Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1900 — Page 2

JASPER COUNTY DEMOCRAT. F. E. BABCOCK, Publisher. ~ HcNSSELAER, - - * IKKiANA.

WEEK'S NEWS RECORD

Next dimmer will see a pulp anti paper mill testing $300,000 opened at Grand Rapids, Minn. A party of Wisconsin and Eastern paper men are responsible for tlie move. Congressional permission lias been secured to erect a dam across the Mississippi. G. L. Mason, a Dowie elder, of Chicago, was mobbed at Granville, Ohio, -while delivering a .lecture at the opera hom-g. Tile speaker made a bitter attack upon the Masonic anil other secret orders and was awwailml with rotten egg*...vegctnbles and oilier missiles.. To the misfortunes heaped upon the firm of W. 1,. Strong A Co. of New \ork since the death of the senior member, ox Mayor Strong, was" added fire. It Started in the basement of the store from a defect in the insulation of the- electric Wires. loss about $40,000. Edward Cudahy* Jr,, 15-yenr-old son of E. A. Cudahy, the millionaire packer of Omaah, was abducted-the other day. A demand for $25,000 ransom was made Upon the parents. The boy was returned within sixty hours, but under yvliat conditions the interested persons refused to say. The French Chamber of Deputies, after an all-night session, adopted the amnesty hill by a vote of 150 to 2. The benefits of the measure extend to offenses connected with strikes, public .meetings oX.aasoeiiUioi.ui«M.d thjMroubles In Algeria in 1K97-9N in addition to eases arisiug out of the Dreyfus agitation. Two electric cars on the Greenfield ami Indianapolis lutcrurhan line collided head-on near Jim, I ltd. Emory Scott turd John -Glasscock, • wutur.imsu. w.ctg. fatally injured. Six passengers were badly hurt. The ears were running at a high rate of speed, and a heavy fog prevented the motonuen from seeing their danger. At 8 o'clock on a recent morning, (luring a heavy fog, two electric ears, both well filled with passengers, collided near the heart of Ashland, Ky. They were running at a rapid rate of speed. Motorman John Sisco was pinioned between the ears and is believed to be fatally injured, Motorman William Campbell is also in a critical condition. Eight fire alarms following close upon each other in different sections of the city kept the Boston tire department on the move the other night. The total losses will aggregate $200,000. The trunk and baggage factory of Cutter & Cutter was destroyed and also a large stock of manufactured goods. The six-story Wakefield building on Canal street was also burned. Midway, a small town two miles down the Pan Handle Railroad from Pittsburg, Pa., was sleeping peacefully at 4 o'clock tlie other morning when n terrific explosion aroused the people. It was discovered that tln> postoffice had been robbed. Two men blew tip the safe w ith dynamite and got nearly SSOO in stamps and cash for their work. They escaped tut there is not the slightest clew to their idi ntity. Hypnotic surgery has been tried in Boston and proved successful. Joint Kneeland, 22 years of age, applied at the Emergency hospital for treatment for lumbago. The doctors decided to operate. Kneeland refused to take ether. 8o Dr. Rullcr. hypnotized Kneeland, and the doctors performed the operation on the patient’s back. Kneeland was in a state of hypnosis half an hour and stated afterward he had felt no pain. Minnesota will in the near future he the great paper-making State of the T’niou. A syndicate composed of all the principal paper manufacturers of the country has purchased 100,000 acres of spruce timber land in the northern pmtion of the State and has taken an option of several thuusaud acres more and will proceed to erect great pulp mills. The syndicate includes nearly every paper and pulp mill and has several millions of dollars at its hack. It is the intention of the promoters to make paper on such n large scale that the price of common white paper will he cut in half.

BREVITIES.

Antwerp dock laborers* strike is growing, 30,000 men having quit work. Morocco lias paid the $3,000 indemnity for the murder of Marcus Kszngni. British authorities have decided to postpone the thanksgiving service in St. Paul's until the Boer war is ended. Lieut. Evans and fifty men of the Forty-fourth infantry routed several him tired Filipinos on the Island of Cebu. Steamer Centennial, Honolulu to San Francisco, nearly foundered in a hurricane, but was saved by the aid of the passengers. One of the most remarkable faro bank plays of record was made recently in Dawson by David Allen of San Francisco. From $2.50 Alien in four days w on $35,000. A reur-ond collision between two freight trains occurred on the Chicago and Alton road at Drummond. Two men received injuries. The damage to property was small. Former Congressman Sorg. the wealthy Ohio tobacco manufacturer, ha« instituted proceedings for the appointment of a receiver for the Millard Hotel at Omahn, of which he is the owner. The body of Carl F. Undid, 7t years old, was found in his wine shop ut 'Mountninvillo, l’n., by bis nephew, Ed* ward Bloomer. Burglars had broken in, and after braining the old man, had Stolen SIOO and a gold watch. Fred Norton, n youth of Vnadliln. N. iy., is believed to buve permanently lost the sight of both eyes as n result of excessive smoking of cigarettes. Robber* raided the fashion Bank In Guthrie, O. T., tunneled through the wall of flie vault and blew open the safe with nitro-glycerin. The explosion was terrific. The bank of Gold He Co., at Albec, H. D., waa robbed of SI,OOO. The cashier locked up the establishment and went to dinner. When he returned the dOors were found unlorked and the money was missing. There is no dew to the thieves.

EASTERN.

George Gould’s steam yacht Atalanta has been sold to Venezuela for $125,000, Allerton Merritt, a $lO a week clerk, is accused of stealing $20,000 from the Weehawken Wharf Company, New York. Three children of E. W. Grubbs perished in a burning dwelling at Golinza, Pa. The fire was caused by unexpected nat- ; ural gas pressure overheating a stove, j Ida Clans, aged 10 years, committed I suicide at Philadelphia by taking poison. Despondency over the loss of her position in a department store is the alleged cause. On opening a can of salmon for dinner Mrs. Anna Stennet of Plymouth towni ship, I‘a., discovered a lino diamond ring ! among the contents. A Norristown jeweler valued the stone at S3OO. By the eave-iu of an embankment at j Beaver Brook pond, between Stratford «ml Huntington, Conn., one man was ! fatally and two others were seriously iu- ■ jured. ’All the injured were Italians. Annello Burelega, a New York junk | dealer, threw his wife out of a window !of their home. She fell to the ground, | thirty feet below, and was badly hurt, but will recover. The two had quarreled. On the same day of the year, and at the same hour ns her husband, Mrs. Calvin S. Brice died at her home, No. 003 Fifth avenue, New York. It was the second anniversary of Senator Brice’s death. John Addison Porter, former private secretary to President McKinley and one of the most prominent men of Connecticut, died at his home in Pomfret after a long illness from a complication of diseases. ; Linas Skinner, a former Southington, | Conn., boy, has been sentenced to be shot I for sleeping at his post when on sentry i duty. His father, John I’, Skinner, who is 71 years old, is nearly heartbroken by -the-news. —, Cnpt. Jonathan Norton of Lee, Mass., expired the other evening, aged 105 years. He died iu the belief that some move fortunate person will fathom the mystery and bring about the fruition of his life's strngglc - perpetual motion. John Sterling of Camden, N. .7., was stabbed to death by one of three negroes who held him up while he was walking along the street. Sterling was accompanied by his uncle, Isaac Matthews, when the attack was made. I Maj. A. C. Reinoehl, postmaster of ! Lancaster, I’a., and a prominent member ' of the bar, was found dead in his office, having committed suicide. The gas burn* j ers and stove were turned on full. Finani c-ial troubles are ascribed as the cause. | Michael Lyons, aged 21 years, drank ! a quart of whisky hi a Paterson, X, J., saloon on a wager and then started to drive home to Atbenia. He was found j dead the next day with his body horribly i mangled, lie had been dragged almost a | mile. The 3,000 employes of the Jones & Laughlins iron and steel plants in Pittsburg have been notified that the individual wage contracts made two years ago will he renewed for the ensuing year j with no reduction iu pay. The workmen are jubilant. j I)ny express No. 8, from Chicago on ' the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railway, collided with the Leetsdale ac- | commodation, east bound, at Edgeworth, Pa. Both trains were wrecked and ; eleven persons were injured. A mistake iu signals was made.

WESTERN.

Will of the late Senator C. K. Davis i left his estate of $05,000 to his widow. I James Con.sidine was convicted at .Columbus, Ohio, for robbing the post- ! office at Granville, Ohio, in 1890. Prof. W. W. Campbell has been formally appointed director of the Lick Obi servatory, vice Prof. Keeler, deceased, i The Carter White Lead Company has closed its works at Omaha, Neb., und the business will be transferred to Chicago. An earthquake shock lasting nearly a minute was experienced in Joplin, Mo. The motion was from north to south. No damage is reported. Fire pccurrcd in the Standard Theater, St. Louis, shortly before midnight the other night. It is estimated that the ! damage will be about SIO,OOO. Iu a prize fight at Tattersall’s in Chicago Joe Gans was put out in the second round by Champion Terry McGovern. Tlie mill lusted but five minutes. Two new timber companies have been incorporated at Tacoma, Wash., by Frederick Weyerhauser nnil other prominent capitalists of the Mississippi Valley. C. C. Black of Goshen, Ind., formerly president or the Fort Wayne and Albuquerque Railroad, has filed a petition in bankruptcy with $219,000 liabilities uud $220 assets.

An immense cave, filled with stalactites and stalagmites, and containing a subterranean river, has just been discovered twenty miles southeast of Eureku Springs, Ark. Architect Bernard’s revised filan for the projected University of California buildings have been accepted by the regents. They contemplate an expenditure of übout $10,000,000. Coast train No. 3, west bound on the Great Northern Railway, was wrecked at Brockton, 235 miles east of Havre, Mont. Three persons were killed uud many slightly Injured. The building, foundry and machinery of the Lane & Bodley works at Cincinnati were burn Oil, the total loss being from $200,000 to $250,000. About 200 men will be thrown out of work. The case against Fred S. Kelly, former cashier at Omaha, Neb., of the Uheuix Insurance Company of* Brooklyn, charged with embezzling $5,000 of the company’s funds, has been dropped. As the result of proceedings alleging Insolvency the A. 0. Patton Manufacturing Company of Columbus. Ohio, bus passed into the hands of receiver*. The concern manufactures hollow ware. The Colorado Supreme Court in the case appealed by the American Refrigerator Transit Company sustain* the State’s right to assess the enrs of foreign corporations doiug business in Colorado. Joseph Dcsehenes, operating a hid department store in Grafton. N. I)., with branches in many neighboring towns, has filed a petition in bankruptcy, placing his liabilities st $130,000, with assets at SOO,OOO. Secretary Irwin Shepard of the Na* tional Educational Association announces that the executive committee hts selected

Detroit, Mich., as the place of meeting for the fortieth annual convention July 8 to 12, 1901. Daring a performance at the Standard Theater in St. Bo'uis, Henry Jacoby fell from the top gallery into the parquette eirele. Every bone in his body was broken. The accident caused a panic in the audience. Two negroes, Jiin Henderson and Bud Rowlands, who confessed they waylaid, brutally murdered and robbed Hollie Simons, a barber, were lynched in the jail yard at Koekport, Ind., by a mob of 1,000 frenzied citizens. Joseph Richter, an aged retired merchant of Cincinnati, who murdered Geo. Uchtmanu in a quarrel over a bill for the church to which both men belonged, was adjudged insane. Criminal proceedings have been stopped. Paul Antoine, tlie French corn til at San Francisco, who recently attempted suicide by shooting himself in the head on account of the threat of his wife, whom he had married clandestinely, to expose their Alliance, is dead. After deliberating nearly four days, the jury in the famous Jessie Morrison case at El Dorado, Kan., was discharged without giving a verdict. The woman who futally cut Mrs. Oliu Castle'will have to be tried again. Baptiste Gamier, known all over the West, and especially among army men, as “Little Bat,” the fearless Indian scout, was shot and fatally wounded in a saloon at Crawford, Neb., by James D. Haguewood, the saloon manager. A miraculous escape from instant death was' experienced by Will Mcßride, aged 10 years, who fell down an air shaft of a mine at Jacksonville, Ohio, a distance of 115 feet. Though bruised considerably he was practically unhurt. Application has been made at Columbus Ohio, for the appointment of a receiver for the Federal Natural Gas Company. A temporary injunction has been granted to prevent the Company from disposing of its property or stock. As a result of a mysterious case of poisoning at Forsythe Mines, near Marietta', Ohio, four persons are dead, three fatally sick and two others are seriously ill. The dead are Andrew Barniek, Mary Laichak, Andy Litehie and a child. A stampede up Fourth of July creek, a branch of the Kettle river, in Washington, has set in. Shot gold has been discovered with ground running $lO to the cubic yard. The strike extends on both sides of the British-American boundary. Claude Ileger, aged 35, wheelsman of the steamer Malietoa, married, homo in South Haven, Mich., and Frank Gorman, aged 45, sailor on the same steamer, married, home in New Baltimore, Mich., were killed in a freight train wreck at Milwaukee.

A ghastly discovery that may bring to light a crime was made at Minneapolis by two boys skating on the Mississippi river, when they found firmly imbedded in the ice tlie body of a man with the skull badly crushed. The man had been dead a long time. Fire completely destroyed the Fowler Cycle and Carriage works at North Carpenter u9d Fulton streets, Chicago, entailing a loss of SIOO,OOO, of which SSO,000 was on the machinery, and stock of the company, of which Alderman Frank Fowler is the owner. The Herrick House at Ashtabula Harbor, Ohio, caught fire and the fiauies swept every frame building on the east side of Bridge street from High street south. Nearly a dozen structures were burned. The loss is estimated at about $20,000, partially insured. The Montana Supreme Court has affirmed the judgment of the lower court in the case of the Helena Water Works Company against the City of Helena, holding the contract between the two void because the city exceeded its constitutional limit of indebtedness. Alfred Kern, 10 years old, was cruelly tortured at San Jose, Cal., by three beys. They caught him ns he was returning home from a kindergarten school and burned his face with matches until the skin and flesh peeled from his face and blood spurted from the wounds. Rosso C. Hoffman, 22 years old, a messenger for the Adams Express Company, was arrested in Cleveland on the charge of having stolen fourteen diamonds’ valued at $2,800. The gems were found on his person. They had been consigned by a Cleveland dealer to a New Y’ork house. An engine, twelve cars and five men plunged down a 50-foot embankment on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railway near Murray, lowa. John Dozle was killed, and the four other men, names unknown, were badly hurt, two probably fatally. A trestle gave way when the train's weight was upon it. The town of Sunnyside, iu the Irrigated district of Yakima County, Wash., has been purchased outright by a party of Dunkurds, which includes C. Rowland, a hanker of Lanark, 111. They intend to establish a model town, tlie citizens of which will own small farms in the country round about, and will also found a college. Gov. Nash of Ohio has called a special meeting of the board of pardons to consider the'application on behalf of Rosslyn H. Ferrell for a commutation of sentence. Ferrell is under senteuce to be electrocuted on March 1 for the murder of Express Messenger Lane. The date of the meeting was fixed by the Governor for Jan. 10, 1901. While slum be ting in their chairs beside n grate lire in their home, 417 Washington boulevard, Chicago, Mrs. H. A. Apliu and Mrs. Ntula Hast were attacked at 9:15 o’clock the other night by burglars, who, after beating and choking both women, tore open the bosom of Mrs. Aplin’s house gown, plucked forth a casket containing diamonds and other jewels worth $3,000 and lied with their jilunder.

SOUTHERN.

John W. Ilydcn, a well-known educator of eastern Tennessee, and John Mincey were killed by a train near Philadelphia, Teun., while walking on the track*. The contract to build Mississippi a new capitol has been let to W. A. & A. Ewells of Chicago for $831,743. The building is to be completed in twcHty-eight months from Jan. 1 next, regardless of the weather, * John W. Yerkes of Kentucky has been nominated by the President to be commissioner of internal revenne. The recent candidate for Governor of Kentucky

will at once assume the duties of his new post. Old St. Joseph, Fla., the largest citjr in that section in the eighteenth century, but long since extinct, is to be re-estab-lished. Surveyors are now engaged la replatting the town site. A bold robbery on the Cotton Belt Railway occurred at Bassett’s, Texas, in which Postal Clerk John N. Dennis was almost killed and the mail pouches of his car rifled of their contents. The amount stolen is not known. Enraged citizens of Cohutta, Ga., are scouring the woods in quest of a negro who assaulted Annie Neal, the 10-year-old daughter <*f .Tolin Neal, a farmer. The negro choked his victim into insensibility, then covered her with leaves and set fire to them. A passer-by put out'the fire, but the girl is in a critical condition. The Chicago limited on the Illinois Central road was held up inside the city limits of New Orleans, within sight of the electric lights. The passqngers were not molested, tout Conductor G. A. Kinnebrew was shot and badly injured because he failed to uncouple the inuil car from the coaches. The registered mail was all stolen and the baggage car was wrecked with dynamite.

FOREIGN.

It is asserted that tlie Emperor of China has become a .Christian. Insurgents of Iloilo are swearing allegiance to the United States at the rate of 1,000 a day. England is said to be negotiating for Salvora Island, off the northwest coast of Spain, for a coaling station. London Italian burned a pin-studded wax elfigy of President McKinley on the doorsteps of the United States embassy to avenge the death of a brother in New Orleans. Three thousand tons of steel plates and angles for shipbuilding from the works of the Carnegie company reached the Clyde by the steamer Dunstau, from Philadelphia. Lord Kitchener reports that after aevere fightiug at Nooitgcdaeht Gen. Clements’ forces were compelled to retire by Commandant Delarey, with a force of 2.500 men. Four British officers were killed. . The falling overboard of a man from a passenger boat on the West river, near Ho Ivau, China, led to a rush of some 400 passengers to the side of the vessel, which caused her to sink, more than 200 persons being drowned. The brother of Prof. Andree, the missing Arctic explorer who attempted to reach the north pole in a balloon, resides at Gotherberg, from which place it is announced that, hoping for Andree’s return from the polar regions, he has deferred opening the latter’s testament for twelve months.

IN GENERAL.

Michael G. Mulhall, famous statistician, is dead. There are rumdts in Washington of great frauds by army clothing contractors. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad has enterejl into joint control with J. P. Morgan & Co. of tlie Erie Railroad. Hereafter the two great systems will be operated in close harmony. Helen Keller, the deaf, blind and heretofore dumb student at Iladcliffe College, recently astonished and delighted the freshman class, of which she is a vicepresident, by making a short address. It was at a class luncheon in Fay Hall. The litigation between William L. Elkins, P. A. B. Widener, George W. Elkins, William Flynn, Joshua Rhodes and M. I\. McMullen, plaintiffs, and Drcxel & Co., and Whitney & Stephenson over the consolidation of the Pittsburg traction lines has been amicably settled. Bradstreet’s says: “Wheat, including flour, shipments for the week aggregate 4,785,577 bushels, against 3,432,159 bushels last week, 3.2(58,049 in the corresponding week of 1899, 0,243,859 in 1898, 4,004,399 In 1897 and 3,524,822 in 1890. From July 1 to date this season wheat exports are 80,017,003 bushels, against 97,5(59,922 bushels last season and 109,720,853 bushels in 1898-99. Corn exports for the week aggregate 4,853,458 bushels, against 5,371,377 bushels last week, 4,017,185 bushels in this week a year ago, 3,251,930 bushels in 1898, 4,129,878 bushels in 1897 and 2,814,150 bushels in 1890. From July 1 to date this season corn exports are 84,900,420 bushels, against 104,450,880 bushels last season and 73,187.220 bushels in 1898-99.

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.75;- hogs, shipping grades, S3.OQ to $4.85; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.60; wheat, No. 2 red, 72c to 73c; corn. No. 2,3 tic to 37c; oats, No. 2,21 c to 22c; rye, No. 2, 4t!c to 47c; butter, choice creamery, 23c to 24c; eggs, fresh, 24c to 25c; potatoes, 43c to 48c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.00; hogs, choice lights $4.00 to $4.00; sheep, common to prime, $3.00 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2,73 cto 74c; corn, No. 2 white, 30c to 37c; oats, No. 2 white, 24 c to 25c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.25 to SS.GO; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat. No. 2,00 cto 70c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 3ic to 35c; oats, No. 2,22 cto 23c; rye, No. 2,40 cto 50c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $3.00 to $4.05; hogs, $3.00 to $1.05; shccpi $3.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2,70 cto 77c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 38c to 30c; Oats, No. 2 mixed, 24c to 25c; rye, Ns. 2,54 cto 53c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $4.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.80; sheep, $2.50 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2, 7tlc to 77c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 39c to 40c; oats, No. 2 white, 27c to 28c: rye, 51c to 52c. - Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 7Bc to 76c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 30c to 37c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 22c to 23c; rye, No. 2,51 c to 52c; clover seed, prime, SO.OO to $<5.35. Milwaukei—Wheat, No. 2 northern, 71c to 72c;gorn, No. 3,34 cto 35c; oats, No. 2 white, 24c to 25c; rye, No. 1,50 c to 51c; barley, No. 2,57 cto 58c; pork, mess, $10.50 to $11.23. Buffalo—Cattle, choice shipping steers, $3.00 to $3.75; hogs, fair to prime, $3.00 to $5.15; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.00; lambs, common to extra, $4.00 to $5.85. New york—Cattle, $3.25 to $5.40; hogs, $3.00 to $3.40; sheep, $3.00 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 75c to 7flc; corn, No. 2, 43c to 44c; oats, No. 2 white, 26c to 27c; butter, creamery, 25c to 20c; eggs, western. 27c to 28c.

« X*. » ■ . . Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville Ry. Rensselaer Time-Table, South Bound. No. 31-Fast Mail 4:48a, m. No: s—Louisville Mail, (daily).... ..10:55 a. in. N 0.33 Indianapolis Maui, (daily).. 1:45p.m. No. 30—Milk aeeomm., (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) 4i30 a.m. No. 40—Milk aeeomm...(daily) 7:31a.m. No. 32—Fast Mail, (dully) 9:55 a. m. •No. 30— Cin. to Chicago Ves. Mail.. 6:32 p.m. iNo. 38—Ciu. to Chicago 2:57 p. m. No. 6—Mail und Express, (daily)... 3:27 p.m. •No. 46—Local freight 9:30 a. m. No. 74—Freight, (daily).. ..rr 9:09 p. m, ♦Daily except Sunday. ~* fSiinduy only. No. 74 carries passengers between Monon and Lowell. Hammond lias beeu made a regular stop for No. 30. No. 32 and SI now stop at Cedar Lake. Kbank J. Rued, G. P. A., W. H. McDoei., President and Gen. M’g’r. Chas. H. Rockwell, Traffic M g’r, CHICAGO. W. 11. Beam, Agent, Rensselaer.

Edward P. Honan, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Law, Abstracts, Real Estate, Loans. Will practice in all the courts. Office first stairs .lot Postoffice. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. Hanley & Hunt, Law, Abstracts, Loans and Real Estate. Oflice 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 X.. N. A. A C. Ry. and Rensselaer W. L. A P. Co. S3k»Offiee over Chicago Bargain Store. Rensselaer, Indiana. .HANK FOLTZ. C. a. SFITLBR. MARRY R. KURRII Foltz, Spitler & Kurrie, (Successors to Thompson A 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 b armers’ Bank, on Washington St., RENSSELAER. IND. J. F. Warren 3. F. Irwin Warren & Irwin, Real Estate, Abstracts. Collections, Farm Loaxs and Fire Insurance. Office in Odd Fellow's "lock. 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. Yice 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 hank is prepared to transact a general hanking business. luterest allowed on time dejmsits. Money loaned and good notes bought at current rates of iuterest. A share of your patronage is solicited. Farm Loans at 5 per Cant.

Drs. I. B. & I. M. Washburn, Physicians & Surgeons. Dr. I. B. Washburn will give special attention to plaeasea of the Eyo, Ear, Nose, Throat and Chronic Diseases. He ulso tests eyes for glasses. Office Tilifhoni No. 49. Smidinci Phons No. IT. Rensselaer, - - Indiana. E. C. English, Physician & Surgeon. Office over Postofficn. Rensselaer, Indiana* Or.icz Phons, 177. flztiesMCS 7ho«li 111. H. L. Brown, DENTIST. Office over La rail’s drug store

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FIRMS FOR SALE. BY Dalton Hinchmao* REAL ESTATE AGENT, Verijon, Ind. No. 359. Farm of 200 acres, large frame house of 4 or 5 rooms, large frame "barn, 160 acres lays nice and 40 some broken, not bad. This is a choice farm. A fine blue limestone quarry on the 40 acres. 1)4 miles ofaR.R town. 10 miles of Vernon the County Seat. Price $35 per acre. Reasons for selling old age and no children to worry over. Half cash* good time on tbe remainder. No. '267. Farm of 100 acres, frame house of 5 rooms, large frame barn, hog house, hen house and other out buildings. Good water at house, barn and on the farm. Some parts rolling. Good grain and stock farm. Said farm adjoi atng the town of Vernon the CountySeat. Price $3600. No, 268, Farm of 40 acres, frame house of 8 rooms, good well with a new force pump in. a large frame-barn, good orchard of all kinds of fruit, within 0 miles of Seymour, a railroad city of 13,000 or 15,000 inhabitants, 3 miles of Pike, )j mile of a good school and 1)4 mile of church. Good neighborhood. 25 acres bottom and 15 acres upland. Price $(200, half cash, time on balance, secured by first mortgage. No. 269. Farm of 120 acres, l’« miles from Vernon; 90 acres In grass and cultivation. 30 in Umber, some good timber; 2 story log house, 8 rooms, barn, new frame 88x44 feet; good orchard; farm well watered, lays nice, one mile of pike road. Price S3OOO. No. 270. Farm of 153 acres; 2-story frame house of 7 rooms; large frame bam 55x60; 8 wells of good water a-. d fine stock water by springs; part level and part rolling; three orphards of all kinds of fruit; 35 or 40 acres ir» timber, some good saw timber; 1H miles of railroad town. Price S4OOO. No. 271. Farm of 204 acres; frame house 2‘,-story. 6 rooms. good well at house; barn 52x54 feet; 05 acres of bottom land, 80 upland tillable, balance in timber, sugar, beech, walnut, chestnut, poplar, l’rice $35 per acre, cash; balance on time at 6 per cent. .. Correspondence Solicited. References: Judge Willard New, fcx-Judge T. C. Batchelor, First National Bank. Merchants: S. W. Storey. N. DeVersy. Jacob ■Foebel. Thomas & Son, Wagner Bros. & Co., Nelson & Son, J. H. Maguire & Co., W. M. Naur. Herbert Goff and Wagner’s plow factory. Anyone that wishes to look over the county, would be pleased to show them whether they wished to buy or not. Wanted —We want 100 men with approved personal or real estate security to borrow the special fund we have to put out. Ferguson & Wilson. 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 s<oo.oo 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. I have private funds to loan on real estate at low rates for any length of time. Funds are always on hands and there is no delay—no examination of land, no sending papers east--absolutely no red tnpe. W.hy do you wait on insurance companies for 6 months for your money? I also loan money for short times at current bank rates Funds always on hand’ W. B. Austin. The Beat Plaster. A piece of flannel dampened with Chamberlain’s Pain Balm and bound to the affected parts is superior to any plaster. When troubled with lame back or pains in the side or chest, give it a trial and you are certain to be more than pleased with the prompt relief which it affords. Pain Balm also cures rheumatism. One application gives relief. For sale by J. A. Larsh.

Money On Farms AT 5 PER CENT. A special fund to loan on Farms for Five Years at 5 per cent interest, with privilego to make partial payments any interest paying time, and Commissions as low as can be had in the county. Call at Commercial State Bank, No. side Pub. Square, Rensselaer, Ind.

New Undertaking In Horton building, one door west of Makeever House, with a coraple'e and tirst-class stock of FUNERAL FURNISHINQS I respectfully solicit a share of the Gibllc’e patronage and guaraotee sut[action In eTery respect. Calls promptly responded to day or night, A. B. COWQILL, Residence at Makeever House. I# ,

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