Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1900 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

The family of Jnlius Huff of Jordan tp , is sick with lung fever. Mrs. G. K. Hollingsworth has returned from Indiana Mineral Springs^ Just received —A car load of barbed wire, smooth wire and poultry wire, at the Chicago Department Store. New pensions: Andrew Keok, Montideilo, additional, $8 to sl2; Jonathan Hess, Chalmers, increase, sl4 to sl7; John Milter, Monticello, increase, $6 to SB. Geo. Moorhead of Carpenter tp., was in the city yesterday and left a dollar to pay for fifty-two weekly visits of The Democrat to his brother Philo, at Petrolia, California.

Mr. Richardson, a young man aboot 19 years of age, who resided with his parents on the Jacob Ochs farm in Carpenter tp., died yesterday morning after a brief illness. Tho family recently moved to that vicinity from near Aix. The farm house occupied by Stephen Protzman, 3J miles southwest of Mt., Ayr, was destroyed by fire last Monday morning, together with all contents. Tho occnpanta had a close call to getting out alive. A dejective flue was the cause. Dwelling was insured but no insurance was carried on household goods. The Republican postmaster at Tyner recently paid his quarterly account with the government in gold. The coins he sent were short weight whioh the government officials required the postmaster to make good. He supposed that gold was the “standard” and is not at all pleased that he should be required to make up a deficiency occasioned by “wear and tear.” —Plymouth Democrat. Chas. W. Hanley received three walking canes from an uncle in lowa last Wednesday that have an interestsng history. The wood from which the canes were made was brought from the Philippines by a returned soldier. Two of them are cocoannt wood and the third is mahogany. One of the canes was for Charlie, one for his father at Kniman, and the other for a friend. The ferrules are made from Remington cartridges and the points of conical brass bullets, each of which has an interesting history. One of the cartridges was taken from the pocket of a dead Filipino at Colnmpit, and we had partially convinced Charlie that the redish substance on one side was some of the aforesaid Filipino’s life blood, bat Jud Hunt came in jnst then and examined it critically and pronounced it nothing but q_little of the glue which held tho bullet in place. Such sacrilegous remarks as that caused the value of the cane to shrink considerably in Charlie’s estimation, but he is still inclined to think the stuff is blood, a belief whichcan be greatly strengthened by a little perseverance on the .part of his friends. Just received—2 car loads Minnesota flour (300 barrels.) Best of All brand nnd Eluluth Imperial at the Chicago Department Store.