Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1900 — Page 2

JASPER COUNTY DEMOCRAT. F. E. BABCOCK, Publisher. RENSSELAER, ' - * INDIANA.

EVENTS OF THE WEEK

• Lewis Miller, an engraver for Bunde <V Upmejer in Milwaukee, was murdered. He was found lying on the sidewalk unconscious, with his skull fractured, evidently by a blow from a Hub. He died at the emergency hospital. There is no Clew to his assailant. Samuel Dickinson of Bellefontaine, Ohio, seeks a legal separation from Malinda Dickinson on the ground of gross neglect of duty. e They have been married fifty-two years and have raised a large family of children, all of whom are now married and have children. A ear on the Hamilton and College Hill traction line jumped the track near .College Hill, Ohio, injuring Motornmn George Shirley of Hamilton. Mr. Hunter of Glendale, Mrs. Joseph Enger of College Hill, J. C. Smith, Miss Holder, Mrs. Miller and two children of Cincinnati. Hatch & Foote, a stock exchange house With offices at 3 Nassau street, New York, after a career of thirty-six years, was forced to assign. One partner. Charles B. Foote, crazed ami dying at Oceanic, N. J., is charged by his lifelong associate with having wrecked the concern through unauthorized speculation.. The steamship St. Paul, from Nome, reports that the steamer Samoa returned to Nome from Siberia, where she took, tinder orders of the government authorities, the thirty-two Russians" implicit tod in the plot to seize the vessel on her previous trip. Ou reaching the Siberian coast, it is said, the Russians managed to steal from the Samoa a satchel containing 120,000. The most destructive fire that lias visited Joliet, 111., this year nearly wiped out of existence the Lakeside Oatmeal mills and caused a loss of SOO,OOO to the David Oliver company. An explosion of dust in mill B, a four-story brick structure, was the cause of the blaze. The insurance amounts to $43,000. The loss is divided ns follows: Building, including machinery, $30,00(1; laliels and cartoons, $10,000;’ grain. $5,000; product, $2,000; extra machinery. $10,000; total. s.'>".ooo. Seven men were at work in the mil) at the time of the explosion and ah escaped without injury. The Handing of the Hubs in the National League is as follows: W. L. W. L. Brooklyn .””.”.73 ”46 CiWcfig-FT.•. .57 66 Pittsburg ..'.70 51 St. Louis. ..>54 05 Philadelphia <l4 55 Cincinnati j.v53 08 Boston 59 59 New York. >.50 70 Following is the standing in the American League: W. L. ’ W. L. Chicago ....82 53 Kansas City.6o 70 Milwaukee ..78 59 Cleveland . . .03 73 Indianapolis 71 04 Buffalo 01 77 Detroit 71 08 Minneapolis. 54 85 ‘At Winnemucca, Nev., the First National Bank was robbed of about $15,000 at noon the other day by three men who entered the front door and with revolvers made all present throw up their hands. There were five persons in the bank. One i;obber at the point of a pistol made Cashier Nixon open the safe and take from it three sacks of gold coin. The bandits threw this in an ore sack, together with nil the gold coin in the office drawer. They then marched the five men through a back door to an alley, where three horses were waiting. The men were kept covered with guns until the desperadoes mounted their horses nnd escaped. The whole affair occurred in but five minutes. An alarm was quickly given and several shots were flrod at the desperadoes as they sped through the town, but without effect.

NEWS NUGGETS.

Belle Archer, the actress, died nt Warren, Pa., of apoplexy. Paul Leicester Ford nnd Miss Grace Kidder were married in Brooklyn. The American League baseball season closed Tuesday with the Chicago club in first place. The Chicago Presbytery urges creed revision and will..vote ou the proposed reform Oct. 1. French troops were defeated by Berbers in the Sahara, losing two officers and twenty men. Diet of raw meat is adopted by a body of Chicago persons who claim it is conducive to long life. Billy "Fagan,” a noted gambler of Chicago, died at bis home shortly after his saloon was closed by the sheriff. Liverpool has undertaken to prevent the passage of rats from Glasgow as possible carriers of the bubonic plague. Secretary A. M. Moreland of the Carnegie company resigned nnd Assistant Secretary Campbell was chosen to succeed him. The schooner Arthur B, which was fitted out by a Chicago syndicate last spring, was driven on the beach at Nome in the recent storm. Edward Ix>wis and Lucian Smith were killed in the coal mines at Dorchester, iVa. They were about to leave the mine when a mass of slate fell, crushing both of them to death. Judge Giddings of the District Court at Anoka, Minn., has held James Hardy and Elmer Miller, charged with murdering the Wise family, for trial without bail. Both accused are under ngc. At Vunklwk Hill, an eastern Ontario Tillage, the stone wall of the Presbyterian Church iu course of erection collapsed while a number of men were Ujton it. Two were killed and three futully Injured. The Loudon Times confirms the report that Charles T. Yerkes has purchnsed the franchise of the Charing Cross, Euston and Hempstead underground railroad. The British steamer Gordon Castle nnd the German steamer Hturmnn met in collision In Cardigan bay nnd both vesuris sunk. Twenty of the persons on board the Gordon Caatle were lost. Rtate Bank Commissioner Brcidenthal ■t Topeka, Kan., received notice by mail of the robbery of the State Bank of Bushton. The roblter* made a clean sweep of it. taking $5.1X14 in money nnd J2O (MM) of discounts.

EASTERN.

Tammany’s ticket, headed by J. P. Stanchfield for Governor, was put up by the New York Democratic convention. Gov. Iloosevelt has dismissed the charges against District Attorney Gardiner, finding him “morally guilty, but legally innocent." Rear Admiral Montgomery Sicard, who rfor fifty years had been in the United States navy, dif’d suddenly at Westernrille, N. Y. Death was due to apoplexy. The great strike in the anthracite coal region of Pennsylvania has begun. Both sides are confident. Of the 142,000 miners in the district 112,000 obeyed the order to strike. A fiendish attempt at murder, with the motive of robbery,' occurred near Vtneland, N. J. The victim of the tragedy, William H. Wright of Philadelphia, has five bullets in his back. Mrs. Philip T diner, who is 50 years old and weighs 200 pounds, risked her own life at Newton, Mass., to save that of a 3-year-old child who had fallen into a well, and pulled him out unhurt. A bronze statue of Stephen C. Foster, the famous American song writer, was unveiled at Pittsburg by his daughter, Mrs. Marion Foster Welsh of Chicago, in the presence of 40,000 people. A Maplewood cottage brake with twelve persons on hoard toppled over near the Twin Mountain House, near Bethlehem, N. H., anil nearly every one was injured, none, however, fatally. While wearing a diver’s suit at the bottom of a cove near the torpedo station at Newport, George Brown, a senman gunner, had n thrilling fight for life with a shark, in which the shark was killed. The will of the late Thomas Kingsford, the Oswego, N. Y., millionaire starch manufacturer, directs that the property be divided according to the statute. The estate is estimated to be worth $3,000,000. The old Bible house at Fourth avenue and Ninth street, New York, the home of the American Bible Society since 1852, is to be sold nnd the great printing establishment of the society probably will be given up. A pretty school teacher. Miss Ida E. Smith, has brought suit for $50,000 damages for breach of promise against Chas. W. Compton, a wealthy retired undertaker of Newark, N. J. He is 87 years old and she is 27. The stories of the inhumanity of tugboat captains at the time of the Hoboken steamboat fire have been confirmed by a coroner’s jury, which says that but for these exhibitions of greed many more lives might have been saved. Juda A. Fleeze, known a» the model child, the most beautifully formed, from an Jiriisl's vien\ls_dead by .her own hand in New York. She eloped with a youth of 16, then two years her senior. Poverty evidently caused the deed. About forty racegoers were injured in a collision which occurred on the Yonkers, N. Y„ trolley system. Two cars, traveling in opposite drections on a single track at the rate of ten miles an hour, came together with terrific force. Three of the victim? will probably die. Because of the refusal of the Jacob Dold Packing Company to discharge two men who refused to pay their dues to the union about 1,000 butchers are on strike at Buffalo in the plants of the Dold company, Sahlem Brothers, Klinick Brothers and the Buffalo Packing Company. A supposed Chicago innn lias been at the hospital in White Plains, N. Y., since July (5, suffering from the effects of a lightning strike. He will be sent home as soon as he can recall his name. He was rendered unconscious by a lightning stroke, and when he recovered his memory of past events was completely gone. The State Comptroller’s department of New York has bought for $12,000 a plat of twenty-five acres of land at Lake George, the scene of one of the conflicts of the French and Indian war, and the property is to be added to a plat of ten acres in the same locality, purchased in 1898, for the purpose of establishing a State park.

WESTERN.

Lone bandit held up a stage in California and took S3O from an editor, who was the only passenger. At Mansfield, Ohio, n mob drove Zion Elder Ephraim Bassinger of Bluffton, Ind., and two of Dowie's followers out of the city. Mrs. Mary E. Curran, aged 72 years, nnd Mrs. Sara Holmes, sft years old, met death on the tracks of the Chicago and Erie Railroad at a Chicago street crossing. Jack Bradford, the Pemiscot murderer, who was to have been banged at Caruthersville, Mo., was examined by a jury of twelve persons nnd adjudged insane aud will be sent to the asylum. Ira O. Jenkins was hanged at Bismarck, N. I)., for the murder of August Stark. He left a letter stating that bis father, who had been suspected of complicity In the crime, was innocent. Two hundred cases of diphtheria exist in South Bend, Ind., and the epidemic has frightened citizens so that they dare not let their children out of their homes. The public schools have been closed. George E. Townlee, aged 05 years, one of the best-known business men iu Indiana, was found dead in tied at Indianapolis. He was of the firm of Fred Pl Rush & Co. His wife and children are in Europe. Ether, the 14-year-old daughter of Isaac Webb of Poplar Bluff, Mo., died from a peculiar malady. On Aug. 5 she suffered a fainting spell and lapsed into unconsciousness, from which she was never restored. A freight train and work train on the “Tfiree 1” railroad had a head-end collision six miles southwest of South Bend, Ind. The force of the meeting was sufficient to demolish and ditch both engines. Five persons were injured. C. Barnett, a traveling salesman for Reiss & Wallenstein, 474 Broadway, New York, fell dead of heart disease just as he entered Holbrook Brothers’ store in Hamilton, Ohio. The body was identified by a check for $25 from the firm. A unique school has been opened at the Alta House, a social settlement house built and endowed at Cleveland by Miss Alta, daughter of tba Standard Oil magnate, John D. Rockefeller. It is a school In which all the pupils will be crippled children. The Merchants and Planters’ oil mill at Houston, Texas, one of ths largest

cottonseed oil manufacturing and refining concerns in the South, was destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at between $350,000 and $400,000; insurance $252,500. A suit tor $25,000 damages for alleged slander has been brought by Dr. Nicola Cerrie, the new vice consul of Italy for northern Ohio, against J. G. Carabelli, Dr. G. R. Purpora, P. D. Errico and N. Costignana, prominent Italian leaders of Cleveland. J. J. Young and wife, residents of Alton, Mo., are dead, the victims of mysterious poisoning. Traces of poison were found in the coffee pot. As Mrs. Young prepared the meal and was jealous of her husband, it is possible she- administered the drug herself. While returning from a fair at Caledonia, Ohio, Albert Morgnnthaler and the Misses Leonard and Fletcher, three young country people, were hit by a Big Four passenger train at Hicks and killed, as was also their team. Miss Fletcher was ground to pieces. In Port Huron, Mich., the elevator plant of the McMarron Milling. Company, Port Huron and Northwestern Elevator Company and D. McMarron A Co. was destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of $225,000, fully covered by Insurance. Wilbur Inslee, a business man, was injured. • Many lives were lost, principally by suffocation, in the fire which destroyed a branch nursery of 'the Salvation army at 403 East Fourth street, Cincinnati. Six of the occupants of the upper floors, babies and their attendants, lost their lives, two were fatally and five seriously burned. George S. Forbes, a teller in the First National Bank in Chicago, fired a bullet into his heart in a room In the South Chicago Hotel, and died almost instantly. Financial troubles, caused by the failure of friends to pay back money they had borrowed from him, was the reason Forbes assigned for his deed. Suit has been brought in the Nodaway County, Mo., Circuit Court by Mrs. Diana Blackhurst and Mrs. Mary E. Johnson, daughters, and Mrs. Mary C. Wisslead, conservator of the estate of Hebble White Wisslead, son of the late Edward Wisslead, to have tire last will set aside. About SIOO,OOO is involved. The body of Patrick Mulheren, a prominent citizen of Sandusky, Ohio, who disappeared three weeks ago with $2,400 in his pockets, was found in a marsh near there with the skull crushed in. Four negroes were arrested at the time of his disappearance, but in the absence of sufficient evidence they were released and cannot now be found.

Three attempts were made the other night to wreck Union Pacific trains west of Abilene, Kan. Ties were piled on the track in front of the local passenger train and the "Flyer’’ west bound, and heavy iron on the track before the “Flyer” east bound. The obstructions were discovered and trains stopped in time to prevent any damage. Eighteen men employed by the Northwestern Lumber Company were crossing the pond above the mill dam on the Eau Claire river, near Eau Claire, in a batteau. A heavy gale dashed the waves over the side of the boat and swamped it. Eight men attempted to swim to shore, about a quarter of a mile distant, and six of them were drowned. In the course of a fight in Chicago Richard Novack, aged 14, drew a long cigarmaker’s knife and fatally stabbed Albert Olson of 65 West Fourteenth place, who had stayed away from school to celebrate his fifteenth birthday. Mrs. Mary Smith and Mrs. John Walsh, who had watched the fight from a distance, came to the wounded boy’s aid. All the chiefs of the great Sioux nation, from Rosebud, Pine Ridge, Cheyenne and Lower Brule, assembled nt Standing Rock and discussed the Black Hills treaty. They claim the treaty is invalid, as three-fourths of the Indians did not sign. The Indians do not desire to reclaim the hills, but wish to negotiate a new treaty upon an equitable basis. 1). J. Mackey filed an application in bankruptcy in the Federal court jat Evansville, Ind. His liabilities are placed at $577,765.69, assets not given. Mackey was formerly the owner of the Evansville and Terre Haute Railroad, Louisville, Evansville and St. Louis Railroad, Peoria, Decatur and Evansville Railroad and Evansville and Indianapolis line. By the fiendish act of a vitriol thrower Miss Alice Hammel of Vanwert, Ohio, has been rendered blind and disfigured for life. The vitriol thrower dropped the phiul that had contained the acid and a bottle of chloroform in the street, and these gave a clew that led to the arrest of Mrs. John Van Liew, wife of the cashier of the Vanwert First National Bank. Miss Hammel was deputy clerk for Van Liew when the latter was county clerk. Erustus M. Davis, an ex-policeman who lived at 214 Eightieth street, Chicago, killed his daughter Eleanor, 17 years old, shot and seriously wounded Hurry Connelly, in whose company she was, and then, turning the revolver against his breast, sent a bullet through bis own heart. The tragedy took place neur the Davis borne. The knowledge that Eleanor was soon to marry Connelly, whom he hnd forbidden her to see, was the cause of Davis’ deed. Joseph Phillipa, n 15-year-old boy at Napoleon. Ohio, has been arrested and is charged with giving a dose of carbolic acid to the 3-weeks-old granddaughter of John Wells, with whom he has been living for the lust seven years. Young Phillips had bt'come incensed at some act of Wells ami, it is claimed, gave tbe child poison in a spirit of revenge. The baby wns found in its cradle with its lips nnd face frightfully blistered. The boy denies that he administered the poison.

FOREIGN.

The Mayor of St. Petersburg and the Lord Mayor of Loudou are to dine with 20,(MM) mayors of France. Portugal has given permission to Kruger to depart for Europe, and Holland has offered to send a warship for him. In Paris jewelry to the value of $2,500 has been returned through the confessional to a French countess, whose name is concealed. Prince Henry of Hesse is dead at Munich, his death removing the only inale relative iu the line of succession to the Grand Duchy of Hesse. A search of the anarchist arrested in Spain revealed newspaper clippings showing that the rede are closely watching President Loubet of France. • Kruger has formally resigned the posi-

tion which he held as president of the South African republic, thus severing his official couuectiou 'with the Transvaal. I Army officers in the Philippines are discussing the advisability of Turing native troops to replace tbe volunteers which will be mustered out of service June 30, Captain Charles McQuestion of the Fourth United States Infantry, now in the Philippines, while insane shot down several of his men and was in turn killed in 'self-defense by a soldier. Caetano Longo, on returning from the United States to Pastona, Italy, killed his wife and two men ifi a fit of jealousy. Having committed the triple crime, he ran amuck, killing five others and wounded two fatally. Then he committed suicide. The Japanese have arrested the assassin of Baron von Ketteler, the late German minister to China. The assassin, who has been handed over to the Germans by the Japanese, has confessed his guilt. He was arrested for trying to sell to a Japanese officer a watch with initials which he admitted taking from the body of Baron von Ketteler. He afterward admitted the crime, saying that the imperial government ordered the commission of the act.

IN GENERAL.

Cuba’s elections passed off quietly. The Nationalists triumphed in the province of Havana. William J. Bryan’s letter of acceptance of the Democratic nomination for President has been made public. Seth Abbott, father of Emma Abbott, has gone insane over an income of SIOO a week left him by his daughter. James Francis Smith, the Philadelphia messenger boy who carried a letter to Kruger, has returned to this country. The Society of the Army of the Tennessee, of which Gen. G. M. Dodge is president, has postponed its reunion at Detroit from Sept. 26 to Nov. 14 and 14’ President David Starr Jordan of Stanford University has returned from a trip through. Japan, where he secured tbe largest collection of Japanese fish ever obtained. Ruysdael’s famous painting,. “Silenus Somnolens,” was stolen en route from Naples to New York. It had been purchased for £3,000 for a naval officer, supposed to be Admiral Dewey. While going at a recerd-breaking clip in a preliminary test of her machinery, the torpedo-boat destroyer Goldsborough met with an accident, breaking the rocker shaft on the port engine. President C. P. Cole of the Window Glass Manufacturers’ Association of tbe United States has completed arrangements for the starting of almost all of the independent window glass factories within a few days. The first news of the winter catch of the whalers has been received from the steam whaler Balena. Twenty-five whales was the result of the winter’s work. It is estimated that the Balena’s catch is worth over SIOO,OOO. Four regimepts of Mexican government troops have arrived on transports at tbe mouth of the Yaqui river, and they will join Gen. Louis Torres’ forces at once. The campaign against the Yaquis will then be renewed with the greatest vigor. At Winnipeg, Man., tbe wife of Dr. Hutton shot herself through the temple with a revolver. She had been subject to fits of insanity. Mrs. Hutton was the niece of Bishop Phillips Brooks of New York and a relative of ex-President Hayes. Tales of widespread destruction wrought by the recent gale continue to pour in to St. Johns, N. F. Bix vessels were wrecked near St. Pierre and six in Placentia Bay. It Is also reported that four were lost in Renews harbor, two in the Straits of Belle Isle and four near Cape Bonavista. Thus far fourteen lives are know n to have been lost. 11. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade says: “Prices of staple commodities are higher for the week, hoisted by the sharp rise in cotton, but in manufactured products there is little change, though steady increase of business at the current level is satisfactory. More orders are being received at iron mills, and prices are steady. In structural and finished material there is much business, and activity is becoming almost universal in the iron region. Boots and shoes begin to recover after many weeks of idle wheels throughout New England. In the wool market sales last week aggregated 2,643,000 pounds, against 12,056.500 a year ago. Failures for the week were 195 in the United States, against 149 last year, and 30 in Canada, against 32 last year.”

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.90; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $5.45; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.20; wheat, No. 2 red, 77c to 78c; corn, No. 2,40 cto 41c; oats, No. 2,21 c to 22c; rye, No. 2,51 cto 52c; butter, choice creamery, 18c to 20e; eggs, fresh, 13c to 15c; potatoes, 33c to 30c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.80; hogs, choice light, $5.00 to $5.57; sheep, commou to prime, $3.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,75 cto 70c; corn. No. 2 white, 41c to 42c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 24c. Bt. Louis—Cattle, $3.25 to $5.85; hogs, $3.00 to $5.55; sheep, $3.00 to $4.00j wheat, No. 2,73 cto 74c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 38c to 30c; oats, No. 2,20 cto 21c; rye, No. 2. 52c to 53c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $5.55; sheep, $3.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2. 75c to 78c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 42c to 43c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 21c to 22c; rye, No. 2,55 cto 50c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.55; hogs, $3.00 to $5.40; sheep, $3.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,77 cto 78c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 42c to 43c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 24c; rye, 53c to 54c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 78c to 79c; corn, No. 2 mixed. 41c to 42c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 21c to 22c; rye, No. 2,53 c to 54e; clover seed, prime, $5.80 to $0.75. Milwaukee —Wheat, No. 2 northern, 75c to'7Bc; corn, No. 3,40 cto 41c; Oats, No. 2 white, 24c to 25c; rye, No. 1,52 c to 53e; barley, No. 2,50 cto 51c; pork, mess. $ll.OO to $11.35. Buffalo —Cattle, choice shipping steers, $3.00 to $5.70; bogs, fair to prime, $3.00 to $5.75; aheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.50; lambs, common to extra, $4.00 to SO.OO. New York—Qattle, $3.25 to $5.75; hogs, SB.OO to $5.95; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, Nn. 2 rod, 80c to 81c; corn, No. 2, 48c to 47c; oats, No. 2 white, 20c to 27c; butter, creamery, 19c to 21c; eggs, western, 17c to 19c.

OHICMO, >(aO>*HArOMS * LOUISVIULZ SV. Rensselaer Time-Table, Corrected to May 8,1899. South Bound. Mo.3l—Fast Mail ..v;.;.... 4:48a, m. No. 5 Louisville Mail, (daily) 10:55 a. m. No. 33—Indianapolis Mail, (daily).. 1:45 p. m. No. 39—Milk accornm., (daily) 6:15 p. m. No. 3—Louisville Express, (daily).. 11:04 p. m. •No. 45—Local freight t :4O p. m. North Bound. No. 4—Mail, (daily) 4:30 a.m. No. 40- Milk accornm.. (daily) 7:31a, m No. 32—Fust Mail, (daily) 9:55 a. m •No, 30—Cin, to Chicago Ves. Maii.. 6:32 p.m. INo. 38—Cin. to Chicago 2:57 p. xji. No. 6—Mail and Express, (daily)... 3:27 p. m. •No. 46—Local freight 9:30 a. m. No. 74—Freight, (daily) 9:09 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. Fbamk J. Reed, G. P. A., W. H. McDoel, President and Gen. M’g’r, Chas. H. Rockwell, Traffic M g r 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. A C. Ry, and Rensselaer W. L. 4 P. Co. over Chicago Bargain Store. Rensselaer, Indiana.

FRANK FOLTZ. C. C. SFITLZR. HARRY R. KUKRIS Foltz, Spitler & Kurrie, (Successors to Thompson & Bro.) Attorneys-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 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 Publie Square.) RENSSELAER, IND. The Only State Bankin Jasper Co. DIBBCTOBB. 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 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 testa eyes for glasses. Offics Tslbfhohs No. 4S. Rssioshos Phohs No. 87. Rensselaer, - - Indiana. E. C. English, Physicians & Surgeons. Office over Postoffice. Rensselaer, Indiana. Office Fmome. 177, RSBIOENCE pHONBf lit.

H. L. Brown, DENTIST. Office over Larah’s drug store. R. H. ROBINSON, ...DENTIST... Special attention given to the preservation.of the natural teeth and the most unproved methods of relieving pain during all operations. Teeth inserted with or without plates. All work guaranteed. ChargeH 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 T am prepared to furnish all kinds of oak lumber and sawed to order, if required. Phone 176. D. H. Yeoman, Rensselaer, Ind. YYarren & Irwin are making loans on farm or city property at a low rate of interest and commission tnd 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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