Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1900 — Page 7

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IMi hi 818 kllliHj {4 as IBlfi flfiHil CHICAOO, IMOIANAFOLIS * LOUttVIkU MY. Rensselaer Time-Table, Corrected to May 8,1899. South Bound. No. 81-Fast Mail 4:48 a, m. No. s—Louisville Mall, (daily) ..... .lOrftt a. m, No.SB— Indianapolis Mail, (daily),. 1:45p. m. No. 39—Milk aeeoram., (daily 6:13 p. m. No. 8— Louisville Express, (daily) ..11:04 p. m. •No. 43-Local freight 2:40 p. in. North Bound. No. 4-Mail, (daily) 4:30 a.m. No. 40-Milk ucoounn., (daily) 7:31a.m. No. 32—Fast Mail, (daily) 9:53 a.m. •No. 30—Cin.to Chicago Vea. Mail. 6:32p.m. tNo. 38- Cin. to Chicago 2:57 p. m. No. 6 Mail and Express, (daily)... 3:27 p. m. •No. 46—Local freight.... 9:30a.m. No. 74—Freight, (daily) 9:09 p. m. •Daily except Sunday. tSnnday only. No. 74 carries passengers between Monon and Lowell. _ Hammond has bean made a regular stop for No. 30. No. 32 and 33 now stop u< Cedar Lake. Fbane J. Reed, G, P. A., W. H. McDosi., President and Geu. M'g’r, Ciias. H. Rockwell, Traffic M’g’r, „ CMICAOO. W. H. Ream. Agent. Rensselaer.

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Business Now For 1900.

Buggies, surries, wagons, mowers and binders, threshing machine agency and a full line extras on nand for mowers and binders. The deering Roller and Ball Bearing machine and the South Bend wagons. Also the Lafayette wagon, the Boss threshing machine, the Russel and the Gaar-Scott. Onr line of surries can not be beat for tho prices. We ask you to call and see our goods before buying elsewhere. Remember we guarantee all goods. We also handle the John Deere goods, the Brown cultivator and harrows, and the Ohio Rake Co’s goods; and best of all the Deering binder and mowers, and binder twine. Goods will be found at our wareroom near Monon depot. Wishing our friends a good, prosperous season, we are, Truly Yours,

RENICKER BROS.

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NOTICE We, the undersigned, do hereby agree to refund the money on two 25 cent bottles or boxes of Baxter’s Mandrake Bitters, if it fails to cure constipation, biliousness, sickheadache, jaundice, loss of appetite, sour stomach, dyspepsia, liver complaint, or any of the diseases for which it is recommended. It is highly recommended as a spring tonic and blood purifier. Bold liquid in bottles, and tablets in boxes. Pfice 25 cents for either. One package of either guaranteed to give satisfaction or money refunded. A. P. Long. B. F. Fendiq. Tell your neighbor to take The Democrat for all county news. 5 PER CENT. MONEY. Money to burn. >We know you hate to smell the smoko. Stock up your farms while there is money m live stock and save taxes on $700.00 every year. Takes 36 hours at the longest to make the most difficult loans. Don’t have to know the language of your great grandmother. Abstracts always on hand. No red tape. Chilcote & Parkibon. S. P. Thompson will sell his lands in Union township, in tracts, and on terms to suit those desirinc to farm or raise stock. See or write to 8. P. Thompson, Rensselaer, lud. For Sale:-—Lots 5 & 6, Newton’s addition, 184 feet front, good location. Easy terms. Enquire at this office. Craft’s Distemper and Cough Care Sold by A. F. Lons.

KILLS 250 IN A MINE.

EXPLOSION TRAPS WORKERS IN UTAH SHAFT, Not One Escapes to Give Facto of Dio aster—The Rescuers Recoypr Charred liodies of Many Victims Blasting Powder Believed to Be to Blame. r Two hundred and fifty lives were lost In an explosion In mines No. 1 and No. 4 of the Pleasant Valley Coal Company at Winterquarters camp, two miles north of Scofield, Utah. Every man in the two shafts was killed, not one escaping to give details of the disaster. At midnight 137 bodies had been recovered and rescue parties, made up of friends and relatives of the victims, were working in the leads in the vain hope that some might have lived through the accident. Help was sent from Colton, sixteen miles away, on the Uk> Grande Western Railway, and all possible was done to bring out the dead from the wrecked mines. The accidental igniting of blasting powder, of which a number of kegs were stored in mine No. 4, is believed to have been the cause of the disaster. This mine was die first to suffer and the explosion in shaft No. 1 followed almost immediately. • The supposition is that the flames were communicated to the second mine by a gallery which connects the two workings. All the dead taken out of No. 4 were burned and charred, showing that the fire must have swept like a wave through the entire shaft. In the other mine the bodies were not so seriously disfigured, death having come from suffocation. Many who were in the vicinity of the mouths of the shafts were Injured by the blast which issued from the openings. The buildings at the mouths were damaged seriously, and the whole country around trembled from the force of the explosion. The disaster occurred while the 250 men of the day shift were busy in the various galleries and not one who was inside had warning of the peril. Those outside saw flame and smoke burst from the openings, followed by a dull rumble, the tearing of timbers and crashing of falling masses of earth and rock and then all was silent. Immediately, from every direction, came mpn, women and children to whom the ominous sound could have only one meaning. It was some time before aught could be done and the wives, mothers aud children of those entombed in the awful death trap crowded to the entrance wailing and crying for their loved ones. News of the explosion Spread with lightning speed through Scofield, which is chiefly made up of families of employes of the coal company. Dispatches were sent to Colton, from which place a train with doctors and hospital supplies was hurried to the scene. As soon as possible the rescue work was begun, but the task was not rescue, only the bringing out of the dead that was before the terrorstricken workers. Despite peril from broken timbers and loosened masses of rock, the miners and trainmen entered the blackened shafts aud dragged to the light the mutilated corpses of their friends aud neighbors. Officials of the company are unable to explain the cause of the explosion. The mines were comparatively free of coal gas and it is said that an ordinary flame could not have caused the disaster. The story that an explosion of powder was responsible for the igniting of the gas and the awful havoc that followed seems borne out by the statements of all familiar with the interior of the workings.

CURRENT COMMENT

Thr bureau of stntiatica of the Treasury Department has compiled a statement' of the traffic through tho Sauit Bte Marie canal between Lakes Superior and Michigan last year. The total number of vessels passing through the canal was 20,055, which was more than double the total for 1889. The total freight passing through the canal in 189!* was 25,255,819 tons, against bnt 7,516,022 tons in 1889, showing that the freight has increased niQch more rapidly than the number of vessels, thus Indicating in some degree the rapid increase in the size and capacity of the freight carrying vessels of the great lakes. The development of gniiu production of the extreme Northwest during the decade is indicated by the fact that the wheat carried through the canal in 1800 was 58,397,335 bushels, and in 1889 10,231,854 bushels, while “grain other than wheat” In 189!) was 30,000, 935 bushels, and in 1889 but 2,133,245 bushels. A report recently issued gives some insight luto the doings of New York's army of criminals during the past year. During 1899 there were 1)8,917 prisoners arraigned in the police courts of Manhattan and the Broux. Of these 77,127 were males and 21,700 were femules. There were 37,007 prisoners discharged on hearing the evidence, and 61,116 persons were held for trial at general and special sessions, which, compared with the figures of 1808, shows a falling off of 2.204. People keep asking whether it should spelled Porto Rico or Puerto Rico. The Spaniards spelled it with a “u,” and the board of geographical names, appointed by the United States Government to decide disputes in spelling and pronunciation, adopted the Spanish style, but Senator Forakeris hill establishing a civil government on that island provides that the official spelling shall be Porto Rico. The report come* from Cape Nome, the new Alaska gold field, that coal and wood are very scarce. All available wood has been used for tea miles on either aide of Nome City. Wood bring* SSO to S6O a cord, aud it la a very poor article at that. The coal supply is very meager and coal Is sold by the pound, bringing seven and as high as eight cents a pound. Proprietary medicine men Want the war tax on their product* reduced. They ar.y alcohol, other ingredient* and all co’a* Uned, are taxed.

PETITIONS TO BE HANGED.

A Kansas Prisoner Mokes a Strange Request of the Governor. Taylor Cook, a convict and now in the penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., has petitioned Gov. Stanley that the death sentence be carried out and that he be hanged for the murder of which he stands convicted. According to the law of Kansas a murderer is punishable by death. But for thirty years no convict in Kansas has suffered the death penalty. Each Governor during that period has refused to sign the fatal death warrant. Taylor Cook was sentenced to the penitentiary ten years ago for the brutal murder of his wife. He now demands that the full penalty of the law be inflicted. This is the third time that Cook has begged the Goveruotr of Kansas to carry out his-official duty under the statutes. There are sixty convicts in the State penitentiary at Leavenworth convicted of murder and waiting only the signing of the deatjj warrant by some Governor to pay the penalty of their crimes. Out of this sixty it is said that twenty are awaiting eagerly the outcome of Taylor Cool** petition. Should Gov. Stanley consent to sign the death warrant these twenty meu will demand a like release for themselves within a short time. It has often been claimed that in disregarding the statute which makes murder an offense punishable by death the Governors of Kansas have inflicted a penalty tenfold more severe. This assertion seems to have received verification in the pathetie story of Taylor Cook. ' When Gov. Stanley received Cook’s petition he immediately w'rote to the convict that in no case would the warrant" be signed unless upon the recommendation of the judge before whom the case was tried and the attorney who prosecuted it. Cook wrote to Jqdge Clark A. Smith, who condemned him, aud to the district attorney, but neither would recommend bis execution. Again he wrote to the Governor. “I have tried to fulfill your requirements,” he said, “and I have failed. It is not through any fault of mine. 1 now insist that you carry out your duty as chief executive of this State and sentence me to execution.” It is believed that Cook will be adjudged insane and sent to an asylum.

CLAIMS AGAINST THE TURK.

American Missionaries Put Big Values on Boots and Bedding. A special from Washington says that it is the purpose of the administration to continue pressing the sublime porte to pay the American missionary claims pending against it, but those acquainted with the character of the they greatly overestimate tbe4walue of the property destroyed. The total loss which the missionaries at Hnrpoot say they sustained as a result of the outbreak at that point in 1895 amounted to $87,985, of which $43,700 represented the value of the buildings damaged, $32,677 the personal losses of the missionaries and SII,OOB the loss on stock and apparatus. Rev. C. H. Wheeler apparently suffered the greatest loss. He estimates that $9,010 will be required properly to reimburse him. Among his effects destroyed were notes and bonds which he values at $2,200 and the accrued interest is put at sl,500 more. Clothing nnd materials which he possessed mid which were damaged he values at $1,342: furnjgure, $1,000; bedding, $230; provisions, fuel and medicine, $750, and boots and shoes, $35. Itev. C. F. Gates apparently wore more expensive 6hoos than Mr. Wheeler, for he asserts that those he lost were worth $72. Dr. Gates lost clothing valued at $879, horse, donkey, and cows SIBB, and bedding $370. Miss E. C. Wheeler values her clothing she lost at $1,138, bedding at $215 and photographs aud pictures at S3OO. Her boots and shoes were worth $76.

Wonders of the Paris Exposition.

Cloud gallery, where visitor# walk above the clouds. Active volcano with daily eruptions and earthquakes. Enchanted house, in which everything is upside down. The Mareorama, a mimic sea voyage taken on land. Giant telescope that makes the moon look only a mile off. The Cosmorama, showing the earth, sun, moon and stars. Subterranean world, showing how gold and silver mines look. Sea beach with salt water pumped from the ocean 125 miles awry. Trip in a shell in which you are tired from a real mortar gun. Bottom of the ocean, with a sunken ship and strange submarine life. Palace in the sky, a huge house shaped airship that rises 2,000 feet. Fuiry palace under the River Bcinc, with mermuids and the lore lei. “Light of Kimberley” diamond, worth $2,000,000. Biggoßt in the world. Antomobile aud bicycle jialaee, with an arena for races and exhibitions .. Japanese temple and Oriental gardens, with dancing geisha girls from Tokio. American corn palace, with wails of cornstalks and tower made of corncobs. Moving sidewalks that will show the whole exposition grounds without walking a step. Restoration of old Paris of 500 years ago, with its royal court, minstrels and tournaments. Reproduction of the city of Venice, with Us water ativeta, gondolas and ancient palaces. North Pale, with icebergs and Eskimo houses, made of ice cakea, with atmosphere kept at 80 degrees below zero by liquid air. Exposition postofflee to be at the fop of the Eiffel Tower, 1,000 feet above ground. Monstrous wheel, twice the size of the Ferris wheel of the Chicngo World's FalY.' I**l ace of costumes In which the modes of dress of all ages an<r all nations will be show-n. Panorama of the world, which will represent a trip around the world in sixty thlnntes. The Alps in with mountain guides and Swiss chalets in the htarrof Paris.

DURBIN IS CHOSEN.

REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR - GOVERNOR i Anderson Man Named on the Seventh Ballot at Ihe State Convention—Lively Contest Among the Six Aspirants for the Honor. Governor—W. T. Durbin, of Anderson. Lieutenant Governor— N. A. Gilbert, of Angola. Reporter of the Supreme Court—Charles F. Remy, of Columbus. Secretary of State —Union B. Hunt, of Winchester. Auditor of State—W. 11. Hart, of Frankfort. Treasurer of State -Leopold Levy, of Huntington. Attorney General—W. L. Taylor, of Indianapolis. Superintendent of Public InstructionFrank L. Jones, of Tipton. Judges of the Supreme Court—Fourth District, Leander J. Monks, of Winchester; First District, James H. Jordan, of Martinsville. State Statistician—John B. Conner, of Indianapolis. Dt-legates-at-Large to National Conven-tion-Senator Chariea W. Fairbanks, Senator A. J. Beveridge, Gov. James Mount and Charles S. Ilenly. Indianapolis correspondence: W. T. Durbin of Anderson, national committeeman, was nominated for Governor Thursday afternoon by the Republican State convention. Seven ballots wore necessary. The real work of the Republican State convention began Thursday over the nominations for the State officers and four delegatrs-at-large. At 9 o’clock the body was called to <frder and it was apparent tlrnt a fight for the nomination for Governor, would be made from the very beginning. The headquarters of the six candidates for the gulieruatorial nomination djd not close until lofig after midnight, nnd each contestant expressed tile utmost confidence that he would l>e ihe chosen man. - The candidates for Governor placed before the convention were .1. S. Dodge, J. T,. Griffiths, Wi S. Haggard. W. T. Durbin, F. It. Posey nnd K. G. Hogate. Thei-C were 1,434 delegates, making 718 votes necessary to nominate. Banothig began at ouee. The fight for the Governorship nomination was one of the most hotly contested struggles in the history of the party in this State. Those who had predicted that under no circumstances would the strength of Griffith a be thrown to Durbin, or vice versa, were correct. The supporters of the two leaders were firm to the finish. Even at the end of the sixth ballot, when Durbin had 700 votes, falling short of nomination by only 18, the Griffiths supporters would not give an inch, and they carried their favorite through the seventh ballot, until Durbin had enough votes to nominate him. . For five ballots Griffiths and Durbin ran a dose race. Then Hogate withdrew and itis support went to Dnrbiu like a - tqt to TOO. The Griffiths men were still game, and Durbin wanted only eighteen more votes. These he got when Dodge and Posey withdrew. The seventh ballot resulted: Durbin, 977; Griffiths, 457. Griffiths (Roved to make the nomination unanimous. which was done, and Durbin was called, to the front of the platform and made, a speech. Fight for Second Place. The fight for the lieutenant governorship plum was a surprise. L. I‘. Newby of the Sixth district showed great strength on the first ballot, the vote for him being 450, as “against 260 for N. W. Gilbert of Angola, his nearest competitor. Newby’s friends expected him to be nominated on ‘.he second ballot, niul as soon as the result of the first ballot was announced they put on their hustling clothes nnd started after votes. Allen County cast twenty-eight votes for Gilbert and three for Newby, figures that' were given out after the Fort Wayne primaries. After that county Newby took the bit in his teeth and showed good increases for several counties. Gilbert showed more strength in Delaware County ’ than he was credited with. lie had nineteen votes on this ballot to Newby’s ten. when it was supposed that vote would be reversed. The vote of Marion County was listened to with interest, for it was in this county that Gilbert aud Newby had a hard fight for delegates at tfie primaries. On tin l second ballot Gilbert received 52*4 votes and Newby 58*4- Wayne County gave evidence that it wax getting ready to swing the result for Lieutenant Governor, as it did In Durbin's nomination. Tlie result of the second ballot was as follows: Embree. 126; Sbiitts. 22U; Gilbert, 327*4; Newby. 53!>*4; Babcock 43; Baker. 178. .Fust after announcement of the result of the second ballot the name of .1. N. Babcock of Topeka,, one of the three candidates from the Twelfth district, was withdrawn. The first counties railed gave gains for Newby. The gains continued steadily. Tim third bnllot resulted: Newby. 673; Gilbert. 527; Shutts. 147; Baker, 44: Embrec. 4J; Ilalx-ock. 2. Nhutts and Embree then withdrew, mid the stampede to Gil* bcri begun. He was nominated 011 the uext ballot, ami lb* convention, after living in session continuously for nearly teu hours, had disused offonly, two nominations. Hunt for Secretary of Slate. Hart for Auditor, Levy for Treasurer aud Taylor for Attorney General had no opposition, nml were nominated by acclamation. It was 7 o’clock when ihe next fight was reached. It was over the nomination for reporter of the Supreme Court. Chas. F. Remy was nominated on the second ballot. Connor, (or State statistician, had some opposition, but he landed the nomination. From then on down through the list there was little loafing, as the delegates were thoroughly tired out nnd anxious to quit. The convention adjourned after being 1n continuous scssiou thirteen hours. Col, Winfield T. Durbin, the nominee for Governor, was Iwrn at Lawreuceburg. May 4, 1847. He lias beeu Intimately connected with political affairs in Indiana for several j/nra and is now n member of the national Republican com mittee, in which position he has been in close touch with political affairs in that State. He is wealthy, having intereats In large enterprises in the gas belt, bo •idea being a banker at Anderson, lit served through the civil war, was colonel of the lfilat Indiana regiment in the "volunteer servioj in the Spanish-Ameri can war.

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

REOORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Illicit Attachment Causes a SuicideFatal Qqarrel Over a Young Woman —Female Hermit Dies Near Muncle— Kilted by Fall from a Car. News reaches Eekerly from Newton Stewart of the death by morphine of Frederick James Burriot, a young attorney. A letter addressed to his mother tells of his love for another man’s wife and his too keen sense of honor to accept the reciprocated passion and says that suicide was his only means of escape from dishonoring his name. Barriot had talked of quitting law for the ministry. Dead with an Ax Beside Her. Mrs. Cadis Sutton, living a hermit a few miles from Muncie, though having an income of $8,900 front oil wells, was found dead with an ,ax on the bed beside her. She always feared robbers, but never kept sums of money in (ho house. Her husband has been dead twenty-two years. Since his death she has lived on the farm. Death, it is believed, was dne to natural causes. lClopea with a Girl of 13. Harry Brokaw, aged 45, nnd Essie McAllister of Indianapolis, aged 13, eloped to Jeffersonville and were married. Letters were found here writ ten-to Brokaw from a justice of the peace at Jeffersonville, telling him he would have no trouble to get married there, as there were “plenty of fellows around who would swear the girl was of age.” Gov. Mount is preparing to deal with the justice.

Upholds the Barrett Law. 'The Indiana Supreme Court has affirmed the constitutionality of the Barrett improvement law. The title of the case was Thomas B. Adams against the city of Sholbyville. Tho suit was to eujoia the city from making a street improvement in front of Adams* property. The Supreme Court, while upholding the law, reversed the decision of the lower court and granted Adams an injunction. Farmer Fires to Kill. Joseph Reese twice shot nnd mortally wounded S .C. Campbell near Thorn town. Soon afterward Reese went to town and surrendered voluntarily. He says he acted in s*?lf-defeuse. Reese was taken to Lebanon and gave bond for his appearance. rile trouble is said to have arisen over a slander involving a young woman. Both men are prominent farmers. Mail Clerk Fulls from Car. As train No. 18 oh the Panhandle was passing Hagerstown at the rate of sixty miles an hour Daniel \V. Deardorff, a mail clerk, Tell from tho door of his car and was instantly killed. Deardorff was 4.) years old and had been ten years in the service, lie was one of the most careful men in the service and his death is the restiit of an accident. Withio Owr Borders. Temperance unions of Indiana will wage war on cigarettes. ihe scarcity of flint glass workers mav compel Muncie factories to run during the summer. T. Chiekering. a Louisville printer, was run over at Charlestown and instantly killed: Asleep on the B. Sc O. track. William Coppock, glass worker at Hartford C ity, fell on a broken lamp chimney, cutting his throat. Serious. Arthur Redmond, 18, drove in front of a Grand Rapids and Indiana passenger traiu at RidgcviUv aud was instantly killed. John H. Murphy and William Pogue. are talking of pnttiug in an independent telephone service at I.ogansport. Mr. nnd Mrs. Neil Spaulding were buried in the same grave at Marion. They died within twenty-four hours of each other from pneumonia. Henry l-’ox. Fannersburg, lias, after several years’ experimenting and spending a small fortune, perfected a maqhine which will make a. Hue grade of silk froth the bulb of milkweed. Night Watchman C. W. Waite, Union City, shot and killed Frederick Hardwick, a blacksmith, while the latter was resisting arrest. Waite says Hardwick was coming at him with a kuife. Burglar robbed Jim Bitner’s general store at Sexton several weeks ago, and it has just been learned that he has lived in the attic over the store ever since, empty cans giving the snap away. Jeremiah W illiatus of Burlington, a breeder of fine horses, entered his barn on a recent morning to find five of the blooded animals missing. The nnimals were valued at several thousand dollars. While boiling soap. Mrs. A. M. Everinan's clothing caught fire at Burlington Bhe was fatally burned, while her 14-year-old duugbtcr and her father, William Collins, received serious injuries trying to xave her. Daniel Manifold, axed 22 years, shot himself through the heart near Burlington. He was jealoua, had driven his wife away from home during the night, after whipping her. He placed his small son on the bod and lay beside hitu when he killed himself. Edward High, a young man at Fontxnet, was brought to the Terre Haute jail on a commitment for murder Issued by his father, Justice of the Peace William High. Young High is charged with killing William Pawalski, a miner, while drunk. The preliminary hearing was before Justice High. Municipal ownership of tho electric light system of Peru at the end of ten years has been practically assured by the action of the city council in closing a contract with Messrs. Vk*u and Parrott and the Indiana Trust Company of Indianapolis, by the terms of which the city will puy $75 apiece for eighty lights, or a total ofsMo.ooo for the ten yerfrs. Anderson will hure a new $20,000 flat. Evansville will haTe a new cycle path. Kokomo baseball club is being organised. Farmers say there will be a big cherry crop. » Siauey Gonuer. aged 67, a prominent Democrat, is dead in Charleston. Three new school houses will be erected in Mouroe township this year. Andrew Burkhnrdt, aged 28 years, was killed at Lafayette by falling from a train. He was caught between the care and the depot platform aud hht skull wan •rushed. , /