Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1900 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

The five-year-old daughter of Frank Ashly of Kentland, was burned to death Saturday by her clothing catching fire from a stove. New pensions: Perry Taylor, Brook, increase, $lO to sl2; William Toyne, Goodland, increase, sl2 to sl4; James A. Ramey, Rensselaer, increase, $6 to sl4. A tramp about 40 years of age was killed by the west bound Panhandle express train about a mile west of Monticello Thursday morning. The man was terribly mutilated. A card found in one of his pockets, it is supposed bore his name, J. A. McColloch, and the address of his parents in New York City. s Geo. H. Holt, a farmer of Sciota 111., committed suicide at Kentland last Saturday by hanging himself with binder twine from the door of a box car standing on the siding in front of the depot. He had left home in a demented condition it is thought. He was in fairly good circumstances financially. —— John R. McAfee, a wealthy Tippecanoe County citizen, has traded 880 acres of Jasper County land for the plant of the Delphi Manufacturing Company and a cash consideration. The land is valued at $44,000. • The plant was owned by W. R. Rinehart of Buffalo, N. Y., but has been closed down for some time. The plant will resume operations at once, says a Delphi dispatch.

We would respectfully call the attention of the republicans of this township to the fact that of the 16 delegates selected last Saturday to the congressional, senatorial, representative and judicial conventions, 15 are from Rensselaer, while the sixteenth —J. W. Cowden—lives out about one mile out and is more of a town man than a country representative. But of course there is no ring in town that runs political matters? Oh, no! F. E. Duvall, an energetic and well known young democrat of Jordan tp., has been prevailed upon by his many friends to make the race for the nomination for township trustee of that township. Mr. Duvall is a young man of sterling character, endowed with good sound business ability, is throughly < apable, being a good schojar, and would make a good trustee. His announcement appears in our announcement column this week.

The Goodland Herald announces that on March Ist the subscription price of that journal will be increased from $1 to $1.50, owing to the heavy advance in the cost of paper. The print paper trust is making matters serious for publishers of $1 per year newspapers, and it is quite evident that others wiU be forced to follow the Herald's example soon. The cost of issuing a paper now is nearly double what it was six months ago. and the trusts are still applying the screws. D. B. Novels, Wallace Robinson and Charles and John Paxton returned last Friday from their western trip. They were much enthused over the future prospects of Lamar, Colorado, the county seat of Prowers county, and where our former townsman Ezra C. Nowels is now located, and made some investments in town lots there and farm lands near by. J. W. Paxton will soon locate at Lamar, we are informed, and the others are abb thinking some of locating there ere long

Col. Gifford the railroad projector wants Monon to make him some tangible proposition. He suggests that the township vote a two per cent tax as an inducement. The people of Monon and Monon tp., are not in the market to buy a railroad at all. We are getting along pretty well, thank you, with our present railroad facilities and have no time to chase around after the loose end of a grapevine. The sentiment of the community seems tp be, so far as the News has been able to gather it, that Mr. Gifford can take his railroad scheme and work it off on a more credulous people, if subsidies is what he is out for.—Monon News.