Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1900 — Page 6

JASPER COUNTY DEMOCRAT. F. E. BABCOCK? Publisher.

EVENTS OF THE WEEK

The government ci'tflt bulletin places (he total wheat yield in Manitoba nt 11,000,000 bushels; 348,819 acres of wheat were completely destroyed by winds], drought,, etc. The yield of wheat is estimated at seven and one-halt' bushels per acre. - - _ « Victor Baldwin was arrested by the police of the Jamaica precinct in Queens borough, New \ork. on a charge of being an active participant in a prize fight which a few hours earlier in the evening ended in the death of his opponent, Ralph Miller. A dispatch has been received at the Japanese legation in Washington from the Japanese foreign oilice, announcing that the government of Japan had prohibited for the present all emigration of Japanese laborers to the I’nited States anil C-nnada, Theodor Wolfe wires to the Berliner Tageblatt from Paris that Germany will get more first prizes at the exposition than any other nation. He estimates the nuniber at 250. .Germany will be first in industrial arts, with twenty grand prix nnd 100 gold medals. Fifty Massillon. Ohio, people left recently for Oklahoma, where they will take Up claims on government land and establish a colony under plans which have been formed by local labor leaders. The government will be formed to meet the peculiar ideas of local students of socialistic problems. The steamer Doric on her arrival at Yokohama reported that she passed a Steamer in midocettn. saw her lights and heard a whistle and afterward lost sight of her. Soon a piece of wreckage was discovered. The Doric put back nnd <Trcled round for eight hours, but could find no trace of the vessel.” J At 3 o’clock the other morning fire was discovered in the main building of the plant of the Tuthill Spring Company, in Chicago, and liefore the tire department arrived the whole of the second story was ablaze. The property is owned by 8. D. Kimbark. The loss on the building amountisl to about SIO,OOO, and the machinery and stock, which is estimated to be worth $25,000, is almost a total loss. The standing of the clubs in the National Leagueis as follows: —W. L. —W. L. Brooklyn ...53 31 Boston 42 44 Philadelphia 40 39 St. Louis. .. .37 45 Pittsburg ...47 40 Cincinnati ...39 IS Chicago ....43 43 New Y0rk...32 49 Following is the standing in the American League: « W. L. W.’ L. Chicago . . . .53 ’37 Cleveland ... I 1 TO lndianapidis_.iUl 41 Kansas Milwaukee .19 111 BulT-ilo 13 52 Detroit 47 47 Minneapolis .42 54

NEWS NUGGETS.

Hon. .Jitmp B. Burke Roel-re, M. I’.. Ims been foimil in Washington. 'Die congress of Peru lias declared full Hjimesty for all political offenders. Telegraphic communication between citica of Germany and France lias been opened. The Wisconsin Republican convention nominated Roliert M. I.a Follette for Governor _ Past Assistant Surgeon Stoughton, of the United States gunboat,( astine, was drowned at Shanghai. Canadian Pacific strikers at Winnipeg. Man., are asking citizens and various organizations not to patronize that road. Jack Shortwood, of Chicago, was cleverly robbed of SB.(MM> by means of a confidence trick played by two flashily dressed Englishmen within the grounds of the Paris exposition. N. E. Baekenstoss reached, Seattle, having ridden his bicycle, or walked where the roads were bad. all the way from New York. He claims to have made the trip in eighty-one days. New Rochelle, N. Y., was visited by n tornado and the damage done along the path of the storm, about forty feet wide and four mile* long, was serious. The damage will amount to S4O,(MM). By the bursting of a steam pipe on the etenm yacht Waeonta on I.ake Superior two firemen were killed. They were standing near when the explosion occurred nnd both Were scalded to death. Rev. Dr. Cyrus Hamlin, a famous Turkish missionary, and the founder of Roberts' College nt Constantinople, died in Portland, Me. Dr. Hamlin was a cousin of Vice President Hannibal Hamlin. John Layton, a farmer near Dexter. Mo., was shot and killed at Bloomfield: by Deputy Marshal It. I*. Montgomery while resisting arrest. Montgomery surrendered and was placed under a $5,000 bond. United States Ambassador Choate has been appointed arbitrator between the British and Chinese governments in t’lc cane of the sinking of the British <n--pnti h boat Row Shing during the ChinoJaiianese war. Alexander Jester, Die aged prea -her who was recently acquitted of the murder of Gilbert W. Gates, has taken tip his residence in Norman, Ok., with his ■on. William Hill. He announces that he will soon take up preaching. Bryan nnd Stevenson received nt Indianapolis formal notification of their nomination by the national Democratic convention nt Kansas City, In his speech Col. Bryan made imperialism the paramount issue of the campaign. The union stevedores of Baltimore, numbering nbout 2.500, are on n strike because steamship agents refuse to agree to employ no more non-union men. The Manitoba government er<fp bulletin places the total wheat yield of Manitoba at 11,<NMI,<XM) bushels. Winds, drought, etc., destroyed 348,819 acres of wheat. t » A cablegram from Vienna says th: < Hans Kramer, describtsl as an American tourist, slipped from the Kux Mountain ■nd was not discovered until after, thirty hours, when lie was found with Ixith legs broken.

EASTERN.

Fire destroyed property valued at $50,000 at Seaford, Del. I’rof. George L. Farnham of Riverside, Cal., died at Binghamton, N. Y., aged 70 years. Fire in the O’Gorman Company’s department store in Providence, R. 1., caused a loss estimated at $50,000. Plot to kill all the rulers of the world, which was formed in New York and Paterson, N. J., has been discovered. At Dunkirk, N. Y„ Bertha Baldwin. <1 years old, was fatally burned. Her clothing was deliberately set on fire by a boy companion, who put a match to her dress. A coroner's inquest held on the body 6T the son of Carl Schurz of New Yorjt, who died alone in his hoarding house, resulted in a verdict that death was caused by heart disease. ’The miners’ strike in the Georges Creek, Maryland, district, which has been on since April, has been broken by the return to work of over 1,000 men. Those who remain out threaten trouble. Because one of their number was discharged, the driver boys at No. 2 shaft of the Susquehanna Coal Company at Nanticoke. Pa., went on strike. The mine is idle and 400 men are out of work. Three persons were seriously injured nnd six others badly cut and bruised by the falling of five heavy pieces of structural iron from the top of a twelve-story building in course of coi/truetion in New York. / The body of John Trader, who had been missing from his home at Port Elizabeth, N. J., since last March, was found in a swamp near Bridgeton. The head had been cut from the body and carried away. During n game of baseball between the Homewood Athletic Club team and the Lawrenceville Grays at Homewood. Pit., a foul tip struck Catcher Charles Snyder, of the Homewood Club, over the heart ami killed him. ~ A leaky gas pipe was the primary canze of an explosion at Scranton, Pa,, which caused injury to nearly twentyfive persons, wrecked two buildings in the business part of the city and caused a property loss of upward of $150,000. A bomb was accidentally exploded in a vault of the old City Hall, now used as a recorder’s court, in Paterson, N. J. The report caused a sensation, and a rumor that anarchists had attempted to wreck the City Hall quickly became current. A mysterious explosion that caused the death of one Hungarian and the fatal injury of another took place at the Alpha cement works below Philipsburg, N. J. The flame of an exposed torch on one of their caps is believed t<7 have eatised the dust to explode. Fire in Buffalo, N. Y.. destroyed seven buildings occupied by business houses. Tlie loss was $150,000. Fire Captain Charles Beshnebn was severely injured and Fireman It. A. Reid was less seriously hurt while fighting the flames. Six of the buildings belonged to tile Jacob Dold estate. The" New York JimrirnTTilfiT Advertiser says that one of three leather mail poilehe* in transit from the general postolli. e e, 11. at Filth avenue and 1311, streel, that city, was robbed of more titan ;<2S,iMM) in drafts, checks and cash. Payment on the paper has been stopped.

WESTERN.

Dowieites were not permitted to get off the train at Mansfield, Ohio. Bandits held up a Unton PasTlic train near Hugo, Col., killing an old man who fired at them. The census-fTguresforMilwaukee, given out in Washington, give the total population as 285,315. The Minnesota Supreme Court sustained the law under which the new St. Paul city charter was adopted. The town of Gilman, Colo., was burned, causing a loss of SIOO,OOO nnd making homeless upward of 200 people. A tornado devastated the country for miles around Hatton, N. 1)., ruining crops and severely injuring several people. Alexander Jester has gone to Norman, Ok. He has grown twenty ybars younger since his acquittal and will preach again. Professor John D. Batchelder of Faribault, Minn., has accepted the chair of modern languages in the University of Vermont. Receipts of Klondike gold at Pacific const points so far this season are about $9,500,000, against $7,630,000 at the same time last year. The Homestake mine at Load City. S. D„ has produced $.<15,000,000 in goid in twenty-three years and paid $9,000,000 in dividends to its owners. Martha Hendricks and Paul Varner, Bennett, Mo., who were attempting to elope, were drowned while striving to escape from the girl's parents. Fire nt Cleveland destroyed one of the mills of the Cuynlioga Lumber Company, causing a loss of SIOO,OOO. John Zahm’ un employe, was fatally burned. ItelLb’.e returns of the election for Govyraor held in the Choctaw nation show that Judge J. W. Dukes has been elected. Mr. Dukes run on the full-blood ticket. Authentic reports received in Arcola, HI., by men who have covered the broom corn district state that a recent storm di<l over a million dollars' damage to the growing corn. The authorities think they have broken up a gang of vounterfeiters’by the capture of Charles Elliott at East St. Louis and Itoy Baker at Kansas City, together with much spurious coiu. As a result of a feud existing between the Harris and Dooley families in St. Francis County, .Missouri, five persons were shot and killed and a young girl severely wounded at n picnic at Doe Run. Bryan udu Stevenson, the Democratic nominees for President and Vice-Presi-dent, respectively, will attend the convention of the National Association of Democratic Chibs nt Indianapolis Sept. 5. At Marion, Ohio. James J, Joy, nged 45 years, a theatrical advance agent, shot himself through the head in his deserted home. His wife had left him, taking their two children with her. He couldn’t live without her. The Minnesota Supreme Court has decided the Duluth mayoralty contest between T. W. Hugo, Republican, and

Henry Trudgen, Democrat, in favor of the former, to whom the returns gave a majority of 0 votes. : D. H. Burnham of Chicago heads a board of architects of national reputation appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury to pass upon the plans submitted by competing architects for the federal building at Indianapolis. An explosion under a car of the Dallas (Texas) street railway caused a panic among the passengers, but no one wes hurt. The union motormen, who have been on strike for six weeks, disclaim responsibility for the accident. Fireman James Brannigan of engine company 17. at St. Louis, ran in front of a swiftly moving electric car and resetied from the jaws of death little Ira Marks, 7 years old. The top of the boy’s ear was clipped off by one of the car wheels. The Norwegian Lutheran Seminary has accepted the offer of local friends nnd decided to locate at Anthony Park in St. Paul. Minn., making eleven colleges and seminaries having homes in that city. Expensive new buildings will be erected at once. As tlie result of a pitched battle with moonshiners near Johnson, I*.T., one deputy marshal was slightly wounded and another. Schrimpsher, of Paul’s Valley, is missing. The band escaped under cover of darkness. Schrimpsher is believed to have followed the band and been killed. A large part of the business section of Convoy, Ohio, was destroyed by fire. The loss will be from SBO,OOO to SIOO,000. ’The burned "buildings include the postoffice, the town hall, the Columbia* Hotel, six store buildings and a number of residences. The tire started in a blacksmith shop. In the absence of the family, a burglar raided the home of T. E. Day, at Marion, Ohio. When neighbors tried to capture him, he poured gasoline from a can, touched a match, and set tire to the house. During the excitement which followed an attempt to save the house the robber escaped. Mrs. Edith Norris, her daughter, Maud. 15 years old, and her son, Thomas, 13 .'ears old, are dead at tlie Norris farm, near Harvey, 111., as the result Of eating poisonous toadstools mistaken for mushrooms. Tlie father, J. A. Norfig. two other daughters and a servant of the family are recovering from the poison. When tlie court officer went to the drug store at John and Sixth streets, Cincinnati, to serve a warrant on T. L. Greve, charging him with selling cocaine without making a proper entry in his books, he found that his warrant was for the arrest of a dead man. Greve died a year ago and since then his widow and sons have run the store. • Nearly $1,000,000 worth of lumber was burned in Barker A Stewart’s and the Keystone Lumber Company’s yards at Ashland. Wis. Almost 50,000,000 feet of lumber was burned, and two of the Keystone Company's tramways and four out of five of the Barker & Stewart tramways were burned to the water’s edge wit it all their lumber'. District Manager Campbel) of Hm Republic Iron and Steel Company has notified all tlie clerks and employes on salary at the niHLs at Youngstown. Ohio, that their services would not be required. No assurance was given as to when they could ■’again secure employment and they were advised to secure other positions. Tlie order affects 300 men. Tlie .Minnesota Supreme Court has decided against the railroad commission in its test ease against tlie United States Express Company to compel the latter to furnish information in its annual reports concerning its business and property. The company gave information covering its Minnesota business, but refused to report its interstate business.

SOUTHERN.

The Democrats and white supremacy have triumphed in North Carolina by 30,(MX) votes. A constitutional amendment practically disfranchising the negro has been adopted by popular vote. One of the worst freight wrecks ever known on the southern division of the Louisville and Nashville Railway occurred at Grand Bay, Ala. Out of some sixty box cars in the two trains not one was left whole. At Murfreesboro, Tenn., the most disastrous fire ever known there broke out the other afternoon and for a while threatened the entire manufacturing district. Before it was brought under control one life was lost and property worth SIOO,OOO destroyed. As a sequel to the election disputes two men were killed and two others mortally wounded at Sneedville, Tenn. The killed are: John Lamb, deputy sheriff, and Telman Collins. The wounded are Wiley Brewer and Whitten Gibson. Brewer was elected justice of the peace and the difficulty arose over his election. Charles W. Barnes, one of the men charged with robbing a train on the Illinois Central road near Wycliffe, Ky., a few weeks ago, who was captured in fit. Lottis and taken to Mayfield for safekeeping, made an attempt to break jail. He had cut the bars of his cell with tools, when his efforts were discovered. An official telegram states that a mob entered the postoffice at Mulat, Fla., smashed the windows nnd doors, destroyed some of the contents of the building and threatened the life of the postmaster. I‘t is further stated that the postmaster has become terror-stricken and tied and thnt no one is in charge of the office. Bascon L. Wyatt, a traveling salesman, was the victim of an unusual accident on n recent night, near Atlanta, Ga. He was in a compartment of a passenger train. His coat was hanging on u hook near where he was standing. The train suddenly turned a curve and in so doing the motion threw the coat, which held a pistol, against the aide of the car, causing the pistol to fire. The ball passed through Mr. Wyatt’s head. Death was Instantaneous.

FOREIGN.

Two Lascars are said to have died with the plague in London. M. Rothschild was awarded 14.(MX) francs damages in his slander suit against the publishers of Libre Parole, Commander Tilley tins sent a report of the cession of Tutuila and n copy of the agreement signed by the native chiefs. King Victor Emmanuel Hl. has isaued a proclamation to his subjects pledging his liest efforts in behalf of the kingdom. Edward Jarvia Cave, a building contractor of London, England, has failed

with liabilities of £500,000 and asset* of £47,000. Chinese troops were routed by 16,000 allies at Peitang. The allies lost 1,200 killed and wounded, chiefly Russians and Japanese. Dr. Charles Tanner, Nationalist men.ber for Cork, was suspended for the night in Parliament and went out defying all England. Li Hung Chang has replied evasively to the demands of Secretary Hay that Minister Conger be permitted to communicate direct with Washington. Edward L. Dwyer, once a wealthy grain speculator and husband of the Duchess of Castellucia. has been driven by poverty to enlist in the marine corps. President Kruger and Commandant General Botha have issued a proclamation promising to pay all damage done to the farms by the British, providing the burghers remain with the commandos. Becans* of the number of cases of leprosy in the Philippines has become a menace to public health. General McArthur has convened a military board to select an island on which they may be isolated. Cablegratps froin Che-Foo announce that the Chinese imperial troops advancing to oppose the allies’ relief force have completely wilted out a Christian town near Pekin, killing five foreign priests and 10,000 native Christians. In Paris the Evans will contest has been settled. In addition to specific legacies amounting to $250,000, the heirs get SBOO,OOO, divided equally among three branches of the family. By the settlement of the case the dental institute and museum of Philadelphia is assured of $3,000,000 by Dr. Evans. An attempt on the life of the Shah of Persia, Muzaffer-ed-Din, was made in Paris, but luckily it resulted in no harm to his majesty. A man broke through a line of policemen as the Shah was leaving his apartments and tried to mount the royal carriage step. The police disarmed him before he was able to fire. - - --

IN GENERAL.

One hundred prospectors who tried to work disputed claims near Nome were arrested by troops. William Patk Armstrong, Jr., has been chosen to succeed Dr. George T. Purves in the chair of New Testament literature at Princeton Theological Seminary. * Tlie State Department has been advised that owing to illness the new Persian minister to Washington. Mofakamed Dowleh, will not assume his duties until next fall. The Secretary of the Navy Department has extended the contract time on rhe battleships Kentucky and Kearsurge, relieving the Newport News Shipbuilding Company from penalties. Secretary of State John Hay has replied to Li Hung Chang regarding the abandonment of the Pekin campaign, refusing to make terms until free communication with Minister Conger is secured. Because of dismissals which the men claim were intended to break up their unions, -several hundred shopmen of the "Canadian Pacific Hallway are on strike. Tlie trouble may effect other classes of employes. Tlie steamship Senator reached Seattle, bringing Nome advices. She had aboard $175,900 of Nome gold, also about 375 passengers, who, unable to make a fortune in the north, returned rather than spend any more time there. I forest fire at Sopp’s Arm, White Bay, N. F.. has destroyed a large saw mill, several million feet of lumber, and a settlement of 120 houses. The whole place was wiped out. A schooner took the residents to a place of safety. Bradstreet's says: Trade conditions still favor the buyer. General fall demand, though fair in view of midsummer conditions, is still below expectations and below a year ago. Bank clearings are at the lowest for two years past, and failures are slightly more numerous, though no marked tendencies are perceptible. On the other hand, gross railway earnings hold the percentage of gain previously shown, and where prices are made low enough to satisfy buyers a heavy business is uncovered .and readily booked, pointing to demand being still present and awaiting disposal. The crop situation as a whole is better, the outlook as to corn is for a 2,100.000,000bushel crop. Spring wheat is turning out better in quality and quantity than expected. and there lias, been an unquestionable improvement in cotton crop conditions. The yield of apples will be the largest for many years, and fruits generally are yielding liberally and commanding good prices.

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.70; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $5.40; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4 .(15; wheat, No. 2 red, 77c to 78c; corn, No. 2,37 cto 38c; oats, No. 2,21 c to 22c; rye, No. 2,47 cto 48c; butter, choice creamer?. I »<• to 19c: eggs, fresh, 9c to 12c; potatoes, 29c to 34c per bushel. Indianapolis—-Cattle, shipping, s3.<Kt to $5.65; hogs, choice light, $5.00 to $5.35; sheep, common to prime, $3.00 to $4.00; wheat. No. 2,74 cto 7ic; corn, No. 2 white, 42c to 43c; oats, No. 2 white, 26c to 27c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.25 to $5.80; hogs, $3.00 to $5.40; sheep. 1,3.00 to $5.00; wheat. No. 2. 72c to 73c: coin. No. 2 yellow. 36c to 37c; oats. No. 2,20 cto 21c; rye, No. 2,51 cto 52c. Cincinnati—Cattle. $3.tM) to $5.40; hogs, $3.00 to $5.45: sl.tep. $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2,76 cto 77c: corn, No. 2 mixed, 40c to 41c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 23c to 25c; rye, No. 2,55 cto 56c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.75: hogs. $3.00 to $5.40; sheep. $3.00 to $4.40; wheat. No. 2. 77c to 78c: corn. No. 2 yellow, 40c to 41c; oats. No. 2 white, 26c to 27c; rye, 52c to 53c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 77c to 78c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 40c to 41c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 22c to 23c; rye, No. 2,51 c to 52c; clover seed, prime, $5.05 to $5.40. Milwaukee—Wheat. No 2 northern, 73c to 74c; corn. No. 3,39 cto 40c; oat« No. 2 white, 24c to 25c; rye, No. 1,51 c to 52c; barley, No. 2,47 cto 48e; pork, mess. $ll.OO to $11.70. Boffa In—Cattle. choice shipping steers. $3.00 to $5.80; hogs, fair to prime, $3.00 to $5 .70; sheep, fair to choice, $3.25 to $4.75: lambs, common to extra, $4.00 to $625. New York—Cattle, $3.25 t« $11.00; hogs, ,$3.00 to $5.90; sheep, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat. No. 2 red, 78c to 79c; corn, No. 2, 44c to 45c; oats, No. 2 white, 27c to 28c; biQt,er. creamery, 17c to 20c; egga, western, 15c to 17c.

— I ■ OMIGJLQO, INOtAMAFGUG A LOMISVIULR RY. Rensselaer Time-Table, Corrected to May 8,1899. South Bound. No. 31—Fast Mail 4:48 a.m. No. 5 Louisville Mail, (daily) 10:55 a. m, No. 33 Indianapolis Mail, (daily).. 1:45 p.m. No. 39—Milk accomm., (daily; 6:15 p. m. No. 3 Louisville Express, (daily). . 113)4 p. m. •No. 45 Local freight 2:40 p.m. North Bound. No. 4-Moil, (daily) 4:30 a. m. No. 40—Milk accoinm., (daily) 7:31a.m. No. 32—Fast Mail, (daily) 9:55 a.m. •No. 30—Cin.to Chicago Ves. Mail.. 6:32 p. m. ♦No. 38—Ciu. to Chicago 2:57 p. m. No. 6-Mail and Express, (daily)... 3:27 p.m. •No. 46 Local freight 9:30 a. m. No. 74—Freight, (daily).. 93)9 p. m. •Daily except Sunday. {Sunday only. No. 74 carries passengers between Monon and Lowell. Hammond has been made a regular stop for No. 30. No. 32 and 33 now stop at Cedar Lake. Frank J. Reed, G. P. A., W. H. McVoel. President and Gen. M'g'r, Chas. H.RockwkrX, Traffic M'g'r, CHICAGO. W. IL Beam, Agent, Rensselaer.

Edward P. Honan, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Law, Abstracts, Real Estate. Loans. Will practice in all the courts. Office first stairs east of Postoffice. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. Hanley & Hunt, Law, Abstracts, Loans and Real Estate. Office up-stairs in Leopold’s block, first stairs w#st of Van Rensselaer street. Jas. W. Douthit, LAWYER, Rensselaer, Indiana. Wm. B. Austin, Lawyer and Investment Broker Attorney For The L. N. A. & C. Ry. and Rensselaer W. L. & P. Co. 744w<)ffice over Chicago Bargain Store. Rensselaer, Indiana. .RANK rOLTZ. C. Q. SPITLBR. HARRY R. KURRfR Foltz, Spitler & Kurrie, (Successors to Thompson & Bro.) Atto rn eys-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 tlie courts. Office over banners' Bank, on Washington St., RENSSELAER. IND. J. F. Warren J. F. Irwin Warren & Irwin, Real Estate, Abstracts. Collections. Farm Loans and Fire Insurance. Office in Odd Fellow's Block. RENSSELAER. INDIANA. Ira W. Yeoman, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Remington, z - - - Indiana. Law. Real Estate. Collections, Insurance and Farm Loans. Office upstairs in Durand Block, Addison Parkinson. John M. Wasson. President. Vice President. Emmet L. Hollingsworth, Cashier. Commercial State Bank, (North Side of Public Square.) RENSSELAER, IND. The Only State Bank in Jasper Co. DIRECTOKS. 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. Money loaned nnd good notes bought at current rates of interest. A share of your patronage is solicited. Farm Loans at 5 per Cent Drs. I. B. & I. M. Washburn, Physicians & Surgeons. Dr. k B. Washburn w ill give special attention to Diseases of the Eye, Ear. Nose. Throat and Chronic Diseases. He also tests eyes for glasses. Orrics Tslcahohb No. 48. Rsbioshcs Fhors No. 87. Rensselaer, - - Indiana.

E. C. English, Physicians & Surgeons. Office over Postoffice. Rensselaer. Indiana. Orrica Phonb, 177. Riß'Dinci PmonKi 11®. H. L. Brown, DENTIST. Office over Lnrsh's drug store. R. H. ROBINSON, ...DENTIST... Special attention given to the preservation of the natural teeth and the most improved methods of relieving pain during all operations. Teeth inserted with or without plates. Ail work guaranteed. Charges as low as consistent with good work. Office over Ellis & Murray’s. Night calls, Makeever House. R. H. Robinson.

OAK LUMBER. My sawmill is now running, 5 miles north of Rensselaer, and I am prepared to furnish all kinds of oak lumber and sawed to order, if required. Phone 176. D. H. Yeoman, Rensselaer, Ind. Warren & Irwin are making loans on farm or city property at a low rate of interest and commission »nd on more liberal terms than can be obtained elsewhere in Jasper County. S. P. Thompson will sell his lands in Union township, in tracts, and on terms to suit those desiring to farm or raise stock. See or write to S. P. Thompson, Rensselaer, Ind. 5 PER CENT. MONEY. Money to burn. We know you hate to smell the smoke. Stock up your farms while there is money in 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 & Parkison.

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