vice-president and active manager of the tin plate trust, in a letter announces that the Riverside mills of Cincinnati will probably be idle all winter. The mill was closed Nor. 1 and over 300 employes left without work.

A head-end collision between a westbound through freight and an east-bound fruit special occurred twelve miles west of Cheyenne, Wyo., An the Union Pacific road. The fireman of the cast-bound, Benjamin Stocking, was killed instantly. Fire at Greenville, Texas, destroyed business property valued at $(55,0U0. The heaviest losses are: Van ltonket’s dry goods store, $14,000; B. O. Wylie & Co., shoes and gents’ furnishing goods, $26,000; Mrs. V. A. King, two biiildings, SIO,OOO. At Tyndall, 8. D., the jury in the famous liquor case of Mary Stafford against Henry Lovinger has returned a verdict of $1,425 damages for the plnintiff. The plaintiff’s husband was killed while intoxicated with liquor obtained in the defendant’s saioou.

Fire damaged several buildings at St. Louis, nnd the entire department was called out. The losses are as follows: Sanders Engraving Company, $50,000; G. H. Boehiner’s retail boot and shoe house, $15,000; North Broadway Furniture house, $50,000.

The Governor of New Mexico iu his annual report estimates the population of the territory at 200,500 and says this year's record will exceed almost all former yeurs in the revenue derived from produce, sheep and cattle. The report renews the plea for statehood. Former Lieut. Colin H. Ball is searching for the little Filipino boy who came from Ma.vla as the Twentieth Kansas’ mascot. Lieut. Ball took the young insurgent to his home iu beduu for the purpose of educating him, but the boy tired of school and ran away. % The west-bound Union Pacific passenger trajn known as the Colorado Special was wrecked at Grand Island, Neb., and Engineer Meyers and Fireman Murphy were seriously injured. Thp wreck was caused by an open switch, the train running into a string of freight cars. As Soon as certain patent suits now pending upon fruit jar glass blowing machines are disposed Of a trust of fruit jar manufacturers will be formed, so it is said upon reliable authority, and the Ball Brothers’ plant of Mnccle, Ind., will be the principal member of the trust. Practically the whole of the Stuck river valley, Wash., is one vast sheet of water. The river itself is a raging flood, covering acres of the most productive laud iu the State aud threatening some substantial dwellings. It is Higher than ever before known since- the valley was settled by white men. v

A difficulty occurred at the Black Diamond coal mines, twenty miles east of Itoekdale, Texas, in which some fifteen or twenty shots were fired, two Mexicans being killed .and one Mexican and a white boy wounded. Thomas Johnson, a negro, acknowledged having done the killing and surrendered. Judge Thayer in the United States Court at St. Louis granted a writ of habeas corpus in the case of John Reese, one of the members of the executive council of the United Mine Workers’ Association of lowa, in jail in Fort Scott, Bourbon County, Kan., for contempt of court. Bail is fixed at $3,000. Louis F. Menage, the fugitive president of the defunct Northwestern Guaranty Loan Company of Minneapolis. Tv ho returned voluntarily from his hiding place iu Mexico a few months ago, after five years’ absence, has been made a free man, all the indictments being quashed on,the grounds that there was no chance of conviction.

Albert Edholm, a prominent Omaha jeweler, was assaulted in his store by G. C. Porter, a newspaper correspondent. Accounts differ as to whether- Porter shot his-victim or clubbed him in the face with the hammer of his pistol. Edholm is positive that he was shot. Porter is equally emphatic in declaring that he did not shoot.

George H. Sawyer, foreman of the Veto ranch, was found dead in a pasture southeast of Goldeu, Colo. Sawyer drove to Denver for supplies, and while returning his team ran away, throwing him out and so seriously injuring him as to render him helpless. The body was found three days later, frozen stiff, and surrounded by coyotes. During a controversy over religiou between J. 8. Charlebois, divine healer, and Mniaehy Dwyer, a well-known resident of Butte, Mont., Dwyer attempted to strike the healer, but dropped dead before he could do so. Charlebois says that he appealed to heavei- for protection aud he believes that Dwyer’s death was an act of Providence.

SOUTHERN.

At Augusta, Ga., a fire which had its origin iu a dry goods store burned four hours aud laid waste a solid block in the center of the business portion of the city. The damage will approximate $1,000,000. Mrs. Ida Lindinger, aged 30, living at Memphis, Tenn., was shot and killed in her apartments. Robert Lindinger, her husband, is held by the police, charged with the killing. At Frankfort, Ivy., the State board of elections gave out an official finding that W. S. Taylor for Governor and the rest of the Republican ticket have been elected on the face of returns. At Adairsville, Ga., Lucy Carbon and her child in arms were killed by “Jim” Mayfield. Frank Bird was wounded. The men were at thp woman’s house and quarreled. The murderer escaped. A rice mill combine or trust fe being organized in Now Orleans. New York capitalists have secured ninety days’ optious on a majority of the rice mills there and will bid for the others. There are' thirteen rice mills with a capacity of 11,700 sacks, which if is proposed to get Into the combine.

FOREIGN.

Dr, Max Lange, the famous German chess master, theoretician and problemist* ie dead at Leipsic. He Was «7 yean old. Emperor Menelek of Abyssinia has asked France and Russia to lend him money to pay the cost of a Enropean trip. Gen. Gat acre’s force was forced to a • f "; ' ,V ; ;V /"■ ’ . *> V s % "

retrent from before Storm burg 1$ the Boers. The British troops were led Into a trap by false Information furnished by Boer sympathisers. Thp English troopship Tyne, carrying a new crew for the special torpedo vessel Polyphemus and other men for the Mwltterrancan squadron, went ashore on Bombridge ledge. Isle of Wight. The French chamber of deputies defeated a motion for the separation of church and state after a heated debate, during which there were several hand-to-hand fights and a number of challenges for duels. During a perforaiaufc? at a theater at Murcia, capital of the province of that name, in Spain, a bomb was exploded, fire broke out and the theater was destroyed. The audience, however, got out without serious loss. The London Times prints a letter from an American citizen who left Johannesburg because he was liable to be impressed, and who had learned that the United States consul was nnable to protect him. He complains bitterly that the American flag was not respected in Pretoria, that his passport was not recognised, and that his position was practically unbearable.

IN GENERAL.

Montreal capitalists have incorporated a company to build a railroad over Chilkoot Pass.

It was announced that Willis J. Abbot, well known in newspaper circles throughout the United States, has been selected to take charge of the press bureau of the Democratic national committee. Elections for the provincial legislature were held throughout the province of Manitoba. The returns show the election of twenty-one Conservatives and sixteen Liberals.

Benjamin Armitage, a close friend of John Bright and Richard Coliden, who assisted in framing the treaty of commerce with France and served several terms in Parliament, is dead. William Weir, president of the defunct Yille Marie Bank of Montreal, convicted of furuishiug a false statement of the bank’s affairs to the Government, has been to two years’ imprisonment.

The Canadian steamer Niagara has foundered in Lake Erie aud all hands were lost. ■ The crew comprised sixteen persons, ail told. The Niagara had a cargo of lumber and shingles bound from Georgian Bay to Buffalo. The American Window Glass Company is reported to have made a cut of 33 1-3 per cent in the price of all window glass, aud to have ordered fires lighted in all its factories, the purpose being to resume operations about Jan. 1. The steamer Knmapo reported that while in Lake Erie twenty miles below Long Point, she passed through a quantity of wreckage, including a portion of a cabin. No distinguishing marks could be made out, but it is believed that some vessel must have gone to pieces. Mile. Anna Lltimpke, the sole legatee of Rosa Bonheur, announces her intention to found an annual prize of 1,500 francs in memory of Rosa Bonheur, to be awarded by the Salon Ju to the best painting, whether by a man or a woman, French or foreign. The entire crop of sugar cane and beet for 1800-1000 will arnouut to about B,UUUt--000 tons —about tbe same amount as last year—according to carefully prepared statistics submitted to the State Depart raent by United States Consul Diederich at M*Sdcbt ir S> Germany. Of this amount th« United States uses about one-fourth. A memorable year for tbe lake shipping tegde ended the other day when the navigation season formally came to a close. Not ouly have profits to vessel owners been unprecedented, but there is every promise that the next season will be just as profitable to the lake trade. The enormous demand for iron .ore was the main cause of the lake boom. Bradstreet’s says: “The last month of the year has opened auspiciously, finding trade and industry generally well employed, demand treading close upon and even passing supply, labor troubles averted in some instances by widespread advances in wages, of small importance except in one or two cities and with the general level of values of staples at the highest point reached for eight years past. Holiday demand has opened well and collections from retail trades therefore show some improvement. ' ‘ The strength of cereals, notably wheat, this week, is a reflection largely of decreased receipts at the Northwest. Wheat, including floor, shipments for the week aggregate 5,133,331 bushels, against 3,(590,400 bushels last week. Corn exports for the week aggregate 3.813J599 bushels, against 4,441,514 bushels last week.”

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $7.75; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat. No. 2 red, 05c to 00c; corn, No. 2,30 eto 31c; oats. No. 2,22 c to 23c; rye, No. 2,53 cto 54c; butter, choice creamery, 24c to 20c; eggs, fresh,' 20c to 21c; potatoes, choice, 40c to 50c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $0.50; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4225; sheep, common to prime, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2, Csc to 00c; corn. No. 2 white, 30c to 31c; oats. No. 2 white, 26c to 28c. Bt. Louis—Cattle, $3.25 to $7.00; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $3.00 to $4215; wheat, No. 2, (59c to 71c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 30c to 32c; oats, No. 2,23 cto 25c; rye, No. 2,51 cto 53c. . Cincinnati—Cattle, $2.50 to SG.SO; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $2.50 to $4225; wheat, No. 2,70 cto 71c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 31c to 33c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 26c to 27c; rye, No. 2,00 cto 62c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $6.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $3.00 to $4225; wheat. No. 2,09 cto 70c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 33c to 34c; oats, No. 2 white, 26c to 27c; rye, 57c to 58c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed. 68c to 69c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 31c to 33c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 23c to 25c; rye, No. 2,55 c to 57c; clover seed, $4.80 to $41)0. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 northern. 65c to 06c; corn, No. 3,30 cto 32c; oats, No. 2 white, 24c to 26c; rye. No. L 55c to 57c; barley. No. 2,42 cto 44c; pork, mess, $8.25 to sß.<o. Buffalo —Cattle, good shipping steers, $3.00 to $6.75; hogs, common to choice, $3.25 to $4.50; sheep, fair to chbice, $3.00 to New York—Cnttle. $3.25 to $6.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep. $3.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 74c to 75c; com, No. 2, JOcAo 41c; oats. No^w trite, 30e to 32c;

Professional Cards. ATTORNEYS Edward P. Honan, - ATTORNEY AT LAW. Law, Abstracts, Real Estate. l.oans. Will practice In all tbs courts. (Me* Ant stain cast of PostoMce. RENSSELAER. INDIANA. Hanley & Hunt, , Law, Abstracts, Loans and Real Estate. Office up-statas in Leopold’s block, first stairs west of Van Rensselaer street. Geo. E. Hollingsworth Arthur H. Hopkins Hollingsworth & Hopkins, Attorneys at Law. UWOffice over Cotamereial State Bank. Practice in all the courts, purchase, sell and lease real estate. Attorneys for Rensselaer B.L. AS. Association.

Jas. W. Douthit, LAWYER, Rensselaer, v Indiana.

■ - \ Wm. B. Austin, Lawyer and Investment Broker Attorney For The L. X. A. AC.Ry. and Rensselaer W.L.A P. Co. Pm—Office over Chicago Bargain Store. Rensselaer, Indiana.

rSAHK COLTS. C. O. SHTUL MARRY R. KURRIS Foltz, Spitler & Kurrie, (Successors to Thompson A Bro.) Attomeys-at-Law. Law, Real Estate. Insurance Abstracts and Loans. Only set of Abstract Books in the County. RENSSELAER, IND.

Mordecai F. Chilcote, William H. Parkison Notary Public. Notary Public. Chilcote & Parkison, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW. Law, Real Estate, Insurance, Abstracts and Loans. Attorneys for the Chicago. Indianapolis & Louisville Railway Co. Will practice in all of the courts. Office over Farmers’ Bank, on Washington St.. RENSSELAER, IND.

3. F. Warren , 3. F. Irwin Warren & Irwin, • Real Estate, Abstracts. Collections, Farm Loans and Fire Insurance. Office in Odd Fellow’s Block. RENSSELAER. INDIANA.

R. S. Dwiggins, COUNCILOR AT LAW, Office in Room 7. Forsythe block, Rensselaer, Ind.

Ira W. Yeoman, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Remington, ... Indiana. Law. Real Estate. Collections, Insurance and Farm Loans. Office upstairs in Durand Block.

. B A NKING • __ _ Addison POrkiaaon. John M. Wasson. President. Vice President. Emmet L. Hollingsworth, Cashier. Commercial State Bank, (North Side of Public Sqnare.) RENSSELAER, IND. The Only State Bank in Jasper Co DUUECTORB. Addison Parkison. G. E. Murray, Jas.T. Randle. John M. Wasson and Emmet L. Hollingsworth. This bank is prepared to transact a , general banking business. Interest allowed on time deposits. Honey loaned and good notes bought at current rates of interest. A share of your patronage is solicited. PHYSICIANS. I. B. Washburn, Physician & Surgeon. Dr. Washburn will give special attention to Diseases of the Eye, Bar. Nose, Throat and Chrouie Diseases. He also tests eyes for glasses. Omci Tiummi Mo. 4X Rssissoes Pmoms No. S 7. Rensselaer, - - Indiana. B. C. English, Physician & Surgeon. Office over Postoffiee. Rensselaer, Indiana. Omci Pmohi. 177. Rssiosscs Pmoms, lift. DENTIST. H. L. BROWN, Dentist Office over F B. Meyer’s drug store. JOHN H. JESSEN, CIVIL ENGINEER. 4 make a specialty of all kinds of ditch work. Estimates of cost of construction furnished. Orders left at The Democrat office will receive prompt attention. - -- The Democrat carries the largest and finest line of job stock of any printing office in Jasper County and can furnish anything in this line in large or small qnanties and. oa very sfaort noticc. ,

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« Rh’S. -» CHICAOO. INDIANAPOLIS A LOUISVILLS EY. Rensselaer Time-Table, Corrected to May 8.1899. South Bound. No.Bl—Fast Mail 4:48a,m. No. 9—Louisville Mail, (daily) 10-55 a. m. No. 33—Indianapolis Mail, (daily).. 1:45 p. m. No. 39 —Milk aocomm;, (daily)..... .. 6:15 p. m. No. 3—Louisville Express, (daily).. 11:04 p. m. •No. 45 Local freight 2:40 p.m. North Bound. No. 4-Mail, (daily).. 4:30 a.m. No. 40—Milk accomm., (dally) 7:31 a.m. No. 32-Fast Mail, (daily) 9:55 a. m. •No. 39—Cia.to Chicago Yes. Mall.. 6:32 p. m. INo. 38—Cin. to Chicago...,-. 2:57 p.m. No. 6—Mail and Express, (daily)... 3:27 p. m. •No. 46—Local freight... 9:30 a. in. No. 74—Freight, (dnily( 9:09 p. m. •Daily except Sunday. fSunaay only. No. 74 carries passengers between Monon and Lowell. Hammond has been made a regular stop for No. 30. No. 32 end 33 now stop at Cedar Lake. Fkakk J. Reed, G. P. A., W. H. McDoel, President aUd.Gen. M’g’r, Chas. H. Rockwell, Traffic M’g r. CHICAOO. W. H. Beau, Agent. Rensselaer. iiAIVWWAAAIVWWILvWVWVVWV : New Undertaking ; 5 In Horton building, one door s , t west of Mskeever House, with a C , [ com pie e and first-class stock of !; FUNERAL FURNISHINGS 5 I respectfully solicit a share of tbe public's patronage and guarantee sat- $ ? isfaction in every respect. Calls ■, 1 1 promptly responded to day or n ight. ] i A. B. COWGILL, \\ 1 1 Residence at Makeever House, mcm «•». j i y t rviw w t"'t t » r » w o o y w w wt t, DATCIITC : rAI tnlO''v. 0 T p .K H,s : ADVICE AS TO PATENTABILITY PR E If > Notice in “ Inventive Age ” hUhh - Book “How to obtain Patents” g iHlllk ' ’ Charges moderate. No fee till patent is secured.' Letters strictly confidential. Address, " E. 6. SI66ERS, Patent Lawyer. Washington?!). C.' Needle m fa Ik an d the simplest and best Sewing Running Sew- \<jj ing Machine^ You Cannot Afford to do your sewing on the old style shuttle machine when you can do It BETTER , QUICKER AND EASIER on the new No. 9 WHEELER & WILSON. The Wheeler & Wilson is Easy Ranning, Rapid, Quiet and Durable. No Shuttle , No. Noise, No Shaking. See it before buying. Agent or dealer weuted for this .territory and vicinity. For particulars add rose Wheel, er A Wilson, Mfg. Co., 80 A 82 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Ills. ' : I*AAAS*A*A*»»A«AAW*AAAA4VV^AAA%, ; caveats,andTrad^*rks^taSl«ldlflJßiri! lent business conducted for Moderate Pees. ;! Our Orr.cc id opposite U.S. Patent Orrice i ; ,and we can secure patent In less time than those ’ , remote from Washington. ! S«“d model, drawing or photo., with descrip- > , *(“"• We advise, if patentable or not, free of [ , charge. Oar fee not due till patent is secured. A PastPHUCT, “ How to Obtain Patents,” with 1 suS^&r*AddrMs, U ’ S ' !Uld fo ™‘« n ««»nlri*s elb* Hoosler Poultry Powder ff^TaSfSsp?yohsrCuh? r *’ Q * s ** “*