Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1900 — Page 2

■JASPER COUNTY jEMOCRAT. X ~F." E. BABCOCK, Publisher. * RtNSSELAER, - - INDIANA.

WEEK’S NEWS RECORD

James A. Norton, who was one of the jurymen iu the Youtsey trial, was burned to death in the jail at Sadieville, Ky., iu w hich he had been put on the charge of drunkenness. Lt is supposed bed clothes i ,night fire and ignited the building? - A student at the University at Dorpiit, Russia, bak been sentenced to imprisontuviit for a term of twu years lor. having billed a fellow-student in a duel’ a year ago. The government has virtually broken up the German dueling association at Jhat university. i Walter Graves, a messenger boy for the wholesale jewelry firm of George K. 31arringtoii A Co., was held up iu Chicago by a negro and robbed of a satchel containing jewelry valued at SSOO. The articles belonged to patrons of the house and were being delivered. A head end collision of Baltimore and Ohio freights Nos. 23 and 24 occurred at Pelieville, Ohio. Conductor John Oatman and Engineer Henry Hall of No 23 were killed. A misunderstanding of orders is responsible for the trouble. A number of Tars were smashed a nil t raffle delayed. At Marietta, Ohio, Marshal Dye cap tured three suspicious look#? men. searched valuable piTpers and counterfeit money were found on them. Within fifteen minutes after being put in jail they sawed their way out by-cut—-ting through the door and started ncrostr the hills. Because he believed his wife had thrown him over for a handsome young minister, Joseph Freitag killed her in Brooklyn, N. Y., shot her pet dog and fatally wounded himself. Resentment bad died out of the heart of the husband after the fatal shots bad been ’ fired, for the dead wife was found Tiosperi in his arms.' The long strike of the cigarmtikers, which started nine months ago, in Kerbs, Wertheim & Schiffer’s factories in New York, and involved twelve other large firms, has been, declared at an end. The cigarmakers, 1,500 in number, Have declared their strikes off unconditionally and have returned to work on the old terms 11 gainst which They struck. Fire •started in the candy factory of Kreicher & Co. in Albany, N. Y., and before the firemen could get water on the blaze the immense building, running through a block, was a mass of flames. Next door, in Beaver street, was the Press-Kniekerbocker-Express. So rapid Jy did the flames spread that the employes of the building had to run for their lives. Total loss, $135,000.

BREVITIES.

At TTotttsvtlTiV Ky., “Cha lies Taiikenbaum, aged 29, shot and killed Mrs. Maggie Elkens, his mother-in-law. The General Assembly of Georgia in joint session elected A, O. Bacon United States Senator to succeed himself. Near Lacon, 111., Mrs. Joseph Shafer was shot and instantly killed by W. J. Unit, who was captured a few hours la ter. The general election on Tuesday resulted in the election of McKinley and Roosevelt, the Republican nominees, and gave control of Congress to that party. Three persons were killed in n railroad ■wreck near Keswick, Cal., two of the victims being James Hart of Charter Oak. I'owa, and E. J. Bowen of Castle Rock, Wash. Rev. Dr. Mills has been assassinated In U-ake County, Mississippi. Dr. Mills -was a "holiness” preacher and a stranger in Leake County, where his creed has many enemies. Before a ballot was cast in Denver the trouble between the police department and the sheriff’s office began and three men killed and three seriously wounded was the result. James Elliott, Jr., of Manchester l , N. H., committed suicide by shooting himself through the heart. He was morose because ho and his father differed in their views on politics. Julian T. B. Arnold, son of Sir Edwin Arnold,When arraigned in London, after being extradited from California, plead*d not guilty to the charge .of embezzling £14,000, and was remanded. F. F. Hodgkinson, former British viceconsul nt Bremerhaven, was remanded at London on a charge of stealing and trying to sell to a foreign country a secret code book of the foreign office Charles Davis, aged about 30 years, rfhot and killed his wife at their home at Portland, Me., and then attempted to take his own life. lie has a bullet wound in his head, but may recover. Fire completely destroyed the plant of the Franklin Foundry Company in Chicago. The building was destroyed iu less than an hour. It is not known how the fire started. The loss was $25,000. Grant Reiner and J. Ralph Griffith, gamblers, between whom ill feeling had existed for a long time, met in a saloon at Middlesboro, Ky. Each at once drew his pistol and the duel lasted until both Bien fell dead. L. P. Parish, a Chicago, Rock Island end Pacific engineer, was killed in the Union Pacific yards in Omaha, his head being struck by a passing engine. Par rtah was a prominent engineer and lived In Connell Bluffs. William John Lyne, premier and treasurer of New South Wales, has cabled Preaident M- Kinley. inviting the United States to send a detnehment of troops to participate>in the inauguration of the Australian commonwealth. J. IL Holland was shot through the head and heart al Alvarado. Texas, by Ruy Hampton and instantly killed, Both were prominent in business circles. The youngest son of Lady Yarde-Buller of Han F rancisco, Arthur Kirkham Blair, slipped quietly away to Stockton, Cal., JBui'l wits married to Miss Edna Ursula Fitzgerald, a' telephone girl. The body of Pearl Forbes, aged 20 years, was found in a ravine near her home in Ixjqvenwortb. Marks on her throat Indicated she had, been murdered by strangulation. The surroundings gave •videncc of a terrible struggle.

EASTERN.

Atlantic liner St. Paul suffered damages of $250,000 by collision with a derelict at sea and reached New York late. Because he had lost heavily on the races Michael Mallon of Jersey City, 24 years old, committed -suicide by drinking carbolic acid. The W. L. Raeder blankbook, lithographing and printing house at Wilßtesbarre, Pa., was destroyed The loss was $125,000. Charles Amsden, capitalist of Amsden, Vt., was found dead in a room in the Hotel Metropole in Detroit. Heart disease is supposed to have caused death. The wil£ of Frank Williams, late of Johnstown, Ph., makes TtF beqiiCßt 'oT $300,000 to the Lehigh University-J at South Bethlehem, Pa., for the benefit .oX.worlh2^ ; Uldenls, Mr. aud Mrs. Josi.iii Munyan of Vineland, N. J., are the parents of a wonderful baby girl. They can boast that although seventeen weefcs old, this infant weighs fifty pounds. The opera house iu Paterson, N. J., wus..destroyedby A high wind was blowing and the firemen had great difficulty in saving adjoining property. The loss is estimated at $50,000. The authorities of Allegany County, N. Y., are looking for persons who manufactured a skeleton out of bones of domestic animals, which frightened Mary Oldfield of Karrdale to death. George Washington Freeman Horner Green, a former negro slave, died in the almshouse at Hempstead, L. 1., at the reputed age ofT"23 Tears; He was xmee owned by Gen. Geo. Washington. In Pittsburg Louis Dickering, a sick and d-wwuragedTrTveiifof," hung himself with his trousers belt because he could not make a perpetual motion rocking chair and a steamboat-without a paddle wheel. William L. Strong, the last. Mayor of old New York, died at his home there. He was 73 years of age. He had been in vigorous health for two years until a month ago, when he was taken ill with rheumatic gout. • The Arrow, designed to be the fastest ship afloat, wits launched at New York. It is being built for -Charles IL Flint. The contract calls for a speed oTforty-' two miles an hour, and it is thought it will make fifty. James E. Whynks and Miss Edith M. Shook were married in Baltimore beside a bed on which lay the corpse of the groom’s mother. Mrs. Whynks expressed a wish to see her son married, but died before a license could be procured. Because his son Walter is in jail charged with the murder of Jennie Bosschieter, the Paterson mill hand, James McAllister has shut down his silk plant in that city. Mr. McAllister started the mill about six years ago for the benefit of Walter. Arthur Barris, the negro who stabbed Policeman Robert J. Thorpe to death in New York Aug. 12, and who was convicted of murder in the second degree, was sentenced to ilfe imprisonment. The murder of Thorpe the cause of seriowr race riots. Ellen Moore, aged 21 years, of Horsham, Pa., was thrown from a carriage at Willow Grove. She fell under a trolley car and received injuries which caused her death an hour or two later. Miss Moore, with her fiance, Edward Morgan, was driving when the horse took fright at a trolley car and ran away.

WESTERN.

Three soldier eonviets, sentenced for desertion, escaped from the military prised at Alcatraz, Cal. At Los Angeles, Cal., Eugene Weston, a building agent, filed a petition in bankruptcy. Liabilities $76,068, assets $2,075. Frank Freeman of Cutler, Minn., was buried under thirty feet of earth while cleaning a well. He was rescued and will live. V Rosslyn H. Ferrell, the convicted murderer of Express Messenger Lane, has made a motion at Marysville, Ohio, for a new trial. John Dewitt has been appointed receiver of the firm of Noemke & Alf, grocers at Cincinnati. Assets $72,000, liabilities $62,000. The United States transport Sherman has sailed from San Francisco for Manila with about 250 soldiers and a large number of cabin passengers. M. Shiraishi, agent of a new Japanese transpacific line of steamers, is looking into the possibilities of the harbors in southern California for a port of entry. A. A. Cooper committed suicide in Kansas City, shooting himseTf through the head with a revolver. Mr. Cooper was 65 years old. No cause for suicide is known. A regular monthly mail service between San Francisco and Tahiti was begun by the sailing ot the steamer Australia for Tahiti under contract with the French government. A South Chicago City Railway electric car crashed into a south-bound Illinois Central suburban train, severely injuring the motorman and three passengers of the electric car. Harvey Earl, one of the rioters indicted by the Akron, Ohio,, special grand jury, was convicted of illegally possessing and using dynamite. This is the first of the riot cases to be tried. Henry B. Proetor, county treasurer for four years and Republican candidate for State Senator iu the Seventeenth District, committed suicide with laudanum at Gfand Rapids, Mich. James M. Lynch, the new president of the international Typographical Union, succeeded S. B. Donnelly, the retiring president. Headquarters of the union arc nt i'ndlnnapolis, Ind. Drs. A. J. Stone ami Lancaster of St. Paul, Minn., and Murphy*of Chicago performed an operation on Senvtor C. K. Davis’ foot fol- the draining of poisonous matter from an abscess in the sole of the foot. Two men were shot at Shelby, Ohio. Floyd Armstrong and Morris Brower placed cannon crackers in the spouting at Roscoe McCormick’s house. McCormick fired both barrels of a shotgun with deadly effect. Supposedly working in collusion with an elevator boy who knew the combination, two robbers at noon the other dny entered the Yorkshire rfotel, 1837 Michigan nvenue, Chicago, and robbed the safe of S2OO. The schooner Rosa Sonsmith went ■shore 300 feet west of the piers at Ash-

tabula, Ohio, broadside and headed down I the lake. The crew of nine men was ! taken off, together with personal effects, and brought safely into port. , i Burglars forced the safe in the office of James Doolittle, trustee of Oil township, Ind., and decamped with $3,000 In cash and valuable notes. The money be- ' longs to the township and had been re- i , served for school house purposes. I Two electric cars on the Cincinnati, I Lawrence and Aurora Electric Railway I collided near Cleves, Ohio, owing to a misunderstanding of orders. The cars were wrecked and eleven passengers injured, some seriously, none fatally. The biggest mining deal of the year in the old Clear Crock district, Colorado, was put through when Illinois capitalists took possession of the MendotaFrostburg group of claims at Silver Plume. The price paid was $350,000.

While despondent because of continued ill health Abel P. Upham, a director of the firm and in charge of the tea department of Sprague, Warner & Co., Chicago, for a quarter of a century, committed suicide at his hfftne by taking carbolic acid. Roland Reed, who was compelled to abandon his tour while the company was playing in Chicago, has arrived at the conclusion that it will be impossible to continue his tour further the present season, and has therefore disbanded the company. Edward W. Freeman of Kokomo, Ind., one of the speakers at a Democratic barbecue at Peru, was stricken with paralysis on the return train. The night before his wife tirearned lu* was brought home dead from Peru, and tried to keep him home. —The investigation liy the coroner’s jury of how Peter Sac Mary, whose dead body was found near his parents’ farm at Caledonia, Minn., came to his death, was concluded and the jury rendered a verdict that the cause of death was unknown. - Rush Medical College in Chicago is to have a new SBO,OOO building, for which Dr. Nicholas Senn has just given $50,000. Plans for the new building, which is to be called c Senn Hall, are already in the hands of the comptroller of Rush Medical. About 100 students have been expelled or suspended from the Culver Military Academy, Culver, Ind., for sinking most of the pleasure boats, including one steamer, in Lake Maxinkuckee, on the shore of which the academy is situated. The sinking was a prank. After offering up a fervent prayer in which he asked to be lifted to a higher sphere .of usefulness John Crosby, an aged and highly respected resident of Columbus, Ohio, was suddenly stricken with heart failure and died before he could take his seat in his pew. The Armour Packing Company closed the other day the largest month’s killing of cattle yet recorded for a packing house in Kansas City. The total number of cattle killed was 67,754, as against 63,682 cuttie killed in October, 1893, the largest previous month’s killing. Suit for $250,000,000 has been filed against twenty-five of the most prominent citizens in Texas by Joel Blair of Waco. He alleges that defendants conspired to gain possession of his right in valuable Waco property and caused him to be placed in an asylum for two years. The heavy rdins have caused extensive damage near Winona, Minn. The farmers complain that continued rains have made it impossible for them to thrash what grain they have in stack, and now the grain is beginning to sprout. The loss will amount to thousands of dollars. The executive board of the Victor, Colo., Miners’ Union was in session five hours with the mine managers, discussing the. strike of the Independence miners on account of the recent personalsearch order of the mine management. It was announced that all difficulties had been settled. An unsuccessful attempt was made to wreck the Baltimore and Ohio westbound passenger train near Tiffin, Ohio. A pile of railroad ties were laid in the middle of the track and across the rails. The bridge gang coming along a few minutes before the train was due removed the obstruction. The cornerstone ,of University Hall, the main building of Washington University,, was laid in the presence of a large crowd at St. Louis. Preceding the laying of the cornerstone Col. George C. Leighton delivered an address. The Right Rev. Daniel S. Tuttle, Episcopal bishop of the St. Louis diocese, pronounced the invocation. Three burglars and the officers of St. Louis had two exciting street battles, which caused great excitement throughout the city. The robbers were successful in getting into several houses, but the officers were hot on their trail and when the parties met an interchange of shots ensued, the outlaws escaping under heavy tire each time. A crowd of school boys at Lima, Ohio, were beating Frank Carney, an old man, who has been a target for their fun for some time. He ran into the house, secured a shotgun and fired it at the boys. John Reid, aged 11 years, who was standing across the street watching the fun, received the entire charge and was fatally wounded.

SOUTHERN.

The grain elevator and plant of Aaron Waller & Co. of Henderson, Ky., has been destroyed by fire; loss $120,000, insurance $72,500. In a fire which destroyed the residence of Rev. J. B. Wheatley at Wheatley, Ky., Mrs. A. J. Alexander, the aged mother of Mrs. Wheatley,, perl-hcil. Mr. and Mrs. Wheatley were seriously injured. James D. Noe nnd Richard Wall were drowned iu crossing the Ohio river at Owensboro, Ky. The youths were on their way’to the Indiana side to hunt for ducks. They were in a canvas canoe, which capsized, and they sank quickly. A bloody fight occurred on the special train bringing the Georgiif legislators to Valdosta, Ga., to attend the State fair. Several of the members engaged In a quarrel in which knives were freely used. Mr. Harden of Wilkes County was stabbed. In Frankfort, Ky., the Court of Appeals handed down a decision holding that the action of the State board of election commissioners in awarding certificates of election to the Democratic minor State officers was final and that the court had" no power to interfere. Mrs. Wilhelmina Pearson died nt Guastonia, Ga., from the effects of a beating alleged to have been given her by Jonas Swink in his home at Woodruff, 8. C.,

some time during September. Swink, • man of wealth and with a family, influential in cotton mill circles, has been committed to jail for murder. By nn explosion at the mine of the Southern Coal and Transportation Company at Berrysburg, W. Va., twelve men were killed and two probably fatally injured. The explosion was probably the result of an accidental discharge of dynamite, caused perhaps by the concussion of a The property loss is light.

FOREIGN.

President Loubet, guarded by 25,000 troops, dedicated the Carnot monument at Lyons. Deutsch Bank of Berlin is raising $60,000,000 for the Swiss railroads, mostly in America. A Paris newspaper asserts Emperor William visited the exposition two weeks ago incognito. Riots broke out at the Autueil race meet because .Captain Coblentz, a Jew, rode in a race. England is greatly surprised by the promotion of Lord Lansdowne to the ministry of foreign affairs. Filipino insurgents are discouraged by their failures and by the active scouting work of American troops. Thomas F. Walsh says he is to advise the King of Belgium in regard to developing the mines of the Qbngo State. Patrons of the theater at Geneva, angry because new players were not engaged, started a riot in which many were laJored. . . ... . Lord Rosslyn has apologized to the Prince of Wales for his insinuations against the, bravery of British officers in South Africa. A typhoon has occurred at Turan, Auam, causing great destruction. Sixteen hundred persons perished and 4,650 were rendered homeless. Further details received regarding the earthquake show that San Casimiro, a thriving city at the mouth of the Never! river, Venezuela, has disappeared. The ministry of agriculture estimates the Russian crops for 1900 as-being considerably below the average. These estimates are based on the reports of 7,100 correspondents. The appointment of Mr. Ritchie as home secretary of England affords new hope to the friends of Mrs. Maybrick, who say Sir Matthew White-Ridley, the retiring home secretary, was prejudiced. John Redmond says that, as the trustees of the Parnellite fund cannot purchase Avondale, the estate of the late Charles Stewart Parnell, which has just been bought by Mr. Boylan, they will devote the fund to the erection of a monument to Parnell in Dublin.

IN GENERAL.

Minister Conger is instructed to demand ample but not excessive indemnity from China for death, injury and losses of Americans. The census shows that the City of Mexico has over 400,000 population. The population of the federal district, including the ea pi t al city, is in excess of 500,000. A. A. Bashor of Salem, Ore., was returning from Alaska a few days ago with a fortune after five years spent in search for gold, when he was washed from a vessel’s deck and drowned. The United States government, according to a dispatch from Sydney, N. S. W., to the London Daily Express, has intimated that it would be pleased to send war ships to attend the inauguration ot the commonwealth of Australia. A dispatch from Cambourne, a new town in Kootenay, says a very rich find of free gold in decomposed ore has just been made. Quartz from a fissure vein assays several thousand dollars to the ton, and is freely sprinkled with coarse gold. R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade says: "The period of suspense is over. Business has been longing for a free field in which to leap forward, Gut has restricted buying largely to wants for Immediate consumption. Some evidence appears of willingness to take speculative chances in the movement of a few standard goods, notably of iron and steel. Encouraging signs multiply in the iron industry. Textile operations are more vigorous, sales of wool at the three chief Eastern markets exceeding all recent records, with a total of 7,804,500 pounds. Cotton has recovered a little of the recent sharp decline. Failures for the week were 198 in the United States, against 183 last year, and 23 in Canada, against 25 last year??

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago— Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.85; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.95; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.15; wheat, No. 2 red, 74c to 75c; corn, No. 2,38 cto 39c; oats, No. 2,21 c to 22c; rye, No. 2,47 cto 48c; butter, Choice creamery, 20c to 22c; eggs, fresh, 18c to 2Oc; potatoes, 27c to 36c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.60; hogs, choice light, $4.00 to $4.65; sheep, common to prime, $3.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2,72 cto 73c; com, No. 2 white, 36c to 37c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 24c. St. Louis— Cattle, $3.25 to $5.85; hogs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $3.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,70 cto 71c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 34c to 35c; oats, No. 2,22 cto 23c; rye, No. 2,51 cto 52c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $3.00 to $4.90; hogs, $3.00 to $4.70; sheep, $3.00 to $3;65; wheat, No. 2. 74c to 75c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 37c to 38c; onts, No. 2 mixed, 21c to 22c; rye, No. 2,55 cto 56c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.35; hogs, $3.00 to $4.55; sheep, $3.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2,75 c. to 76c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 41c to 42c; oats, No. 2 white, 24c to 25c; rye. 52c to 53c. Toledo—AV heat, No. 2 mixed, 76c to 77c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 36c to 37c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 21c to 22c; rye, No. 2,53 c to 54c; clover seed, prime, $6.00 to $6.15. Milwaukee —Wheat, No. 2 northern, 73c to 74c; corn, No. 3. 37c to 38c; oats, No. 2 white, 25c to 26c; rye, No. 1,50 c to 51c; barley, No. 2,58 eto 50c; pork, mess, SIO.OO to $10.85. Buffalo—Cattle, choice shipping steers, $3.00 to $5.70; hogs, fair to prime, $3.00 to $4.85; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $3.80; lambs, common to extra, $4.00 to $5.70. New York—Cattle, $3.25 to $5.65; hogs, $3.00 to $5.25; sheep, $3 00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 77c to 78c; corp. No. 2 45c to 4ffib; oats, No. 2 white, 26c to 27c; butter, creamery, 20c to 23e- eggs, w«*tern, 20c to 23c.

1 1 » OHIQA«O, IMOIAMAPOM* A LWIVILU Rensselaer Time-Table, Corrected to May 8,1899. South Bound. No. 31—Fast Mail 4:48 a, m. No. s—Louisville Mail, (dally) 10:55 a. m. N 0.33 Indianapolis Mail, (daily).. 1:45p.m. No. 39—Milk acconun., (daily) 6:15 p. m. No. 3—Louisville Express, (daily). . 11:04 p. m. •No. 45—Local freight 2:40 p.m. North Bound. No. 4 Mail, (daily) 4:30 a.m. No. 40— Milk accomm., (daily) 7:31a. m No. 32—Fast Mail, (daily) 9:55 a. m •No. 30—Cin.to Chicago Ves. Mail.. 6:32 p. m. iNo. 33—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. only. No. 74 carries passengers between Monon and Lowell. Hammond has been made a regular stop for No. 30> Ma. 32 and 33 now stop at Cedar Lake. Frank J. Rebd, G. P. A., * W. H. McDokl, President and Gen. M’g’r, Chas. H. Rockwell, Traffic Mgr 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, INDI AN A. 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. AC.Ry, and Rensselaer W.L. AP. Co. £A»Office over Chicago Bargain Store. Rensselaer, Indiana. runic rOLTZ. c. a. shtlss. harry r. kurris Foltz, Spitler & Kurrie, (Successors to Thompson A Bro.) Atto rn ey s-at- Law. Law, Real Estate, Insurance Abstracts and Loans. Only set of Abstract Books in the County. RENSSELAER, IND. Mordecai F. Chllcote, William H. Parkison Notary Public. Notary Public. Chilcote & Parkison, 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 Public Square.) RENSSELAER, IND. The Only State Bank in Jasper Co DIKKCTOBB. 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 ■hare of your patronage it 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. Orrics Trlryhohr No. Rrriorhcr Phohi No. #7. Rensselaer, - - Indiana. F. C. English, Physicians & Surgeoca. Office over Postoffice. Rensselaer, Indiana. Offics Pmonb,l77. RIHOINCI PmONBi lie. 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 I am prepared to furnish all kinds of oak lumber and sawed to order, if required, D. H. Yeoman, Rensselaer, Ind. Warren & 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. STONEBACK, " TO lIP PBOMIPHffi ~ 12 \ 12 nioeis y M raws lI.SO. «.50. Pictures enlarged in pastelie, water colors and crayon. Buttons and Pins. Cuff Buttons, Hat and Tie Pius —Picture Frames. PAVILION GALLERY. New Undertaking i a a a zx := (i* | In Horton building, one door I c west of Makeever House, with a i J complete and first-class stock of c € FUNERAL FURNISHINGS | 5 I respectfully solicit a share of tlie? g public’s patronage and guarantee aat- 5 ? isfaction in every respect. Calls C promptly responded to day or night. C | A. B. COWGILL, | {Residence at Makeever House, fhoni »»». ? k advice as to patentability HlP■■ < k Notice in “ luventive Age ’’ Bk Bi Bl < t Book “How to obtain Patents” B BB MKI [ Charge! moderate. No fee till patent Is secured. ’ Letters strictly confidential. Address, 1 E. Lawyer, WishlngtonTl). C. J 1 and Trade-Marks obtained and all Pat- ► ] ,ent business conducted for MooesaTC Feta. 1 ' I [Our Ornct is opposite U.S. Patent Orrict - [ ( and we can secure patent in less time than those l [ , remote from Washington. [, 1 [ Send model, drawing or photo., with descrip- 1' ' tion. We advise, if patentable or not, free of' [ 1 charge. Our fee not due till patent i( secured. [. 1 [A Pamphlet. “ How to Obtain Patents,” with • ' cost of same in the U.S. and foreign countries' , sent free. Address, C.A.SNOW&CO. ' L 9f?--?*TVL T . Orrlc 1 ■ Washington, o. C. !' Needle f 3 ,'' HI Nook the simplest and best Sewing Machine ■ on earth Fitted with Bicycle Bail Bearings < the Lightest WwJgRSsW/ Running Sewing .Machine in the World... You Cannot Afford to do your sewing on the old style shuttle machine when you can do it 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. Agsnt or denier wanted for this territory and vicinity. For particulars address Wheel, er A Wilson, Mfg. Co., 80 A 82 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Ills. Morris’ English Stable Powder L 2" of . A M»tit«t'on l t | p*tion, Boogb Hair, ide Bosnd, and all jHeeaaesof theßlood. mew. Me. >sr raehswo. Sold by A. F. Long.