Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1900 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat.

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R. H. Robinson, dentist. Subscribe for The Democrat. M. M. Tyler was in Goodland, Sunday. Frank King has bought the Masker feed barn. B. Forsythe leaves to-morrow for a ten days visit in Ohio. Newton county’s old settlers will reunion at Morocco, August 15. Miss Harriet Yeoman is visiting friends in Kokomo and other points. Mrs. Marion Freelfind of Newton tp., has been quite sick but is better now. Miss Roadruck of Morocco, is the guest of Miss Kate Mauck of Newton tp., this week. Mr. O. Z. Bridges of Indianapolis, visited a few days with his sister, Mrs. Isaac Glazebrook. The Kankakee district campmeeting and Chautauqua will be held at Watseka, August 15-26. The democrats of the Ninth district have nominated Capt. D. F. Allen of Frankfort, for Congress. Mr. and Mrs. Adam Saidlai of Montgomery county, are visiting their son Isaac Saidlai, north of town, The annual notice of the proposed tax levies of the various township trustees must be made next week. Another cheap excursion to Chicago, Sunday, August sth; 75 cents for the round trip from Rensselaer. E. T. Harris and family of Remington, were guests of the form er's parents, Mr. aad Mrs. Henry Harris, last Sunday.

We learn from unofficial sources that the late census gives Rensselaer a population of about 2,200. The ’9O figures were 1,455. Bro. Marshall should not get so excited during this hot weather. Medical authorities say that it is very bad for the nervous system. Mrs. W. Powley and children of Chicago, are visiting the former’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. Zerdan, and other relatives of this vicinity. Mrs. M. L. Spitler, daughter Maude, and grand-daughter, Mildred, left Monday for an extended visiting and pleasure trip throughout the east. The Halleck Telephone Co., has asked to enter Goodland. The town board took the matter under consideration and will probably grant the franchise. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Mauck, after a week’s visit with J. W. Mauck and other relatives in Jasper county, returned Saturday to their home in Anderson.

The enterprise of some of the Indianapolis daily papers is really astonishing. We saw copies of Monday’s Indianapolis Sun on the streets at Goodland last Sunday before 7 o’clock in the morning. The continued heavy rains of the past two weeks done a great deal of damage to crops, and especially to oats. The water penetrated through the shocks and the result will be badly discolored grain. Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Honan and son Edward, visited in Remington Sunday. Mr. Honan as State Chief Ranger of the C. O. F., addressed the local lodge at Remington at a special meeting called for that day.

The whole trouble with Marshall about that Gifford letter was in the fact that The Democrat pinned him down so close on the matter, as we have on numerous others, that many republicans were giving him fits for his duplicity.

Newton county democrats on last Tuesday nominated the following county; treasurer, Charles Carter; sheriff, John Wildasin; recorder, Charles Buswell; surveyor, Ross Deardurff; assessor, Samuel Gilmore; commissioner, Ist diet., I. Sell: 2d diet., John Kennedy.

DR. MOORE, Specialist, PRIVATE DISEASES, HEMOR HORDS, • Office First Stairs West of Post Office. Phoney. RENSSELAER, IND.

Henry Getting of Goodland, was the city Sunday. Miss Dena Gangloff is visiting her parents at Francesville. Mn and Mrs. T. F. Clark visited friends in Dunnville the first of the week. Carroll county old settlers will hold their annual meeting at Delphi, August 11. Mrs. Mary Payton and children are spending a few days with relatives in Monticello. Mr. and Mrs. Maloney of Chicago, are visiting the former’s sister Mrs. Mary Drake. For first class dental work call on Dr. R. H. Robinson. Office over Ellis & Murray’s store. John Vosburg, an old resident of Newton county, died at his home south of Foresman last week. The “gold democrats” have decided to put no ticket in the field, much to the consternation of Mark Hanna. - Charles Handly and John Mauck of Newton tp., were in town Tuesday and each purchased a new farm wagon. Miss Orrie Clark has graduated from the Vermillion county hospital at Danville, 111., and is now home for awhile.

Mrs. Henry Shide and Mrs. Conrad Kellner attended the wedding of their sister Miss Maggie Wagner to Frank Kennel, at Lafayette the first of the week. $1.50 for the round trip to Chicago, August 25 to 29, good returning to August 31, or by paying a fee of 50 cents, tickets may be extended to Sept. 30. W. H. Beam, Agt. A party was given at the home of Mr. and Mrs. James Yeoman in Newton tp., Saturday evening. About fifty were present. Icecream and cake were served and a most delightful time was had. Last Friday one of the 3-year-old daughter’s of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Gorham got hold of a bottle containing a solution of carbolic acid and swallowed a portion of the stuff. For a time her life was in danger but prompt medical, attendance supplemented by immediate home remedies for poison saved the child’s life. Scarcely a word of the Journal's account of Bro. Marshall’s insanity outbreak was true and neither was its alleged wording of the affidavit filed against him. Truth, however, need never be looked for from this source. So accustomed has the editor of that sheet become to lying that if a truthful item appears therein it is by mistake.

The Chicago <fc Eastern Illinois railroad recently built a cut-off line from the Indiana coal fields over to their main line, and all coal trains now go north over the main line. On the Momence-Bra-zil division but one passenger train and one local freight is now run daily each way. A few years ago from twenty to thirty coal trains each way passed over this division.

A South Bend dispatch says that the Jasper County Oil and Gas Company, whose promoters are mainly local capitalists, have, through the purchases of valuable franchises, acquired leases to 8,000 additional acres of land and thirty wells. The acquisitions are the New American Oil and Mining Company, the Interstate Petroleum Oil and Gas Company and the Interstate Oil Company.

Into the cow lot, bright and gay, the milkmaid hustles from day to day and gathers the lacteal fluid white, while the morning suir is still “out of sight.” And e’en when the evening sunlight falls, again she hustles up the pails, and seeks in cow with brindle tail that fount of wealth that never fails. Hot wiud may blow and grasshoppers hop, and the bugs and blizzards may gather the crop, but so long as the stream of milk don’t stop, the cow and milkmaid will come out on top. —Ex.

Rensselaer, Jasper County, Indiana, Saturday, July 28, 1900.

C. T. Dye of Remington, was in the city yesterday. « A whole armload of old papers for a nickel at The Democrat office. Sixty-five tickets were sold from this station to the Monon convention Wednesday. James Parkison and H. B. Murray returned from their Western trip last Sunday. Mrs. Mainwaring of Greenleaf, Kan., is visiting the family of her brother, Julius Huff, of Jordan tp. Misses Blanche Burger of Remington, and Flora Snoddy of Delphi, are guests of Mrs. J. F. Major. One of the Kessinger infant twins died in Jordan tp., last Sunday and was buried here Wednesday. Miss Myrtle Chipman has returned home from a few weeks visit with relatives at Buchanan, Michigan. Mrs. John Wood, an aged lady residing a few miles south of town, broke her left hip last Sunday, the result of a bad fall. There will be a silver medal contest at the Vauhgn church, Sunday Eve., July 29. Admission free. All are invited. Notice:—Fountain Park Assembly, Remington, Ind., July 28 to August 12. Finest program yet offered. Write Robert Parker, Remington, Ind., for one. A gasoline stove explosion caused some damage and a great deal of excitement at J. B. Sayler’s, in the north part of town, a few mornings ago. We understand that the viewers’ report of the public utility of the highway east of town, petitioned for by Delos Thompson et al, will be against the same. - Today’s Rensselaer markets (all top prices): Wheat 65; corn 36: oats 22; rye 45. One year ago today the prices were, wheat '65; corn 29: oats 19; rye, 45. Horace Swisher of Wheatfield, was arrested here Thursday and fined and costed to the amount of about eleven dollars, for being mixed up in the Wheatfield trouble in which his brother James is now under arrest.

One Giffordite has found out what it is to oppose the Jasper County Land King. He had teams working on the Gifford road, but voted against the tax, he says, and was informed that his services were no longer required by Mr. Gifford.

The report that the Western Union would give up their down town office here is said to be incorrect, at least they will try it a while longer, and hope by cutting down expenses to make the office self-sustaining. Robt. Johnson, the old operator, will move to Lafayette, and another man is to come here and take his place.

The republican press of this section is jubilating over the announcement that Isaac Parsons of Monon, has declared his sympathy with President McKinley's criminal agression policy and will hereafter follow the republican bandwagon. Isaac is quite a lover of “pap” and his old democratic associates failed to recognize the latent ability which lay buried un der the humble exterior of Uncle Isaac. May his new companions feed him on the fat of the land, is our wish.

B. J. Gifford was in the city Thursday and as a result of his conference here, we understand, new petitions are to be prepared in Barkley, Jordan and Carpenter townships and a desperate effort made to secure a majority of the voters of each of said townships on said petitions. If successful in this the petitions will be filed and new elections called, otherwise not. The people of those townships, therefore, who oppose the tax should not sign said petitions unless they expect to vote for it, as there is no necessity of going to the expense of holding elections when there is no prospect of carrying them.

80-acre farm, six miles from city, orchard, barn, good five-room house, good well of water, land in prime state of cultivation. Big Bargain, see E. P. Honan.

The Chicago Stock Co., which is at the opera house in our city next week, is not a repertoire company in any sense but strictly what the name implies, a Stock Co., organized on lines laid down by the successful Stock Co’s of our larger cities. The Chicago Stock Co. was placed on tour and is controlled by the .Chicago Amusement Syndicate and has been playing almost exclusively in the chain of city theatres which they control. Among some of the plays which they will present here is announced, “My Uncle from New York;” “The fatal Card,” (one of the greatest romantic plays of the stage) and “Quo Vadis,” which nearly every educated person has read and for the production of which they carry twelve special scenes. The attraction also carry a line of vaudeville specialties and in fact the same class of performances given in Chicago during the regular season.

James Swisher, the bad man of Wheatfield, was arrested on a peace warrant and brought here Tuesday and lodged in jail. Some time ago he got iuto trouble end was arrested and placed in the Wheatfield calaboose. He made his escape therefrom and remained away from the town until Thursday of last week. He kept officers at bay with a Winchester, but Monday night was surprised on coming out of a saloon and arrested. He was lodged in the calaboose again and a guard placed about the same to prevent his escape. It is claimed that after Swisher’s arrest somebody, presumably friends of his, placed dynamite under the deputy prosecutor’s house and warned him not to prosecute Swisher. Tuesday the accused was arraigned before the justice at Wheatfield, but asked for a change of venue and the case was sent to Esq. Burnham of this city. Trial by jury was held Thursday afternoon and the jury disagreed. A re-trial will be had Monday.

Gifford will not build his railroad through Jasper county at the expense of the people. The election to vote a tax on Barkley, Marion, Jordan and Carpenter townships was held last Tuesday and resulted in overwhelming defeat of the proposi ion. Marion township, including Rensselaer, gave a majority of 278 for the tax, but Carpenter, Barkley and Jordan townships all gave a pronounced majoriiy against the proposal to bond them. The people interested are to be congratulated upon the result. If railroads are are a good thing, then those who are to reap the good things from them should pay for their building. There is no more justice in taxing a township to build a railroad through it than there w’ould be in assessing a tax upon it to start a newspaper or any other legitimate investment that would enrich its promoter. To be sure, the convenience is a nice thing, and sometimes adds materially to the price of land, but those benefited usually pay all these are worth every year after the road is in operation.—Goodland Herald.

Big Bargain.

For sale:—Nice 4-room cottage with good barn, well of water, corner lot. high and dry, in select neighborhood. Price and terms to suit buyer. Call on E. P. Honan. Subscribe for The Democrat.

Honey to Loan. Private funds to loan on farms, also city property, for 5 years or longer at a low rate of interest, with privilege pf making partial payments. Also money to loan on personal, second mortgage and chattel security. No delay, call or write. A complete set of abstract books. James H. Chapman. You can get The Democrat, State Sentinel and Cincinnati Enquirer es<’ i n Ml ir for only SI.HS. ca i :r idvanve, if taken soon.

HON. JOHN ROSS

Nominated For Congress, L. Strong for Senator, and Joseph A. Clark for Joint-Representative. The big convention at Monon on Wednesday last was a most enjoyable affair and the feast of oratory was such as is seldom heard in this section of the state. The three conventions were held in the opera house and, notwithstanding the house was packed from auditorium to gallery during the afternoon, it was not uncomfortably warm. The house is w’ell ventilated and is larger than any similar hall in this locality. The Monticello band, one of the best musical organizations in northern Indiana, furnished music for the occasion* The senatorial convention was held immediately before noon, with C. C. Spencer of Monticello, chairman, and C. D. Nowels of Rensselaer, secretary. To facilitate matters the usual committees were dispensed with. D. H. Yeoman of Jasper county, presented the name of Lucius Strong of Rensselaer. The nomination was seconded by Lee E, Glazebrook in a brief speech which was applauded to the echo. Patrick Keefe of Newton county, presented the name of Hugh L. Sammons of Kentland, in a neatspeech. White county had no candidates. The vote cast was as follows-: Strong. Sammons Jasper County 6 Newton County 4 White County s!i 5% 11 >4 9% On motion of Mr. Keefe, Mr. Strong’s nomination was made unanimous, Mr. Strong was called for and responded in a few well chosen words, thanking the convention for the nomination and pledging his best efforts for success. Then the meeting adjourned for dinner. At 1 p. m., the convention reassembled and Hon. Patrick Keefe of Kentland, was chosen chairman of the congressional convention. Mr, Keefe accepted • the honor in a rousing and eloquent address. H. Schooler was selected secretary and committees on credentials and resolutions were selected. Frank Welsh and Dr. Schwier representing Jasper on these committees. Hon. John W. Kern, candidate for governor of Indiana, was next introduced and made a brief bnt masterly address, after which the committees reported No contests were found and the resolutions endorsed the state and national platform and pledged loyal support to the candidates. On roll of counties being called Tippecanoe presented the name of Hon. John Ross, who made the race two years ago, and White county that of Dr. M. T. Didlake of Monticello. Dr. Didlake withdrew his name and Mr. Ross was nominated by acclamation. Mr. Ross was called for and responded in a few well chosen words thanking the convention for the unsought honor and assuring it that ' he would put forth his best efforts ! and make a thorough campaign of the district. He had hoped the [convention would nominate some I younger man, and thought that 1 there were others more fitted for making an active canvas than hiniI self. However, he had never stood back when his party called him to act, and he thought that he had no right to do so now. The next on the program was the address of George Fred Williams of Massachusetts, the principal speaker of the day, and those who went expecting to hear a good speech were not disappointed. The noted orator held his big audi ience for more than an hour and was frequently interrupted with round after round of applause. During the closing part of his address, after he had stated that our duty to the Filipinos from a democratic standpoint was the same as that of the alleged policy of the republicans regarding Cuba, —assist them in forming a staple government and then getting out, say- ; ing to all nations of the earth after such retirement, “hands off”— some one in the audience inter rupted with: ' “What will you do with the flag?’

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Quick as a flash the speaker replied: “Bring it back to ita own aoil where It belongs. what do you suppose? Do you want it to hang over the Sultan of Sulu where it rests now? Do you want the three hundred wives of that worthy gentleman to peep out of their windows every morning and see the ensign of American freedom there? Are you proud that you have agreed with the Sultan that every slave may buy his freedom for S2O and look at the American flag and thank. God for the opportunity? No! no! The only place where the American flag floats now in peace is over the lair of the Sultan of Sulu, and it is the Christians who are observing the laws of God, and who have liberty enough in their hearts to fight for their love of the United States; these ure the men that are biting the dust. What is the flag doing? Why, the flag of this country has floated all over the earth, and been brought back where it belongs, It floated over Algiers and came back because it did not belong there. The flag of the United States floated over the city of Mexico, and it came back because it did not belong there, and now that it is floating over slavery and paganism, for God’s sake let it come back, and you, my friend, learn what the flag of the United State* means.” ; ■

When the speaker sat down the house echoed and re-echoed with the applause of the large audience, and it was some time before Chairman Keefe could be heard. He then introduced Capt. J. C. Lawler, candidate for lieut-governor, who spoke a few moments in a pleasing strain and brought forth much applause. He closed by introducing Senator Drummond, candidate for attorney-general, who spoke for about fifteen minutes on trusts and their formation, injury to the public, etc., and made a number of hits that brought down the house. The convention then adjourned, after thanking the distinguished speakers for their attendance, and the joint-representative delegates for the counties of Jasper and Lake got together and nominated by acclamation Joseph A. Clark, a prominent farmer and ex-soldier of the civil war, residing near Lowell. Mr. Clark is an intelligent, well posted farmer and would make a valuable legislator. No better team could be sent to the legislature from northwestern Indiana than Strong and Clark. The people of Monon, had made preparations for entertaining the big crowd Wednesday and no one had to go hungry. As for drinkables, coffee, lemonade or pop had to answer, for Monon is a “dry” town. This, however, did not appear to effect the spirits of the hosts of democrats in attendance, and no one was hunting about for “something to drink.” While this absence of intoxicants would no doubt have created all kinds of trouble in a republican gathering, no complaint was heard anywhere. We will venture to say that the people of Monon will unanimously agree that no more intelligent or better behaved body of men ever came to their town than those who invaded it last Wednesday. Arrangements were made for an address by George Fred Williams at the opera house again at night, which we understand was also lamely attended; this time principally by people of Monon and immediate vicinity.

Tell your neighbor to subscribe for the taxpayers' friend. The Democrat. It gives all the news. Wanted—We want 100 men with approved personal or real estate security to borrow the special fund we have to put out.

FERGUSON & WILSON.

Notice of Reduction of Telephone Toll Rates.

Until further notice, between all points in Jasper county, a uniform rate of ten cents will be made for 5 minutes conversation. Overtime to be charged at 2 cents per minute. Jasper County Tel. Co.

Hitch and feed Barn.

Having purchased the Masker hitch and feed barn, on North Cullen street, one block north of Makeover hotel, I wish to state to the public that horses and rigs left at my barn will have the best of care and attention. Same old prices.

FRANK KING.

FIVE PER CENT FARM LOANSL. ONLY ONI PER CENT COMMISSION.

W. B. Austin, Rensselaer, continues to make farm loans at 5 per cent, interest and one per cent, commission. No delay, and no sending papers east.