Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1900 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Yeoman of Ambia. are spending the week with their Rensselaer relatives. The Democrat wants a regular correspondent in every village and hamlet in Jasper county, not already represented. Mrs. Nancy Hamacher, aged 82 years, 3 months and 7 days, died at the horn® of her daughter, Mrs. John Garriott, at Parr, last Sunday. Don’t say you can’t afford to take a paper when you can get The Democrat and State Sentinel each a whole year for less than 2 cents per week. Estray Taken Up;— Came to my place, i mile west of St. Joseph’s college, some time in September, a heifer calf weighing about 400 pounds. Owner can have same by proving property and paying charges. Joseph Nagel. Owing to some business changes, the Stoner & Day Milling Co., asks a settlement of all outstanding accounts on or before the first day of Jan. 1901. On and after that date their retail trade will be strictly for cash, and business firms will be required to settle their accounts each thirty days. Pat Hallagan has begun suit in the circuit court against Geo. W. Tanner, Simeon A. Dowell, Clinton Brown. Robt. F. Helm, Harvey G. Lewis and Charles Murray for $12,000 damages growing out of the Tanner cattle case in Barkley tp., which is fermiliar to our readers. He alleges conspiracy, we understand, on the part of above defendants to beat him out of the amount of a mortgage held on certain cattle. Dr. J. W. Horton requests us to say that he has done considerable dental work in his new location due to the fact that hismodern outfit offers an opportunity for doing all kinds of dental work more quickly, painlessly and for lower prices. He is positive he can please those requiring the services of a dentist, not only in regard to price but in workmanship also. Remember the place, in the east part of the city.

B. G. Turner, tbe well known voung hardware merchant of Brook, died suddenly Tuesday morning from heart failure, brought on by an attack of grip. Deceased was formerly of Goodland, and his parents still reside there. He was a member of the Knights of Pythias, and one of the leading men of Brook. The writer numbered Bert among his friends, and held him in high esteem. We extend our sympathy to the sorrowing wife and the aged parents. Of the northern Indiana towns that show the greatest growth during the past ten years Hammond stands at the head, showing a population of 12,376 against 5,428 in 1890. Knox, the county seat of Starke county, jumps from 790 to 1,466; Lowell from 761 to 1,275; Monticello from 1,518 to 2,107; Rensselaer from 1,455 to 2,255. Goodland from 889 to 1,205. Morocco and Brook have each made big gains but the census figures of towns in their class —under 1,000—have not yet been made public. The Lyda murder trial at Monticello will consnme part of next week, it is thought. The defense began to introduce testimony Wednesday. The expert witnesses for the defense are of the opinion that Lyda died from urinary poison; that the condition described did not indicate strychnine poison. The state has not made a remarkably strong case,>hile the defense seems to be proving conclusively that Mrs. Lyda and Starr Cox were both always considered of good character and morals by their neighbors; that Mr. and Mrs. Lyda were devoted to each other and that no motive existed for the latter to pot her husband out of the way. Public sympathy is certainly turning to the defendants. The White County Democrat says: “Both defendants hnve created a very favorable impression on the crowds in attendance, and the general impression prevails that they will go clear.”