Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1900 — Page 2

MR CIIUNTY DEMOCRAT BABCOCK, Publisher. RtNSSELAER, * INDIANA

WEEK’S NEWS RECORD

A detachment of twenty men of the Twenty -fourth regiment, while engaged in repairing telegraph wires, at a point near San .low, Nuevo Eeija province, S&le de Luzon, Philippines, were set upon ■by 200 rebels and were overpowered and .scattered. Tile bark Merom of San Francisco, ■wind by the Alaska Packers’ Association, was driven ashore and totally wrecked on Kodiak Island in a gale.., A Bailor of the crew known as “Dutch BUI remained on the vessel and went down .■with her. • r /Rhe torpedo boat Dahlgren lies high and dry on the mud fiats at the south end of Newport, 'll. 1, harbor. The torpedo boat T. A. M. Craven is in her slip at the torpedo station with ten feet of her ■bow bent to port nt right angles. The two boats collided in a gale. Advices from Dawson say that steamers bring word that the United States telegraph system in the Yukon country will be completed from Nome to Tanana toy (Thristmas. The line from Dawson northward to Eagle on the American side ■wifi be concluded a month hence. The St. Louis police are looking for a man who is known only as / “Jack, the oil thrower.” A year ago he Turned scores of women’s dresses by squirting oil on them, apparently from a syringe. His first victim this season is Mrs. Ida Schwartz, whose tan coat was ruined. Gov. Beckham of Kentucky has approved the only election bill passed during the extra session. The bill goes into effect immediately. The law re|M*als no part of the Gobel law, but provides severe penalties for violation of election laws and otherwise throws safeguards around the voter. John Bruce ran a locomotive into a flame-sheeted shed of the American Cereal Company's plant at Chicago, whore Ills conductor, Edward Kitchen, coupled the engine to five cars loaded with oatmeal. A minute later the cars, with fluming roofs, were pulled out into the open, where they were saved by firemen. An explosion of rubbet cement in the shoe factory of Witchell Sons' Company, in Detroit, resulted in the death of one person and injury of eight others, four of whom were girls. The fire spread ■with such rapidity that the employes were emnpelled to jump from the upper stories. The building was completely gutted and will doubtless be a tidal loss. George C. Beveridge, a resident of Sau Francisco And one of the owners of the famous Dolores mine of Mexico, brings news of a horrible tragedy enacted in the vicinity of his mine. A hand some young girl was abducted from her home by a man who was enamored of her and kept a dose prisoner in a cave for three months. During that time ten men were killed because of her. Tempted by the knowledge that thousands of dollars were within his grasp and fortified by an intimate acquaintance with postoffice methods, some one robbed the United States mail of the entire re-ceipts-for the day of station IL the “second general postofficc,” at Forty-fourth Street and Lexington avenue. New York. Such an occurrence is unprecedented in the annals of New York. Subordinate officials place the loss at from $15,000 to $40,090.

NEWS NUGGETS.

Sir Henry Aeland. British scientist, is dead, aged 85. Ex-Postmaster General William L. Wilson died suddenly at Lexington Vn. Galveston benefit in Drury Lane Theater, latndon. cleared s(i,stX) for the fund. Stories of the Dowager Empress Frederick's marriage to Baron Seekendorff have been revived mid are not denied. The London 'Times announces that Sir Alfred Milner will be appointed governor of the former South African republics. The trunk of a man’s body with head and legs severed has been found in 41 bag at Floating Bridge Pond, Lynn, Mass. A dispatch from Shanghai states that Tao-ting fu was raptured by the force of 7,000 allies sent from Pekin for that purpose. A. conference at Philadelphia resulted In an agreement to accede to demands by the mine workers' com union, which means the end of the big strike. Lord Al verstone, more widely known as Sir Bit-hard Webster, has been appointed lord chief justice of England in succession to the late Lord Bussell of Killowen. A conservative estimate of Florida’s orange crop this year placed the yield at 1,000.1)00 boxes. An extra large yield •will bo had in Manatee. Hillsboro nnd 'DeSoto Counties. Eight people were either burned to dentil or sufl’oented in a tire which partially destroyed the three-story-aud-nttie frame double tenement house 35 and 45'j Hester street, New York. “King Oscar's illness," says n dispatch to the London Daily Mail from Stockholm, “has developed into n serious Inflammation of the Jungs. The yrown prince has been appointed regent.'’ The family of the late John Clark of New York have engaged counsel to try to obtain for them the estate of his brother. Imlay Chirk, who died a few years ego in Australia, leaving a fortune estimated at SJJO,IMX),(X)O. John Hughes. postmaster nt Cauihra, I’a., shot and killed a burglar who broke into the office. There were two burglars, and when Hughes fired they ran. Lntet one of them wax found dead by the road •ide. His identity is not known. The facade of the Czech High School nt Brosxnitz, Moravia, topphsl into the Street, killing seven person;) and injuring |gn. fhas destroyed the cur sheds of the and and Eastern Electric Hallway my at Gates Mills, O. A number a and other property was burned. JLOO.OOO; covered by insurance. Widespread, damage, ns well as death to eeveral and serious Injury to many, was caused by a storm which swept over New York nnd vicinity. Three men wore killed mid six injured In the collapse us a building in Kearney, N. J.

EASTERN.

James Gordon Bennett is in New York after three years' absence in Europe. Sophia Holmes, first colored woman ever employed by the United States, is dead in Washington. Officials of the Panama Canal Company have arrived at New York and assert the canal will be built. Copper plate engravers at Tiffany & Co.’s, 'highest-priced workmen in the world, have struck for recognition of their union. The population of the State of Connecticut, tis officially announced by the census bureau, is 908,355. In 1890 the population was 746,258. The ocean steamer Waccamau, bound down, damaged two of the gates of the Welland canal so seriously that navigation was discontinued for two days. The submarine boat Holland has been placed in commission. Site is to be sent to the naval academy at Annapolis, so that the cadets may become thoroughly familiar with this modem weapon of wrfrfare. William Ziegler, a well-known, and wealthy citizen of New York City, has announced that he will purchase two vessels, fully equip and man them and send them in quest of the north pole during the summer of 11)01. Alexander Howard, 49 ymtrs old, of Brooklyn, N. Y., shot and killed his»son, Leigh, 8 years old, and then turned the pistol <upon himself. His mind is believed to have become unbalun/’ed by ill health and the anxieties of business. A grade-crossing accident, in which three persons were instantly killed and one fatally injured occurred five miles west of Neweacstle, Pa! Four persons occupies! a double-seated rig which was struck bjr Monongahela traction car. At Holyoke, Mass., Ovide Berniche left his four children in bed and went out to buy Sunday's provisions; During his absence a layup exploded and the blazing oil spread over the children's beds. All four were burned to dentil. The weddiug at the Presbyterian Church in Bellefonte, Pa., of Miss Helen Rankin Hastings, eldest daughter of former Gov. and Mrs. Daniel Hastings, to Ross Anderson Hickok of Harrisburg was the leading society event in many years. « Bernard Katz of Katz Brothers, the well-known brewers of Paterson, N. J., announces that the Rogers locomotive works have been sold by Jacob Rogers to a syndicate of New York capitalists and a number of Paterson’s most wealthy residents. John White of Kingston, N. J., shot and painfully injured Thomas Sullivan and William Logan while they, with a number of others, were tendering him a mock serenade. White, who is 27 years old. recently married Mrs. Mary Tice, 74 years old.

WESTERN.

Undertakers in convention at Manitou, Colo., were stuck half way up Pike’s Peak in a snowstorm. The Topeka presbytery, in session at Kansas City, Kan., voted in favor of re- , vision of the confession of faith. Sneak thieves stole a tray containing $2,000 worth of jewels from the store of Burt, Ramsey & Co. at Cleveland. George Fenner, who raised the American flag over the City of Mexico when it fell, dropped dead on the street at Bucyrus, Ohio. “George Hessler,” under arrest at St. Paul, has admitted that lie is John Bingham, wanted in Chicago for the murder of Gus Colliander. The Presbyterian synod of Fargo, N. D., lias elected Andrew Christy Brown, D. D., of Omaha synodical missionary for North Dakota. I Dr. Orhinder Longnecker of Dayton, Ohio, has been convicted in the United States Court at Cincinnati of using the mails for improper purposes. Sister Baptista, a Sister of Charity, was accidentally shot and killed at St. Aloysius’ School, in Helena, Mont., by John Nicholson, au 11-year-old pupil. A head-end collision between a Colorado and Southern passenger train and a freight occurred near Littleton, Colo. W. J. Watson, engineer of the passenger train, was killed. At El Paso, Texas, it is reported that the agent of the Wells-Fargo Express Company nt Escalon,Mexico, disappeared, taking with him SIB,OOO of the company's money. 1 The town of Herrick. 111., was partly destroyed by fire. Nearly the whole business part of the-city is in ashes. Loss is thousands of dollars, partly covered by insurance. I't is expected that within less than a year Chicago will be equipped with a pneumatic tube commercial package delivery service which will surpass anyl thing which has yet been planned for any city. Dr. 8. C. Lawrence and J. R. Ritchie quarreled at Senath, Mo., over a bill for medical services due the former. A duel | with knivps followed and Lnwrenee drove ' bis knife into Ritchie’s right side, inflict* , ing a fatal wound. i Mr. and Mrs. Martin Sayers, an aged couple, were instantly killed by a Big I Four train at Elyria, Ohio. They were • driving across the track in a buggy and did not hear the train approaching until escape was impossible. !F. 11. Parks, cashier of Breedun’s grocery, 633 Sixty-third street, Chicago, was held up by .three men, who secured a small amount of change from a pocket of his trousers, but failed to fiud $590 in his inside vest pocket. , Ernst Ammon was held up by five men on the platform of a crowded North Clark street enr in Chicago and robbed of $75 and checks amounting to $65. The robbers were pursued by a crowd of people for several blocks, but they escaped. United States Deputy Marshal Taylor was killed in Pawnee, Ok. Taylor hud arrested a desperado and was guarding him in a saloon, when someone slipped a revolver to the prisoner, who opened fire, the ball striking Taylor in the breast. | George Owiuts, a member of a band that held up the train at Fgirbnnka, Aris., four months ago, confessed in court and told the full story of the fobI bery. Six members of the baud, it is ' expected, will lie convicted upon Owinta* I testimony. The large department store of Burton Brothers burned to the ground at Rnlll-' van, Ind. The building includes the Peo-

pie’s Theater, and entails a loss of SIOO,000, partially covered by insurance. The fire originated in the basement from an overturned candle. The Dawes commission has finished its work of enrolling Cherokees at Bartlesville, I. T. The number of persons enrolled to this date are as follows: Cherokees, 17,562; Delawares. 824; doubtful, 2,336; rejected. 1,040. Rejected for want of jurisdiction, 488. A father, and four young children w'ere blown to atoms at Sells, Ark. While the family was at supper their home was wrecked by an explosion of dynamite. It is believed that a neighborly dispute over a homestead claim prompted the outrage. The Prohibitionists of Douglas County, Kun., are in great trouble. It has been discovered that the messenger intrusted with the duty of filing the nomination papers became intoxicated and neglected his duty, and the Prohibition ticket will not be on the official ballot. * An east-bouud passenger train on the Lake Erie and Western road hit a freight as the latter was taking a siding near St. Mary’s, Ohio. Conductor A. L. Heath, of Lima, was made unconscious and may die of his injuries. All on board were severely shaken up. lu the presence of a crowd of about 200 persons the corner stone for a flying machine factory to manufacture airships on the Carl Dryden Browne patent was formally laid at the Freedom labor colony, a socialist settlement eighteen miles northwest of Fort Scott, Kan. Nelson Williams (colored), 19 years old, has confessed the murder of his father and sister at Osceola, Ark. After killing them lie fired the house, apd their charred remains were found in the ruins. He wanted to leave home and his father would not permit him to go. The Rev. Rowland Hills, the English clergyman convicted of bigamy in marrying an American woman, was sentenced at Blair, Neb., to four years in the penitentiary. His English wife, who crossed the sea to prosecute, asked the court that lie be given a light sentence. In South Chicago. 111., a Chicago and Erie freight train ran iuto au Elgin, Joliet and Eastern freight at a switch. Eight cars of the Elgin, Joliet and E:|nteru train and the locomotive of the Erie train were demolished. The cars were thrown from the track and destroyed by fire. A Chicago am! Alton engine exploded near Curryville, Mo., and was blown almost to atoms. John Mason, colored porter, of Roodhouse, 111., had his head cut off. Many others were badly hurt. Fifty yards of the track was torn up. It is not known what caused the explosion.

The Rev. Father William 11. Ketcham of Antlers, I. T,, has been appointed and will soon take charge of all the Catholic Indian missions of the I'nited States, with headquarters at Washington, D. C. Father Ketcham was for three years pastor of the Catholic congregation at Muscogee. At Tiffin, Ohio, a tray containing twenty-eight diamond rings, valued at $5,009, was stolen from the jewelry store of Lewis Seewald. While oue of the two strangers held the attention of the proprietor the other unlocked the case, took the tray and walked out. Both the men escaped. By what is declared to be a deliberate plot, the New York and Boston express train on the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad was wrecked at South Chicago. Two men were killed, three others injured, the engine totally demolished and two express cars piled in a heap. That the quarrel between Frank and John D. Rockefeller of Cleveland is extremely bitter and lasting was evidenced by the action of Frank Rockefeller when he had the bodies of his two children removed from the magnificent Rockefeller lot in Lakeview cemetery and moved into a new lot. The extra session of the Michigan Legislature, called by Gov. Pingree placing before the people constitutional amendments relating to taxation of corporations and the repeal of certain perpetual railroad charters, has adjourned after passiug the measures advocated* by the < lovernor.

SOUTHERN.

The National Association of Fire Chiefs, in session nt Charleston, S. C., chose Indianapolis as the next meeting place. All the car builders American Car and Foundry Company in Huntington, \V. Va., went out on a strike. They demand $1 more ou a car. Two desperate convicts at the Tennessee penitentiary made a daring and novel escape from that institution by sliding down two telephone wires from the top of a three-story building to a point outside the walls. Both were recaptured. Ten mountaineers, headed by James Howard, an ex-postmaster, who is under a three-year sentence, attempted to break jail at Louisville by digging through a wall. A turnkey surprised Howard cutting into the wall, and after a struggle knocked a big knife from his hands. It is learned that the Russell A. Alger syndicate will build a railroad from Foshee, Ala., to Pensacola. Fla., running through the timber lands recently acquired by that company. A large mill will lie iTected at Foshee and n branch factory of the American Car Company at Moline. Fla. Thomas Barnes, 18, died at A-hbuin, Gn., ns the direct result of stage fright. He was a student of the collegiate institute and was, with others, assigned as a speaker. He went upon the stage when his time came and started to deliver his speech, when, after saying a few words, he threw his hand to his breast and fell, expiring immediately.

WASHINGTON

Albert B. Green of the general land office has been selected as chief of the new division of forestry of the Interior Department, authorized by the lust Congress. The Treasury Department in Washington gave notice of the discovery of a new $lO silver certificate, series of 181)1, with portrait nt Hendricks. The counterfeit is described as a photographic print without the silk filter and of inferior workmanship. The United States, according to a special dispatch from Tangier, has made another demand upon the government of

Morocco for $5,000 as indemnity to the family of Marcus Azzagui, a naturalized American citizen, who was murdered by a mob at Fez last June. Commissioner General Peek cables from Paris an announcement of the final results qbtuiued by the various countries in the form of awards at the Paris exposition. The United States received 2,4,75 awards; Germany, 1,826; Great Britain, 1,727, aud Russia, 7,493. The United States leads, not only in the grand total, but also in all grades of awards, from grand prizes to merely honorable mention. >

FOREIGN.

The plague outbreak at Glasgow has been checked. Serious loss of live stock has resulted from the floods in Argentina. Russia is trying to negotiate loans in New York and Paris for $150,000,000. French army officers have been severely punished for having ostracized Captain Coblentz, a Jew. Bulgaria has demanded that persecution and expulsion of Bulgarians from Roumania shall cease. Captain Shields and fifty-one ’men of the Twenty-ninth infantry, captured by Filipinos on the island of Marinduque, have beeu rescued. The Emperor and Empress of Germany took part in the laying of the foundation stone of the imperial museum at Saalburg, ou the site of ! the old Roman fortress. As the resulCof monetary disturbances abroad Austria wishes to float a large Joan in the United States. It is reported tiat this loan will be in the neighborhood of $29,900,000. pispatches from Costa Rica tell of the almost total destruction by fire of Port Liipon, the principal port of the republic. The business section of the city was entirely wiped out. More than $2,000,090 worth of property was burned up. Arriving steamers bring news of terrible ravages by a typhoon in Formosa and Southern China. Thousands of persons were killed. Numerous towns were destroyed. Nineteen hundred houses Mere washed away or inundated at 'l'aipeh, Formosa, and many lives lost.

IN GENERAL.

The Canadian survey of the disputed international boundary line at Mount Baker has been completed. Surveyor Deane says that all the valuable mines in the best of the mineral belt are in American territory. Announcement is made that the atSndard Flour Milling Company is now in process of organization as the successor of the United States Flour Milling Company, which was recently in the hands ol a reorganization committee. George Sexton, a census enumerator, who has just made the trip through the Co;.per river country, Alaska, with Goveruiient Geologist Schrader, says that the copper deposits in that section of Alaska are the greatest in the world. AV. V. Powell, who for seven years has been grand president of the Order of Railway Telegraphers, was expelled from the organization by a large majority of the votes of the delegates present. The vote for expulsion came after a trial lasting nearly two days. The Wisconsin gained new laurels for her builders, the Union iron works of San Francisco, on her trial trip in Santa Barbara channel, by so far exceeding her contract speed of sixteen knots as to break al’, records. Correct official figures of the run make the battleship’s time 17.25 knots. The closing of the National League base-ball season finds the clubs in the following positions. The pennant goes to Brooklyn Brooklyn ...82 54 Chicago .....65 75 Pittsburg ...79 60 St.‘Louis... .65 75 Philadelphia 75 63 Cincinnati ...62 77 Boston ......66 72 New Y0rk...60 78 Bradstreet’s says: “Though some measures of business volume and value make unfavorable comparison with a year ago, and speculation is certainly on a reduced scale in nearly all lines, other registers of trade activity are still very favorable, and it is hard to resist the conclusion that, with few notable exceptions, the actual business of the country is, as a rule, fully equal to, if not slightly in excess of the corresponding period of 1899. Prices of staples as a whole are firm. Wheat, including flour, shipments for the week aggregate 4,292,855 bushels, against 4,450,167 last week. Corn exports for the week aggregate 2,896,037 bushels, against 2,360,249 last week.”

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, common "to prime, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, shipping g. ades, $3.00 to $5.15; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 75c to 70c; corn. No. 2,40 cto 41c; oats, No. 2,20 c to 21c; rye. No. 2,50 cto 51c; butter, choice creamery, 19c to 21c; eggs, fresh. 14c to 17c; potatoes, 27c to 32c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.60; hogs, choice light, $5.00 to $5.15; sheep, common to prime, $3.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2,73 cto 74c; corn, No. 2 white, 41c to 42c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 24 c. St. Louis—Cattle. $3.25 to $5.90; hogs, $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, $3.00 to $4.10; wheat, No. 2,71 cto 72c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 37c to 38c; oats, No. 2,21 cto 22c; rye. No. 2,52 cto 53c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $5.20; sheep, $3.00 to $3.85; wbeht, No. 2,77 cto 78c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 41c to 42c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 23c to 24c; rye. No. 2,58 cto 59c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.35; hogs, $3.00 to $5.20; sheep, $3.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,76 cto 77c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 42c to 43c; oats, No. 2 white, 25c to 20c; rye. 52e to 53c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 75c to ,70c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 37c to 38e; oats, No. 2 mixed. 21c to 22c; rye, No. 2,52 c to 53c; clover seed, prime, $6.00 to $7.00. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 northern, 76c to -77 c; corn, No. 3,40 cto 41c; outs, No. 2 white, 24c to 25c; rye, No. 1,53 c to 54c; barley, No. 2,57 cto 58c; pork, mess, $15.00 to $16.00. Buffalo—Cattle, choice- shipping steers, $3.00 to $5.70; hogs, fair to prime, $3.00 to $5,25; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.25; lambs, common io extra. $4.00,t0 $5.60. New York—Cattle, $3.25 to $5.60; hogs, $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 76c to 77c; corn, No. 2, 46c to 47c; oats. No. 2 white, 26c to 27c; butter, creamery, 19c to 22c; eggs, western, 19c to 21c.

a,.-1 CHICAGO, INDIANAFOUIB • LOUISVIM.B 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—lndianapolis Mail, (daily).. 1:45p.m. No. 39—Milk aceomm., (daily) 6:15 p, m. No. 3 Louisville Express, (daily). .11:04 p. in. ’No. 45- Local freight 2:40 p. ni. North Bound. No. 4—Mail, (daily) 4:30 a.m. No. 40—Milk aceomm., (daily) 7:31a. m No. 32—Fust Mail, (daily) 9:55 a. 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 9:30 a. m. No. 74—Freight, (daily) 9:09 p. m. except Sunday.’ only. No. 74 carries passengers between Monon and Lowell. Hamjuond has been made a regular stop for No. 30. No. 32 and 33 now stop at Cedar Lake. Fbank J. Reed, G. P. A., W. H. McDoel, President and Gen. M’g'r, Chas. H. Rockwell, Traffic M’g’r CHICAOC. W. H. Beam. Agent, Rensselaer.

Edward P. Honan, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Law, Abstracts, Real Estate. Loans. Wilt practice in all the courts. Office first stairs east of Postoffice. RENSSELAER, INDIANA.

Hanley & Hunt, La wf 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. & P. Co. t^oOffieeover Chicago Bargaiu Store. Rensselaer, Indiana. FRANK FOLTZ. c. a. SFITLBR. harry r. kurrib Foltz, Spitler & Kurrie, (Successors to Thompson & Bro.) Atto rn ey s-at- Law. Law, Real Estate, Insurance Abstracts and Loans. Only set of Abstract Books in the County. RENSSELAER, JND. Mordecai F. Chilcote, William 11. Parkison Notary Public. Notary Public. Chilcote & Parkison, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW. Law, Real Estate. Insurance. Abstracts and Loans. Attorneys for tlie Chicago. Indianapolis & Louisville Railway Co. Will practice in all of the courts. Office over banners' Bank, on Washington St., RENSSELAER. IND.

J. F. Warren I. F. Irwin Warren & Irwin, Real Estate, Abstracts. Collections. Farm Loans and Fire Insurance. Office in Odd Fellow's Block. I RENSSELAER, INDIANA. Ira W. Yeoman, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Remington, ... Indiana. I Law. Real Estate. Collections, Insurance and Fann 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 DIKECTOBS. 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 I and Chronic Diseases. He also tests eyes for glasses. Ornes Tsi-srHOHS No. 48. Rsbiobmcb Phoms No. 97. Rensselaer, - - Indiana. E. C. English, Physicians & Surgeons. Office over Postofficc. Rensselaer, Indiana. lOfpicc Phoni, 177. Residence Rmomei 11®.

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, Makeever House. R. H. Robinson.

OAK LUMBER. My sawmill is now running, 5 miles north of Rensselaer, and J atn 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 oit 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 desiringto 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. *

STONEBACK, MIST HID PHOMfiPHIB CODineis y . Cabineis $1.50. $1.50. Pictures enlarged in pastelie. water colors and crayon. Buttons and Pi ns. Cuff Buttons, Hat and Tie Pins —Picture Frames. PAVILION GALLERY. J New Undertaking j C I jjf V ' J l' '' S In Horton building, one door £ 2 west of Makeever House, with a £ £ complete and first-class stock of f | FUNERAL FURNISHINGS S I respectfully solicit a share of the? ? public's patronage and guarantee sat- •' £ tsfaction in every respect. Calls C £ promptly responded to day or night, j V A. B. COWGILL, > £ Residence at Makeever House, rhomb §

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