Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1900 — Page 6

JASPER COCNI'Y- DEMOCRAT. F. E. BABCOCK. Publisher. RENSSELAER, - ■* - If) DIANA.

SUMMARY OF NEWS.

Gen. Randallhas rcevivcd nuthoriiy to send back the indigent sick and destitute front the Nome gold district nt the expense’ of the Government. He has r’eeelved over 3,000 applications for passage and there are still several thousand who are penniless. ’ 'Che steamer Rprctflar eolTiiled’Avllh the steamer Denver off Col Chester light, in Lake Erie. The. Spcculax. went dowa.it few minutes after the crash. Mo4t of her crew succeeded in getting into (he lift!boat, while five clung to the rigging, and all were picked up by the steamer Marltana. Former Justice of the Peace Joseph Wilkerson, the alleged leader of the mob that lynched the three Humphreys in Henderson County, Texas, in May, 1881), and J. A. Johns, Sain Hall and John F. Iladdis, the remaining defendants, pleaded guilty to murder in the first degree and each received a life sentence in the penitentiary. Thomas Partridge, a Penfield, N. Y., farmer, has taken the first steps in an action for SIO,OOO damages aguinst Mrs. 'Russell Terrill, a neighbor. The suit grows out of the death of little Mary 'Partridge, who, according to the father’s statement, was so terrified by a false face worn by Mrs. Terrill that she suffered a nervous shock which caused her death. An electric ear on the Cleveland and Chagrin Falls suburban line was wrecked near Chagrin Falls, Ohio, the crew and twelve passengers being cut and badly bruised. Five persons were seriously injured. The accident was caused by a broken brake rod. The car jumped the track on a sharp curve while Hunting at h high rate of speed. The trucks broke and the car plunged over on its side. In Braddock, Pa., fire destroyed J. C. Bchmesinger’s photograph gallery, the BF*ir*t Christian Churi-li. the millinery Store of Maggie Field. Mrs. Annie YleFeeley's grocery, Braddock Upholstering Company’s store, William Zeolplitz’s gents' furnishing store. Rodgers’ lumber yard and the Braddock Coal and Supply Company building. The loss is with small insurance. Origin supposed to be incendiary. The standing of the clubs in the National League is ns follows: W. L. W. L Brooklyn ...58 35 Boston 47 49 J’ittsbnrg ...54 44 Cincinnati ...45 52 - Phi'.adelphia—4B-47 St. Louis. . . .43 51 Chicago ....48 48 New Y0rk...38 55 Following is the standing in the Amerjean League: W. L. W. L Chicago . . .<>4 40 Kansas City.ss 5(1 itmlianapolia st‘> 48 Cleveland .. .51 54 (Milwaukee ..58 52 Buffalo 48 02 .Detroit 57 52 Minneapolis. 43 08 Sheriff Ferguson has rounded up a gang of supposed counterfeiters near |Sodus, Mich. The officer arrested Clyde Churcltill, whom he caught in the act of passing worthless money. On Churchill's statement Sheriff Ferguson also arrested Richard anil Joseph Brant. He then .unearthed the workshop of the alleged Counterfeiters, which he discovered to be tin n cave near Churchill's home. In the cave he found molds and all the apparatus used in the manufacture of bogus coin. The prisoners had a hearing before United States Commissioner O'Hara and were remanded to jail in default of $2,000 bail each.

NEWS NUGGETS.

Gustave Roeder, New York, shot his wife and son and killed himself. W. T. Hall, representing n Chicago business house, dropped derid at Hanni ba I. Mo, Louis G. Bohmrich of Kenosha was nominated for Governor of Wisconsin by acclamation in the Democratic rtrnwation. Gov. Shaw of lowa has appointed Congressman J. I*. Dolliver of Fort Dodge United States Senator from lowa to succeed the late John Henry Gear. Ten million dollars, according to the estimate of architects and contractors, will bo expended in Chicago next fall and spring in the erection of buildings. This estimate is conservative. Fifteen thousand women of Victoria, Australia, hare signed n petition against ■the women's suffrage bill, in pursuance of a plan said to be similar to tlte American anti suffrage movement. Mr. Huff, a cattleman nnd farmer, was shot dead in his own home in Custer County, Oklahoma, by some one who fired through an open window. The herd law there is said to be the cause of the crime. Five miners were smothered to death in the Isntjunh Coal Company’s mines nt Isa<|uah. A brush fire st>read to tint mouth of an airshaft, ignited the timlteri nnd was sucked down by the ventilator fan. A mob stormed (he city prison nt Akron, Ohio, in search of n negro prisoner, Guards tired on the rioters, killing n boy and wounding four members of the mob. The prisoner had been removed to Cleveland. Miss Minnie Harvey of Plymouth, t| domestic employed in LaPorte, Ind., commltted silicide by Inking strychnine. Sh« was in the throes of death when found. She left a note stating that she wns tired of living. Miss Mary Kramer, a Chicago girl visiting friends nt Manhasset, L. I'.. diMingnished herself by rescuing two boj-j from I<ong Island 8011 ml. The lads w<■»■«» Hnrold nnd William Ranta. sous of a well-to-do resident of Baltimore. C. E. Wantlund, general land agent of the Union Pacific Railroad, estimates the damage caused by the forest fires in (Join 1 ado and Wyoming at SI<>,(XMI,(MMI. Joseph, the 10-yenr-old son of Michael Rcbaill of Limn, died from injuries re•ceived by being tossed in a blanket by jsoldlers during the encampment of the .Second regiment, O. N. G„ in th it city. At Glenford, Ohio, Manna llebwr's • enwmlll boUer exploded, killing I/avign Dupler, Eliza Winegartner nud n num named McLaughlin. The bodies were horribly mutilated and blown n great distance. Cause of accident unknown.

EASTERN.

The official census of greater New York has jM»en completed. It is 5,437,202. Chief Justice Henry Green of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court died at Atlantic City, N. J. George Cabot Lodge, son of the Massachusetts Senator, was married to Miss Matilda F. Davis. M. K. McMullin has bought the West L'tid Tvaef-irm -Company of Pittsburg for neatly $4,500,000 cash. ™ .TLe Carnegie company: has made a deal whereby it will control the iron production of Lake Superior region for fifty years. Letters found in J’rcsei's lodgings indi-■t-atesthttt-Mort-sca e.m144 uh In,-■•tttwtrted-fa-N'ew A’ork, intended to kill President McKiuh y. . . _ Seven cases of smnlrpox have developed In Erie, Pa., several more art 1 suspected and the people of fully one-hulf of one ward -have been exposed. In a crossing accident near Allentown, Pa., John F. Welle. Harvey (). W olle and John V. Gottschalk, comprising a party of"caingißrs, were killed. The census office has announced the population of Greater New York (Man11. :>n and Bronx boroughs) ns 2,<>sd,<)<•(>. The popnlatlot) of i!i< Lorongh of Manhattan is 1,850,003, and that of the Bronx 200,507. The entire works above ground of the Berwind colliery at Dubois, -Fa., have been destroyed by fire. Sixty men, who were in the mine at the time, were saved by prompt and heioic action. The loss will approach 200,000. James Young, a laborer, deliberately threw his 2-year-old child into, the East river in- New York. Four men saw the deed. Young was not intoxicated, nor can he explain his action except by attributing it to temporary insanity. His child was rescued. Mabel McKinley, favorite niece of the President, whose charms have made Iter the recipient us scores of proposals, in■rTtnfing'imrrfaT' foreign Tfncs;“"wtTi~"tweome tire brnle-of-Hcwmauos Baer Sept. 12. The wedding will take place in the home of the bride’s -father, Abner. McKinley, at Somerset, Pa. A consolidation of the largest manufacturers of heavy fire apparatus in this cotmtiy effremt in New York under the name of the International Fire Engine Company. Ail the concerns in the United Stales manufacturing steam apparatus arc- included in the combination, which is stated to have a capital of s'.),000.000, A bold attempt tp_nssnssinate President McKinley was frustrated by the United States secret service* department. Two Italians, said to la* anarchists, on their way to this country with the nvowed intention of killing the President. "Were arrested on the Kaiser Wilhelm as the.big boat was nearing New York harbor. The men are Natalie Moresca and Michael Guida. A desperate attempt at train wrecking was’made on the meadows back of Atlantic- City, N. J. The tracks were obstructed with railroad iron and tie's, and the express on the Pennsylvania Railroad from that city, carrying over 200 passengers, was almost derailed. By what se'em s To“h aVe' bee it iitm6snmiTnn*te the train was brought to a standstill Irefore much damage was done.

WESTERN

Washington Republicans named a ticket headed by J. M. Frink for Governor. Henry H. Hodgkins, naval veteran mid officer under Dewey in the civil w ->i-. is dead at Mart-hall. Minn. Ex-United Slates Senator John James Ingalls died at East I,as Vegas, N. M., of an affection of the throat. O. L. Dowell, a leading merchant of Stroud, Okla., has failed. The liabilities are $38,000 and the assets $20,000. Nicholas Wizff, a Cincinnati dealer in brewers’ supplies, has made an assignment. Assets, $45,000; liabilities the so HitTwo highwaymen, attired in fashionable shirt waists, held up a Nebraskan Ktockman in broad daylight on a trolley car in Chicago. Samuel I. Amedoii, a prominent young society man, was instantly killed by a pitched ball while at bat in a local game in Ashtabula, Ohio. Hot winds are destroying the corn in Kansas and the crop will not yield over 50,000,(MK> bushels. Reports to the railroad headquarters say the crop has been ruined. Eliza Ann Ingersoll, who was sent to the Joliet penitentiary a little over a year ago for kidnaping Gerald Lapiuer in Chicago, link been taken to the Kankakee hospital for the insane. Great forest fires, supposed to have been started by careless campers, raged in Creston Canyon, Grizzly Creek and Sunset Peak, Colo. Valuable timber was in danger of being destroyed. Application in involuntary bankruptcy has been filed in the Federal Court at Houston. Texas, against T. M. Richardson A Son, doing a large business iu Toxa.-., Arkansas and Oklahoffia. The mysterious disappearance of an express package containing $25,000 sent from Chicago to Burlington, lowa, by the Commercial National Hauk puzzles the Chicago. Burlington and Quincy Railroad. Asa Packer Wilber, one of the heirs to the $20,000,000 rotate left by Asa Packer, the Pennsylvania Railroad king nnd coal baron. Ims died in poverty in San Francisco and was buried in a pauper's grave. Daniel Ea kson was found wandering about the streets of ‘Minneapolis stift'erIng from leprosy in an advanced stage. He wns nt once removed to the city hospital and placed in an isolated part of the institution. William McClelland, who voluntarily returned to the Kansas State prison 11 few days ago. after escaping in 1899. has been pardoned by Gov. Stanley. During his liberty McClelland married nnd settled In Arkansas. The total wheat crop of Oregon, Washington ami Idaho for IfMMI is estimated at from 82.000,000 to 33,000,(MX) bushels, 11 reduction of about 5,000,(MM) from enrlicr estimates. The wheat is said to be of a very fine quality. At a sawmill twenty-live miles west of Benton. Aik., women and children were retting iu the shade of n large lumber idle when it toppled over on them. Mrs. Pierce Holin wns killed ami Mrs. J. R. Tackett fatally injured. The automobile gun battery that left

Chicago for Washington some time ago has proved a failure. The gun-carrying automobile blew up at LaPorte, Ind., and the party of cadets under, commaud of Maj. Davidson have returned. Judson Fleming, a wealthy farmer, and his son Lawrence, aged 20, were killed by a Big Four train at Ashley, Ohio? They were in a carriage, and the son, hearing the train whistle, attempted, to drive over the track ahead of it. Owing to the recent heavy rains most of the steam shovel and open pit mines at McKinley, Minn,, have been compelled to suspend on account of being flooded. AU the rivers are high and loggers will have uo further trouble in logging. A terrific windstorm swept over Wisconsin, doing great damage to fruit and corn. At Sheboygan eight large buildings and over 200 dwelling houses were wrecked, ahcT the pecmiiary Toss in that city alone is estimated at $300,000. John Allen, 21 years old, who is in jail at Kansas City on a charge of horse stealing, attempted suicide' by hanging himself with a strip of cloth. His cell mates said he had been despondent since his wtf e visited him the -other day. A negro robbed a woman in a crowded street in Chicago and was pursued by a mob. Fearing capture he shot right and left and goaded the pursuers- to fury. The police found great difficulty in restraining the mob from lynching him. B. C. Richardson, a wealthy property owner at Alliance, Neb., was shot by a musician named Cline, With probably fataL,results. Richardson put Cline out of a saloon in a building owned by the wounded man and this caused the shooting. The Southern Pacific San I’edro passenger train into Los Angeles and the outward bound Santa Moiliea flyer collided at Santa Monica Junction, inside the city limits. Both engines were wrecked, but none of the passengers was injured. At Santa Fe, N. M., Chief Justice Reed, in the court of private land claims, nnnoiiiu-ed the rejection of the Conejos grant claims for 3,000,000 acres along the Rio Grande river iu southern Colorado, and upon which the towns of Alamosa, Monte Vista and Del Norte are situated.

The body of one of the Union Pacific train ridda rs, killed at Goodlnnd. Kan., and buried at the county’s expense, has been exhumed and identified as that of Janies Jones, wanted for crimes committed near Springfield, Mo., and in Texas, and for whose capture a reward of $2,300 Lad been offered? The South Dakota Board of Equalization has completed its work, giving railroads tt general 7 percent increase, raising their valuation $800,001). The total assessed valuation fur the State is $172,OOO.iHK), of which $102,000,000 is real-es-tate, about $13,000,000 on corporate property and the balance personal property. While running nt full speed the Lake Shore fast mail west bound was wrecked at Bay Bridge, near Sandusky, Ohio. Not a life was lost, but the escape of the 200 passengers was miraculous. The whole train was derailed, and two mail ears and a combination smoking and baggage car went into twenty feet of water in Sandusky bay. In the Case of tire Chesapeake and Ohio Fuel Company, charged by the Government with being a trust in violation of the United States statutes, Judge Thompson of Cincinnati decided in favor of the Government, finding that the company is conducting its business in violation of the anti-trust statutes. The fuel company includes some fourteen coal companies, mostly in West Virginia. At Ague Negra, N. M., the inhabitants were awakened by a rumbling noise like that of an earthquake. Subsequent investigation revealed that several hundred acres of prairie had sunk about ten feet and the cavity had filled with water, although there hud been no rainfall. In a few days the water had seeped through the ground anil a subterranean river was discovered 500 feet below the surface. Fred Schlake. a farmer living near Picker* 11, Neb., was found dead in the road near his home. Ho had been to Beatrice and his tejjin returned home without a driver. It was thought at first he had fallen from the wagon and broken his neck, but examination revealed two bullet holes in the back of lyis head. Why he should have been murdered is not known, as S3OO in money on his person had not been taken. Two telegraph operators, Jack Reif and C. E. Fisher, tapped the Western Union wire just outside the town of Uvalde. Texas, and through forged messages secured the sum of $4.5(M>. with which they lied into Mexico. Fi-ln r presented a draft for that amount on the bank of J. Woods & Son of San Antonio, while Reif presided over the tapped wire and vouched for Fisher’s standing with the San Antonio bank. Janies Clark and another prisoner named Carey made a desperate attempt to break jail at Minot, N. I). They sawed out of their cage and assaulted Jailer Ernest Tompkins, who lay asleep, with a sluiigshut. Tompkins had the keys under ills pillow. He screamed and Sheriff Carrol) ran to bis rescue. He could not get in, hut at the point of a revolver forced the prisoners back to their cells. Tompkins is in a critical condition. Both men await trial for horse stealing.

FOREIGN.

France hits secured a new coaling port on the Persian gulf. Citizens of Linrnge. France, objected to a hospital for consumptives and stoned it until it wos ordered closed. The allies have entered Pekin without fighting, the legations are relieved and the foreigners itfe liberated. Arehhishop Ireland made an eloquent address before the Pope on tin- fidelity of American Catholics to the holy see. Lord Roberts, it is reported, has been appointed to succeed Lord Wolseley us commander in chief of the British nrmy. A telegram from Ostend states that an attack similar iu all points to that mode by the anarchist Raison in Paris on Aug. 2 has la-en made on the Shall of Persia Twenty persons were killed and injured in a railway smash-up itenr Plevna. Bulgaria. Among the killed is M. Petroff, brother of the former minister of war. 8h- Henry Simpson, veterinary surgeon to the Queen and former president of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeon*, bus been found drowned in Buckinghamshire. A youth nhont 20 yean old was arrested at Leipsic who admits having conspired to kill King Albert of Saxony. He

says he was appointed by lot to perform the deed, but that his courage failed him. In the second serious accident which has happened since Ute Paris exposition opened, thirty persons were injured. Two persons were killed. At a fete a bridge was overcrowded and its railing gave way. Gen, De Wet is reported to have captured 4,000 British and seven guns, crippling the forces of Kitchener and Buller. He joined Delarey, then turned on his pursuers and completely outmaueuvered them. Diamonds, considered by London deal era superior to those from South Africa ana valued at from 25 to 50 per cent higher than those found in that region, have iu'i'n discovered at the diggings up the'Mazartini river in British Guiana.

IN GENERAL.

Structural iron and steel has taken a big drop iu price owing to eonipetitive interests, v ' „ ' Geronimo, the noted Indian chief, ip preparing to wed a young girl who has $40,000. Steamers Merwiu, Resolute and Dollar vi'ie v.recked on the coast of Alas»a and fifteen persons drowned. Figures of the bureau of statistics show that commercial relations with Spain have been fully restored. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company has issued a circular notice prohibiting the employment of women telegraphers. The island of Cuba, with her exhibit at the Paris exposition, has achieved a notable success. The exhibit received 140 prizes. The little town of Columbia, B. C., in the well-known Boundary- creek mining district, was reduced to ashes. The loss will be close to $150,000. Tile Au.e’icEH Window Glass Company iias declared a dividend Of per cent on its $4,000,000 preferred stock. This is the second dividend of the kind this year. ReturnetL-GhadsfitHi Emleavorers eomplain of treatment received from tourist agency, which, they say. abandoned them in Europe after they had paid in advance the expenses of the tour. The yacht St. Francois while on a pleasure trip from Tadousac to River de Loup was catight in a squall arrd r:>psizvd off WlMtc* Island. Two persons are mi.-s----ing and were probably drowned. The crimipnl element is again in the saddle at Nome, according to passengers who arrived from the north by the Centennial. Greatest indignation has been aroused by the discovery of at least three attempts to bu’rn the city. A Tuessage received fronr tire Jlus'koka region of Canada states that W. Sprangue Kerr, n prominent live stock dealer of East Buffalo, N. Y., and for many years secretary of the East Buffalo Live Stock Exchange, has been drowned iu South lake.

A private telegram has been received announcing the death in Alaska of Oliver Morton, sou of Oliver P. Morton, war Governor of Indiana. Morton went to Alaska two or three mouths ago on behalf of the Goivernmcnt to look into the seal and fishing industries. Uitidi Ruppccht, a German resident of Norwich, Ont., was found dead on the grave of his recently deceased wife. He had shot himself through the temple. The woman died from poisoning and murder was suspected, owing to the fact that the couple had not been living happily. An important innovation relative to the operating employes of the Union Pacific Railroad Company will be inaugurated Sept. 1. It will be tire introduction of tire system of discipline by record, and after its operation begins the suspension of employe from duty with consequent loss of time will be discontinued. Bradstreet’s views the commercial situation thus: ’’Among the favorable features reported this week are advices of further expansion in fall trade distribution at leading Western centers, a rather better distribution by dry goods jobbers at the East, a firmer tone and a perceptible growth in confidetn'e, nccoinpnnicd byheavy buying in sortie classes of steel mid iron, and a disposition to believe that an average wheat crop and much more than average corn and oats crops ure assured. Steady Increusu* in current gross railway earnings over n year ago and an exceptionally favorable net-carniiigs report for the first half of the year arc additionally encouraging features. Wheat, Including flocr, shipments for the week aggregate 3.113,041 bushels, against 8,318,700 bushels last week. Corn exports for the week aggregate 3,017,081) bushels, against 2,8!l0,7."4 last week.”

MARKET REPORTS.

Chiengo—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.90; hogs, shipping grades, S3.(XI to $5 35, sheep, fair to choice, $3 00 to $1.15; wheat. No. 2 red, 73c to 74c; coni, No. 2. 38c to 30c; oats. No. 2,21 c to 22e; rye. No. 2,48 cto 49e; butter, choice creamery. 18c to 20e; eggs, fresh. We to 13c; potatoes, 33c to 41c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, chofcb light, $5.00 to $5.35; sheep, common to prime, $3.00 to $4 00; wheat. No. 2,71 cto 75c; corn. No. 2 white, 41" to 42c; oats, No. 2 white 23c to 2le. St. Louis—Cattle. $3.25 to $5.70; hogs ■4IOO to $5.35; sheep, $3.00 to $4.25; ■ hi-at, No. 2, (»8c to G9e; corn. No. 2 yellow. 38c to 39e, oats. No 2,20 cto 2lv, rye, No. 2,47 cto 48c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $3 00 to $5.10, hogs, $3.00 to $5.35; sheep, $3,00 to $4.50; wheat. No. 2,75 cto 7Gc; corn. No. 2 mixed, 40c to 41c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 22c to 23c; rye. No. 2,52 cto 53c. 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. 40c to 41c; oats, No. 2 white, 24c to 25c; rye, 50c to 51c, Toledo—Whcnt, No. 2 mixed, 74c to 73c; corn, No 2 mixed, 42c to 43c; oats, No. 2 mixed. 2lc to 22c; rye. No. 2. 50c to 51c; clover seed, prime, $5.05 to $5 40. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 northern. 72c to 73e: corn. No. 3,39 cto 40.-,; outs, No. 2 white, 24<- to 25c; rye, No. 1,49 c to 60c; barley, No. 2,47 cto 48c; pork, mess, $ll.OO to $11.13. \ Buffalo—Gattie, choice shipping steers. $3.00 to $5.85; hogs, fair to prime, $3.00 to $5.55; sheep, fair to choice, $3.25 to $4.25; lambs. common to extra. $4.00 to $3.75. -i New YoHt-Cutrte. $3.25 to $5 f}o; hogs. $3(10 to $5.73; sheep, $3.00 to $4.35; wheat. No. 2 red. 78c to Tile, corn. No. 2. 44e to 45c; oats. No 2 white, 28c to 29c; hotter, creamery, 18c to 21c; eggs, western, 13c to 17c.

■ ■ I.NM—CHICXOO. IHDIAHAFOUS A AOUI»VILU« «T. Rensselaer Time-Table, Corrected to May 8,1899. South Bound. No.3l—Fast Mail 4:48a, m. No. s—Louisville Midi, (daily) 10:a5 a. m, N0.33-liidianppolis Mail, (daily).. 1:45 p.m. No. 39—Milk accomm., (daily) 6:15 p. m. No. 3—Louisville Express, (daily).. 11:04 p. m. ♦No. 45—Local freight 2:40 p. m. North Bound. No. 4-Mail. (daily) 4:30 a.m. No. 44-Milk accomm., (da11y)..... 1:31 n. m. No. 32—Fast Mail, (daily) 9:55 a. m. •No. 30—('in. to Chicago A’es. Mall.. 6:32 p. m. iNo.3S—Cin. to Chicago. ....... 237 p. m. No. 6 Mail and Express, (daily)... 3:27 p.m. ♦No. 46—Local freight 9:<o a. m. No. 74—Freight, (daily) 9:09 m. ♦Daily except Sunday. ISuuday 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 C edar Lake. Frank J. Reed, G. P. A., W. H. McDoei., President and Gen. M g r, Chas. H. Rockwem., T rathe Mgr, CHICAGO. 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 RensselaerW.L.A P. Co. office over Chicago Bargain Store. Rensselaer, Indiana. FRANK NOLTZ. C. Q. HARRY A. KURRIZ Foltz, Spitler & Kurrie, (Successors to Thompson A Bro.) Attorneys-at-Law. Law, Real Estate. Insurance Abstracts and Loans. Only set of Abstract Books in the County. RENSSELAER, IND. Mordccai 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 A 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. Farnj Loans and Fire Insurance. Office in Odd Fellow's Block. RENSSELAER. INDIANA. Ira W. Yeoman, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Remington, - r - 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. Diuscrora. Addison Parkison. G. E. Murray, Jas.T. Randle, John M. Wasson uud Emmet L. Hollingsworth. This bank is prepared to transact a general banking business. Interest allowed on time deposits. Money loaned and good notes bought nt current rates of interest. A share of your patronage is solicited. Farm Loans at 5 per Cent.

Ol’s.l. B. &I. M. Washburn, Physicians <fc Surgeons. Dr. I. B. Wnshbnrti will give special attention to Discuses of the Eye, Ear, Nose, Throat and Chronic Diseases. He also tests eyes for glasses. Or,<cs Tslifhohs No. 48. Ruidkhci Phohi No. 97. Rensselaer, - - Indiana.

E. C. English, Physicians & Surgeons. Office over Postoffice. ReniMeluer, Indiana. Orrics Phons, tVZ. Riiioinoi Phonii 11S. H. L. Brown, DENTIST. Office over Lnrah’s drug store. R. H. ROBINSON, ...DENTIST... Special attention given to tho preservation of the natural teeth and the most improved methods of relieving pain during nil operations. Teeth inserted with or without plr.tes. All work guaranteed. Charges as low as consistent with good work. Office over Ellis & Murray’s. Night cnlls, Makeover House. R. H. RofIINBON.

OAK LUMBER. My sawmill is now running, 5 mile® north of Rensselaer, and T am prepared to furnish all kinds of oak lumber and sawed to order, if required. Phone 176. D. H. Yex)man, 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 iu 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 5700.00 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.

STONEBACK, BRIiST ftHD PHOTOGRAPHER 12 >2 CflOineis y- cow $1.50. $l5O. Pictures enlarged iir pastelle. water colors and crayon. Buttons and Pins. Cuff Buttons, Hat and Tie Pins —Picture Frames. PAVILION GALLERY. i New Undertaking > In Horton building, one door e west of Makeever House, with a r comple e and first-class stock of | FUNERAL FURNISHINGS ?... ... I respectfully .solicit a share of the ? public’s patronage and guarantee sat- £ tsfaetion in every respect. Calls € promptly responded to day or night. A. B. COWGILL, {Residence at Makeever House, nhohi ,o.

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