Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1900 — Page 6

•JASPER COUNTY DEMOCRAT, F. E. BABCOCK, Publisher. RENSSELAER, • INDIANA,

WEEK’S NEWS RECORD

Burglars recently entered the residence of Dr. Wrede in Berlin and secured 20,000 marks in cash und securities to the -value of 8,000,000 marks. Within a day the police hud recovered all the stolen property—except 15.000 marks’ worth. M. W. Penn uud J. L. Whitlock, two Kentuckians, met for the first time iu -two years in a crowded passenger._l!:ain near Lebanon, Ky., and shot at each other until Whitlock dropped dead. The shooting was the outcome of a trivial quarrel started two years ago. The standing of the clubs iu the National League Is as follows: W L. W. L. Brooklyn ... .74 51 Chicago 777. .GO 08 Pittsburg ...73 54 St. Louis... .57 69 Philadelphia «>8 58 Cincinnati .. .55 71 Boston 04 01 New Y0rk...53 78 Alexander Le Forester died at the hospital at Williamsport, Pn., from an unusual malady, being a victim of brass poisoning. 11 is system had been pi impregnated with the poison that his teeth hud become oxidized and the sweat, as it oozed from his port s, was greenish in color. Mrs. Sarah Ver Mehren attempted to kill her husband, Herman 11. Ver Mehren, wholesale liquor dealer, at Omaha. One shot took effect, in the stomach and may prove fatal. Mrs. Ver Mehren sued her husband for a divorco some time ago, nnd domestic trouble was the cause of the shooting. The ferry steamer F. & I’. M. No. 1 picked tip forty mile* out Iu Lake Michigan the barge Hattie I’creue, owned by the J. T. Vi’ilce Lumber Company, of Chicago. She was bound light for Empire. The machinery became disabled and she was pounding helplessly in a heavy sou when found. The strike of the miners at the Independence mine, Denver, Colo., over the attempt to enforce the rule requiring them to strip off all their clothing in the presence of a watchman before quitting work terminated iu favor of the miners. It was settled that there should la* no other change of clothing than at present. Mrs. Elizabeth Van Lew, who during the Civil War furnished the Union forces with valuable information against the Confederate government, assisted prisoners escaping from Libby prison, and who, after The War was rewarded by Hen. Grant with the post mastership of Iticblliond, died at her residence there at an advanced age. At ltnton, N\ M., Mondo -Rodriguez was found guilty of murder iu the second degree for killing Anna Maria Duran at Cimarron. Rodriguez, who was ill. conceived the idea that the old woman had bewitched him, and -thinking Ire would recover if site were out of the way, lie Hipped into her house und split her head open with an ax. Three burglars forced an entrance at 10 o'clock a. m. into the private offices of Ezra A. Cook, printer and lithographer at 17-10 River street, Chicago, rilled the safe of its contents ami then, after assaulting and knocking down 17-year-old Lyman Cook, son of the proprietor, who had detected them while at work, made their escape. John Keenan, a woodman, shot and killed Annie Hobson, the pretty daughter of John Hobson of Giltington, Pa. The two, accompanied by the girl’s baby sister, had gone for a walk in the woods, nnd half an hour afterward Keenan carried the lifeless body of the girl back home. Keenan, who claims the shooting was accidental, is under nrrest.

BREVITIES.

Felix Marchaml, Premier of Quebec, is dead. Galveston has issued an appeal for $1,000,000 la cash. Two trips to the south pole are being prepared for next year, one German and the other llritish. Gen.’John M. Palmer died suddenly at his home in Springfield, 111., in his eighty-third year. Count Zeppelin's air ship was broken in the middle in being taken from the balloon shed on Lake Constance. Miss May Irwin produced at New Haven with much success 'The Belle of Bridgeport," a new farce comedy. At Frankfort, Ky., James Howard was found guilty of the murder of Goebel and his punishment fixed at death. Baroness von Sehutzbar, wife,of the chamberlain toe Emperor William, says she was robbed of jewelry worth $2,000 in New York. George Humphrey, aged 44, killed himself at Croton, Ohio, with laudanum, having learned that he was to be taken to the poorhouse. Dr. Nansen and the Duke of the Ahiuzli, according to a dispateh from Clnistiuua, have agreed to undertake a joint expedition into north polar regions. The Carpenters and Joiners of America. in convention at Scranton, I'a., have rejected the referendum plan of electing officers nnd derided to meet uext year at Atlanta, Gu. Gov. Roosevelt and his campaigning party were attacked by a mob at Victor, Colo., nnd the Governor was struck by n man, who was knocked down by one Of Roosevelt’s party. Melville L. Wines, prosecuting attorney for Silver Row County, Mont., for two terms and a prominent criminal lawyrr, committed suicide by taking morphine, llw was known to have been out of his mind for •evfiral days. The Carpenters and Joiners of America, in convention at Scranton, Pa., decided to remove their headquarters from Philadelphia to Indianapolis. J. Lorey, It. Springford nnd I>. ltoberteon, on the island of Batan, one of the 'Philippine group, were* ambushed by 200 natives nnd cut to pieces by spears before they gave up. In Louisville, Ky., George Owen, 21 years old, was ahot and killed by Dr. Jiugh McCullough, the coroner of Jeffer*on County. The trouble that led to the Shooting started between the McCullough jgnd the Owen familiea over a peafowl.

EASTERN.

Charles B. Foote, whose brokerage firm failed, is dead at his country home in Oceanic. N. J. Augustus Thomas’ new comedy, “On the Quiet,” was produced at New London, Conn., by Willie Collier. The population of Johnstown, Pa., is announced as 85,930, against 21,805 in 1890, an increase of 04.81 per cent. Mrs. Katherine Brice of New York is sued for SIOO,OOO claimed as commissions on her husband’s railroad deal. Fire partially destroyed the large grain warehouses and elevators on the Atlantic dock, Brooklyn, causing a loss of SIOO,000 to buildings and contents. The Boston Journal announces that former Gov. Roger Wolcott will not accept the post of ambassador to Italy, teu_de.mlhmi_by .President Mdiinlex, In n fit of drunken rage because she stayed out late, Joseph MdCfulgnn threw bis wife, Sarah, out of the window of their Hat in New York, killing her. Gcorger & Co., wholesale hat merchants of Buffalo, have Hied a voluntary petition in bankruptcy, scheduling liabilities of $210,8(>4, with assets $70,(597. Eighteen men, out of the crew of twenty-three which the schooner Maggie Sullivan carried to the fishing grounds off Chatham, Muss., were lost iu the storm. Twenty armed highbinders, bent on -exterminating Chinese Masons, attacked Ah Fee in Chinatown, New Y'ork, and one of them shot him fatally. A riot followed. Blood was shed for the first time Friday in tl.ie great anthracite miners' strike in Pennsylvania. A sheriff's posse tired inti? a crowd at Shenandoah, killing two and wounding many, Edmund Morrow Post, one of the chief credit men of H. B. Clallin & Co, is dead at his home in New York. Death was due to ptomaine poisoning, caused by eating broiled lobster. Roland P. Falkner, associate professor of statistics at the University of Pennsylvania, has been appointed chief of the division of documents in the library of Congress at a salary of $3,000 per annum. Samuel Reinert has just finished his own grave in I nion Church cemetery, Reading, Pa. He is 03 years of ago and a veteran of the Civil War, but hale and hearty, and did all the work himself. Evan Davis, watchman at Hickory Ridge colliery, near Shauiokin, Pa., was shot by an uuknown person as be was patrolling the colliery. The bullet entered the left side, indicting a serious, if not fatal, wound. Former Secretary °f State John Sherman has placed on record a deed conveying to his adopted daughter, Mrs. Mary E. MeOallnm, his handsome marble front mansion and Ins adjoining property on K street, Washington. Sarah Crunholz, a pretty girl who was married three days before to Max Miller of West Ilobokcn, N. J., tried to commit suicide at her home in Union Hill by taking the contents of two 5-ceut boxes of paris green. Her life was saved. Seventeen-year-old Annie Johnntiis, daughter of Prof. Adolph Johainnis of 014 East Ninth street, New York, has eloped with her uncle, Franz, and her grief-stricken father, who has searched for days and nights to find her, swears to kill her companion. In a crash between two electric eury and a brewery wagon a,t New York Morris Sterufels was killed and twelve other passengers were seriously injured. Both cars were running rapidly and caught the wagon between them. Sterufels was hurled through a window.

WESTERN.

Judge J. M. Bonner of New Orleans Is dead at Los Angeles. The St. Louis presbytery by a vote of 32 to 1 lias decided against creed revision. Great storm swept over Texas, causing loss of life and property. Three towns were reported to be under water. The population of San Antonio, Texas, lsuannounced ns 53,321, as against $7,Ci 3 in 1890, a gain of 41.54 per cent. .George \Y. Noble, a wealthy furmep of Lawrence County, Ohio, was found iqurdered at bis home. 11c lived alone. Robbery wiis the motive of the murderer. Village of Morristown, Minn., was visited by a tornado Monday afternoon. Besides destroying several buildings eight persons were killed. The storm came without warning. John Muhleison, 50 years old, a somnambulist, walked across housetops In St. Louis din ing u terrible rainstorm. A lightning flash awakened him and he fell and broke his neck. N. Bertrand. Jr,, sole proprietor of the Bank of Walker, Minn., committed suicide by shooting himself with a rifle. The bank is in good condition nnd depositors will be paid iu full. The convention of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen In Dea Moines raised the salary of grand master to $5,000 and re-elected Frank I*. Sargent for the ninth consecutive term. Warren E. Harrison, foreman of the llocky Mountain Bell Telephone Company, was killed at Brigham City, Utah, by James Burke, a lineman. The men had been close friends. In order to erect u physical culture hall as a monument to bis son, Frank, who died u few years pgo in Germany, A. C. Bartlett of Chicago has given the University of Chicago $125,000. Lack of demand for money in Kansu* Is driving ninny banks out of business. No fewer than seven have quit since Jan. 1, the last to give up being the C. E. Putnam bank of Richmond. Elders Moot of Lima and Bnssinger of Blnlfton, Dowieites, scut to Mansfield, Ohio, by order of Overseer at Large William 11. Piper of Chicago, were given a coat of tar by infuriated citizens. Four masked men held up the express car on the St. Louis-l'ortlnnd train of the Burlington at the village of Woodlawn, Neb. The railroad officials say that no motley was secured except from the local •afe, A fire at 2002 to 2008 Morgan street, Ft. Louis, Mo., resulted in the injuring of ■even firemen by falling walls. The los« wiis 20,000, mostly sustained by the Hargndine-McKittrick Dry Goods Company. A tornado passed through Neodesha, Kan., wrecking iwo dwelling house*, three barns and slightly damaging half • dozen others. Mrs. John Ford was se-

rlously injured and her little son was slightly hurt. Just one hour after liis father, J. R. Mclntyre, had been buried, John Mclntyre was married to Miss Lena Glick at LaPorte, I’nd. Rev. D. 0. Shirk, who preached the funeral sermon, cfficlated at the wedding. A woman of 80, rather pretty, expensively dressed and wearing a diamond ring, committed suicide at the Ivennard house in Cleveland. Hundreds have looked at the body, but the woman's identity is a mystery. The county seat war’ between Cloud Chief and Cordell, Washita County, O. T., has resulted jin the theft of the judicial records from the court house at the former placed Uordell was recently "chosen in place of Cloud Chief. James Ellis Tucker of San Francisco has saUed for Honolulu on an important mission. HeTFas been commissioned. to revise the customs law und service of the Hawaiian Islands so as to bring them up to the standard of those ut home. John Morienzski, aged til, was shot nnd killed by a deputy game warden on the Mississippi diver, near Pig's Eye, Minn. Morienzski and his son are said to have been illegally fishing, and the killing resulted from an attempted seizure of nets. Four persons were drowned by the sinking of the schooner John Martin in the St. Clair river abreast of Port Huron, Mich., as a result of a collision with the steel steamer Yuma. The accident caused the drowning of three men and one woman. Single-handed, a masked robber held up the west-bound passenger train on the Northern Pacific and succeeded in getting away with about SSOO in cash, several watches and a quantity of jewelry. The robbery occurred after the train left Athol, Idaho. Hundreds of land seekers are arriving at Brewster, Okanogan County, Wash., to secure locations in the Colville Indian reservation, which will be opened for settlement Oct. 10. They are chiefly from Minnesota, Illinois, lowa, the Dakotas and Indiana, - • L. J. Kahler, a young balloonist, who had been making daily ascensions at the street carnival in St. Joseph, Mich?, was hurled from his balloon in the presence of 5,000 people and fell bead first to the pavement below, fracturing his skull and causing death. By the breaking of a temporary platform on which were hundreds of people, at Huron, S. D., gathered to hear the address of John G. Woolley, the Prohibition candidate for the Presidency, three persons were hurt seriously and a score of others bruised. Owing to an adverse decision made by him at Marietta, Ohio, Judge J. M. Duffin was attacked by Dr. Sylvester Perkins. The fight became general. Every one in the court room participated, including thVee of the judge’s sons, and Perkins was bkdly beaten. In Cincinnati the conference committee of the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers and of the manufacturers signed the wage scale that will be effective until July, 1901. Immediately messages were sent in every direction or-dering-the furnace fires built at once. M. Bramham, aged 50 years, a Confederate veteran, came to Painesville, 0., from Charlottesville, Va., to wed an heiress whose acquaintance he had made through a Chicago matrimonial agency. The heiress changed her mind nnd he left town single, penniless and wisqr. Three men robbed the Newport Hotel, 73 Monroe street, Chicago, of $75 at 3 o’clock the other morning. They bound and gagged the porter and forced the clerk to open the safe, doing the so quickly that the victims were able to give the police but a meager description of the bandits. The Thalmer Iron works, the largest concern of its kind in Indiana, an independent plant, owned by W. H. Palmer & Brothers, Chicago, was almost totally destroyed by fire at Muncie. The works will be rebuilt. There are 500 men employed, who will be out of work for a brief season. In the destruction of the steamer War Eagle of the Eagle Packet Company and the steamer Carrier, operated by the Calhoun, Packet Company, at the foot of Locust street, St. Louis, one man was burned to death, another is missing and a third painfully injured, nud property valued at nearly SIOO,OOO was destroyed.

SOUTHERN.

Four negroes were lynched at Poutcbatoula, La. They were taken from jail. The town, which Is on the Illinois Central has recently been infested with negro burglars. Phil Gentile, alias “Dago Foley,” u noted aud daring diamond thief who has been arrested In nearly all the large cities of Europe and America, was sentenced at Lexington, Ky., to eight years’ imprisonment. Iu a freight wreck on the Queen and Crescent route at Sadieville, Ky., live men were killed aud six badly injured. The dead nnd the injured were taken to iA’xlngton, Ky. They were all workmen who were stealing rides. Edward Gurley, a New Orleans negro, crazy over religion, cut the throat of his nephew, Oscar Montgomery. Corporal Paul Cowman aud Supernumerary Joseph W. Bofili endeavored to arrest Gurley nnd he attacked them with savage ferocity. Cowman may die. Botill was badly wounded. Gurley was killed. Joe Moore missed instant deuth at Columbus, Ga., by a narrow margin. He went to sleep on the railroad track, his head being on the end of n tie. A passing switch engine entne along, striking him and cutting two gashes in hi* head. Moore has a strange reputation for vitality and some people think he cannot be killed.

FOREIGN.

Oont Paul goes to Holland obviously to recuperate bis falling health. German Socialist congress adopted a resolution advocating free trade. Olga Nethersole was fined £2 in Scotland for allowing her two dogs to go unmuzzled. AguifiQldo has written to Buencamino declining to consider any peace proposals or compromise. Grand maneuvers of the French army concluded with a review of 97,000 men by President Loubet. Sir E. M. Satow, British minister to Japan, aud Sir Claude Macdonald, minister to China, are to exchange pdkts. Massacre of 5,000 Chinese by Ilussiana

on the Amur river in Manchuria b reported by a Russian correspondent. The Kurutu and Tabual Islands have been formally annexed to France by the Governor of Tahiti at the request of the natives. President Loubet of France gave’ a dinner to the mayors of French municipalities. Twenty thousand guests were in attendance. Fgcnch ministry has consented to arbitrate the qnarrel with the exposition concession ures, to save the mayor’s fete from failure. Captain D. D. Mitchell nnd eleven men were killed and twenty-six men wounded in a fight with Filipiuos on Laguna de Bay. An explosion occurred at the Frisch mine ut Dux, Bohemia. Thirty-five persons were killed and fifteen injured. Five persons are missing. Stores of wool and cotton valued at 4,000,000 frdnes were destroyed by fire at Roubaix, France. The enormous warehouse of the Mngnsins Generaux was burned. Military commanders of the powers find the holding of Pekin useless ns u means to bring the dowager to terms, and are- preparing to evacuate the city before winter. Marshal Arsenio Martinez de Campos is dead at Znranz, near San Sebastiun, Spain. For thirty years, ns soldier and statesman, Marshal Campos Ims been the mainstay nnd preserver of the Castilian government. About two-thirds of the American troops now at Pekin have been ordered to retire and return to the Philippines. A legation guard of one regiment, one battery, and a squadron of cavalry—about 1.850 men—will be left at Pekin under the direct control of Minister Conger.

IN GENERAL.

Prof. E. A. Read is dead in Nova Scotia. Three married daughters of the late Edgar E. Duryea are contesting his will. “Lucky” Baldwin, the former California millionaire, is said to have made a lucky strike iu the Kougroek district of Alaska. The steamship lines running to Montreal have advanced freight rates 10 per cent because of the increased cost of coal and other ship’s stores. Train boys report that there is no demand fur campaign books. Four years ngo at this date campaign literature formed the bulk of their trade. The executive committee of the United Society of Christian Endeavor has decided that the twentieth international convention shall be held at Cincinnati in 1901. Percy Avery, the second son of William Rockefeller, is to follow the family tradition and work for a living. He is to begin at the foot of the ladder iu the business of the Standard Oil. The Lake Shore Railroad Company is taking steps to ascertain the opinion of its employes in regard to the establishment of a pension system that on the Pennsylvania system. It has proposed to give $30,000 as the nucleus of a fund for the purpose and to raise the rest by a 1 per cent assessment on the monthly wages of the employes. Lieut. Hobson, naval constructor, who has just arrived from the Orient, is quoted by the newspapers as saying that the Spaniards scuttled their ships at Manila. He declares, so these interviewers state, that he examined the hulls of the wrecked vessels and not one was hit hard enough below the water line by shell from Dewey’s fleet to cause her to sink. R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade says: “Outside of the anthracite industry enforced idleness of hands is an exception, and even in the Pennsylvania coal region other employers would gladly take on thousands of more intelligent miners. The Doscher sugar refinery closes down on account of the scarcity of raw sugar, but the Loraine Steel Company, idle three mouths, is starting Its furnaces, with others to follow. Hesitation incident to the presidential campaign is reflected in bank clearings, which for New York show 38.8 per cent, nnd for other leading cities 7.8 per cent loss from last year. Sales of 'wool at the three chief markets were only 2,817,000 pounds, against 13,443,800 a year ago. Holders continue confident, and dullness fails to cause lower prices. In iron and steel products greater activity at former prices was the rule. Failures for the week were 211 in the United States, against 154 last year, and 33 in Canada, against 18 last year.”

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, SB.OO to $5.00; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $5.50; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.15: wheat, No. 2 red, 77c to 78c; corn, Nc. 2,40 cto 41c; oats, No. 2,21 c to 22c; rye. No. 2,52 cto 53c; butter, choice creamery, 18c to 21c; eggs, fresh, 13c to 10c; potatoes, 33c to 3Gc per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.80; hogs, choice light, $5,00 to $5.(55; sheep, common to prime, $3.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,78 cto 79c; corn, No. 2 white, 41c to 42c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 24c. St. Louis- Cattle, $3.25 to $5.70; hogs, $3.00 to $5.60; sheep, $3.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,70 cto 77c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 39c to 40c; oats, No. 2,21 cto 22c; rye, No. 2,52 cto 53c. Cincinnati —Cuttle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, $3.00 to $4.00; wheat. No. 2,70 cto 77c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 43c to 44c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 22c to 23c; rye, No. 2,50 cto 57c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.35; hogs, $3.00 to $5.50; sheep, $3.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,78 cto 79c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 42c to 43c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 24c; rye, 53c to 54c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 80c to 81c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 42e to 43c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 22c to 23c; rye. No. 2,53 c to 54c; clover seed, prime, $5.80 to $0.75. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 northern, 78c to 79c; corn, No. 3,40 cto lie; oats. No. 2 white, 85c to 2Uc; rye, No. 1,55 c to 56c; barley, No. 2,55 cto 56c; pork, mess, $11.50 to $12.00. Buffalo—Cattle, choice shipping steers, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, fair to prime, $3.00 to $5.80; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.50; lambs, common to extra, $4.60 to $5.50. New York—Cattle, $3.25 to $5.65; Hogs, $3.00 to $5.80: sheep, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 81c to 82c; corn, No. 2, 47c to 48c; oats, No. 2 white, 26c to 27c; h«tter, creamery, 20c to 22c; eggs, western, 18c to 20c.

OHICAaO, INDIANAPOLIS * LOUHVIUI RY. Rensselaer Time-Table, Corrected to May 8,L§99. South Bound. No. 31-Fast Mall.. 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).. 11:01 p. m. •No. 45—Local freight 2:40 p. m. North Bound. No. 40—Milk accomm., (daily) 7:31 a. m No. 32-Fast Mail, (daily)....: 9:55 u. m •No. 30—Cin.to Chicago Ves. Mail.. 6:32 p.m. iNo. 38-Cin. to Chicago 2:57 p. m. No. 6—Mail and Express, (daily)... 3:27 p. m. •No. 46 Local freight...... ...... .... 9:30a. m. No. 74—Freight, (daily).. >9:09 p. m. •Daily except Sunday. tSunday only. No. 74 carries passengers between Motion nnd Lowell. Hammond has been made n regular stop for No. 30. No. 32 and 33 now stop ut Cedar Luke. Phaxk J. Rebd, G. P. A., W. H. MeDoEL, President and Gen. Mg r,, Chas. H. Rockwell, Traffic Mgr CHICAGO. W. H. Beau. Agent, Rensselaer.

Edward P. Honan, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Law, Abstracts, Real Estate. Loans. Will practice in all the courts. Office first stairs east of Postottice. 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. Justin, Lawyer and Investment Broker Attorney For The L. N. A. A C.Ry. and Rensselaer W.L. &P. Co. JjgtoOffioe over Chicago Bargain Store. Rensselaer, Indiana. PRANK FOLTZ. C. G. SPITLKR. HARRY R. KURRI* Foltz, Spitier & 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 I. F. Irwin Warren &* Irwin, Real Estate, Abstracts. Collections. Farm Loans and Fire Insurance. Office iu 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 Duraud 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. DIHECTOKS. Addison Parkison. G. E. Murray. Jas.T. Randle. John M. Wasson and Emmet L. Hollingsworth. This bunk is prepared to transact a general hanking business. Interest allowed on time deposits. Money loaned and good notes bought at current rutes 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. Omcs Tslsrhons No. 41. Riiioihci Phoni No. 97. Rensselaer, - - Indiana. E. C. English, Physicians & Surgeons. Offioo over Poitoffioe, Rensaelaer, Indiana. Ornci Phoni, 177. Residence Pmoni, 110. 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, ’(light 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 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 hgve to know the language of your great grandmother. Abstracts always on hand. No red tape. Chilcote & Parkison.

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