Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1900 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 5 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Subscribe for The Democrat. You can get The Democrat. State Sentinel and Cincinnati Enquirer each a full year for only $1.85, cash in advance, if taken soon. Today’s Rensselaer markets (all top prices): Wheat 65; corn 36; oats 20; rye 42. One year ago today the prices were, wheat 70; corn 29; oats 20; rye 45. John Goff, who has been held in jail here for several weeks for shooting at Mike Lawler at Rose Lawn some time ago, was released Wednesday on habeas corpus proceedings instituted before Judge Thompson. The court held that there was no certificate from the Newton circuit court that the i Justice before whom the prelimI inary trial was held was a Justice 1 of the Peace, and there was no cerI tified copy of an order of the Judge ordering all prisoners from Newton count}’ to be confined in the Jasper county jail.

C. P. Hopkins of McEwen, Tenn., formerly of this city and Remington, was in the city yesterday. Charley is still in the newspaper business at McEwan and is a most enthusiastic democrat, although he left here a republican. He says that on his w*ay up here he found the sentiment overwhelmingly in favor of Bryan, and he thinks the democrats will sweep the country this fall. Tennessee seems to agree quite well with Charley and he is looking well, but little older than when he left this county, ten years ago. He will remain here to-day, and go up to Chicago to-morrow, where he will meet a delegation of the Tennessee G. A. R , boys whom he will chaperone at the encampment.

George Fisher, regarding whom a false rumor gained currency a few weeks ago, reached his former home in Remington last week after a trip to the Klondike, where he went with others in search of wealth. Since his arrival home the Enterprise has been in conversation with him on the subject of the report that was circulated, and was also published in the Enterprise, and he wishes the story emphatically denied as untrue in every particular. In justice to him and concerning our part in the matter, we wish to say that we were misled by the rumor supported bv the dispatches in the papers of the Missouri episode in which another George Fisher figured. At the time of that matter Mr. George Fisher of Remington. was in Seattle, Wash., and knew nothing of or had nothing to do with the affair with which he was erroneously connected.— Wolcott Enterprise. Tell your neighbor to take The Democrat for all county news.