Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1900 — Page 6

'jgWlikn DEMOCRAT. BABCOCK, Publisher. lUmtUttfr, r - • INDIANA,

SUMMARY OF NEWS.

' -Dunaraut, Kan., was partially destroyed by lire. The business portion is a total -'loss, including Richardson's store and hotel, ■ the postothee building, thu e resideugeft, steam laundry, grist mill, Youricy’s manufacturing plant, and cuntrnciOTs' ■shop ami Oil ** ■■_ ’ ' The Jiitesr iishitrpr <-raft-t« Uuuxnorlhrru Labrador report that nothing has Keen seen of the'iV'eary relief steamer ,Wiu4vturd. The winter wasonlms already begun to set in and the whole region will sbon be frozen up, making it next to iinpossible for the \\ indward to get south this year. 'During the season just closed tllirjyXour, sv-itliug sehvQuera took IbAIOO skills in Hering Sea, which is S,t)O<l. less .1 hull taken by twenty five schooners last year. The spring schooners took 111,517 skills _4Mutlm_£imL. .brhiging.. the total sos the (eason up to 32.517. Only lilty-fixe ■branded seals were killed in Bering Sea. It is Announced that the First National Bank, Broadway and Wall street, N>’ew York, has been robbed to the extent of about $790,000 through the operations of a trusted employe. The othcers of the bunk t'harge that Charles L, AJvord, the »osi?t&ler, is the’ man who Is responsible for the defalcation. Alvord has disappeared. .Standing silent with her hands in. the attitude of prayer and making no attempt to shield her face from the flames, Mrs. Mary Wilzek, wifi' iff a Berea, <>.. farmer, burned herself to death in the ;i . <:vj4.lvf of « shock of corn in one of her "niisHniid’s cornfields. She hnd been regarded as mildly demented, and was supposed to be constantly watched, John Solleiison, a young Swede, was ’ f.jiot'and kilh-d by hue of she srrrtim I- on guard duty at Fort Hancock, Sandy Hook. The Swede was walking along the beach near the fort and was mistaken sot a private who" had escaped from the tori. The Swede was challenged by the sentinel the second tithe, but refused to halt and was shot down. A riot oeeiirnd in a restaurant nt Hyndman, I'a.. conduced by Willis Caves, a negro. Adam Shroyer, who was sitting at one of the tables, cheered lustily for Bryan and angered some negroes who uere present. Knives and pistols were drawn and an effort made to kill Shroyer and bis young son. A score of shots weti' tired, but no one was hit. Gloster Barnes, colored, was lynched by a moli of bis own people in the northern part of Warren County, Miss. In a drunken fttrj Barnes murdered his wife, (Stubbed and badly wounded a negro who interfered, and engaged in a rifle tight with a while man who attempted to arrest him. A big crowd of negroes took iiiui into a thicket and shot him to death.

BREVITIES,

The Sultan of Turkey lias promised to pay the (salaries of his diplomats abroad. Harriman and Vanderbilt have secured control of the Pacific, Mail Steamship Company. Lieut. Hennessey mid forty-live Sikhs were killed in u brush with Mahsud raiders at .Janola, India. The strike of Middlesboro, Ivy., has .been declared ofT. blight hundred men will return to work. King Leopold of Belgium, it w said, is to invest millions in American mines ns a partner of Thomas Walsh of Colorado. The Russian battleship Retvizan was launched at Cramp’s shipyards, Philadelphia, in the presence of a nmnlier of officials of the I’nited Stales and Russian governments. Romeo, the monster elephant of the Ringling Brothers' circus, was shot and killed nt Wichita Falls, Texas, because lie attempted to kill his keeper while being watered. Z. T. Lewis, the former i'rbana, Ohio, banker ami noted bond forger, is dead. The exact amount of his forgeries was never known, but they amounted to more than SIOO,OOO. At Whitney, (la., in a fight between Peter Harris mil Will McCoy, the latter ■was decapitated by a razor, the head being held on the shoulders by but a few shreds of flesh. D. O. Prisor. n stock dealer from Butler, Pa., was held up by highwaymen in the borough of Millvale, Pittsburg, mid robbed of $2,700. The money represented the proc«*eds of five carloads of cattle. In less than mi hour after he was arrested for robbing the poor box of the Church of Notre Dame des Lourdes nt ’Minneapolis, M. Landry was found hang ing dead in his cell. He had committed suicide. With a shock that made the earthquake for miles around, the government tnagariue at Indian Head, the largest in the world, exploded. Many lives were destroyed. The loss to the government is enormous. C. M. Cottcrinan, nxsisjbint superintend ent of railway mail servlo, with headquarters at Sun Francisco, has been selected as director general of posts in the Philippine Islands, to succeed F. W. Vnille, resigned. A company composed almost entirely of Pittsburg capitalists has been organ Izod to engage in blast furnaee and steel manufacturing institutions on n gigantic scale. The capital of the new-corpora-tion is SI2,(XXI, Mrs. Arthur Cory of Denver, Colo., will start in a few days for England to take possession of n fortune of $500,600 left to her 12-yeur-old son by bis father, Hhe goes, too, to meet u repentant husband on Ids deathbed. Jo*. Chesser, n leading lumber dealer of Bristol, Tenn., was assassinated at Norton, Va.. while going out of a hotel. The assassin has not been arrested. The population of the State of California as announced by the census bureau is 1,485,053, ns against 1,208,130 in IRJMI. representing nn increase since 1890 of 27G,923. or 22.9 per cent. i Rats three feet long and eighteen pounds in weight wore eaten in Cuba to •nstnin life by members of the Smithsonian Institution expedition, which has returned with many sjiecimons and tale* (Of at range adventure.

EASTERN.

Okarles Dudley Warner, ths famous author and editor, died" suddenly of heart disease at Hartford, Conn. John Sbernityi died at bis residence in Washington of what the attendant physicians called brain exhaustion. Ex-Gov. W. I*. Dillingham was elected United States Senator by the Vermont Legislature. The choice was made on the third ballot. Convicts in the Mntteawan, N .Y., hospital for insane criminals oyerpowered their keepers and escaped. Several ot the number are nt large. ' Henry Miller, a neighbor of Horace Greeley, is dead at Chappaqua, N. Y., In bis eightieth year. He was the inventor of the fleam ami air brake. The abattoir at the stock yards at West Philadelphia, Pa., was partly destroyed by a lire of unknown origin, causing a loss of about ss*.>,<>(Ml, fully entered by insurance. Charles 11. Eastman, an instructor in Agifsi : niuseuhi, Harvard College, was arrested on the charge of murdering his brother-in-law, Richard H. Grogan, Jr., on July 4 last. James Nelson, a sporting man, while alighting from the rear platform of the last cur on the Chenango train on the West Shore road at Syracuse, N. Y., slipped under the wheels. He was literally decapitated. Henry Howard Stewart, a stenographer employed in the Metropolitan Life Insurance building, New York, was arrested in his employers’ office at the instance of the Cleveland police, who want him for child murder. The fine art gallery of William L, Elkins at Elkins, Pa., has been enriched by the addition of four celebrated paintings by Jacob Van Ituisdale, Albert Cuyp, Agnolo Bronzio and George Morland, valued at over $150,000. The strike on the $2,000,000 Wachusetts dam at Clinton, Mass., has been broken. The contractors secured 300 men to fill the strikers' places and had a large force of police on hand. The strikers gave in and went to work and the police retired. Fire partly destroyed the home of Harriet Prescott Spofford, poet and author, at Newburyport, Mass., causing a $2,000 loss. The bouse is on Deer Island, neat the ancient chain bridge. Many of the priceless treasures of Mrs. Spofford are damaged, if not destroyed. The entire body of George B. Bailey of North Saugus, who was murdered about Oct. 8. is now in the possession of the Lynn, Mass., police and has been positively identified. The missing head and arms were found by the police in dragging Glemnere, “Floating Bridge Pond.”

WESTERN.

Al Kittson, son of the late St. Paul millionaire, has been appointed inspector ot bill boards at St. Paul. Fourteen passengers on a North Shore electric car are hurt in a rear-end collision near Rogers Park, 111. A tornado struck about half a. mile west of Lodi, Texas. One house occupied by colored people was destroyed, six people being killed outright. A. C. Collins of Bradner, Ohio, aged 29 years ami married, a gauger for the Paragon Oil Company, while gauging 4 tank of oil fell in and was drowned. An unlocked switch flew open under a Lake Shore ami Michigan Southern train in Chicago ami caused a wreck in which eight excursionists received injuries. Henry Bishop Perkins, Jr., son of a Warren, Ohio, millionaire, committed suicide at his home by shooting himself. Grief at. his father’s long illness was the cause of the act. S. E. Burke, engineer of maintenance for the Cleveland, Akron and Columbus division ot the Pennsylvania lines, was accidentally killed on an inspection train at I'richsville, Ohio. Mrs. Mary Hummell, in a fit of insanity. killed her 5-weeks-old baby in Cleveland. She called in her husband and told him that she had seized the infant am! dashed out its brains. Meiioah Beamer, a pioneer Missourian, died at his home at Blackburn, Mo., aged N 2 years. He was a noted horseman in his time and once owned Blazebtiry and President Wilkes. Two business houses at New Bloomfield, Mo., burned. Dr. C. M. Wright, who was sleeping in one of the stores, was burned to death. The financial loss is about $3,000, partly insured. St. Paul, Minn., officials of the American Express Company are mystified over the disappearance of $7,000. It is believed that the pouch containing the money was stolen by local people. Dr. A. H. Walla, his 1-year old daughter and Delta Cone, a painter, have gone from Kansas City to Chicago for Pasteur treatment. They were bitten by a bullterrier that lias developed hydrophobia. z A messenger reached El Paso, Texas, from the village of Guadalupe, Mexico, bringing the news that that place had been completely swept from the face of the earth by a waterspout. Not a house was left standing Frank Allgood, sentenced to three years in the penitentiary for horse stealing, was baptized by immersion at the Christian Church in Wichita, Kan. His hands nnd feet were shackled and lie had to Im* carried to the baptistry. Captain Elmer E. Wing, of Ran Fran cisco, Cal., manager of the Welsbach Lamp Company, committed suicide by inhaling gas. Business troubles caused him to take his life. His wife and daughter reside in Delaware, Ohio. Dr. Combi Beck killed William Barton nt Waymansville, Ind,, because Barton objected to Beck keeping company with I his daughter. Two years ago Beck killed I Miss Grace Cohee because she refused to I marry him. lie was acquit ted of the 1 crime. The central committee of Galveston, Texas, Ims discover'd that owing to the lack of system in the distribution of relief among the cyclone sufferers there has been much extravagance. Forged orders to the amount of SIO,OOO have turned up. A rear-end collision took place between two of the big electric cars on the Broad way line in St. Louis, nnd a dozen jirrsunn were hurt. The colliding car smashed the platform of the car in front ot it, nnd, rearing up, tore away a section of the roof. A deal for 100,000 of Rt. Louis County, Minn,, acres, adapted in large part to •gFaultare, is in progress which involvM

from $275,000 to $300,000. The deal is one of the biggest for lands of this- kind ever undertaken in the State. Th* property is situated north of thp St. Louis river and east of Floodwood. Section saved the regular pv sebger train on the Bismarck, Washliuvn and Great Falls road, in North Dakota, from #rious wreck. They discovered a pile of ties fastened to the rails at the entrance to a cut, in such a fashion that a disastrous w;rcck would have been inevitable. Tramps are suspected. At Wapnkynetn, Ohio, Flora It. Miller, who was charged with the killing of her-3-year-old step-son, Leroy, was found guilty of manslaughter. On July 2, Mrs. Miller, in a fit of mildness, seized her step-son by the throat and choked him to death. Tlie census bureau has matte public the returns of population for the territory of Arizona. The population of. the territory in 1890 is 122,212, ms compared with a population in 1890 of 59,020. This show's an increase during the decade of <12,592, or-104.9 per cent. The State of Idaho has set npnrt 248,000 acres ot land on the Snake river, near Shoshone Falls, to be reclaimed under the Carey act by canals, to be taken out of the river at the head of the canyon lending to the falls. The undertaking will cost. $1,500,000. . The.. First. National Bank at Union. Ore., was robbed the other morning. Nitroglycerin'was applied to the door of the vault. The shock blew open the doors and broken particles passed through the front of 'the building. The robbers fled on the approach of who had sounded the alarm. The loss is about $3.000. Gen. John W. Fisher died at his home in Cheyenne, Wyo., aged KG year*. Gen. Fisher was a man of national character, having risen from a private in the ranks to a major general during the Civil War. It was Gen. Fisher, then a colonel, who, without waiting for orders, charged nnd took Little Round Top at the battle of Gettysburg.

SOUTHERN.

Gem Nelson A. Miles acted as judge of cavalry horses at the Louisville horse show. Rev. Dr. F. V. Bartlett was stricken with paralysis in the pulpit of a Presbyterian church, in Lexington, Ky. At Georgetown, Ky., Henry E. Youtsey. tried as a principal in the murder of William Goebel, was found guilty and his punishment fixed at life imprisonment.

The negro Milry Johnson, who shot and dangerously wounded Conductor Will Jordan of the Texas and Pacific road, near Baton Rouge, La., was lynched at the scene of his crime. Two colored men entered a saloon in the town of Minnie, W. Va., obviously for the purpose ot buying drinks, but while the proprietor, Ed Carroll, was making change he was knocked down and beaten to death with a cttib. Because lie accidentally discovered on the eve of marriage that his betrothed was bald headed, a well-known young num of Augusta, Ga., refused to make her his wife. He returned unused the marriage license he hud procured. Captain A. B. S. Mosley, of Rome, Ga., who was several months ago appointed vice consul so Singapore, has decided to decline. Dr. 11. A. Mosely, a brother of Captain Mosely, is consul general at Singapore, but has been ordered to Japan on account of his health. Fratus Warfield, a negro, was lynched at Elkton, Ky., by a mob, who took him from the county jail. Warfield’s imprisrnent was for attempting to enter the house of a young farmer when the farmer's wife and little child were the only occupants. He was frightened away by the approach of a neighbor.

WASHINGTON

Minister Conger has forwarded from Pekin an appeal from China for the hastening of peace negotiations, and au affirmative answer has been cabled by the State Department. Emperor Kwang Hsu, ruler of China, has sent to President McKinley his personal acknowledgment of the high services of this nation toward the restoration of peace in the flowery kingdom. Owing to the failure of the two governments to agree to a new commercial treaty, American goods henceforth will be subject to the Swiss general tariff instead of the most favored nation treatment. Reports which have reached the Navy Department*in Washington are to the effect that Subig bay in the Philippine Islands is not it suitable place for locating an extensive naval station, coaling station or navy yards, owing to limited depth of water. Alarming news confirming the statements that yellow fever is epidemic in Cubs has been received by rhe surgeon geuerAl’s department iu Washington. In Havana it is stated not a single block is exempt from the scourge, while in some as high seventeen cases are reported. The twelfth census, so far ns the enumeration work is concerned, is completed. There were 53,000 enumerators and 297 supervisHPs. The cost of the enumeration will be about $4,200,000. Most of the enumerators have been paid. The factory work also is about finished. AU df the special field agents In the manufacturing nnd industrial lines will complete their work nnd be paid off liy Nov. 1. The cost of this work will be about $250,<1. The entire force in the census bureau in Washington is now engaged iu tabulating the statistics gathered. The report ot the census bureau, when completed, will occupy eight volumes of l,(X)0 pnges each. Although the work of the present census is heavier by several million inhabit ants than ever before, Director Merriam thlhks it will bo ready for the public six weeks earlier than heretofore.

FOREIGN.

Robert Buchanan, British novelist nnd poet, is paralyzed and probably dying. “Johanna," Barnum At Bailey'* famous gorilla, died of pneumonia at Nureuiburg, Germany. One man was killed nnd more than thirty persons wore injured in a rear-end collision near the Place de la Concorde station on the Metropolitan Underground Railway in Paris. Sato, hitherto first secretary of the Japanese legation In Berlin, has been appointed Japanese minister te Mexico. Ha

was formerly attached to the Japanese legation in Washington. The will of the late Marquis of Bute has been admitted to probate. Among other charitable bequests the sum of £IOO,OOO ($500,000) is distributed among various Homan Catholic causes. Spanish cabinet has resigned as a protest against Weylcr’s appointment as captain general of Madrid, and the Queen Regent has asked Azcarrnga, Weylcr’s supporter, to form a new ministry. Aeowdiug to the St. Petersburg correspondent of the London Daily Express, fifty persons were killed nnd many others terribly scalded by a boiler explosion on board the steamer Eugenia, running between Tomsk and Barnaul. Seybohl & Dickstod of Sheffield, England, the largest manufacturers of crucible steel ip Great Britain, are preparing for the removal of their plant to the United States. An option has been taken cm a site near Wheeling, W, Va. The Sebastopol correspondent of the Loudon Daily Telegraph sends details of a recent plot against the life of Emperor Nicholas. It appears that before the Czar and Czai'ina began their journey to the Crimea a student at Moscow University was arrested for digging in a suspicious manner in the vicinity of a railway tunnel near Sebastopol. The police after the arrest f,oupd « large quantity of explosives deposited where they would have inevitably wrecked the tunnel when the imperial train was passing.

IN GENERAL.

Hayti dispatches report that the revolution in Santo Domingo is not ended and that fighting is proceeding in the interior, although the revolutionists are weak. A gold country which may rival the Klondike and Cai»e Nome regions has been discovered by the Harvard explorers who spent the last summer in Labrador. Choctaws, Chickasaws, Cherokees and Seminoles, armed with rifles, have joined the Creek full-blood council aud all declare they will not take allotment of lands. The Canadian schooner Fabiola found.iin il. Ju Lake Ontario neat- the False Ducks. The crew escaped in the yawlboat and landed at McDonald’s cove. Tiie Fabiola was a cargo of coal. Maj. Matt R. Peterson, the chief commissary of Cuba, died in Havana of yellow fever. Mrs. Peterson, his wife, who arrived recently from Cincinnati to nurse him, shot herself in the head with a revolver one hour after the major’s death and died instantly. The force of rurales that started from Orizaba, Mexico, in pursuit of the notorious Cristobal Pedraza and his band of brigands several weeks ago encountered the outlaws in their mountain stronghold and succeeded in killing Pedraza and capturing the ten members of his band. 11. H. Porter, a ptfSsenger on the Nome steamer Lane, reports that the cable steamship Orizaba, which was wrecked on Rocky Point reef, St. Michael Island, is a total loss. It was abandoned. The Orizaba was laying a government cable between St. Michael and Nome City. A romance for which the Paris exposition is said to be responsible is the engagement of Professor Woodward, assistant commissioner general for the United States, and Miss Marion Cockrell, adopted daughter of Thomas Walsh, the millionaire American mine owner. The 1 potato crop of the United States, according to Orange Judd Farmer’s final report at the practical completion of harvest, approximates 239,000,000 bushels, or nearly 5,000,000 bushels less than last year, and a fairly good yield compared with the average of the past ten years. Extremes in climatic conditions were responsible for holding the crop» within bounds. The average yield is eightythree bushels an acre. Bradstreet’s commercial report says: “Pacific coast advices are that export trade is very large as the result of army needs and Asiatic requirements. Northwestern trade is on the whole quiet, and the disposition to charge the election witli this is manifest. Eastern wholesale trade is quiet but steady. The country’s foreign trade is in a flattering condition, September exports being the largest ever reported for that month. Imports, on the other hand, show few gains, and the outlook is for a record-breaking export trade and a merchandise balance for the calendar year far in advance of all other years. Pig iron has been slow of sale, but Chicago reports that a business of at least 100,<MM) tons is in sight that maybe placed after the election. The large steel mills are well supplied With orders, though at low prices."

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.90; tfheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.10; wheat, No. 2 red, 74c to 75c; corn, No. 2,39 cto 40c; oats, No. 2,21 c to 22c; rye, Mo. 2,48 cto 49c; butter, choice creamery, 10c to 21c; eggs, fresh, 15c to 18c; potatoes, 27c to 32c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.00; hogs, choice light, $4.00 to $4.70; sheep, common to prime, $3.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2,72 cto 73c; corn, No. 2 white, 41c to 42c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 24c. St. Louis—Cuttle. $3.25 to $5.85; hogs, $3.00 to $4.70; sheep, $3.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,71 cto 72c; corn, No. 2 yellow-, 35c to 30c; onts, No. 2,21 cto 22c; rye. No. 2,51 cto 52c. Cincinnati—Cuttle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.80; sheep, $3.00 to $4.00; wheat. No. 2,70 cto 77c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 41c to 42c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 22c to 23c; rye, No. 2,57 cto 58c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.35; hogs, $3.00 to $4.90; sheep, $3.00 to $4.00; wheat* No. 2,75 cto 76c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 42c to.ijle; onta, No. 2 white, 24c to 25c; rye, 52c to 53c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 73c to 70c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 40« to 41c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 21c to 22c; rye, No. 2,51 c to 52c; clover seed, prime, SO.OO to $6.25. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 northern, 74c to 75c; corn, No. 3,30 cto 40c; oats, No. 2 white, 24c to 25c; rye, No. 1,51 c to 52c; barley, No. 2,57 cto 58c; pork, mess, $13.00 to $14.00. Buffalo—Cattle, choice shipping steers, $3.00 to $5.70; hogs, fair to prime, $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.25; lambs, common to extra, $4.00 to $5.85. New York—Cattle, $3.25 to $5.70; hogs, $3.00 to $5.45; sheep, $3.00 to $4.30; wheat. No. 2 red, 70c to 77c; corn, No. 2, 45c to 46c; oats, No. 2 white, 26c to 27c; butter, creamery, 19c to 22c; eggs, western, l*e to 21c.

* OHICAQO, IMOIAHArOU* A LOUIBVIIXS •». Rensselaer Time-Table, Corrected to May 8, 1899. South Bound. No.3l—Fast Mail 4:48a, m. No. 5 Louisville Mail, (daily) 10:55 a. m. No.33—lndianapolis Mail, (daily).. 1:45 p. tn. No. 39—Milk accomm., (daily) 6:15 p. tn. No. 3—Louisville Express, (daily).. 11:04 p. in. •No. 45—Local freight 2:40 p. m. North Bound. No. 4—Mail, (daily) 4:30 a.m. No. 40—Milk aecomm., (daily) 7:31a. m No. 32 Fast Mail, (daily) 9:55 a. n> ♦No. 30—Ci■>.to Chicago Ves. Mail.. 6:32 p.m. iNo. 38—Cin. to Chicago 8:57 p. m. No. 6—Mail and Express, (daily)... 3:27 p. in. •No. 46—Local freight 9:30 u. m. No. 74—Freight, (daily) 9:09 p.m. •Daily except Sunday. tSuuday only. No. 74 carries passengers between Monon and Lowell. Hammond lias been made a regular stop for No. 30. No. 32 and 33 now stop at Cedar Lake. Fbank J. Reeo, G. P. A., W. H. McDokl, 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. ,WQI 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. & C. Ry, and Rensselaer W. L. A P. Co. over Chicago Bargain Store. Rensselaer, Indiana. FRANK FOUTX. C. C- SRITI.KR. HARRY R. KURRIR Foltz, Spitler & Kurrie, (Successors to Thompson & Bro.) Attorneys-at-L*w. 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 Fanners' Bank, on Washington St.. RENSSELAER. IND.

J. F. Warren I. F. Irwin Warren & Irwin, Reni Estate, Abstracts. Collections. Form 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 Public Square.) RENSSELAER, IND. The Only State Bank in Jasper Co DIBECTOHB. 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 tests eyes for glasses. Ornes Tklkyhohk No. 48. Ruioeica Phons No. 97. Rensselaer, - - Indiana. E. C. English, Physicians & Surgeons. Office over Postofficc, Rensselaer, Indiana. Offics Phons. 177 s Risiosncs Phonsi lit. H. L. Brown, DENTIST. Office over Larsh’s drug store.

R. H. ROBINSON, ...DENTIST... Sjxjcial attention given to the preservation of the natural teeth and the most improved methods of relieving pain during all operations. Teeth inserted with oi without plates. All work guaranteed. Charges as low as consistent with good work. Office over Ellis & Murray’s. Night calls, Makeover House. R. H. Robinson.

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

STONEBACK, WIISI AND PHOTOGRAPHER i 2 /fl!; \ 12 Cabinets y Mels SI.BO. $1.50. JyPictures enlarged in pastelle. water colors and crayon. Buttons and Pins. Cuff Buttons. Hat and Tie Pins —Picture Frames. PAVILION GALLERY. i New Undertaking 1 Kum > 14A. $ :- vl JTjriypTlv'Tv </rwfO -• 5 In Horton building, one door c r west of Makeever House, with a r r complete and first-class stock of c | FUNERAL FURNISHINGS r I respectfully solicit a share of the a b? public's patronage and guarantee sat- i ? isfaction in every respect. Calls t £ • promptly responded to day or night. C A. B COWGILL, sidence at Makeever House, yhohk >o » j D ATEIITQ < r rA lENI o an % c b °tS hts : t ADVICE AS TO PATENTABILITY rnFF ' ) Notice In “ Inventive Age ” EX BC Ml Mi 4 f Book “How to obtain Patents’’ | 11 Ml Ml > [ Chargrt moderate. No fee till patent is secured, j r Letters strictly confidential. Address, G. SIGGERS. Psunt Lswyer. Wsshinjton, 0. C. J i 'Caveats, and TradeAfarks obtained and all Pat-i ’ ; ent business conducted for Moot ratc Fee*. i OusOfiicc i* opposite U.S.PatentOrricc! > ' 'and we can secure patent in less time than those l [ , iremote from Washington. i 1 Send model, drawing or photo,, with descrip-, > ' jion. We advise, if patentable or not, free of'J j .charge. Our fee not due till patent is secared. ] > 1 A Pamphlet, “ How to Obtain Patents,” withi > ' cost of same in the U.S. and foreign countries 1 [ , >sent free. Address, ' > C.A.SNOW&CO. !' Opp. Patint Ornce. Washington, D. C. S

' Needle ft \\\ Mil Hook flew ma^e t^,e simplest and best Sewing Machine on earth......, Fitted with Bicycle Ball Bearings ttSST th el ig htest Running Sewing Machine in the World... You Cannot Afford to do your sewing on the old style shuttle machine when you can do it BETTER, QUICKER AND EASIER on the new No. 9 WHEELER & WILSON. The Wheeler & Wilson is Easy Running* Rapid, Quiet and Durable. No Shuttle, No. Noise, No Shaking. See It before buying. Agent or denier wanted for thia territory ■nd vicinity. For particulars address Wheel, er A Wilson. Mfg. Co., 80 A 82 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Ills. Morris’ English Stable Powder Wales. Nsfar yeakssa Sold by A. F. Long.