Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1900 — Page 6

JASPER COUNTY DEMOCRAT "f. e. babcock, Publisher. lUNSSEIAER, • - • INDIANA.

WEEK’S NEWS RECORD

Pnrejltn, the well-known bandit, wits killed at Palino Soriano,, about twenty miles from Santiago de Cuba. lie was shot by a corporal of the rural guard. This outlaw, who was a Cuban mulatto, had been terrorizing the country for several years. FitffyMWW J.-E.--WilWtwm- «< Tannery, Pa., quarreled with the girl ite loved and went west. A few years ago he returned.’white haired, wrinkled and 81 years old, and the other day he and his old sweetheart were 1 married at Wilkesbarre. Four employes of the steamer Hill City en route from New Orleans to Memphis, lost their lives at Blue Point Miss. The men were engaged Tn repairing the wheel of the steamer, when the plank gave Way and they were precipitated into tlie river. Near St. Thomas a severe hail storm destroyed 40,000 acres of the finest grain grown in North Dakota this year, even that cut and shocked being destroyed. The storm was two miles wide and twen-ty-four miles lung, rind many of the hail stones were from three to four inches in diameter. The loss will be over 200,000 bushels. Correspondence captured by Gen. Funstoii’s command in Luzon is made public. Among the let ters was one from Dr. I .everson of Brooklyn, N. V., to G. Apacilde, in which the writer declares the action of the United States in the war is piracy and advises the Filipinos to capture some United States officer of high rank and try him before their congress on this charge. Charles F. Dale, defendant in a suit recently tiled in court at Rushville, TiuL. in which lie is charged with I lie murder of tour members <>f The"FiazePfamily, wan arrested by City Marshal Jones-by--order of Chief of Police Hivtsrh rrf-T.’itt—-cinuati. The charge against Dale is the mistreatmeill oft wo Ii I• le girl - A <la Higgins and Grace Deweiiter. He asserts his innocence. A fatal hold-up is. reported from Greensburg. I’a. As a party of Slavs were returning to their homes after being paid off at I lie mines at Pleasant I’uUythey were met by three men on bieyehs, Who ordered them to hand over their money. A genera! light fijtowed. in wiiicli one of the Slav ; was hilled. Each of the Slavs whs robbed of $33 and the highwtiytm-n cseytpedon tiieirw4te»4s. Arthur Taylor and George Featherstone, each about II years of age. are under arrest nt Victor, Colo., charged with causing the wreck of the Midland Terminal passenger train half a mile east of Independence, and trying to wreck the Florence and Cripple Creek train from Bull Hill in the yards at Independence. They were detected and captured while making the secund attempt ut trainwrecking. The standing of the clubs in the National League is as follows: W. L. W. L. Brooklyn ...56 33 Boston -15 47 Pittsburg ...52 42 St. L0ui5....41 47 Philadelphia 47 43 Cincinnati ...40 51 Chicago ....4G 47 New Y0rk...3.5 52 Following is the standing in the American League: W. L. W. L. Chicago ....58 3S Cleveland ...48 4'3 Milwauke<;_..55 48 Kansas City.so 54 Indianapolis 51 45 Buffalo 44 s!i Detroit 54 4S Minneapolis. 41 01

BREVITIES.

Forest fires near South Fork. C«>lo., destroyed large tracts of valuable timber. Thompson Stickle’* design for the Nancy Hanks monument, to be ( reeled over her grave, has been accepted. F. Romans, a candidate for political office in Missouri, committed suicide because of attacks by his opponents. The Palmer Stee l and Iron Company of Chicago having signed the amalgamated scale, its 400 employes at Muncie, Ind., resumed work. Collis P. Huntington, president of the Southern Pacific Railroad, died suddenly at Pine Knot Camp, near Durant, mi Racquette Lake, in the Adirondacks. of heart disease. George M. Street, chairman of the Democratic Central Committee of Pulaski County, Arkansas, committed sui cide by drowning in the Mississippi River at St. Louis. The Ilnmburg-Anierienn Line steamer Deutschland made a new record for the eastward passage, and the fastest time ever attained by any ocean steamer live days eleven hours and forty lit e minutes. A terrible crime was, commit ted nt Jamestown, Ohio, when A. G. Bingamon killed his wife and his son-in-law, James Bradley, and then committed suicide. The tragedy was the result of family troubles. The output of the Klondike district and that part of Forty Mile on the Canadian side, is estimated at S2(I,<nM)JMM) this season. It was SIS.(M)(I,(MM)Jast sea non. The Unity Mile share will not reach $500J»90. Five men have been arrested by the St. Louis police in connection with the use of dynamite on the ears and property of the Tran-it Company. Maurice Bren nan and F. E. Northway, two of the fciisiM’cts, confessed. Agents of Armour & Co., of Chicago, have begun work on the square bounded by Main street and the river and Brook and Floyd streets, in Louisville, Ky., which recently was purchased for the site of the $1,900,000 packing plant. At Poplar Bluff, Mo.. John Griscom, his wife ami two children died from poisoning, the result of eating ice cream flavored with a crude extract. A head-end collislou* occurred on the Itio Grande railroad nt Monument. Col., resulting in the death of two pergons and the injury of several others. The nlr brakes refused to work. In Kansas City Charles Dunbar and Mr*. Nora Bradley of New Albany, I nd., attempted suicide nt a boarding house by taking morphine. Dunbar and Mm. Bradley eirt|M*d six weeks ago and have been living there as man and wife sinte.

EASTERN.

Fire at Glens Falls, N. Y., caused a loss of SIOO,OOO. / Miss Flossie'Swetluud of Fredonia, N. Y., was drowned at l’Ut-in-Bay while bathing. Mrs, Cuwocho, wife of the Mexican Minister of KailroadS, died suddenly on a train near Jersey City. Gus Kuhlin-was knocked out in the sixth round of bis fight with ex-Cbampiou Bob Fitzsimmons in New York. ■ Lightning at New York strikes nine persons who had sought refuge under a tree and iifrshes to avoid a storm. Four of them died. An explosion in a.paint store at Rochester, N. Y., stalled a tire which did $40,000 damage, and for a time threatened lite business part of the city. Mrs. Bessie Krulewiteh, wife of a Well-to-do New York real estate dealer, while riding in a street ear hud a diamond earring valued at S7OO torn from her ear by a ruffian, who then sprung from the ear to the street and mixed in with the crowd. Fifteen persons were -killed- instantly and ten others were seriously injured in a grade crossing accident three miles east of Slatington, Pa. A passenger train on the Lehigh and New England Railroad crashed into an omnibus containing twen-ty-eight persons. Almost the entire plant of the Pittsburg Reduction Company’s aluminum works at New Kensington, Pa., was destroyed by a tornado. The loss is estimated nt not less than SIOO,<MK) and will entail the closing down of the works for an indefinite period. Another step in the plan to rehabilitate the old publishing firm of Harper & Brothers was taken when the big plant was sold under foreclosure, being bid in by Colonel Harvey as agent of the receiver, the Morton Trust Company. The sale includes the entire property. John W. Burger, a well-known farmer living near Erie, Pa., was found 'lying in bis buggy from the effects of w pistol shot in the head. He had been shot while driving along the-road and his body fastened to the buggy seat with a strap. He died without reg.lining consciousness. John Burns, Jersey City's, boy pirate, is locked up in a cell iii police headquarters bui'ding. Details of a plot in which he was the head center came to light. involving among other matters the kidnaping of Millionaire John D. Rockefeller for the purpose of holding him for ransom. William B. Leeds of New York, chairmnn of the American Tinplate Company, whose wife secured a divorce in thirty minutes in Chicago, was married two days later, and gave his new wife half a million dollars’ worth of wedding gifts. Slie'is the daneiii. i of the 11vasm-er of the Forest Citv Slone Company of Cleveland. Paul J.iii'i n, who was arested in East Rutherford, N. J., three weeks ago charged witli counterfeiting, hanged himself in his cell in the Hudson County jail. He tore his coat into strips, which be twisted into a rope and fastened to the bars of his cell door. Then tying the end about his neck he threw his weight oa the cord and strangled to death.

WESTERN.

Seattle is to have a world’s fair in IGO4 to commemorate settlement of the Pacific Northwest. Four Omaha residents were wrecked on Salt Lake and were on an island thirty-six hours without water. The trial of Mrs. Mollie Qtiigg, aj Celina, Ohio, on a charge of having killed John It. Dilley, a wealthy lumberman, resulted in a hung jury. George D. Jackson has declined a nomination for (’ot)gress in the Tenth "Michigan District. The vacancy will be filled by the Congressional Committee. As a result of a family quarrel Charles Dabor, G 5 years old. shot and killed his wife in Chicago and then tried to end his own life by shooting himself in the throat. Pending an appeal Judge Allen at Springfield, ill., ordered a stay of the proceedings by which the Louisville, Evansville and St. Louis road was to have been sold. It. 11. Ferrel), an ex-employe, confessed to having robbed an express ear and killed the messenger near Columbus, Ohio, in order to secure money to pay for his wedding. The official returns of the twelfth census will show Indianapolis to have a population 0f.1’68,915, an increase of 63,479 people in the last ten years, or.a gain of 60.2 per eent. The States of Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota have raised approximately 136,900,000 bushels of wheat. This is about 67.000,000 less than the three States raised hi 1599. Wheat in greatest plenty, but half a crop of corn, summarizes the latest report issued by the Kansas Board of Agriculture, based upon returns from every school district in the State. John ILivlin has acquired a long lease of the Imperial Theater, St. Louis, which, in connection with the .Middleton 'Theater Company, he will operate with the Havlin and Columbia theaters. Bobbers of a Union Pacific train near Hugo, Col., were surrounded on a ranch near Gooiilnnd, Kan., where one was burned to death in a bouse in which lie fought a posse and another was shot to death. While ringing the tire bell at Gatewdod, Mo., on the occasion of a tire, Unfits Forslice was instantly killed. The heavy clapper, weigling several pounds, broke loose ami fell thirty-five feet down the belfry. ’l'wo children, romping on the side streets of Mount Auburn., Cincinnati, inadO ghastly discovery in a sewer catch basin. It was the body of a dead man, with hi. head literally beaten to a jelly. There is no positive < lew to bis identity. The trial at Palestine, Texas, of the lynchers of Janies Humphreys and his two sons in Henderson County in IS9B, has resulted in a third conviction mid sentence of life Imprisonment, the trial of W. B. Brooks having readied this end. Backbone of long labor war in Chicago lias been broken by the action of carpenters in deserting unions for employment under the members of the Contractors’ Council, who promise to pay .union scale. The steamer Myrtle M. Boss, with n cargo of 3<N» tons of coal, consigned to the Windsor Ferry Company, sunk at her dock At ’Jvtrolt. It li supposed a sea-

cock wm left open. The crew escaped Without accident. In Wichita, Kan., Miss Jessie Morison was again held for the murder of Mrs. Olin Castle at El Dorado on Juno 22. Her second preliminary hearing came up upon a writ of habeas corpus applied for by her lawyers. 8. C. Reighard, of Toledo, Ohio, shot his wife in her confectionery store, then walked to his family home and shot himself through the heart. The woman expired in less than five minutes?' Jle was insanely jealous of her. Dr. Michael N. Regent, Mrs. Delia Mahoney, Janies O'Brien and Mrs. Nora O’Brien were found guilty in Chicago of conspiracy with intent to defraud. All w?;-e heavily fined and Dr. Regent’s sentence includes imprisonment. The United States steamer Edna, in the charge of four United States engineers, lias, been at Portsmouth, Ohio. The engineers are engaged in a survey of the Ohio River fur the building of locks and dams and for the general improvement of the water way. William McLid.md, who escaped from the Kansas State Penitentiary in June, 1889, appeared in Leavenworth recently and" voluntarily gave himself up to the warden, saying that he Was tired of living in suspense and wished to serve the balance of his time. The Janesville-Milwaukee local on the Milwaukee *Ttiad while pulling out of Janesville collided with a switch engine which .was pulling five loaded cars of coal. BCirt Schlatter, engineer, of Janesville, and Gus A. Boudrnth, fireman, both on passenger train, were killed. In remembrance of the kindness and friendship of Lina Graf, who had befriended and eared fur him in his old age, the lute Nathan 11. Knapp, St. Louis capitalist, in his will, bequeathed Mrs. Graf all his estate with the exception of $5, left to the testator's daughter. The undershirt man has made his initial appearance in the police court in St. Louis. When questioned by the judge why lie had no coat or shirt he said he was the original undershirt man and did not propose to be made uncomfortable by fashion. He was lined $lO for disturbIng the peace. * ——— The sudden death of Edward P. Herrick in Chicago, combined with the pre--viou* mysterious deaths of his wife andhis niece and the serious illness of his daughter-in-law, caused the police to inquire into the matter and developed the fact that there were traces of poison in tlie dead man's stomach. "An ai-conniiod.itinn train on the Duluth and iron Range Railroad, was wrecked at Knife River, about twenty miles from Duluth, and Fireman Brtiley was killed and Engineer Pettibone was-slightly injured. The train ran into a washout and six cars were overturned. Bruley was completely buried under the engine. . When Panhandle train No. 8 from the west pulled into the Union depot at CoUnubus, Ohio, shortly after ID o’clock lihe other night, Charles Lane, the express messenger, was found dead in the car with eight bullets in his body. The safe was blown open and $45,000 is said to have been secured by the robbers. Mrs. Mary E. Scales, of Creston, recently out of the asylum, gave her 2-year-ohl daughter laudanum, from the effects of which the child died. She attempted to administer the same drug io her G-year-old son., but he escaped and gave the alarm. She then locked herself in tlie house and took a fatal draught of the same drug.

SOUTHERN.

Fire destroyed Holbrook normal college in Knoxville, Tenn. Loss, $39,000; insurance, $13,000. Negro murderers killed the leader of a Georgia posse and resisted capture; a race war is imminent. The miners at Pittsburg, Ky., are out on a strike, caused by the discharge of one of the men by the company. Jack Betts, a negro, was lynched at Corinth, Miss. A mob took him from jail and hanged him to a telegraph pole on the public square. Tiie Langxtaff Hardware Company us Memphis assigned, scheduling liabilities of SBO,OOO, with assets said to be sufficient to pay ail creditors. Leslie Good paster was shot ami killed by his friend Edgar Connor during an argumei* nt Owingsville, Ky. When Connor realized his crime he committed suicide. At Cylvania, Ga., It. F. Herrington and Milton Mears were shot and killed by two negroes named Alexander, as a result of a quarrel caused by the buggy in which the negroes were riding colliding with that in which were Herrington and Mears. Erasmus Fenner Henderson, president of Sain Henderson's Sons N. Co., a leading New Orleans insurance agency, committed suicide in his office by shooting himself through the head. Despondence over the dentil of his wife is believed to have unbalanced his mind. F. M. Renick of Falling Springs. W. Va., who was tired of life, tried live times with poison to end his existence, but failed. Finally he leaped fifty feet from the dome of the statehouse in Columbus, Ohio, to the stone flagging in a court, and was dashed to death. Near Anniston. Ala., W. T. Turner, wife and 3-months old baby jumped off a Southern railway train while it was running at the rate of forty miles an hour. Turner was killed, and the wife and baby are thought to be fatally injured. They had never been on a train before. A Southern Pacific passenger train was going nt full speed across the trestle over the Lacasine bayou, near Lake Charles, Ln., when tlie tender jumped the track nnd broke loose from the engine. The engine went on nnd the nine coaches were thrown in every direction. The trestle was completely demolished. On lionrd the train were 156 persons, and that only one boy was killed is beyond explanation.

FOREIGN.

Baron Russell of Killowcn, lord chief justice of England, is dead. The port of Havre is practically closed on account of the stokers' strike. The Madrid cabinet has approved the extradition convention between Spain and.the United States. The signal office of the army nt Washington has received notice that the allies have captured Yang-taun. For insulting the new Queen Of Servin. General Bcllm.irkowitch, who was oue of

the xegents during the minority of Klug Alexander, has l?ecn placed under arrest at Vienng. According to a special dispatch Barberton lias been proclaimed the new seat of the Transraul Government. General Roberts reports that Hoare’s garrison at Eland’s River probably has been captured by the Boers. The strike of Paris cabmen has resulted in a lockout and 3,500 drivers have been deprived of their vehicles. Boer plot w as discovered in Pretoria to kill all British officers and make Lord Roberts a prisoner. The ringleaders are in jail. ' General Alejandrino, n leading rebel commander, is negotiating for the surrender, of the Filipino forces central Luzon. United States Minister Thomas gave a state dinner at Stockholm Ju honor of the officers of the United States ships Lancaster and Essex. British War Correspondent A. G, Hales says tb.e imperial troops in South Africa are-being starved owing to resl tajie and wretched methods. Tlie luaritini'.' stokers’ strike at Havre, which threatened to assume large proportions, has been settled by a compromise, the men securing an increase of wages. A terrible mistake occurred at the ing of Yang-tsun. Russian artillery opened fire on tlie American troops. Before the mistake was discovered many American soldiers had been killed or wounded by the Russian shells. Many persons were injured in a panic at Rome during the passing of the funeral cortege of the late king. Thinking that an attempt was being made to assassinate Victor Emmanuel, the princes surrounded him with drawn swords. During the maneuvers of the French fleet off Cape St. Vincent a collision took place between the first-class battle-ship Brennus and tlie torpedo-boat destroyer Framee. The Framee sank immediately. Of the Framee’s crew of fifty-six men fourteen were saved. , Advices from Bitlis, Asiatic Turkey, say that 200 men. women and children -have been massacred in tlie Armenian village of Spaghank, in the district of Sassun, by troops and Kurds,, under Ali Pasha, the commandant of Bitlis. He is also said to have ordered the village to be burned.

IN GENERAL.

J. 11. Wright has been appointed postmaster at Nome, Alaska. American merchants have won their case against Nicaragua over customs duties paid at Bluefields during a revolution. An American is said to have found, in latitude 47 degrees 35 minutes nortli and longitude 43 degrees 27 minutes west, a letter written by Andree June 2. 1900. The comptroller of the treasury has decided that a common carrier is responsible for the loss of goods received by it, even though such goods are not accompanied by a bill of lading or shipping directions. Glassware will cost dealers and purchasers 10 per cent more after Sept. 1 than before. This is not an unusual sequence of the action of the manufacturers in conference with the bottle blowers of granting an increase of 7 per cent in wages. The steamer Tees arrived at Victoria, B. C., bringing a belated report of the sighting of a balloon, presumably that of the missing Andree and his companion, near the mouth of the Mackenzie River ,in the winter of 1898. The news is given in a letter written by a miner at Fort Yukon to a friend in Selkirk. Six years ago M'illiani Henderson and Walter Moore lived on adjoining farms near St. John’s, N. B. They became attentive to each other’s wives. Henderson and Mrs. Moore eloped and came to Long Island, bis wife liecoming Moore's housekeeper. The husbands have agreed that a mistake was made and have exchanged wives for the second time. B. G. Dun & Co.'s weekly review of trade says: “Speculation is cautious, liut investment holdings are being increased rather than diminished, and operators cannot see that their hesitation on the ground of politics is echoed anymore in general business circles than two months ago. Tlie money market is untroubled by the financing of the foreign loan, though the volume of new commercial loans is well sustained. Loss of the Chinese market has put coarse brown cottons in a bad position, other grades being less seriously affected. Failures for the week were 177 in the United States, against 136 last year, and 23 in Canada, against 29 lust year.”

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.90; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $5.25; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.35; wheat. No. 2 red, 75c to 70c; corn, No. 2,37 cto 38c; oats, No. 2,23 c to 24c; rye, No. 2,48 cto 49c; butter, choice creamery, 18c to 2Oc; eggs, fresh, 9c to 12c; potatoes, 29c to 33c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.70; hogs, choice light, $5.00 to $5.42; sheep, common to prime. $3.00 to $4.00; wheat. No. 2. 71c to 75c; corn. No. 2 white, 41c to 42c; oats, No. 2 white, 2<ic to 27c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3 25 to $5.80; bogs. $3.00 to $5.35; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2,70 cto 71e; corn, No. 2 yellow, 30c to 37c; oats, No. 2,20 eto 21c; rye, No. 2. 48c to 49c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.10; bogs, $3.00 to $5.50; sheep, $3.00 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2,70 cto 77c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 40c to 41c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 23c to 25c; rye, No. 2,55 cto 50c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.70; hogs, $3.00 to $5.45; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50: wheat, No. 2,77 cto 78c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 41c to 42c; oats. No. 2 white, 24c to 25c; rje, 51c to 52c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed. 77c to 78c; <?orn, No. 2 mixed, 39c to 40c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 21c to 22c; rye. No. 2,50 c to 51c; clover seed, prime, $5.05 to $5.40. Milwaukee—Wheat. No. 2 northern, "74c to 75c; corn, No. 3,39 cto 40c; oats, No. 2 white, 24c to 25c; rye, No. 1, 5Uc to 51c; barley, No. 2,47 cto 48c; pork, mess. $ll.OO to $11.70. Buffalo—Cnttle, choice shipping steers, $3.00 to $5.80; hogs, fair to prime. M.OO to $5.55; sheep, fnir to choice, $3.25 to $4.75; lambs, common to extra, SI.OO to si>.oo. New York—Cattle, $3.25 to $5.95; hogs, $3.00 to $5.85; sheep, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat. No. 2 red, 81c to 82c; corn. No. 2, 42c to 43c; OQts, No. 2 white, 28c to 29c; butter. creamery, 17c to 20c; eggs, western, 15c to 17c.

CHICAQO. INDIANAPOLIS A LOUISVILLI RY. * Rensselaer Time-Table, Corrected to May 8,1899. South Bound. No. 31—Fast Mail 4:48 a, m. No. s—Louisville Mail, (daily) 10:55 a. m. No. 33 Indianapolis Mail, (daily).. 1:45 p. in. No. 39--Milk acconim., (daily) 6:15 p. m. No. 3—Louisville Express, (daily).. 11:04 p. in. ♦No. 45—Local freight 2:40 p. m. North Bound. No. 4—Mail, (daily).... 4:30 a.m. No. 40— Milk accomm., (daily)..... 7:31a. m. No. 32—Fast Mail, (daily) 9:55 a. in. •No. 30—Ciu.to Chicago Ves. Mail.. 6:32 p. ni. INo. 38— Ciu, to Chicago 2:57 p. tn. No. 6—Mailand Express, (daily)... 3:27p.m. ♦No. 46 Local freight 9:30 a.m. No. 74—Freight, (daily) 9:09 p.m. ♦Daily except Sunday. tSunday 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. Fbank J. RgKD. G. P. A., W. H. McDoel. President and Gen. M'g'r, Chas. H. Rockwell, Traffic M'g'r, CHICAQO, W. H. 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 west of Van Rensselaer Street. Jas. W. Douthit, LAWYER, Rensselaer, Indiana. Wm. B. Austin, __ Lawyer and Investment Broker Attorney For The L. N. A. AC.Ry, and Rensselaer W.L. AP. Co. over Chicago Bargain Store. Rensselaer, Indiana. FRANK FOLTZ. C. O. SFITLIR. HARRT R. KURRIR Foltz, Spitler & Kurrie, (Successors to Thompson <S Bro.) Atto rn e y s-at-La w. 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 the courts. Office over Farmers’ 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, - - 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. DIKKCTOHH. Addison Parkison, G. E. Murray, Jos.T. Randle, John M. Wasson and Emmet 1,. Hollingsworth. This bunk is prepared to transact a general banking business. Interest allowed on time deposits. Money loaned and 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. I. B. Washburn will give special attention to Diseases of the Eye, Ear. Nose. Throat and Chronic Diseases. He also tests eyes for glasses. Oppicp Tilirhomb No. 41. Riiidinci Phons No. 97. Rensselaer, - - Indiana. E. C. English, Physicians & Surgeons. Office over Postoffice, Rensselaer, Indiana. Oppic« Phone, 177. Rb«iO«ncb Phons* 119. H. L. Brown, DENTIST. Office over Larsh’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. All work guaranteed. Charges as low as consistent with good work. Office over Ellis & Murray’s. Night calls, Mnkeever 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. Phohe 176. D. H. Yeoman, Rensselaer, Ind. Warren & Irwin aje making loans on farm or city property at a low rate of interest and commission ind on more liberal terms than can be obtained elsewhere in Jasper County. S. P. Thompson will sell his lands in Uniontownship, in 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 y.ou 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 <fe Parkison.

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